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PokerFace | |
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Genre | Game show |
Created by | Ant & Dec |
Presented by | Ant & Dec |
Narrated by | Tim Caple |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 14 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Production company | Talkback Thames in association with Gallowgate |
Distributor | Fremantle |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Original release | 10 July 2006 – 3 March 2007 |
PokerFace (also known as Ant & Dec's PokerFace) is a British game show broadcast on ITV, where one person is guaranteed to win £1 million. The show was created by Ant & Dec, who also host it. As implied by the title, PokerFace, is based on the bluffing aspect of poker games. The contestants do not necessarily need to get the questions right in order to win, and can bluff their way through the game and pressure their opponents into folding in order to win.
The show was originally going to be called The Con Test, but the name was changed just weeks before the show began. However, the Australian version is called The Con Test. Series 1 of the show was aired nightly for seven consecutive days (the seventh show being the final), whilst series 2 saw the show moved to a Saturday prime-time slot, lasted for seven weeks.
Round | Questions | Value | |
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Preliminary | Final | ||
1 | 8 | £500 (£4,000) | £1,000 (£8,000) |
2 | 5 | £750 (£3,750) | £1,500 (£7,500) |
3 | £1,000 (£5,000) | £2,000 (£10,000) | |
4 | £1,250 (£6,250) | £2,500 (£12,500) | |
5 | £1,500 (£7,500) | £3,000 (£15,000) | |
Maximum total | £26,500 | £53,000 |
On each of the first six episodes within a series, six contestants compete for a prize of £50,000 and a place in the £1 million final seventh episode.
Each episode begins with 'The Grilling,' a segment recorded one day earlier, in which the contestants are brought together to introduce and talk about themselves. They may tell the truth or lie as they see fit, with on-screen prompts indicating honesty or deception for the home viewers' benefit, and clips of their reactions to one another's claims (recorded after the Grilling is complete) are interspersed throughout the segment. The contestants then enter the studio and sit in front of separate screens, each of which displays only that person's score.
The first round consists of eight multiple-choice questions with three answer options each. Contestants have three seconds to lock in their responses, starting after the question and choices have been read, and receive £500 per correct answer. On-screen prompts and a leaderboard are used to show the contestants' performance to the viewers, and at the end of the round, Ant & Dec ask each person how they think they did. As in the Grilling, contestants may tell the truth or bluff at their discretion. All six contestants then stand at a line of podiums, each of which holds a red button, and a 10-second countdown, although never really 10 seconds in practice, starts. The first contestant to push their button (if any) leaves the game or 'folds' and keeps all of their winnings; however, if no one does so, the contestant with the lowest total is eliminated and forfeits their money. In the event of a tie for last place, the contestant who answered the round's questions in the slower total time is eliminated. In either case, the departing contestant is briefly interviewed and shown the leaderboard in private. This element would later be used on another game show, Awake, albeit with different rules.
Four more rounds are played in this fashion, each with five questions and a value that increases by £250 per round. After the fifth round, the last player still in the game has their winnings increased to £50,000.
The six winners return for the final, but must put their £50,000 prizes at risk. All question values are doubled (£1,000 in the first round, increasing by £500 per round thereafter). Any contestants who fold keep both their £50,000 and any money they have earned in the final, but eliminated last-place contestants forfeit all of their winnings. The last remaining player has their winnings increased to £1 million. During the final of the second series, the fifth-round countdown was extended to 15 seconds.
For contestants who did not win a game, the maximum potential winnings total was £26,500 in the preliminary episodes. For those who won a game but did not win the final, the maximum total was £53,000 in addition to the £50,000 already won in the preliminaries.
Country | Name | Host(s) | TV station | Date aired | Regular top prize | Grand final top prize |
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Australia | The Con Test | Andrew G Brigitte Duclos | Network Ten | 7 February 2007 – 11 April 2007 | A$50,000 | none |
Brazil | O Jogador | Ana Hickmann Britto Junior | Rede Record | 23 October 2007 – 23 August 2008 | R$50,000 | none |
China | 王牌碟中谍 Wangpai die zhong die | Shen Tao Hua Shao | ZJTV | 2012–2014 | CN¥26,500 | CN¥38,250 and a free trip to Antarctica (2013) or a car (2014) |
Colombia | El Jugador | Andrea Serna Claudia Bahamón | RCN | 2007 | CO$200,000,000 | none |
Hungary | PókerArc | István Vágó Balázs Sebestyén | RTL Klub | 5 November 2007 – 21 December 2008 | 2,000,000 Ft 7,000,000 Ft | 20,000,000 Ft 50,000,000 Ft |
India | PokerFace: Dil Sachcha Chehra Jhootha | Sharman Joshi | Real TV | 2 March 2009 – 8 March 2009 | none | Rs. 10,000,000 |
Mexico | Doble Cara | Rodrigo Murray | Azteca Trece | 26 May 2007 – 7 July 2013 | MX$100,000 | none |
Norway | PokerFjes | Øyvind Fjeldheim Cathrine Riis Lilleaas | TV2 | 2007 | KR100,000 | KR1,000,000 |
Poland | Wielki Poker | Cezary Kosiński Paweł Burczyk | TVP2 | 2007 | 50,000 zł | 250,000 zł |
Portugal | Jogo Duplo | José Carlos Malato Ana Galvão | RTP1 | 25 August 2008 – 28 March 2010 | €10,000 | €50,000 |
Slovakia | Veľký hráč | Peter Kočiš Ján Dubnička | TV JOJ | 2007 (Pilot rejected) | none | €45,000 |
Sweden | PokerFejs | Gry Forssell Adam Alsing | TV4 | 2007 | KR200,000 | KR1,000,000 |
Vietnam | Đấu trí[1] | Nguyễn Tùng Chi Lại Văn Sâm | VTV3 | 29 October 2007 – 5 September 2008 | 15,000,000₫ | 20,000,000₫(semi-final) 40,000,000₫(final) |
United Kingdom Ireland | PokerFace (original version) | Ant & Dec | ITV1 TV3 | 10 July 2006 – 3 March 2007 | £50,000 | £1,000,000 |
United States | PokerFace | ABC | 2007 (Canceled during development) | N/A | $1,000,000 |
The card game of poker has many variations, most of which were created in the United States in the mid-1900s. The standard order of play applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details about which hand values are used, the number of betting rounds, and exactly what cards are dealt and what other actions are taken between rounds.
