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I'd like to get the ball rolling on a big list that I can send to the WPT for next season's shows.

I'm sure I'll have more ideas myself after the WPT Championship and the 2003 WSOP on ESPN in July, but here's what I have so far off of the top of my head:

Suggestions for next season (not all mine, but ones I remember that I liked):

Assuming 2 announcers, each should take a position/style and "stick" with it during the year. Debate hands based on your style, let the other announcer (with his/her style) offer alternate reasons/attack your reasoning.
Guest announcers, with different known styles, would be another way to do this. DEFINATELY have a woman as one of them!

Hand number is a must, clock would be nice. Short review of the action that occurs off-camera would be good, so we know how players got their current stacks. Show stacks more often.

Do your Poker Primer show before, or after, the first WPT next year. Play that show as often as necessary during 03-04, so that you can cut out the primers at the beginning of each tournament show.

A stringent review of the productions for errors, ill-advised comments and other problems, must be done before the shows are canned..... or I will send a swarm of killer locusts to the WPT studios.

For the puff pieces, make sure to give some info about the casino and location, as if you're a tour guide intro'ing potential clients (unless that would smack too much of unpaid advertising)

Try the following for tournament formats (or possibly, a non-tournament show?)
- Omaha and Omaha 8
- Stud and Stud 8 (stud, especially, should be familiar to many people from home games.... I assume)
- Pot-limit
- Mixed format games (HORSE, etc)

Feel free to add your comments- I'll consolidate and send them to the WPT site from the group in mid-July.