PokerDome Oct 8 - \"Boston\" Rob Mariano (Survivor)
 

I was at the FSN PokerDome taping on Saturday.

Former Survivor contestant "Boston" Rob Mariano was one of the six contestants.

You do want to tune to on Sunday October 8 at 11pm-1am local time on your FSN affiliate (check local listings for exact time in your area) to watch this one.

There were some absolutely sick hands that went down.

The last hand is also interesting, as the runner-up showed why he is NOT ready to turn pro anytime soon.

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Thanks for the heads up. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this one.

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watching it now

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OK, I watched and it was truly a waste of 2 hours of my time. Mariano is absolutely not ready to turn pro and if he thinks he is then he's not living in "reality".

Korn wasted his early lead. Mueller was the best player there but still didn't push enough and got caught by a sick call.

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And this differs from every other PokerDome episode how...?

For all the talk about "ENTERTAINMENT" from our resident self-absorbed insider journalist, the fact that he's repeatedly hyped this series makes me inclined to believe he doesn't actually know what makes good poker TV.

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Holy Crapstack! You made it through the entire two hours?

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So I Tivo almost every poker show that my little basic-cable Comcast provides.

I definately dislike Pokerdome, but assuming I ignore all of the stupid comments by Michael Konik, Barry Tompkins or Chris Rose, I do enjoy watching Amateurs at work. These are the same people I run into in our local B&M casinos.

Anyone else feel they have learned SOMETHING from watching PokerDome Challenge?

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Barely, but I was able to get a lot of reading done too.

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A) They need stop telling people to not act like idiots on the show. Yeah, it might look stupid, but a bunch of middle-aged to old men showing little emotion with no table talk is boring. When I was on the show and we were doing a bunch of practice rounds, I started doing a Flair-esque strut and jumping around after I "busted" two people on the river. Back in the green room before we went on, I sternly scolded by two different executive figures NEVER to do that or anything like it in the future, as they emphasized a formal and proper setting. This is fine if this is a real tournament for 6-figures with pros, but this was essentially a coinflipping winner-take-all SNG, let us do what we want.

B) Get rid of the stupid dramatic music and strobe lights. It's distracting, too loud, and takes away from the play.

C) Get a decent play-by-play regular. Tompkins is ok and works well with Konik, Chris Rose is underrated IMO, but whoever the Joel guy is (African-American) needs to be canned, he's awful at overemphasizing every single action.

D) Show less hands in the beginning where someone raises and takes the blinds. I was surprised at my taping that they actually did not show at least 5-6 all-in confrontations early and late.

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A. They let them act like idiots when they introduce the players with those parts against the LV backdrop

B. I agree that the music when the flop, turn, river is way overdone and incredibly annoying. If you're going to have music, make it a bit less intense please.

C. Tompkins is busy doing college football now. The two alternating PBP guys are Joel Meyers and Jon Kelley (who did last night's show). Both are guilty of the overemphasizing, and Konik should go as well. I though Michael Gracz/Joe Sebok were supposed to be on more often then they seem to have been (but I don't watch every week).