Live At The Bike - IS DEAD

[mistfire]

Live@Bike definitely helped my game. And opened me up to the plays at uncapped games. Will be missed. I am glad to have played on it the one double fist night.

Hope it comes back, maybe with fresh new announcers.

[normaljoe]

It's a huge wasted op for the Bike. The revenue from online marketing alone can be massive which the bike/producers seemed to neglect. LATB still has huge marketing and financial potential that I'm sure someone will pick-up the concept and run with it. It may just have to be me.

-aldo

[BikeObserver]

The show was plague by poor management. Their first mistake was the total lack of respect for the paying membership. Even as they sail off to the once was land they still do not have the courtesy to let subscribers know what has happened. again a reflection of ego and stupidity run amok.

Did anyone seriously feel that after Bart resigned the show could survive? He was not only the voice of the show he was the only one who seemed to truly care ... well of those with the decision making powers.

A great concept wasted at the wrong casino and with the wrong staff. I'm happy it is gone as I feel another more interesting room will pick up from where poker netcast left off.

[FlacoDogg]

Live At the Commerce?

[realjaydub]

Are the people who are in charge of LATB really this stupid?

Ugh.

I hope the commerce picks something like this up.

The games they spread would instantly be a hit.

Heck, perhaps they could pick up Bart and Dave!

[wezvidz]

LATB died when they started charging money to watch it. At least it did for me.

[CybrPunk]

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LATB died when they started charging money to watch it. At least it did for me.

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QFT.

The only really good shows aired post-subscription was during Legends with a few tidbits thrown in from time to time the rest of the year since. There wasn't value in the subscription and the management did the subscribers a huge disservice allowing the games to die off and be replaced with low stakes games or donkaments. With all the action in LA you would figure they could have attracted more regulars than they did. That was the job of the hosts, who also did the show and the casino a disservice.

Come to think of it, the entire structure where the game relied on hosts like Mo and Yosh to recruit players was horrible. If they really wanted to market this product and turn a profit, or at least bring it up to where it is self-sustaining, they should have had more control and involvement at every level, not just providing a place for the game and equipment to broadcast it.

[Death Valley]

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[BDub1]

It truly astounds me how many 2+2ers are so intuitive, business minded, tech savvy and omnipotent when it comes to organizing, supplying, broadcasting, streaming, recording live video poker games. And to think with all of this armchair quarterbacking, not one of these "geniuses" has thought to go into competition with L@TB. Surely, if they had $15 for the subscription, they had the hundreds of thousands it took to run the broadcast each month.

And of course, they all had instant access to great staff like cameraman Ray, Graphic recorder, Ronnie, Director, Isaac, Commenattors like Bart and Dave, and of course, Evilene's job as producer was just a walk in the park.

If just a fraction of you people had an inkling of what it took to run this show, you would be thankful for all that it provided for the equivalent of less than 1 big blind per month. Yes, I played on the show regularly and enjoyed it. But, biases aside, I also saw what went into the show, the heart, soul and dedication of a great many people, for very little compensation and little praise or commendation. Remember, it was the first, and really only live, cash poker game broadcast from a local casino, with recreational players and professional production quality...barring mechanical glitches that are always unavoidable. yet all everyone could do was bitch that they wanted limit, or they wanted smaller games like they played, or the larger game, or the whale game, or final tables, or playboy bunnies, or.......

I, too, am sorry to see it go, and hopefully they will get a program together that is a win-win for everyone. The casino was "giving" the space to Joker Gaming (Poker Netcast) and now they realize that the space occupied by the game itself, production room and office, could be used to house 7-9 tables and generate more revenue. Pity, but the casino is a business and as such cannot afford to give away the farm.

Anyhow, that's my rant. I wish everyone luck in their poker careers (except maybe against me) and if you see me at The Bike, Commerce, Bellagio or Wynn, come say hello.

BDub1
Barry "Don't Call Me Greenstein" Woods

[Vidocq]

I only started watching the show recently (plowing through old episodes of larger NL games) and I find it fascinating. It has helped my B&M game a lot and I enjoyed watching the regulars. I'm sorry to see it go. I hope someone picks up the concept.