WWTBAM Bored

Jason blitzed his apparently overmatched opponents in the opening rounds, but luck was not with him in the bonus round. Total net win: $1000.

shooting fish in a barrel.
Too bad the cards were impossible for the end game.

Rotten break with the cards in the bonus round, Jason!

Great game Jason! Too bad there appeared to be almost no non-picture cards in that final deck.

We get GSN now, so I've been watching the show pretty regularly, as I was at a taping and met a bunch of the contestants. Anyway, Jason's show really wasn't typical, as there's usually a lot more questions and gameplay - unlike his game where his hands were such immediate slam-dunks. It's the first I've seen where a contestant wiped out their opponents so quickly! He did trounce his competition, but there have been other players that have been just as knowlegable (and/or as quick on the buzzer) but that had to work a lot longer to win, or NOT win for that matter, for as good as those people were, there is, indeed, way too much luck involved. He somehow had incredibly lucky hands. In addition, and unfortunately - for the contestants as well as the viewers - it's virtually required that the contestants babble, preferably arrogantly, about the cards they're dealt and why they're doing what they do with them, and I agree that part is way annoying.

Now, in the bonus round he probably shouldn't have blown through that first power chip so quickly (and I'm sure in retrospect he'd agree) as he could have put that 8 on the 9 and had a 17. Two cards later he got a 4, boom... 21, which would have given him at least another $1000. If he had played with his flexibility just a bit, knowing he had the advantageous cushion of three chips, which is rare, the potential last card could have been yet another winner. Sadly, I can't remember seeing anyone with three chips leave without making at least an extra grand. But yeah, his streak sure fizzled with all those facecards.