GrannyMae
05-01-2005, 10:08 PM
i just watched this on tivo. if you missed it, it is weekly so you can catch it next week.
i'm certain this has been discussed all day in the TV forum but i think it relates a ton to the zoo because of the recent topics.
i have never seen a televised event like this. it is classy, it is mainstream, it is a thing of beauty.
64 top names. all allowed to wear a sponsor logo, but all dressed very nicely. doyle's cowboy hat is emroidered "Doyle's Room" of course.
the rest of the logos are large, visible and in no way hidden.
the first commercial started with fossilman. i did not know it was a commercial. it seemed like a fluff piece they run between commercials in all other events. however, it turned out to be fossil sitting in what looked like his den at home. he talked about practicing and studying and said a great place to do it was pokerstars.net
the commercial was like masterful literature compared to the pokerstars.net commercial that him and moneymaker do. this one was like a famous figure sitting in a nice home, dressed nicely and discussing poker. the pokerstars.net thing was barely in there. it was intelligent. that's the key, the commercial was intelligent and assumed that the people watching were not bowlers and chain smoking trailer trash. the marketing company that produced this spot could be the same company that does nike commercials for all i know. it did not have any sort of used car feel to it. it had a merrill lynch type feel to it.
it was an amazing spot and shows what level poker is about to reach.
the rest of the hour absolutely blew me away in production values, quality and quantity of commercials, open sponsorship (these players must be getting HUGE money to wear these clothes. and again, it is not t-shirts)
this tournament today showed me a level of public poker that i never could envision because it shows another solution to another exponential equation. i am blown away by what i saw and what's more exciting is that this is just week 1. the learning curve will make this better, just as has happened with the wpt.
for the eternal timeline of poker history, NBC televising of this event should be put in your calendar next to the first airing of the wpt in terms of importance.
yes, they did that special before the superbowl, but that don't count. this new weekly series is where it starts. the biggest value of all of this is the fact that it was on a US network. network poker!! game *ON*
NBC has legitimized poker in a way that surpasses anything we have seen before and ABC and CBS is going to want on this gravy train.
even the lipstick cam is sponsored.
what a show..
thanks NBC!
http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gif
they have opened another door. this door is going to bring in even more cash for all of us in the business. promoting or grinding or both, today was good day for us.
i'm certain this has been discussed all day in the TV forum but i think it relates a ton to the zoo because of the recent topics.
i have never seen a televised event like this. it is classy, it is mainstream, it is a thing of beauty.
64 top names. all allowed to wear a sponsor logo, but all dressed very nicely. doyle's cowboy hat is emroidered "Doyle's Room" of course.
the rest of the logos are large, visible and in no way hidden.
the first commercial started with fossilman. i did not know it was a commercial. it seemed like a fluff piece they run between commercials in all other events. however, it turned out to be fossil sitting in what looked like his den at home. he talked about practicing and studying and said a great place to do it was pokerstars.net
the commercial was like masterful literature compared to the pokerstars.net commercial that him and moneymaker do. this one was like a famous figure sitting in a nice home, dressed nicely and discussing poker. the pokerstars.net thing was barely in there. it was intelligent. that's the key, the commercial was intelligent and assumed that the people watching were not bowlers and chain smoking trailer trash. the marketing company that produced this spot could be the same company that does nike commercials for all i know. it did not have any sort of used car feel to it. it had a merrill lynch type feel to it.
it was an amazing spot and shows what level poker is about to reach.
the rest of the hour absolutely blew me away in production values, quality and quantity of commercials, open sponsorship (these players must be getting HUGE money to wear these clothes. and again, it is not t-shirts)
this tournament today showed me a level of public poker that i never could envision because it shows another solution to another exponential equation. i am blown away by what i saw and what's more exciting is that this is just week 1. the learning curve will make this better, just as has happened with the wpt.
for the eternal timeline of poker history, NBC televising of this event should be put in your calendar next to the first airing of the wpt in terms of importance.
yes, they did that special before the superbowl, but that don't count. this new weekly series is where it starts. the biggest value of all of this is the fact that it was on a US network. network poker!! game *ON*
NBC has legitimized poker in a way that surpasses anything we have seen before and ABC and CBS is going to want on this gravy train.
even the lipstick cam is sponsored.
what a show..
thanks NBC!
http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/b0/pray.gif
they have opened another door. this door is going to bring in even more cash for all of us in the business. promoting or grinding or both, today was good day for us.