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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 732915, member: 23910"]
High Stakes Poker is probably an abnormal example.  Most of the players at the table know each other's games very, [I]very [/I]well - they'll be playing the player, not just their cards.
 
Inscore is also right in pointing out that you're not seeing the whole session: the hands where players take horrible cards to war with their opponents can often make the best television, so they're the ones you'll see.
 
Keep one other thing in mind too, these players will occasionally [I]want[/I] to show down a crappy hand to make sure that they keep getting action on their good hands.
 
Look at Jerry Buss or, worse, Bob Stupak in the first season of HSP: for his first session Buss played pretty tight, and he got the table's respect.  Stupak took it to an extreme - when he finally came into a hand, it was plain for all to see that he had aces.
 
The pros, on the other hand, will want their opponents to always be thinking "...or he could have garbage" when they're in a hand with them.
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