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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
What a Turrable Turnament
Friday, November 14th, 2008 by Phil
I don’t know what to say, one of my horses made it to the top 3 as I predicted (Dennis Phillips), although he played pretty bad in my opinion.
I’m glad Chris already wrote something up for our blog about the final table, because it gets me off the hook from having to say something informative about the actual results. I’ll sum it up for you right here…it doesn’t matter who wins, because we’re all losers. Well, not really, but I certainly feel like a donk after putting aside something important to watch the final table coverage on ESPN.
It’s hard to really comment on the play at the final table because the coverage was so poor. It’s hard to say what really happened. This has always been an issue at the WSOP. They try to squeeze an entire final table with a bunch of other ridiculous segments into a 2 hour show. I think even Charles Barkley would agree, this coverage was just turrable.
This led me to thinking today, how did I ever enjoy this sort of thing? I can remember watching poker on TV as I was learning to play and it was nothing like this. Then it occurred to me, I used to watch the World Poker Tour all of the time. I don’t think that they started filming their TV final tables until they got down to 6 players.
This let them show more of the action and how everything developed at the final table. It let them show some of the drama when 2 players would start going after each other during every hand. Not to mention, their commentary was a little bit better, and anyone that reads this blog often knows I hate ESPN’s poker commentary.
The World Poker Tour had Mike Sexton, a long time poker player. He was able to fill in the role of the “Expert” commentator. ESPN has nobody to do this, and it shows.
So far the word that I’ve gotten from the poker room affiliates is that there is no real spike in new account signups this year. In the last few years, there has traditionally been a wave of signups around the time of the WSOP broadcast, but this year there is almost nothing. This worries me more than the half-assed one liners from Norman Chad. This is something that can really affect the future sponsorship opportunities that poker rooms are going to want to put up at the WSOP.
I hope the next wave of money is on it’s way, because Guy Laliberte isn’t going to play on Full Tilt forever.
