Here\’s their preview video … gotta say, call me a homer, but I\’m already a fan. Go purple!
I think you can see from this who is going to be the domineering personality … and I think you can tell they will probably go far. And you haters commenters can say all you want — LOL on their claims of $1 million in tournament winnings — but one of the things I like about reality TV is the risk the participants are willing to take. It\’s not a new phenomenon … we know how it works, how the producers need to create storylines, and to do that they need characters. They need nice guys, meatheads, bitches, sluts, all that good stuff. And if you give them repeated indication of any distinct characteristic, they will edit away to make that seem like that\’s all you\’re about. And for the most part your true colors show.
Take Annie Duke on Celebrity Apprentice, for example. Extremely divisive character. Half the people thought she was a super-smart, savvy woman. The other half saw her as a total control-freakish bitch. Yep, no offense to Annie, but that pretty much lines up with all I have heard about her over the years within the poker world, and at least two of the above descriptors line up with my own personal observations and conclusions.
So while reality stars often claim they are misrepresented, frankly, in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell\’s Blink, some might contend that you actually do get to see the real person even better when all the superfluous \”personality\” is stripped away and left on the cutting room floor. With that in mind, I\’m looking forward to getting to see and know \”Maria and Tiffany\” — whom I suspect will come off a little different but not too much so from the Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho we already know.
