ESPN Enhances WSOP Coverage
 

Full article on cardplayer.com:

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/8950

Basically, to summarize, the planned enhancements include:

- Increase from 26 to 40 cameras for better coverage
- Plan to broadcast in HD for the first time
- 32 one-hour episodes in total (10 bracelet events, 16 Main Event episodes, and 6 $50K HORSE episodes... in that order)
- Player chip counts during hands (Thank the Lord!!)
- Some sort of new 3-D graphic that displays holecards, community cards, and players' actions

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Norman is like EricW, he's so bad he's good

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- Some sort of new 3-D graphic that displays holecards, community cards, and players' actions

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Hopefully they'll put this up (minus hold cards of course) for the spectators in real time. The overhead cam on the board was a good improvement last year and adding some chip stacks and action might make live poker marginally watchable.

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Norman Chad and Lon McEachern rock. Enuf said.

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Jesus, am I only one who throroughly enjoys the WSOP commentating?

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Swear I'm not. I enjoy it for the same reason I enjoy reading Bluff magazine. It's not the most intelligent commentary in the world from a poker perspective, but it's fun and goes well with the broadcast. I don't know, I guess I stand alone here.

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This is scary.

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Who doesn't love "Helmuth needs a King and King only or he is WHAMBOOZLED"

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I can't imagine why...

http://www.blindbetpoker.com/img/wso...hy-Liebert.jpg

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You owe me a new chair you prick, upon seeing that picture the horror was so intense I jumped back from the screen so violently I snapped the chair off its base. Wow that is one scary dude!! Brrrrrrr.....

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Norman is pretty funny at times. I think for the average viewer Norman is one of the major highlights.

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I enjoy it also.....It could be worse.

I hope people didn't think the PPT was better?

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That picture needs to be banned!

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The commentary isn't too bad. There's much worse out there.

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I also enjoy the WSOP commentating. They do a good job making entertaining comments and I don't expect to learn anything from the advice. But that's fine because most of the hands that they televise are crapshoot situations.

I would prefer listening to Greenstein commentate on Cash Poker, but for JJ vs AK all in preflop for 12 BBs I think the WSOP guys do a good job. I find WSOP episodes a lot more entertaining than WPT final tables too. The WPT commentary is more annoying.

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[/ QUOTE ]Nope- I like their commentary as well. It's fun enough to entertain and low enough in content that it never bother me.

Besides, I can't hear stuff like "he has the best hand he should go all in", "I hate going all in on a draw", and "he's only on a draw, but he has enough chips to make the call" enough.

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Norm & Lon ROCK my World!!!!

Paraphrasing

Norm "What's an oxymoron Lon"
Lon "It's like an insiteful Colour Commentator Norm!!"

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I like Norman Chad a lot, but really, Gabe Kaplan does the same thing WAY better.

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Gabe + Norm + Lon == genius?

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- Plan to broadcast in HD for the first time

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Please no Magrel, Hellmuth, Men Nyugen or any other players with disturbing moles and unpleasant features at final tables. HD poker is just disturbing.

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I wouldn't mind seeing Gabe and Norman Chad together in the booth. Then again maybe that would be a little too silly.

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off topic but im glad they changed this a bit. (sorry if already posted)

http://www.cardplayer.com

Fri Jun 01 19:14:00 PDT 2007 update

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Along with the many changes from previous years, the 2007 World Series of Poker is now adopting a much more lenient policy regarding the infamous 'F-bomb.' In years past, the 'F-bomb' has had disastrous consequences for many players, often resulting in a ten minute penalty in which the player's chips are blinded off. This year's policy is much more player friendly, with penalties only administered if "malicious intent" can be established. Directing an 'F-bomb' at another player or the dealer will result in a penalty, but use of the word is no longer strictly off limits. This change is felt to be necessary by many of the players, most notably Matusow.


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- Some sort of new 3-D graphic that displays holecards, community cards, and players' actions

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Hopefully they'll put this up (minus hold cards of course) for the spectators in real time. The overhead cam on the board was a good improvement last year and adding some chip stacks and action might make live poker marginally watchable.

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Chip stacks alone will make the coverage 1000% better. I doubt the "new 3-D graphic" will be implemented live, but rather in post production. It is, however, possible and not that difficult. It's basically the same technology as the First-and-Ten line in football. But getting instant "live" data on chip stacks and cards would require some sort of electronic identification of the objects (chips/cards) relayed to the graphics hardware. ESPN's billiards utilizes it, almost all racing coverage utilizes it via transponders, etc. It's probably not too far off though.

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If the chip stacks are a list of 5 people's names and their stack sizes that shows up on the screen for 1.5 seconds before a hand is shown then disappears (like the USPC coverage), it won't help much. I hope that's not the case, but I see it could happen.

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Actually I think Norman Chad is pretty damn popular to the average viewer. I know my friends complained when I watched TV poker a lot because of the boring ass commentary on everything but ESPN coverage. He might not ever say anything really groundbreaking strategy wise, but he is entertaining.

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I would much rather see Lon and Gabe Kaplan working together as I can't stand Norm.

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wtf??? mccarron is the weakest link here...he is a clown amosngst clowns...put kaplan and chad or kaplan and tuchman but for the love of GOD... kill LON

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The "TV arena" area at the 2007 WSOP has definitely been improved from last year:

1. 3 banks of stadium-style jump seats now surround the arena, replacing the awful metal bleachers from the past.

2. There is an overhead arena-style "jumbotron" with bright flat-panel video displays on all four sides, replacing the white cloth screen and video projector from the past.

3. There is also a "beer lounge" perched on one side of the arena, allowing spectators to have a bird's eye view of the TV final table.

We will get a chance to see the TV arena in use for the first time on Sunday.

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Exactly.

Norman Chad uses an "acerbic" style (a la MSNBC's Keith Olbermann), taking "smart a--" shots at players who deserve to be shot at for the way they look (i.e. unshaven players), the way they dress, or the way they conduct themselves (i.e. rule or etiquette violations at the table.)

ESPN is going after 1.0-1.5 million U.S. TV viewers per show, not 350,000 viewers per show (i.e. GSN's High Stakes Poker). Some of you guys who want every show to look and sound like HSP will disagree with the way ESPN does the WSOP and will disagree with me, but I understand your point of view.

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That's not Norman Chad poker right there.

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Lon is a "pro" announcer. You need a straight face man and a color guy. The guy does everything watch any fringe show on ESPN and he'll be there. K-1 kickboxing, Bodog fight, gymnastics hell I stumbled across a scrable championship and there was Lon. He's seemingly clueless about every show though I don't even know the rules to scrabble.

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i'd take norman chad and lon over gabe kaplan and AJ benza any [censored] day. benza is just retarded, and kaplan never shuts the [censored] up whether he's telling a terrible joke, saying how he would have played the hand (guess what no one cares), or just talking for the sake of it

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Norman Chad needs to jump off a cliff.

Anyone who finds him remotely amusing after 5 minutes of his lame jokes that are told better by 10 year olds has serious problems.

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I enjoy the WSOP commentary especially Norman Chad... I'm looking forward to the additional coverage of this years WSOP. The 50k horse event should be interesting.

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I wouldn't count on this.
Tacking on some graphics for board-cards and chip-counts in the edited version that airs later on ESPN is one thing.

Having somebody there trying to do it live just for the screen is an extra person and is probably not worth the effort for them imo.

Maybe it's easier to do this than I think. But somehow it strikes me as being pretty complicated and overly cumbersome to do something like this live for the whole final-table.