Re: Do televised poker tournaments hurt the skill vs luck argument?
Television is fantastic for poker and is the reason for its world wide boom
however
the all-in fest's that people see in the shows such as the WPT final tables are very detrimental to the game at the lower levels, the dont understand the affect that the structure has, they dont get to see the start of the tournament with 1000 players playing 25/50 level avoiding coin flips, playing smallball/small pot poker etc etc, they cant really appreciate position or what the player went through to accumulate that 1 million plus stack
all they see is RAISE, ALL IN, and OH LOOK A 2 OUTER!
this is why i liked the coverage of the PPT that showed it in 4 quarters starting at level 1, it gave a better insight than most shows in relation to tournaments.
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