Rejected for The Big Game

Pretty pissed off right now. Got the rejection email today. Would be nice if they would call you and tell you in person they are choosing some sob story over you.
Doubt I'll ever watch the show again after 3 months of jumping thru hoops for nothing but a email saying i was a serious contender but didnt make it, isnt cool.

There selection process is a joke for pokerstars shows. I guess its cuz im too young and dont have cancer. Well ill have something to look forward to after a life time of smoking when im 40.

Check me out on the big game season 15.

Wow, no need to be douche about getting rejected.

Welcome to show business. It's even less fair than poker.

LOL, well said!

get over it dude. you didnt really epect to be picked with such a huge pool of entrants...did you?

I guess it depends on just what 3 months of jumping through hoops consists of. I don't know the selection process. But unless it's something extraordinary, I wouldn't have expected anything else if I wasn't chosen.

agreed falooon

of coarse i thought i would be picked..my video was better than 95% of peoples out there...And did well in the muiltable interviews they make you do...after they make you do a video interview , youd would think they wouldnt just email you your rejection...i could see that in the beginning of the contest but not for the final cut is all im saying...i was deep in casting thats why im dissapointed..it wasnt a long shot one in a million chance.

I saw your video and thought it was great. To even get as far as you did was a feat few have accomplished, you should be glad made it. But I gotta tell you, taking a crack at someone with cancer is never in good taste.

That's kind of the problem I have with these shows. Why don't they have a play-in tournamnet or a series of play-in tournaments? Win the tourney and you're on the show. Plain and simple. Instead by winning a tournament, all you really win is the right to be in a lottery to be actually chosen for the show. Not worth my time. Just becomes a popularity contest.

An opportunity to win money that you would not have had a chance to win elsewhere? Yeah not worth your time to make a 2 minute video and send a few emails and phone calls. Not worth anybody's time.

True, I regret putting that. It is bad taste. Just pissed off and not thinking when I wrote it. Sorry If that offended anyone.

Unless I'm wrong, don't you have to win a rather large-field freeroll first, THEN submit your video for the popularity contest? Yeah, NOT worth my time. Should make it strictly play-in.

audition process is so rigged

Why don't you make this an interesting thread by telling us in detail what processes you went through, and how you felt during the whole affair, as opposed to the uninformative gripe session you gave us which would make nobody really interested in your story or feel bad for you. Maybe this is the reason they didn't pick you

It is pretty understanding they are looking for a mix of player and story and interesting personality - and that it is a tough job to pick same

Put the shoe on the other foot for a moment - if it was you that had to inform someone and you knew there was a good chance they'd react like you are now, wouldn't you do it by e-mail too?

Other people will be disappointed as well. Thing is, if you didn't get rejected, someone else would of so what makes you think you deserved it more than anyone else? Your cancer comment was kind of sick and even if they did pick someone with a sob story, say for example someone with cancer they would truly deserve this more than you anyway. Wouldn't you agree? They wouldn't have long to live, so why not give them a chance to win some good money and live a good short live if they did manage to win!

Jumping through hoops? LoL I think I'd jump through hoops as you put it to get a chance of winning a million. What do you expect, just put in a request and expect them to put you on the show? Wasn't exactly hard work for you..

Besides which, you look like some russian skinhead lol, dunno if it would be good eye tv viewing

Unlucky buddy!

Really I don't think it would be a great idea for Pokerstars to do just play-in. They don't want some weird old guy with no social skills on the show (not saying thats anyone here).

They want to pick someone who is charismatic and entertaining, and after that whether he/she is good at poker.

Who you kiddin.....that's 1/2 the people here, at least. The other half are weird young guys with no social skills. .

I mistakenly thought this was a poker show first and poker skills should be paramount. My bad. Someone who is totally out-of-it would be great. Some mumbling old guy, no social skills, lots of tics, genius at poker.....Where's Paul Magriel when you need him????? .

Yeah, the chance to win a Million, hardly worth any effort since that kinda money comes so easy

Hey man, I really feel for you here. Rejection is hard to accept, but you have to understand that show business is all about having interesting storylines, and if you have an individual who has survived cancer or done something extraordinary they will always be chosen ahead of you. It's not like anyone actually expects the person playing in these games to come in and make a killing at the tables, they just want them to be able to create an interesting television show. Just the honest truth.

This. I would be really interested to know what steps you had to take in the process.

Oh well. Sorry you didn't make it but most people never get the chance.

Best of luck on the felts.

rejection's a bitch but so is life.

Well, obv. we are never gonna agree on this. To each his own. But, oh yeah, while we're at it why don't you regale us all with the number of times you've won a 10,000+ player MTT only to win NOTHING, except the chance to submit a video to a popularity contest. Thought so. If PS isn't gonna make it strictly play-in then they should AT LEAST give some $$$ reward to the winners of the freeroll PLUS the chance to submit a video. Until/unless that happens, I have no interest in playing.

Its all about ratings. If they don't think the audience is going to like you, hate you, root for you or root against you, you are out.

The poker is secondary. Unfortunately.

This sounds like my dad while playing the lotto .

The thing is you most likely have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than you do to win the million! Hell, maybe even struck twice! Skip the 10000 player tourney and we are talking. Other than that to most people this is waste of time though.

I can certainly understand OP's frustration. In my opinion, the process should be reversed. Have the video submission BEFOREHAND, let the show pick however many people they think would make good TV, then have a tourney to decide who makes it on the show. At least this way you aren't giving people false hope, and the selection process seems much less biased towards "sob stories". Also, if you lose the only person you can blame is yourself, not the network

Here is the guy that derserves some attention for getting rejected and the time he put in....

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...g-game-968960/

I only needed to see the title and i was depressed. How on earth could he be turned down?

waiting to hear Negreanu's response on this one.

it's just such a huge mistake on stars' part on like every level

The selection process is whacked out imo, some of the ideas thrown about here have sounded much better, but unless you get something for the free roll win then i would not be interested either, although i do realize the chance of a lifetime is there for someone to get

Originally Posted by Daniel Negreanu
Just saw this and am absolutely shocked. I have no idea why he wasn't chosen. I know that FOX investigates contestants backgrounds, looking for any criminal past, etc. but I've got no clue why they wouldn't pick him. Sorry to all those that supported Jared, I was one of them.