An open letter to ESPN Original Entertainment: - Page 2

ky70 · #11 08-31-2005, 12:38 PM

And how about letting the viewers know what the heck the blinds are? Do they want to be different so bad that they don't see how ridculous it is not to include a graphic stating the blinds and what the action is (i.e. Player A 100K raise and Player B 60k to call).

Reminds me of when Fox introduced having the score in the corner of NFL broadcasts and the other networks took there time to add this innovation because it was "gimmicky" to them...and now they all use this "gimmick". It's time to catch up boys.

tek · #12 08-31-2005, 03:16 PM

I saw the blinds graphic on the NL tournies on ESPN last night...

Kevmath · #13 08-31-2005, 03:24 PM

They show them once every time the limits go up.

ky70 · #14 08-31-2005, 04:00 PM

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I go back to the NFL analagy where NBC and ESPN use to show the score periodically while FOX had the score "up" on the screen all the time. Everytime I flip to poker in progress, I want to know the status while the hand is going on and not have to calculate the blinds or the raise/bet in relation to the blinds based on the piece of info that Lon & Chad supply. They should copy the WPT hand graphic/info approach and remove the guess work...this is tv afterall.