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best for TV tournaments or cash game?

View Poll Results: cash games or tournaments on TV

tournaments

9 13.04%

cash games

60 86.96%

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04-22-2009 , 10:25 AM

quadaces9999

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i enjoy cash games on tv more.

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04-22-2009 , 10:29 AM

Tacto

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Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,902

Cash Games for sure.

Only thing missing from the cashgames on TV is that they don't mention how much a player has won or lost and that really sucks.

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04-22-2009 , 11:03 AM

jimi1999uk

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Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,893

^^^ I agree.
Would be cool if they had a note of the stack sizes during the hand so you can work out PSB and so on and show how much they're up or down a bit more. Can't remember ever seeing anything like that on HSP.

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04-22-2009 , 04:30 PM

MYMESSIAH

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Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,154

Yea I love watching the cash games and I also think it lets people know that cash games is where the real poker is played not tournaments where the luck factor kicks in to much.

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04-22-2009 , 05:31 PM

Carnivore

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Tournaments are boring as ****.

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04-22-2009 , 06:11 PM

robinfromthehood

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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,865

Cash games for sure. Tournaments are usually pretty badly covered... and just involve lot of coinflips. I do really like most of the WSOP coverage though, especially the ME. Also, the EPT episodes shown on TV and on Pokerstars TV can be quite good.

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04-22-2009 , 08:12 PM

BarrySanders

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I don't know who would vote for tournaments.

You don't really get a REAL poker game when there are a ton of short stacks trying to move up on the money ladder and playing uber nitty.

Deep stack cash is where the action is. The REAL play.

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04-22-2009 , 10:54 PM

SluggerWV

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i prefer tournaments

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04-23-2009 , 12:43 AM

jojoh07

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Overall cash games unless its WSOP coverage.

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04-23-2009 , 12:47 AM

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dornacher3

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Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 722

you get better poker in cash games and you get players who are much more willing to step out on a ledge since they can reload at any time. where as watching a AK vs 88 bonanza all day in tournies is just boring as all hell.

I actually think televised cash game PLO game would be by far the most fun game to watch cause the gamble factor is through the roof and thats what makes for good tv poker.

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04-23-2009 , 03:57 PM

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nuisance

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I actually think televised cash game PLO game would be by far the most fun game to watch cause the gamble factor is through the roof and thats what makes for good tv poker

I would enjoy that as I have never played PLO for cash and would like to see how its played before I got the balls up to give to a try.3

i actually not watched alot of the WPT this season bwing that they are on some strange channel and they seem to be airing the same 2 games each week, and they are only Hr long episodes. I think they should go back to Travel Channel or GSN.

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Cash Games for sure.

Only thing missing from the cashgames on TV is that they don't mention how much a player has won or lost and that really sucks.

The Aussie Millions cash game they showed ppl's wins and looses.

And whatever happened to the US poker championships at the Taj those were cool to watch as well.

Last edited by nuisance; 04-23-2009 at 04:03 PM.

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04-23-2009 , 04:05 PM

#12

theSLUMdog

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Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 315

cash games ftw. i just wished we had a count of who was down or up at the end of each day of HSP. that would be really cool

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04-23-2009 , 09:20 PM

#13

Wesker1982

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Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,119

I don't watch TV poker unless its cash. PAD should go all cash imo, their single table tourney is borrrrrrrrrrrrrrring.

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04-23-2009 , 11:39 PM

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r0eKY

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Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,960

i cant stand all the tourney bashing. I been a cash only player for 4+ years but the i know espn got all this started. We should all praise tourney poker if for nothing else to keep the donks watching.

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04-24-2009 , 12:18 AM

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Strange Famous

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Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 250

+1 to PAD being all cash. Raise, fold, fold, fold, fold, call gets hella boring.

Last edited by Strange Famous; 04-24-2009 at 12:18 AM. Reason: lame 100st poast I know

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04-24-2009 , 04:00 AM

#16

kalv

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Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,104

More generally I prefer to watch cash games... but the best show i like to watch is WSOP main event. So I give the slight edge to cash games.

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