11:38 PM and Nobody Has Anything To Say About Aruba??

[MicroBob]

because of the dept of justice crack-down on online-gambling site advertising on TV.
ultimatebet.com is their real-money site. dot-NET is their play-money site. Most of the TV stations are playing it safe and are only airing ads for the play-money sites now...so they blurred out the site that is for real-money.

[judgesmails]

The show is very tired. Maybe that is why nobody has commented on it.

They need to improve production and get these events on television quicker - meaning closer to the event date - to keep my interest.

Suggestions:

1. Show a little coverage from earlier days in tourney.

2. Interview players about specific hands after they are knocked out. You see this in sports often where the interviewer walks a player through a play and asks them what they were thinking and seeing as a replay is shown to the viewers.

3. Incorporate some of the "Poker Corner" type commentary. WPT tried a pilot show where some players critiqued a tourney after the fact. It was actually very interesting. I wish they could fit some of that kind of analysis in regular tourney coverage.

4. Replace both Mike and Vince. I like the Fox poker "booth" where there are usually two "color commentators". The back and forth between two knowlegeable commentators can really add to enjoyment of the broadcasts.

5. More Shana Hiatt. Seriously, they could use her to tell a little more background about the casinos, live action surrounding the tourney, the local area, or more in depth features on players with interesting stories.

[reubenf]

Well I thought they improved a few things. They didn't waste time explaining the rules of Hold'Em, and they tried to provide a little useful insight with their piece about blind stealing.

[SoftcoreRevolt]

Overall a good episode, it did seem like they wanted to cut down the fluff a bit and have more actual content. Plus it was a fairly interesting table.

I also got a chuckle out of Sexton something to the effect of "Well he wants to go all in preflop since he knows he can't possibly outplay him post flop" but in a slightly nicer way.

[Smoothcall]

Worst beat? Oh you must be talking about when Mike stayed alive with his horrible suckout with the kj off against Layne's AA's. Yeah he plays like a loser, than acts like one after he sucks out lol. His dance around the table were shades of the unibomber. Another class act.

[Smoothcall]

lol yeah. Then he says something like why does this only haooen to me or to that effect lol.

[Toro]

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Worst beat? Oh you must be talking about when Mike stayed alive with his horrible suckout with the kj off against Layne's AA's. Yeah he plays like a loser, than acts like one after he sucks out lol. His dance around the table were shades of the unibomber. Another class act.

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I tuned in just as he sucked out. Why did he keep yelling vindication? It made no sense at all. Someone would yell vindication if say you had AA vs KJ and the flop came KJ5, turn 2, River 5. A suck, re-resuck. Him yelling vindication when he sucks out with a dominated hand made no sense at all. Then he tries to hug Layne? A complete ass.

[Rushmore]

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Then he tries to hug Layne? A complete ass.

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Goes down in history as one of the most awkward and inappropriate exchanges ever.

"Yeah, I just sucked out mercilessly on you, and sure, I danced around like a monkey yelling a word I guess I don't fully understand, and sure, yeah, I did it for a LONG time, to the point where it looked like I was trying to show you up, but hey--GIMME A HUG!!!"

What an absolute tool. He's an unbearable human being, and I don't care if people say they edit the shows to make him look that way, or he's actually a really sweet soul away from the table or whatever.

He makes me want to change the channel.

[swarm]

He had gotten sucked out on a few hands earlier hence the vindication mantra...

I really didn't think it was that bad of play by mike, just a really good trap from flack.

It seemend that the best hand on the flop rarely won. Mike lost on a pretty bad beat late in the tourney.

The ending was a major suckout. The only reason he played that hand is that he doubled up on a pair of 2's earlier in the tourney. The analysis was spot on in that he fell in love with the idea that 2's were his lucky hand so he played them. Turned out they were...

Tough beat for Layne

[Toro]

Shauna's tan lines were the best part of the show. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]