Previously: The Black Team struggled to regroup after their first elimination. There was a challenge involving large metal frames, which Phil, sympathetic to a large frame, rocked. Hollie found out that her mother was seriously ill and went home. The Blue Team won the weigh-in, and the Reds had to withstand yet another elimination and yet more of Kim's harping. They tied in the voting, leaving their destiny to the density of the Blue Team, who sent Phil, one of the biggest threats of the competition, home.

We enter with a long poker tables filled with sweets and those little cheeses with the red wax all around them. I can't even tell you how I love those cheeses. Sami tells us that after today, everyone will have to say goodbye to their teammates. Kae explains there will be no more teams, which upset her -- and, by the looks of it, the rest of the contestants -- greatly. The Red Team is probably psyched because they can get away from Kim. From now on, the contestants will team up in triads for their challenges. And now for the poker tie-in. Whoever wins a game of high-low with some Byzantine rules involving eating all of those high-calorie snacks gets to configure the teams. Basically, they throw in bets of x number of fatty foods, and then raise, fold, etc. You have to eat everything you bet if you want to stay in the game. I would bet until I had eaten all the cheeses, then fold.

Kae says she's not playing, because the cookies aren't worth it and if you lose, you ingest 2000 calories for nothing. I think she should automatically win for that. Jez pretends like he's going to abstain, but then fools everyone by showing that he can eat two cookies AT ONE TIME. That's the winning attitude, right there. Everyone but Kae is in. Each contestant gets a card and has to raise -- and eat -- their bets. People start off with cookies and crackers, but Amy throws in a stack of peanut butter cups, I think because she wants to eat them. Neil folds, saying the stakes are too high for him. Isabeau has an ace and makes a little pact with herself to go as far as she has to. David has a deuce and realizes he can't win, so he folds as well. Ryan folds, too, but Hollie raises the stakes. Julie folds at the prospect of having to eat Cookie Mountain. Jez raises, so the stack is near 900 calories. Jillian is so going to beat all the Black Team members for this. Bryan raises to 1100 calories. Bill folds. Amy says she's confident, but really is just hungry. She raises to 1800 calories. She tells us it was horrible and hard to get it down. That's the real bluff. Kae genuinely thinks the whole thing is repulsing. And really, we needed a word a bit more active than "repulsive," so I'll give her that one. Isabeau has an ace, but can't imagine eating all the food, so she folds. Nicole and Hollie both fold as well. Jez fools everyone again, making it seem like he's out but then raising the stakes. He's a staunch character, for sure. Bryan, like his secret idol Kenny Rogers, knows when to fold 'em. I wonder if invoking Kenny Rogers made him want chicken, or a bad facelift. This leaves us with the Amy versus Jez cliffhanger.

Amy has a nine of hearts, and Jez trumps her by flipping over an ace. Jez says he had a premonition that Amy was bluffing and just wanted to eat some peanut butter cups. Too true, my friend. So Jez gets to pick the members of each of the four teams. He has an hour to think about it, in which everyone gets to suck up to him. Hollie tells him to put the biggest threat on his team, and Bill agrees. Jez says it's a tough decision, but he's glad to be the puppet master. He announces his choices. The first team is Kae, David, and Hollie. The second trio is Amy, Julie and Bill. Team three is Bryan, Nicole, and Ryan. This leaves Neil, Isabeau and Jez as the final team. Sami asks what Jez's reasoning was, and he says he'd like to have an even playing field. He also took what would cause personal gain for himself into consideration. Or so he thinks. Hollie says that Neil is the biggest male threat and Isabeau is the biggest female threat, so it's a security thing. Let's hope neither of these two is devilish and dirty and devious and other nefarious words beginning with d. The weigh-ins work a little differently than before. The four teams compete against each other. However, there is no "biggest loser" for each team, so any member of the losing team can be up for elimination, and the person to go is decided by the other teams.

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