watch a live cash game via internet right now.. this is funny

detroitplayer · #1 02-03-2005, 01:15 AM

http://www.thebike.com/live_at_the_bike/

(stolen from wpt forum.)

dlk9s · #2 02-03-2005, 01:24 AM

I love it - a guy is reading at the table.

csuf_gambler · #3 02-03-2005, 01:36 AM

whoa thats pretty neat. they even have the pocket cams and commentators, wtf? the playes agree to this? whys this game so special? whats the stakes, it looks like yellow chips which are 2$

detroitplayer · #4 02-03-2005, 01:37 AM

$500 buy, 5/10 nl

It's pretty poor production and the hole card cams work like 10% of the time, but it's kind of neat to watch. Probably gets old after awhile.

csuf_gambler · #5 02-03-2005, 01:43 AM

whoa i see that azn guy tony ma or tony D or big D dawg, whatever his name is. he was shown on ESPN in the 2003 world series. laid down his trip jacks against hellmuth's 77 bluff i believe. although some say ESPN faked that hand.

detroitplayer · #6 02-03-2005, 01:52 AM

Well, they lost sound. This was fun for a bit.

Justin A · #7 02-03-2005, 01:53 AM

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whoa thats pretty neat. they even have the pocket cams and commentators, wtf? the playes agree to this? whys this game so special? whats the stakes, it looks like yellow chips which are 2$

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I don't know about the bike, but at Commerce the yellow chips are $5, so it could be the same.

Stew · #8 02-03-2005, 01:59 AM

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whoa thats pretty neat. they even have the pocket cams and commentators, wtf? the playes agree to this? whys this game so special? whats the stakes, it looks like yellow chips which are 2$

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I don't know about the bike, but at Commerce the yellow chips are $5, so it could be the same.

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It's a NL 5/10 game, the yellows are fives. BTW, what's up with everyone playing out of racks on the table?

MicroBob · #9 02-03-2005, 08:41 AM

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BTW, what's up with everyone playing out of racks on the table?

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I have dial-up internet so can't watch it myself without freezing my whole computer, but....

1. Some places allow playing out of the racks at the table (the horseshoe in Tunica for example)

2. if they were ALL playing out of the racks then perhaps it was the hole-cams (assuming they aren't using the glass-window in the table like PSI or Late Night Poker does.
Big stacks could get in the way of the cams and they might not have enough personell to have someone constantly come out to tell the player in seat 5 to move his chips away from the cam, etc. I suspect they have to do this sometimes on WPT and ESPN-WSOP.

Or there might be other camera angles they are using (since I'm assuming the cameras are kind of on auto-pilot) where they need to get the chips out of the way.

Kevmath · #10 02-03-2005, 11:13 AM

I'd say maybe 2-3 were playing out of racks, but the chips weren't in the way of showing cards. They were using the glass-window cam, but I think the people running it were just slow on the draw on putting up the cards at times and people were playing fast. There were three commentators (two would do it at a time, rotating out every half hour or so) Hopefully the coverage and commentary will improve over the next few days, because I can't see people wanting to pay $20/month for this kind of thing.

Kevin...