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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.
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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.
Format[edit]
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 |
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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.
International versions[edit]
- Currently airing
- No longer aired
- Non-broadcast pilot
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 |
References[edit]
- ^(in Vietnamese)Đấu trí – gameshow mới của VTV3 sắp trình làng, 29 October 2007.
External links[edit]
- The Con Test on Network Ten
- Pokerfejs on TV4.
- PokerFace at UKGameshows.com.
- Doble Cara on TV Azteca.
- Pókerarc on RTL Klub.
- Jogo Duplo on RTP 1 - Portugal.
- O Jogador on Rede Record.
- Vel′ký hráč on TV JOJ.
- PokerFace on IMDb.
Chapter 115 of the book Self-Help Stuff That Works
by Adam Khan
RONALD RIGGIO, PHD, HAS BEEN doing research at the California State University at Fullerton for over seventeen years. He's been trying to find out what makes a person attractive to other people. He officially studies charisma. One important factor Riggio has discovered is the importance of 'emotional expressivity': the ability to show your emotions on your face so people can easily read how you feel. People who don't show much emotion on their faces don't attract us very much. That's one of his findings
that seems pretty obvious.
But Riggio found something that's not so obvious: Charisma also requires the ability to not show emotions. He calls it 'emotional control.' It's what I'm calling a 'poker face' because when you play poker and you get an exceptionally good hand, you don't want anyone else to know. Likewise, if you get a poor hand, you don't want them to know - it gives your opponents an advantage in betting against you. While you're playing poker, the basic rule of thumb is to not ever register your feelings overtly. The only thing that might give you away is the look on your face, so you have to show as little emotion on your face as you can.
Improving your ability to have a poker face when you need it (and only when you need it) can increase your effectiveness with people. Why? Because emotions are contagious when they can be seen. When you look at someone who is laughing, it tends to make you feel like laughing, doesn't it? Sure. And when you see someone crying, it can make you feel a little sad. Naturally. That's why good actors are so highly valued. They can make us feel emotions. We all have a tendency to experience the emotion we see on someone's face.
But, you may ask, what's wrong with that?
Nothing really, except sometimes. The problem is that there are some emotions you wouldn't want another to have. Two examples are anger and social awkwardness. When you're angry and you show it, the other person will probably become angry or defensive or afraid to some degree - they can see on your face your blood pressure is up, and their body will respond by increasing their own blood pressure. This rising intensity tends to interfere with communication.
Something similar happens when a person feels socially awkward. When you talk with someone who feels awkward because they don't quite know what to do and it shows, you feel somewhat awkward, too, don't you? Or how about when someone giving a speech feels uncomfortable up there in front of the group? Don't you also squirm in your seat a little just watching?
In these kinds of circumstances, the people would be better off and the people they're talking to would be better off if they would learn to conceal those particular emotions when they feel them.
We have all learned there are times when it is not appropriate to say certain things. You don't say to a widow at the funeral 'the dude owed me money.' At certain times and for certain situations, we all know some things are better left unsaid. Well, the emotion on your face is nonverbal, but it is still communication, and sometimes it is counterproductive to say nonverbally 'I'm angry' or 'I feel awkward.'
The good news is that you can learn to put on a poker face when you need it. I'm not suggesting phoniness or pretending you're happy when you're angry. But there are times it helps to show no emotion on your face. It's a skill like any other, and it can be improved with practice.
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APA Reference
Staff, H. (2008, October 20). The Power of a Poker Face, HealthyPlace. Retrieved on 2020, December 14 from https://www.healthyplace.com/self-help/self-help-stuff-that-works/power-of-a-poker-face