All they ever show you are the big hands. You don't ever see the smaller hands where the players are feeling each other out, which makes following what's going on nearly impossible.

I think that's one possible reason that they upped the episode length of Celebrity Poker Showdown from one hour in the first season to two hours this season.

Seems, though, that instead of showing every hand, they're just spending more time on host segments. Makes the show drag too much IMHO.