Video cameras at home game?

blklight · #1 02-02-2005, 03:26 PM

Is anyone else using cameras at their home tournaments? We have been running for a while now, doing tournaments. We have access to a nice digital video camera and tripod.

Anyone have tips on this? Ideas? Suggestions?
Is anyone else even doing this?

Thanks!

Riverboat Willie · #2 02-02-2005, 03:39 PM

I read a post on one of the forums from a guy who did this. He set up a camera above the table I think, so it captured everyone's action as well as the cards and outcomes. He said reviewing the tapes really helped him spot his own tells as well as some others. I would say go for it, it couldn't hurt, just make sure everyone at the table is okay with it before hand.

Mark

[ QUOTE ]
Is anyone else using cameras at their home tournaments? We have been running for a while now, doing tournaments. We have access to a nice digital video camera and tripod.

Anyone have tips on this? Ideas? Suggestions?
Is anyone else even doing this?

Thanks!

[/ QUOTE ]

obeythekitten · #3 02-02-2005, 03:49 PM

lame.

does anybody actually care enough to watch high school kids play dollar games?

Caruso329 · #4 02-02-2005, 03:52 PM

the lame high school/college kids themselves. Me and my friends always joke that we should implant some tiny WSOP cameras in our table and watch the games afterwards. This of course is just a joke and we neither have the funds or reason to go through with this.

The only reason I would ever consider a camera in a home game would be for my own personal use so I could later go back and identify tells. Not worth the extra effort for $5 - $25 IMO.

memphis_aces · #5 02-02-2005, 03:52 PM

This is a neat idea if you're having a large multi-table tournament. Mounting a camera overhead and projecting it onto a bigscreen makes the game feel a little more fun. Granted it doesn't really matter and I assume any information gained from it regarding tells would be minimal....

blklight · #6 02-02-2005, 04:10 PM

We play multi table $20 buyin tournaments. Don't think anyone who comes is under 21, most are between 25-40.

Would "high school kids" have the equipment ($$) and facility to do something like this? It was just a question, clearly something on the for fun side. Soo...how about you stop being an idiot?

David04 · #7 02-03-2005, 08:27 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Would "high school kids" have the equipment ($$) and facility to do something like this?

[/ QUOTE ]
Yes.

obeythekitten · #8 02-03-2005, 10:29 PM

you guys must have an awesome social life. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

37offsuit · #9 02-04-2005, 01:53 PM

At our home game, everyone gets drunk and it gets pretty funny. We've been talking about doing a public access/internet show about poker which features our weekly game, inluding playing advice and some assorted other things.

We've estimated that it will cost about $3,000 for everything involved.

dabluebery · #10 02-04-2005, 02:47 PM

At a tournament I held in September, a low buy in with a group of 45 people, I videotaped the final table.

I had two cameras. I mounted one at an angle, looking down at the table in a side profile. It caught just the heads of the players near to the camera, but caught most of what everyone was doing on the other side.

I had another camera mounted directly above the table, pointing straight down, which caught the community cards and pot sizes, like you see on TV, looking down.

There were a lot of people who wanted to come and "watch" the final table, so the idea was to simulcast the tournament in another room of my house so everyone wouldn't crowd around the table, I hate that.

We videotaped both.... with the idea of editing it. One tape busted halfway through, and the sound quality is pretty bad on both tapes. So that sucked. But it was fine. Definitely something that turned into "just so I could say I did it," though.

Rob