ARE you one of those people who has come across a televised poker game when you have been flicking through the channels but only watched for a minute because it was all too confusing?

Then Celebrity Joker Poker on Channel 10 might be just the thing for you because part of the idea behind the show is to explain the card game to those who can't fathom it.
World-class player Lee Nelson will be joining Mike Goldman to host the program with the expert set to unravel the mysteries of poker from the rules of the game to the terminology.

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"In Celebrity Joker Poker we will be really careful to explain a lot of the basics so those who don't know can understand exactly how the game is played," Nelson says.

"I will explain the ranking of the hands, which are very simple really, and each time a poker move is made I will go through it very carefully to explain what it means, and the game doesn't go so fast that you can't pick out what's happening."

Some of the celebrities who are taking part in the second season of Celebrity Joker Poker include Julia Zemiro, Nick Giannopoulos, Mikey Robins, Peter Berner and John Jarratt.

"As a bunch, they are much better than last year because their whole knowledge of the game has improved," he says.

"We have some new players this series but others who are returning and some of the players who were very poor in my estimation last year have improved, the difference is like night and day.

"Some of the celebrities were very good bluffers and some were incredibly lucky. We had a player who needed one card in the whole deck during a hand and they ended up getting it; it was very dramatic.

"There were also some dramatic moments when bluffs were done, and there were some very good traps that were done."

Earlier this year Nelson took on more than 400 poker players from around the world to win the Crown Casino Aussie Millions tournament and he walked away with $1.2 million in prize money.

But he says that a group of celebrities playing for a $140,000 prize, which would be donated to charity, was "completely different" from a table of experts sitting down to contest a million-dollar "pot".

"It's a very different kind of thing because you are very focused in a real big poker tournament, and when I was playing in the Aussie Millions I didn't want to be too funny," he says.

"The celebrities were having a very good time, a lot of them know each other and did a lot of joking around, but some of them were really passionate about their charities and wanted to win the money."

Source: The Courier Mail