Coming from a completely different track. The real problem is how we display poker to public not old vs new school. Currently we have people trying to ‘jazz up’ poker , ie make it look like reality TV . Look at ‘PokerNight in America’ when Shaun Deeb slow rolled Mike Matusow. Is this how people you want to show poker to the public , going for the lowest common dominator. Compare that on HSP when you were bluffed by Bill Kien and well you reacted when outplayed in that hand. It’s a simple word ‘respect’ but a lot of player could learn it and that included some named pro’s when they bullied and angle shoot people on the table on television. I also think poker personality are important but I want to see a variety of people playing poker on TV. I love the Sam Farah ,Phil Helmut but also the quiet player such as Alien Cunningham, Erik Seidel ect as well. I agreed with you about the shot clocks on action the endless tanking is not enjoyable to watch and that needs to down at all levels including WSOP. IMO , even the best show on poker HSB had a problem with the players getting a hourly rate when that money should have been include as a random pot bonus keeping the poker pure. So what can we do different. This attacks the idea ‘ The masses don’t care about strategy’. True but let’s try to enlighten them as well as entertain them. I would love to see a ‘duplicate poker tournament’ televised with good commentary both funny some like Staples/ Benza and knowledgeable commentary such as Kapen / Esfandiari/ yourself included or somebody like that. This first tournament would take the winners from the duplicate poker and then place them in a standard tournament afterwards. Maybe giving different chips stacks based on your position. The detail can worked out. We need to show the beauty of poker to the public where the different between players are the decisions that they make on the same hand. This would be shit scary to the current pro’s because it would up the standard poker so much higher, as people would see the different between decisions so much easier. But in truth , this will not happen and all my writing above it is wasted of time because it poker now has lost it risk takers and I’m a nobody in the poker hierarchy. Look at Dan Shak correct comments about (1 house $250,000) unlimited rebuy donk-feist taking media attention from the main event at the Aussie Millions. That’s what the image of poker is going to be in the future, an elite group of players gambling at higher and higher stakes where bankroll is more important than skill. Remember a lot of the pro’s didn’t want hole cameras and look what a different that change made to the success of the game.
Coming from a completely different track.
The real problem is how we display poker to public not old vs new school.
Currently we have people trying to ‘jazz up’ poker , ie make it look like reality TV .
Look at ‘PokerNight in America’ when Shaun Deeb slow rolled Mike Matusow.
Is this how people you want to show poker to the public , going for the lowest common dominator.
Compare that on HSP when you were bluffed by Bill Kien and well you reacted when outplayed in that hand. It’s a simple word ‘respect’ but a lot of player could learn it and that included some named pro’s when they bullied and angle shoot people on the table on television.
I also think poker personality are important but I want to see a variety of people playing poker on TV.
I love the Sam Farah ,Phil Helmut but also the quiet player such as Alien Cunningham, Erik Seidel ect as well.
I agreed with you about the shot clocks on action the endless tanking is not enjoyable to watch and that needs to down at all levels including WSOP.
IMO , even the best show on poker HSB had a problem with the players getting a hourly rate when that money should have been include as a random pot bonus keeping the poker pure.
So what can we do different.
This attacks the idea ‘ The masses don’t care about strategy’.
True but let’s try to enlighten them as well as entertain them.
I would love to see a ‘duplicate poker tournament’ televised with good commentary both funny some like Staples/ Benza and knowledgeable commentary such as Kapen / Esfandiari/ yourself included or somebody like that.
This first tournament would take the winners from the duplicate poker and then place them in a standard tournament afterwards. Maybe giving different chips stacks based on your position.
The detail can worked out.
We need to show the beauty of poker to the public where the different between players are the decisions that they make on the same hand. This would be shit scary to the current pro’s because it would up the standard poker so much higher, as people would see the different between decisions so much easier.
But in truth , this will not happen and all my writing above it is wasted of time because it poker now has lost it risk takers and I’m a nobody in the poker hierarchy.
Look at Dan Shak correct comments about (1 house $250,000) unlimited rebuy donk-feist taking media attention from the main event at the Aussie Millions. That’s what the image of poker is going to be in the future, an elite group of players gambling at higher and higher stakes where bankroll is more important than skill.
Remember a lot of the pro’s didn’t want hole cameras and look what a different that change made to the success of the game.
Feb. 24, 2014 | 8:10 a.m.