ESPN is dropping the ball

[BasketballNYC]

ESPN had a year to brainstorm ideas for the coverage of the WSOP. They knew they were going to jack up the number of shows and events. They also know that poker has exploded this year. But they have done NOTHING to improve their coverage over last year. Some could say it is worse. Why can't they tell me the stack sizes? Where is the pot size. Why not a ticker saying what hand number we are on (so we know we just missed three orbits) and where the blinds are. I am no TV exec, but these ideas came to me 30 seconds after thinking about it. Maybe I am being picky. Am I alone in this thinking???

[SuitedSixes]

Two words: Rabbit Cam

[BasketballNYC]

HA, I can see the meeting.
"We need to improve our WSOP show. What can we do?"
"Hmmm, Real players are interested in odds, strategies and sophisticated moves..."
"Rabbit Cam?"
"Good idea, let's go spend our ESPN check on hookers and 8-balls of black tar heroin"
"Coo"

[Sponger15SB]

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Two words: Rabbit Cam

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Another Two words: Really Lame

[The4thFilm]

"The Nuts" is also two steps back. I'm glad they at least say the blinds now.

[MicroBob]

3 words.
illusuion of continuity.

they aren't oblivious.
it is a concious decision to make the coverage appear to be somewhat continuous to the casual viewer.

[BasketballNYC]

I have been trying to hack my TiVo so that when "The Nuts" logo comes up it will stop recording for 8-9 minutes. So far, no luck. Maybe it needs to listen for that carnival music...

[BasketballNYC]

I understand that they want the coverage to look complete, at least to the casual observer but would having a hand number in the corner really turn off that many newbies? I understand why they don't show the blind steals and the raise, re-raise, fold hands but toss me a bone.

[The4thFilm]

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I understand that they want the coverage to look complete, at least to the casual observer but would having a hand number in the corner really turn off that many newbies? I understand why they don't show the blind steals and the raise, re-raise, fold hands but toss me a bone.

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If they showed run of the mill hands then online players might think that going all in every 2 hands is a bad move. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Cleveland Guy]

The did keep us posted of the blind levels, and the pot size in any sizable pot.

I don't know how feasbalbe it is to show stack sizes because they are contasntly changing, and we would have to be told who everyone was at the table every time they played.

Also - they were switiching to other tables, correct me if I'm wrong, but all tables don't play the same amount of hands.

what might have been better is a clock - so you know where in the day they are.