$50K WSOP HORSE Tourney - Page 4

betgo · #31 03-05-2006, 04:41 PM

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There is a £750/$1350 SHOE tourney at therivercard poker festival AT MANCHESTER UNITID in June and that is a 2 day tourney. At the moment they are thinking about making the final NLH but are taking a pole to gauge opinion. I hope that they play the final as the rest of the tourney.I am not sick of NLH but like the challange of all the games

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Are they playing it pot limit SHOE or limit SHOE?

The Rivercard · #32 03-05-2006, 05:03 PM

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There is a £750/$1350 SHOE tourney at therivercard poker festival AT MANCHESTER UNITID in June and that is a 2 day tourney. At the moment they are thinking about making the final NLH but are taking a pole to gauge opinion. I hope that they play the final as the rest of the tourney.I am not sick of NLH but like the challange of all the games

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Are they playing it pot limit SHOE or limit SHOE?

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they are playing pot limit

mshalen · #33 03-05-2006, 05:15 PM

Also don't forget that ESPN is a high light reel not a broadcast of every hand. What is distilled down from a full day of play could very much appear to be a different game on each hand or you might not see any of a certain type of game. If the final table is edited to fit in a one hour time slot (only about 30 minutes of action after accounting for commercials, puff pieces, the Nuts and the Degree All In Moment) then you will only see a few hands and those will mostly be where a player busts out.

NickMPK · #34 03-05-2006, 05:37 PM

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There is a £750/$1350 SHOE tourney at therivercard poker festival AT MANCHESTER UNITID in June and that is a 2 day tourney. At the moment they are thinking about making the final NLH but are taking a pole to gauge opinion. I hope that they play the final as the rest of the tourney.I am not sick of NLH but like the challange of all the games

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Are they playing it pot limit SHOE or limit SHOE?

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they are playing pot limit

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I didn't know Stud games were ever played Pot Limit.

MicroBob · #35 03-05-2006, 05:44 PM

lots of people watch that don't even know what they are looking at.

The way that they do their coverage they wouldn't have to show a lot of split-pot hands if they really didn't want to.
Just like they don't show many hold-em hands where somebody raises and he just steals the blinds.
And just like they really don't pay much attention to stack-size or who's in what position or how big the blinds are.

"He raises to $100k" is absolutely meaningless without telling me what the blinds are. And they hardly ever do this.

With the way they creatively ignore certain aspects just to make hold-em 'broadcastable' in their opinion I just don't see why they have to change the whole final-table.

Broadcasting would NOT be that hard.

betgo · #36 03-05-2006, 06:19 PM

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There is a £750/$1350 SHOE tourney at therivercard poker festival AT MANCHESTER UNITID in June and that is a 2 day tourney. At the moment they are thinking about making the final NLH but are taking a pole to gauge opinion. I hope that they play the final as the rest of the tourney.I am not sick of NLH but like the challange of all the games

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Are they playing it pot limit SHOE or limit SHOE?

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they are playing pot limit

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I didn't know Stud games were ever played Pot Limit.

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I Europe they are. In the UK and Ireland everything is pot limit with maybe some no limit.

ChuckyB · #37 03-05-2006, 06:34 PM

What if the WSOP forgot about the TV broadcast for one event and just gave something to the players? A big-buy-in HORSE event, HORSE all the way through. That would create a lot of goodwill.

Dynasty · #38 03-05-2006, 06:42 PM

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What if the WSOP forgot about the TV broadcast for one event and just gave something to the players? A big-buy-in HORSE event, HORSE all the way through. That would create a lot of goodwill.

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Do you really think the players don't want it on TV?

NickMPK · #39 03-05-2006, 06:48 PM

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What if the WSOP forgot about the TV broadcast for one event and just gave something to the players? A big-buy-in HORSE event, HORSE all the way through. That would create a lot of goodwill.

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There are a lot of WSOP events that aren't on TV. Like all of the Stud/8 and Omaha/8 events. They have gone too far in eliminating most of these events because they don't broadcast well. But they can't NOT broadcast the first ever $50K buy-in WSOP event. And I'm sure most players would prefer to play NLHE for the final table than not be on TV at all.

betgo · #40 03-05-2006, 07:06 PM

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lots of people watch that don't even know what they are looking at.

The way that they do their coverage they wouldn't have to show a lot of split-pot hands if they really didn't want to.
Just like they don't show many hold-em hands where somebody raises and he just steals the blinds.
And just like they really don't pay much attention to stack-size or who's in what position or how big the blinds are.

"He raises to $100k" is absolutely meaningless without telling me what the blinds are. And they hardly ever do this.

With the way they creatively ignore certain aspects just to make hold-em 'broadcastable' in their opinion I just don't see why they have to change the whole final-table.

Broadcasting would NOT be that hard.

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I think Razz televises pretty well. I agree that they could pick hands so as not to show the high/low hands where the pot gets quartered. Most people don't understand NLHE either. I think it would be interesting to show something more exotic with different games. There are so many zillion NLHE shows.

I do agree that NL/PL games televise better in general than limit and split games would be difficult to explain. However seeing the top players playing these exotic games would create curiosity.