Re: $50K WSOP HORSE Tourney
I liked the Razz episode as well. And they made such a big deal out of what a headache it is to play Razz.
there were even a couple of split-hands and other semi-complicated situations that the announcers had to explain but i thought it went fine.
With HORSE there could be a heavy angle on how confusing it is for Norman Chad to keep up with it all when they're constantly changing games...and that they are having a battle of best 'all-around' player as opposed to just 'best hold-em' player.
Thorw in the fact that the young-kids don't even really know some of these games....but 'back in the day' the old-timers played WAY more than just hold-em...and this is harkening back somewhat to the good old poker-traditions.
And THEN you could even do a feature when hold-em wasn't allowed in the california rooms so games like 2-7 were extremely popular.
And now you fast-forward to today where everything seems to be all hold-em, hold-em, hold-em....but the biggest of the WSOP events?
The only one with a monster $50k buy-in??
It's a more old-school format.
and the type of stuff that they play in the bigger 'rotation' games.
Man, I gotta tell ya. I'm liking the direction ESPN could take with this broadcast more and more.
Will somebody please tell them that I AM available for hire as creative consultant for their poker-programming?
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