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But there also needs to be some continuity and sense of moving the story along. HSP doesn't do this at all...it doesn't even seem to keep track of how much players have won or lost. The hands could be played out of order and it wouldn't make any difference. If asked to describe the "plot" of a HSP episode, you couldn't do it....yet you could describe the "plot" of a movie, or a baseball game, or an episode of WSOP.

I think the WSOP broadcasts do a much better job than any other at creating a good story. Of course, they have a built in advantage of the history behind the event, but ESPN gives viewers both a reason to care about the players and a sense of the overall "WSOP scene".

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You do not know the storylines b/c u have not watched enough episodes of HSP and you do not follow the poker world closely enough.

I live in las vegas and follow a lot of poker on the internet and know exactly what these guys are talking about, what their financial situations are, and how much their respective win/losses mean to them.

Armed with that sort of information HSP is VERY interesting and by far the best poker tv show.

If you were more knowledgeable on the subject you would find that the arguements that you are making do not hold water.

Finally, I think one main point that you are missing as well is that in poker the stats longterm basically come down to who makes the most money, not who wins some random tournament. So in this respect million dollar swings are very interesting and important.