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Old 09-13-2006, 02:15 AM
Dominic Dominic is offline
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Default Re: \"Official\" WSOP ME Broadcast on ESPN thread (9/12) (Days 4-6)

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Strange how on the broadcast, they use the cameras to show that Lisandro was right. It shouldn't have taken that long to go back, look at the action and move along

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you have to realize that the camera is NOT a casino camera, it is a TV camera, and not part of the tournament. I've filmed poker tournaments for TV before, and trust me - there's no way they could've looked at that hand easily. They would have to stop one camera being used for coverage, find a monitor to look at the tape (they ARE NOT going to use the monitors being used to direct the broadcast for this), rewind it, find the hand and decide who was wrong and who was right.

These broadcasts are shot like it's a live event, with the many cameras being cut on the fly into a "line cut" by a director sitting in front of a bank of monitors.

In other words, it ain't easy.

Plus, let's not forget that those cameras ARE NOT there for tournament disputes like normal casino cameras are, they are there for TV coverage. If they decided to go to the tape for the Lissandra-Friedman dispute and disrupt their coverage, they would have to do it for everyone in the tournament if it was called for, to be fair.

Not possible.
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