What is live at the bike?

[TheShootah]

How are people watching these other people play? I musta missed something somewhere!

[TStoneMBD]

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

wednesdays-saturdays at 6pm-10pm pst they have streaming video of live action poker at the bike.

[TheShootah]

Damn that is sweet!

[lighterjobs]

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Damn that is sweet!

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you missed a really good 400-800 game last week. best one i've seen on there.

[lighterjobs]

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Damn that is sweet!

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you missed a really good 400-800 game last week. best one i've seen on there.

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edit: the 400-800 lhe game will be on most thursdays.

[That guy]

Rick, just curious if you are tracking how many viewers you are getting?

[TheShootah]

Rub it in..... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Rick Nebiolo]

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How are people watching these other people play? I musta missed something somewhere!

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The Bike is streaming a live video broadcast (actually there is a five minute delay to preserve integrity of the game). "Live at Bike" takes place Wednesday through Saturday night from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Go to www.thebike.com and click on the "Live at the Bike" link. You do need broadband and Window's media player.

We have in house commentators such as Bart Hanson, Shirley Rosario, and Denny Williams. We also have guest commentators such as WSOP champs Greg Raymer and Scotty Nguyen. We usually have a big limit game on Thursday, a $500 NL on Friday, and a $200 restricted buy-in NL on Saturday. Wednesday has a variety of games, I'm in favor of putting in a small, wild $100 game but I don't work that day.

BTW, anyone can play but the way I work the list on Saturday is to make everyone playing in the section aware that I will start the "Live at Bike" game from a dedicated list (rather than moving an existing $200 NL game). I'm going to try to start the game at about 3:00 pm most Saturdays so the stacks will get moderately deep by the time it goes on air at 5:55 pm (remember the five minute delay).

Regards,

Rick

[TStoneMBD]

rick,is the norm for live at the bike going to be these dinky 200 NL games? i am really ecstatic about the whole streaming video thing, but not when watching such uninteresting games with amateurs. i understand that the intentions of the live at the bike project are to entice people to come to your casino and play, and streaming low limit tables might be a better method for that then to stream high limit tables. however, i can say with some confidence that the viewers from this website would be far more interested in spectating some games of much higher limits. do you have a schedule or when the higher limit games will be shown, or is it merely a spur of the moment type schedule?

[Rick Nebiolo]

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rick,is the norm for live at the bike going to be these dinky 200 NL games? i am really ecstatic about the whole streaming video thing, but not when watching such uninteresting games with amateurs. i understand that the intentions of the live at the bike project are to entice people to come to your casino and play, and streaming low limit tables might be a better method for that then to stream high limit tables. however, i can say with some confidence that the viewers from this website would be far more interested in speculating some games of much higher limits. do you have a schedule or when the higher limit games will be shown, or is it merely a spur of the moment type schedule?

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The schedule is subject to change and sometimes does become spur of the moment but here goes:

The $200 restricted NL game will usually go on Saturday night.

The $500 unrestricted NL game will go most Wednesdays and Fridays and some Thursdays.

The big Yosh Nakano hosted game (often 400/800 holdem) will go most Thursdays.

The idea is to webcast a good cross section of games. Big problem right now is getting stack and bet sizes right in NL.

Anyway, thanks for your comments and I hope we get more discussion here.

Regards,

Rick