Negreanu will be announcing the final table on the radio...

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Hole-cams are what makes poker watchable to the majority of the viewing audience.


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Yes, the majority who do not play poker themselves.

Hardcore poker fans tend to prefer to follow the hand as the "real" players follow it, without having any information on the hole cards until showdown.

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And on the sirius radio, of course they don't want you to just be able to sign up for a month, then drop the subscription. It's smart business on their part. They have the rights to the WSOP. If you want to hear it, you have to buy it from them, which includes buying a receiver and getting a subscription.

It's cracking me up how everyone complains about the coverage, but no one wants to pay anything for it. People complain about how crappy CP's coverage is, yet it costs you nothing.

Everyone wants to hear it on the radio, but a $10 a month service is too much. You're calling everything "half ass coverage". Well, hell, what do you want? Sirius is providing live coverage by Negreanu, Hellmuth and other pro's. But, to get that, you have to pay for it. Do you expect all this to be set up, paid for, etc for free?

Most people aren't in the business of providing services for free.

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Sure, but we are used to a business model where these services are advertiser paid for and free to the consumer. Although cable/satellite TV has moved in another direction, folks have decided the added value of a gazillion channels is worth moving to a partially consumer paid for model.

With radio, that leap hasn't occurred for most people, and having one program once a year on one channel that you want to hear, is not the value added that makes most people want to jump over to this new business model.

*Shrugs* Services may not be free, but bitchin about it is pretty natural.

Edit: Not to mention, they have the capability to broadcast this to subscribers over the net, but make you pay for special equipment to get all the channels....that's really really lame.

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I agree they should have it online.

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I would prob pay a $5 or $10 fee for this if it were online.

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Ya same, its too bad. I've tried the sirius free trial, confirm, confirm, confirm, the poker channel isn't available.

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Do you think sirius is retarded? Of course they aren't going to have this big event available to free trial members.

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I would prob pay a $5 or $10 fee for this if it were online.

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gimme 10 bucks and you can come over and listen to it here...i'll even provide doritos and ice-cold diet cokes..

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Yea, but they should make it available online for paid subscribers. Several people (myself included) have said that they would buy a subscription or pay some fee to listen to this. But I didn't plan ahead to have ordered it in time to get a reciever etc..., so it seems I'm S.O.L. This combined with my cable company not offering the espn PPV coverage sucks big time.