WS of Baseball vs. WS of Poker
 

Which would you rather watch LIVE:

A live broadcast of a MLB World Series game

OR

A LIVE World Series of Poker Final Table?

I realize this is a biased forum, but I would like to see more live final table broadcasts.

Re: WS of Baseball vs. WS of Poker
 

Baseball...and its not even close.

Re: WS of Baseball vs. WS of Poker
 

I would be surprised if you got less than %95 for live WSOP Final Table.

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I don't watch poker, it's boring. The WSOP coverage isn't bad, because it's obviously cut to make it watchable.

Baseball is a *slow* sport, but not as slow as poker, I hate watching people play poker.

(Plus you know ESPN is goign to run the reruns 4 times a night for the next 4 months anyways)

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Watching a 14-hour final table live would probably be boring as hell. That said, I hate baseball, so I would pick poker. But if the choices were the NBA finals, the Stanley Cup Finals, or the Super Bowl, the choice would be easy.

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Cant we have both in this modern age? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Seriously tho, it would be great to see the whole final table without announcer bias (hindsight bias). Would get to see the tempo, who's bullying/turtling. Actually get a sense of the pace, with the ACTUAL hand # and ACTUAL blind amounts to provide just, you know, a LITTLE CONTEXT.

Maybe even have it commentated by BIG name hold'em pros. I think by now there's sufficient niche market interest to offer this up on PPV

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I was still in Las Vegas when they had the final-table. All I had to do was catch a cab downtown to watch it if I wanted.
I didn't.


I went to part of the final-table of the PPM cruise (WPT event) last March. We stayed for maybe an hour and then left.
Was pretty boring.

Re: WS of Baseball vs. WS of Poker
 

Poker and it's not even close.

I'd rather be at work than watch baseball.

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There's no way I could watch 12+ hours of unedited final table coverage in one sitting, so it's baseball by default.

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How people can watch, follow and be interested in baseball just amazes me. I've tried watching it. My god is it booooooring! The pitch, ball. Let's wait 45 seconds until the next pitch, oh it's a ball. Next pitch a minute later, strike. OMG KILL ME NOW! ... but yes I would definetely like to watch a poker event from start to finish. I only saw 1 at that's the final table at the Wynn with DN and Ted Forrest etc because I don't get many other channels in Canada with poker, and it was very interesting. Poker by far!

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I would rather watch grass grow than baseball.

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I can't think of anything more boring than live poker. When I bust out of an event, I may hang around for a few minutes to watch a buddy who's still in it but can't stand the boredum and am usually out of there.

Now if you could see the hole cards and could get a comfortable seat where you could clearly see the action and could skip all the boring hands, then it's interesting. You know, like televised poker.

Edit. Nevermind, just reread it. You're proposing live broadcasts, ya, i could dig that.

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I think you would all find that live WSOP table would be really boring for TV

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Yeah...when he said LIVE I was assuming that he meant 'in the audience'.
I didn't think he was referring to 'live complete TV coverage'.

but, if that's the case then I don't understand the question because live coverage of baseball is already available.


If the final-table were on live TV somehow I would probably watch it. After 1 hour I'd probably be yawning.
After 3 hours I'm not sure I'd be hanging around much longer.
After 6-8 hours I'm definitely sure I would be pretty bored.
And if the thing goes 12-15 hours (not uncommon) I would probably have changed the channel to a re-run of the Brady Bunch by then.

Re: WS of Baseball vs. WS of Poker
 

if you go to any baseball forum and post this question, you'd have a totally different response.

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how is poker even close to baseball? I thought it'd be 90% baseball/10% poker

online polls are rigged

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Baseball. Not even close. The only way I want to be there for the WSOP FT is as a participant.

Especially this year.

/Sox Fan

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Baseball...and its not even close.

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Which would you rather watch LIVE:

A live broadcast of a MLB World Series game

OR

A LIVE World Series of Poker Final Table?

I realize this is a biased forum, but I would like to see more live final table broadcasts.

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I don't entirely understand the question. I originally thought what you meant by a live final table was like the FullTilt Final Table on TV where there are holecard cams and every hand is hsown as it happens. That would be cool and more interesting than baseball, which I can't stomach to watch.

After rereading I guess you mean to be in the audience at the final table which would be insanely boring. So I would change my vote to baseball.

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No. I meant a broadcast of each one.

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unedited live poker is boring as hell to watch