Poker Stars Quit “The Amazing Race”

Last night’s episode of The Amazing Race was among the most annoying so far this season.  It was as if some people lost the ability to use their brains all together.

This leg started in Dubai (those resorts and the area looked amazing!) and ended in Amsterdam  and, in all honesty, I felt like the tasks were pretty easy so I was stunned to see some people mess up so badly.

The contestants had to correctly count the number of bells (62) at this one bell tower in the Netherlands and most of them were able to do it in a reasonable amount of time except for Brian and Ericka.  It was Ericka’s job to count and she just couldn’t get it right and was still there a LONG time after all of the other teams had moved on.  It bordered on ridiculous.  Since she had to run up and down the stairs to count her legs were tired and by the time they moved on to the next task, she was whining about how much her feet hurt.  It drove me nuts.

The other team that seemed to completely lose their minds were Maria and Tiffany, the professional poker players.  They got to the task where one of them had to swing a sledgehammer and hit a target and they Maria just couldn’t muster enough strength to make that thing fly up and ring the bell.  They finally gave up and went back to complete the other task, which involved swimming across a body of water to play a demented form of mini-golf.  They got too cold and felt the task was too hard and actually summoned Phil so that they could quit.  Lame.

Still, I was happy to see Maria and Tiffany go.  I couldn’t stand them.  I wouldn’t cry if Brian and Ericka were next…

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