complain to ESPN here about coverage

[kyro]

I hate to break the news to you guys, but we're not their demographic. Their format, although boring for decent players, is perfect for the majority of the viewers.

[MicroBob]

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I hate to break the news to you guys, but we're not their demographic. Their format, although boring for decent players, is perfect for the majority of the viewers.

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yup.

also - espn is already devoting an insane amount of their prograaming schedule to poker coverage. and you want them to give more.

I would love it if their 1 hour shows just started with 6 players so we could see more actual play. that is a possibility perhaps.
but they seem to like the formula they have now.
watching players get eliminated is the drama they thrive upon.

[Tea_Bagger]

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i sent my email in

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[beekeeper]

Thanks for the link. Here's what I sent.


I'm disappointed in your World Series of Poker coverage for these reasons:
1. If you've ever played poker, you know 1 hour of coverage can't do justice to any part of a tournament.
2. How you edit your poker coverage essentially just gives viewers the SportsCenter summary of the tournament: it's the equivalent of just showing the slam dunks in a basketball game or the homeruns in a baseball game and claiming to viewers that you've shown them the game. In otherwords, we need to see more hands played, and more of the normal hands when someone is not all-in with KK against someone else with big slick.
3. If you can create the X-games in order to generate a market for your advertisers, surely you can realize you already have an existing market of poker viewers--savvy viewers who have checking accounts and credit cards.
4. The dumbed-down version of poker offered in you WSOP coverage isn't likely to get and keep an average viewer, although it is likely to lose the educated viewer.

[garyg1]

What a sorry negative attitude you have!!! when my three friends and all the others on here's three friends, tell their three friends, each then tell their three friends each, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. it becomes a many thousand people lobbying group who they will pay attention to. And when the viewers numbers fall, then the sponsors money falls after that due to lack of veiwers, they will change due to a non profitable (and non enjoyable to watch) format!!!! You only get out of something, what you put into it. Being negative and too lazy to put a little effort in gets you nowhere.

[MicroBob]

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The dumbed-down version of poker offered in you WSOP coverage isn't likely to get and keep an average viewer

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Except for the fact that it ALREADY HAS gotten the average viewer.
Whether it is more or less likely to successfully KEEP the average viewer remains to be seen (since hole-card camera coverage of poker and all these events that ESPN covers are both recent happenings)

[Harv72b]

Meh. Just pool your bankrolls & start a Poker Channel.

Until then, be thankful we have as much poker to watch as we do. ESPN's coverage is far from perfect (the WPT telecasts are far better IMO, and still fall well short of good), but it is coverage. And I humbly submit that they have a slightly better idea of what it is their target audience wants to see than any of us do.

[DonkeyChip]

dear espn,
please let jesus out of the fridge. thanks.

[Voltron87]

how can you people watch this? its awful. i mean, i love espn for making this game popular (they introduced it to me) and bring bad players in, but how can anyone who knows something about poker bear this crap? i watch it and feel its insulting to my intelligence, the commentary and player profiles are that bad.