The three most popular poker variants are spread in casinos and poker rooms worldwide and can be divided into the following groups:
Here are more common rule variations:
Poker can be played in a mixed game format, for example one half-hour of Texas hold 'em followed by one half-hour of Seven-card stud. There are many types of mixed poker games. The most notable mixed poker variation is H.O.R.S.E. poker. H.O.R.S.E. is a mix of Texas hold 'em, Omaha high-low, Razz, Seven-card stud and Seven-card stud Eight-or-better. Each game will usually be played for a fixed number of hands or time and then the players will move on to the next game.
Other mixed games include:
Some poker games don't fit neatly into the above categories, and some have features of more than one of these categories. These variants are most often played in home games, usually as part of a dealer's choice format.
Either of these two versions can be played in any stud high game. In High Chicago, or sometimes simply called Chicago, the player with the highest spade face down (referred to as in the hole) receives half the pot. In Low Chicago, the player with the lowest spade in the hole receives half of the pot, with the A♠ being the lowest. If the player with the highest hand also has the highest/lowest spade in the hole, then that player receives the entire pot - having won both sides of the bet.
This 7-card stud game uses a wild-card designated as whichever card is immediately dealt (exposed, or face-up) after any queen previously dealt (exposed). In the event that the final card dealt (exposed) is itself a queen, then all queens are wild. If no queens are dealt (exposed), then there are no wilds for that hand. Betting is the same as in normal 7-card stud games. Follow the Queen is a typical game variant in Dealer's Choice poker games.[2][3]
In this 5-card game, the dealer gives each player 5 cards face down. After the first round of betting, each player may choose to replace zero to three cards. A second round of betting follows and then players may opt to replace zero to two cards. Upon completing another round of betting, each player may replace one card of the cards in their hand. After a final round of betting, any remaining players show their hands, and the highest 5 card hand wins. The cost of cards doubles each round. For example, if the dealer says each replacement card costs $10 in the first round, then each card costs $20 in the second round, and $40 in the final round. When players purchase cards to replace ones in their hand, they put the cost of the cards in the pot.[4]
This game will only work with 4 players (or fewer) otherwise you will run out of cards.
Just as Oxford stud is a mixed stud/community card version of Texas hold 'em, Billabong is a mixed version of Manila. Each player is dealt two down-cards and one up-card. Low up-card starts the betting with a Bring-in if you are playing with one, otherwise high card starts the betting. Next, two community cards are dealt, followed by a second betting round, beginning with the player with the best exposed partial poker hand (counting the community cards, as in Oxford stud). Then a third community card is dealt, followed by a third betting round. Finally a fourth community card is dealt, followed by a fourth betting round and showdown. Each player plays the best five-card hand he can make from the three in his hand plus the four on the board in any combination.
Shanghai is the same game with an extra hole card, but no more than two hole cards play. That is, the game begins with each player being dealt three down-cards and one up-card; each player must discard one of his hole cards at some point during the game as determined ahead of time. The most common variation is to discard immediately as in Pineapple; the second most common is to discard just before showdown as in Tahoe.
Guts is a family of games that are cousins of poker rather than poker variants. They usually involve hands of 3 or fewer cards, ranked similarly to hands in poker, and multiple successive rounds of betting each of which consist of the decision to be 'in' or 'out', and each with its own showdown. The losers of rounds of guts generally match or double the pot, which grows rapidly.
Five-O Poker is a heads-up poker variant in which both players must play five hands of five cards simultaneously. Four of the five cards in each hand are face-up. Once all five hands are down, there is a single round of betting. The winner is determined by matching each hand to the corresponding hand of the opponent. The player with the stronger poker hand in three (or more) out of the five columns, wins, unless a player folds on a bet that was made. If a player beats their opponent with all five hands, this is called a “Five-O” win.
Chinese poker is a 2-4 player poker game with thirteen cards. The idea is to make three poker hands with increasing rank : two with five cards and one with three cards. If one of the hands does not adhere to increasing rank (i.e. is mis-set), the hand is declared dead and results in some sort of penalty.
Kuhn poker, using a three card deck, is more of game theory problem than an actual game people play, but it can be played by two players.[5]