[ryanghall]

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Who cares?

Ali Nejad is anti-growing on me. It's unbelievable how much stupid crap comes out of his mouth regarding poker. I don't understand, I've been playing the game for about a year and a half, and I can talk much more intelligently, and have much deeper insights into the game than this guy, his partner, Konik, seif, etc etc. Gabe Kaplan is the only one who isn't a douche.

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I'm an interested party, but I'm curious to hear examples of what you're referring to. Obviously, if he says so many things that are considered "stupid crap," it should be easy to link to / quote a few of them (all episodes are available on nbcsports.com/poker, i think). Thanks.

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While Nejad is funny (I really enjoyed the WSOP broadcast last year), he seems to not have a full understanding of no limit poker. An example is how he berates people for making routine checks because he's apparently from the Phil Gordon school of CONTINUATION BET EVERY TIME which is simply wrong. It's hard to explain but he also seems to have a hard time "pretending" he can't see the cards. His critical analysis seems results-oriented based on the fact that he can see the hands. The problem is, the players can't.

I don't want to seem like I'm slagging the guy - too much of that is done in these forums to commentators who for the most part are quite good. He seems like a nice guy and I heard he's a limit player anyways, but these are just the things that somewhat frustrated me when I was watching. I realize he's there to do a job and that's be critical of plays he doesn't feel are good ones but, heh, the majority of those players are very good (Shannon Elizabeth excluded... hey, let's fold AJ for 11x BB HU!) and aren't making *many* big mistakes. I guess the problem is that he's paid to be critical so he's stretching to find things perhaps. That's sort of the problem with the color commentator in poker.