The final 3 are fine. Not much reason to hate. Ott is playing the best but we shall see if it's enough to overcome the chip disadvantage.

I like nerdishness of Pollak and Ott, what is missing is real villain.

people have talked about "so and so growing the game of poker" for years now. half of the main event was on an app no one wanted... not sure anyone is really gonna "grow" this "sport" too much

Anyone else agree Piciolli ran good but played to ladder and not win? Cost him a lot of money IMO

If anything proves that poker is a game and not a sport, it's one look at Blums manboobs.

He let me down, but I can't call someone a nit at that level. I've never been in a life changing spot so I'm not gonna fault anyone's non-agro play

U have to kill one, **** one and marry one...who u got!!!%^#???

Okay, maybe change it up. Fight one, go out drinking with one and be roommates with one???

Too easy

Pollak looks clean so would be a good roommate
Blum seems like a good guy to have a drink with and one hell of a night
Ott is probably the only one I could beat in a fight, seems boring and his lack of self grooming shows he may be a dirty room mate.

Where is guy who had dream about kissing Durr, he is authority.

The video coming down the hallway WAS like a really bad version of Baywatch the way they were flopping around...not a good look.

Is Joe McKeehen an ******* or something? I haven't really followed him as he seemed super boring. I didn't even watch the final table when he won.

I think the main thing you can do to get the casual fan interested in poker is through the highlight episodes ESPN produces. And the best thing there would be to make that all about Hesp.

It seriously makes me wonder how people can show up on national television badly groomed and in such uncomplimentary outfits. How I miss the days where people would dress up before they entered cardrooms. I get it that not everyone can have as much style as Marcel Luske, but there is a middle ground as displayed by slick guys like Pollack.

He famously shunned a 2plus2er's wife at a casino after he won the main event. There are other things about him but that one always stuck out the most.

Getting sick of Antonio talking **** about the "young players" Salas is the perfect example of a 45 year old nit thats much more miserable at the table then the "young players". The way Salas looks at people when they raise, like hes going to stab them for being aggro, or when they raise his blind, like a pos attorney accusing them of theft.

Honestly Antonio, your Iranian ass is worse for the general audience then anyone else, you look like a smart Iranian nerd, thats the last type of person joe sixpack wants to see when they turn on ESPN.

And stop talking about how you love to "pay taxes" and you live in such a "great country" what do you love about taxes so much? so they can use that money to bomb the middle-east some more? or so they can overthrow any decent leader your country has and install a dictator?

Its time to rotate Antonio, and Norman Chad off more often, his commentary is repetitive, Mr January, Mr January over and over, he runs out of creativity quickly, you could have called him the Argentinian Richard Grieco, Danny Zuko Grease, The not so Wild One Johnny Strabler, Rebel with a nitty cause, Probono slowmo Salas, the unhappy prosecutor, I can go on and on.

Honestly Antonio's admitted arrogance about how he puts no work into preparation for commentary is just too apparent to me. Kara Scott, Nick Shulman and Ali Nejad seem to work hard and put effort into their craft. Lon McEachern is likeable too.

And K.L. that cashed (Dnegs entrant), that's an awesome story and he's such a good guy.

Forget to take your meds this morning Janice?

OMG Salas bustout hand was the greatest moment, LOL! Made my day! This clown tanks forever, calls AT w/10BB and on top of that the whole chanting, as if you'd deserved ANYTHING after your ****ty perfomance. **** that guy. I'm keeping a video of this, so satisfying

Not a fan of Blumstein either. I'm rooting for the underdogs, would be great to see Ott take this down after making such a nice comeback. He seems like one of the good guys.

Tell us how you really feel.

I'm no pro, and by no means an elite expert at this game but I'll tell you one thing I know for sure. I've played the last three ME's and a total of ten days over those three years in addition to side events at WSOP, cash games, and other tournaments outside the Rio during the series. And I've done well. Without exception I have had a good experience with the 45 year old so-called nits: the good players, the no so good, the social, the quiet, the jokers, and the serious ones. The so-called young guns? Not a good experience at all. Brooding, miserable, no fun, entitled, condescending, arrogant, acting like they should never lose to people who are just not as good as they are, to say nothing of the apparent disregard for hygiene (I love it when you burn one before, during, and after playing, but maybe recognize that you smell like a dumpster if you don't change your hoodie once in a while.) Sure, life sucks when you have less than 20% of yourself and you've been grinding your ass off for six weeks in Vegas, but learn to be at least moderately pleasant playing a game that is social in nature because odds are you're never going to bink the big one and even if you do, you're going to find out that 20% of a low six figure cash doesn't go too far after that night at the strip club with your friends.

Were it not for the obvious +ev of playing with the youngsters (especially against a guy like Salas), I'd rather play a a full ring of Salas than a full ring of 20 something wannabes.

@Janice

That was a little bit on the hard side of things, but overall a refreshing commentary on the blind people wrapped up in the flag like Antonio. Seriously, anybody who loves to pay taxes in a country that's famous for starting and maintaining wars in economically and militarily weaker countries should be ashamed of himself for either being a sadist or ignorant as hell. The fact that Antonio is of Iranian descent, out of all countries, seems like the ultimate irony here.

Other than that, he's a very likeable guy (like most ignorant leftists) and I enjoy his play analysis. That's what he's there for, I don't expect him to do the job of being an entertaining announcer. That's Norman Chad's call, and I wouldn't wanna miss him. He and Lon (for all his little knowledge of the game) have become a national treasure post Moneymaker.

Hopefully they are his lucky shorts.

really? gtfo w/ that racist **** you deplorable.

He may have been hinting at sponsorship.

If anyone wants to see where Hesp plays poker in England head over to the Napoleon's Casino Hull, England website. They have some pics of the poker room from the casino floor and have a calendar of events including the the 10 pound tournaments he plays in. 2000 in starting chips and re-buys. On Sunday June 18th John Hesp came in third place for 255 pounds/$331 dollars. Amazing, going with home with $2.5 million. He can probably afford to buy the casino outright.

Many would say Goldstein is the real villain. Anyway , when lacking a clear villain , always choose the guy from a jersey .