Except maybe it is dangerous for The Kid, who gets shocked endlessly when the heart biopsy House subjects him to causes him to go into cardiac arrest. I don't doubt that House would be tormented if the boy died, or was permanently brain damaged by the resulting oxygen deprivation he caused, but I only saw the single-minded determination to solve a previously unsolvable puzzle. And we've seen that before, many times.
There were flashes of fun in "All In," including most of the poker scenes, but the attempt to tie in Wilson's poker prowess with House's final medical deduction didn't work for me. Maybe I just don't fully understand poker (a good bet, since I last played on our Intellivision set when I was a kid), but the connection just wasn't strong enough for me between Wilson's hidden aces and the initial and also final diagnosis of Ernheim-Chester disease, which hadn't yet reached the intestines where they originally tested. But then it's also a good bet that I don't fully understand medicine, either, since I last practiced on Sam, from the Operation board game.
A new episode of House airs Tuesday, April 18 at 9 p.m. on FOX, or Global in Canada.
Article comments
1 - Joanie
Congrats! Your article has been placed on Advance.net
2 - Brent
The metaphor of Wilson's play of his pocket Aces is tortured at best but as a borderline adequate player myself I can give you my interpretation.
Poker is a game of incomlete information and one of the ways a player gathers information is the way his opponent bets. In the way that Wilson apparently played his hand - known as slowplaying - the amount of information revealed to the opponent is limited. As a result if the opponent has an inferior hand which the cards on the board improve - for example a player with KJ gets a K on the flop - and makes a big bet or even moves all his chips in the opportunity for the slowplayer to win a lot of chips is significantly improved. The disease restricted the amount of information that House was able to gain at any given time.
There's just one thing wrong; Wilson's play is extremely dangerous - to him. Wilson may believe that the guy from billing has a pair of Kings but his supporting evidence is limited. The other guy could just as easily have had a low pocket pair - very playable in a heads-up situation - and picked up his three of a kind on the board, or had two high cards and paired them both. Someone once said that it's never qrong to go All-in before the flop with pocket As or pocket Ks, or after the flop with three of anything. Wilson's play was wrong.
3 - Bliffle
"...one of the ways a player gathers information is the way his opponent bets...."
True. But one must play that against the recurring theme in "House" that everyone lies. Even when their life is at stake they will lie about an affair or a dalliance or a drug consumption. People risk their very lives for ego and pride, surely one of mans stupidest characteristics.
4 - ghost
alright cpr scene