"Official" WSOP ME Broadcast on ESPN thread (9/12) (Days 4-6)

[Lawman007]

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lol, man i think espn cut my interview. i guess they think showing villains/[censored] like molina makes for better tv...D:

the NUTS! hahaha wow i look n00b.

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I'm sure they'll probably show your interview in one of the upcoming episodes. They had to show Molina's tonight, because this was the last time we'll ever see him. LOL

Was Molina as scrawny looking in person as he looks on TV? They say that TV adds 10 pounds to you, but Molina looked like he had the body of a 10 year old boy..........and acted like one, too.

[NCAces]

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You'd think the World Wide Leader could afford some editors skilled in the ways of using existing footage to make a story compelling.

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You didn't think that tonight's episodes were compelling?

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I think they were potentially compelling for the wrong reasons, because ESPN is manipulating situations to suit their coverage.

These eps probably aren't the best example, but the fact that they did stuff like reshoot Doyle's exit is just kinda sad.

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I didn't get to see the first half of the first hour, but if I was new to poker, would I have watched tonight's show and said, "hey, I'd like to give that a try and I have a grand to lose?" Probably not. Who would want to submit themselves to a game where you have Molina acting like an douchebag, people acting like second graders and "tattling" on someone because they said a bad word (Gold v. Mloina), the whole Prah v. Lisandro deal, Humberto and his schtick (which the Lon and the twit seem to think is just fine when in fact it is just as annoying as Molina), etc.

So, for me, it wasn't all that compelling. When I think back on Moneymaker and Farha, which got me intersted in tourney poker, that seems to me what ESPN would want. For example, if you took all the crap out of the Parahlad v. Lisandro showdown, the three bluffs they showed between them would have been great.

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[Kevmath]

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or show varkonyi even tho he had nothing to do with day 6?

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It was a "Championship Moments" thing, and it included Hellmuth, always a bonus. I'm sure they'll find a way to get your interview in during the last 4 hours of coverage.

[legend42]

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I'm just a huge believer in the whole "sticks and stones" thing. Not saying what Phralad did was cool, but that I thought Lissandro's reaction was a good degree more out of line.

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Well then Lisandro's beahavior was still only sticks and stones also. He didn't touch him. Prahald's behavior was WAY worse IMO. Passive aggression is still aggression. Lisandro's reaction, while wrong, was still much more reasonable than Mahatma's *repeated* provocation.

It's like when Sean Taylor spit on Michael Pittman in the playoffs last year, and Pittman went after him. Both guys are wrong- but one is understandable, and one is just fu**ed up.

[Lawman007]

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-And before anyone says anything to me about not knowing what the hell is going on, I was away for a couple months with virtually zero access to the outside world while the ME was going on, so I guess I missed it.

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Matusow wasn't your cellmate, was he?

[Rottersod]

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Was Molina as scrawny looking in person as he looks on TV? They say that TV adds 10 pounds to you, but Molina looked like he had the body of a 10 year old girl ..........and acted like one, too.

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[cockpit]

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People who overcare about their reputation to the point of making a threat they know will be televised on national tv kinda get the dillz.

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This quote coming from a guy who got his panties in a bunch over being called a losing poker player. LOL

[LetsGetItOn]

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I didn't get to see the first half of the first hour, but if I was new to poker, would I have watched tonight's show and said, "hey, I'd like to give that a try and I have a grand to lose?" Probably not. Who would want to submit themselves to a game where you have Molina acting like an douchebag, people acting like second graders and "tattling" on someone because they said a bad word (Gold v. Mloina), the whole Prah v. Lisandro deal, Humberto and his schtick (which the Lon and the twit seem to think is just fine when in fact it is just as annoying as Molina), etc.


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Well as far as humberto goes I can't understand a word he says but he seems like a friendly guy, and shouldn't be put in the same roundup as the Molina champion douche I don't mind him at all. Oh and for the record norman chad is the man .

[Al_Kayda]

What a total tool!

[shaniac]

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I thought he did on his blog, how someone didn't punch him in the [carebear] face sometime during the WSOP is beyond me.

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I wrote a bit about my experience with Molina at the bottom half of this blog entry.