Hadn't watched any of the WSOP for the last 2 yrs, and just had a week off of work so I got to watch a bunch. The one drop was decent coverage, but I thought the final table/HU was a little disappointing. I thought Daniel looked a little outmatched versus the young guns.
I haven't watched the One Drop yet, but I'm interested in watching it from start to finish to see how Daniel Negreanu did based on your saying he looked outmatched.
I am only on episode 2 of the ME, but the first episode was really interesting, though I wished they had maybe ONE episode devoted to Days 2/3 together or something. Coming in cold on day 4 was a tiny bit late for me....I did find Ronnie Bardah very likeable and will be rooting for him in future tournaments.
I totally agree about Ronnie. A friend of mine played in the Main and had a big hand against him and he said that Bardah is exactly as you see him on camera. People like that, I enjoy having at my table, and yes, I root for people like that.
Overall I think Chad and Lon sounded really good/smooth calling the action, but I still would like a couple of additions/tweaks to the graphics. The most obvious tweak would be simply adding a stack size indication for both/all players in the pot. I have been at a loss as to why this hasn't already become the norm.
I agree, though maybe only on streets where there's a potential big play about to occur, or is already in progress. The risk you take is that if there's too much happening on the screen, it gets washed out and diminishes the overall quality. That said, it is a good idea though.
Hopefully there will be some mention of the HUGELY NEGATIVE changes at Amaya.POKERSTARS.corp in the coverage of the Nov. 9 as it is huge news ALL PLAYERS NEED TO BE CONSCIOUS OF.
ESPN won't give any airtime to an online
poker site, and also, it's still too early to say if what Amaya is doing is going to be good or bad. Obviously, their objective is profit and their approach is far different than the Scheinbergs' approach. I think the Scheinbergs built up such goodwill with the online poker community that there was such a high level of trust in what they did, and justifiably so. Amaya does not have that, thus the suspicion people have of them. I say let's see it play out before any conclusions are drawn.
Besides, I don't think the casual poker fan is going to be interested in ESPN dedicating any segments to this story. They want to watch poker. Plus, already Days 1-3 aren't included in the coverage so we lose out on quite a lot of the human interest stories that we would have had in past years.
Think about this - Would anybody even know who Jack Ury was or would have seen as much of him as they did had there not been early day coverage in past Main Events. I'm willing to say less likely.
Remember Nov. 5th is sit out day at Pokerstars!!!
That's going to accomplish absolutely nothing. Not to be pessimistic or anything, but you'll never be able to band together that large a base of players to take any sort of action.