I know poker is popular these days, what with
Celebrity Poker Tournament and other such shows on
ESPN. But for the life of me I'm at a loss to grasp
the fascination with watching other people play
poker, let alone people you couldn't care less
about. So you can imagine my level of interest in
watching Brad's Celebrity Poker Tournament. How
awfully convenient Brad suddenly has all these
friends, people we've never seen or heard of before,
to make up a weekly poker game just so Brad can mess
with addicted gambler David Chow. And, it's not even
the same people from week to week. It's like Brad is
just pulling random people off the street and
inviting them to his house.
Certainly that's what happened with Skye, although
she was recruited from the athletic club rather than
the street. Same traffic, though. Apparently Skye is
somewhat of a card shark, so wherever she goes, she
hangs around in bars randomly asking dumb questions
about poker until some patsy happens by and invites
her to a game. Real smooth. On the one hand if
that's her strategy I don't know how she sees much
action, especially in tiny little hamlets like Genoa
City. On the other hand if anyone is dumb enough to
fall for that they deserve to get taken for
everything they're worth.
Especially someone like David Chow, who has an
established history with gambling. No wonder he
always loses. I'm no expert but even I'd guess that
some random stranger off the street who suddenly
wants to raise the stakes to 50 grand isn't exactly
a rookie. And while Brad was certainly thrilled with
this turn of events it's hard to believe his
newfound and heretofore unknown "friends" never
raised an eyebrow at such a thing. Are they, too,
all such high rollers they can afford to shell out
that kind of cash from week to week, just for fun?
Unfortunately, Brad's poker games seem to be the
highlight of the show considering what other fare
we've been offered lately. There's Gloria and Jeff's
one hundredth go around of "she loves me, she loves
me not," Adrian and Colleen who have been so
marginalized I forgot the were even on the show, and
I think you know where I stand on Lily and Cane (and
believe me, I'd like to stand on them. Both.) So
what does that leave us with?
Victor, of course, and his usual shenanigans. I'm
surprised he has enough awareness to realize the son
he didn't raise shows more promise than the two
children he did raise, but unsurprised he has no
idea what that says about him. For someone who's
supposed to be such a genius he sure has a hard time
putting two and two together. And his definition of
"showing promise" means the kid who kisses his ass
and calls it ice cream, as opposed to the little
ingrates who dare talk back to him or question him.
Victor doesn't even seem to be aware of his
surroundings these days. He informed Sabrina that
Victoria "no longer works here." Yet at the time, he
and Sabrina were in the gallery office, which is
located in the Restless Style warehouse, neither of
which place Victoria ever worked. This suggests that
Victor is either in the early stages of Alzheimer's
or else he considers the whole world Newman
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