To make things even more fun, the ESPN app on the xbox one is all wonky and won't let you fast forward. Every time I tried it sent me back to the beginning of the episode. Just a total farce.

Haha and then during Part 2, it just.... stopped playing. Screen went black, would not respond.

ESPN, **** you.

In previous weeks the main event coverage started late and thus my DVR recordings were missing the final 30 minutes. Today was missing like 2 hrs. I had a feeling that the WSOP would be getting booted from ESPN in the future but given ESPN's poor coverage of it this year, I'm guessing that will probably happen much sooner than I initially expected.

Not only am I put off Kassouf by his chatter, but also by his use of the term 'England oi oi' and his mid-calf cut off tracksuit bottoms. (You can replace England with any other country/city and it always annoys me.)
Probably belongs in the 'Things that p*** you off but shouldn't' thread.

Please, for comedy value alone, let Melanie Weisner get busted out with a big pair

The lunacy/hypocrisy is moving pre-recorded, scheduled content to its "News" channel in order to bring us news of the passing of a legend. wtf? Why call it "ESPN News"? Why not "ESPN Whatever"?

Douchebag idiot programmers unclear of the concepts.

My guess would be that not all persons who have ESPN access have all of the sub-channels like News, U or Classic. They DO, however, tend to have the two primary ESPN channels. And for a major story like the passing of Arnie happens to be, they want to distribute the coverage to the most households possible. Which, all things being equal, would tend to suggest that the programmers prove a broken watch is right twice a day...or, alternately, that maybe they ARE clear of the concepts.

What I find laughable is people getting upset about a pre-recorded and heavily edited product being aired a few months after the fact having been shifted. It isn't like it is a one and done...it will air again...and again...and again.

Weisner

Fair enough; I'd not thought about the different tiers of channels, but meanwhile, if it's so important, why not pre-empt your premiere channel?

Also, I realize that it will be shown again and again (and again), but I'd really prefer to see it before I see next week's show, which will no doubt be pre-empted by another catastrophic event.

Last, this would not have pissed me off as much if I was watching live and had a chance to change the channel. The DVR does not get these cues.

In the name of high comedy, someone please post a .gif of Bleznick's frenzied reveal of his hand when his all-in was called. Act like you've been there before.....

Didn't happen, but ISWYDT Lon on the "Melanie with quite a bust out story to tell her folks back home" comment

I actually don't understand how this is a major story at all. Dude was 87 years old so it's not unexpected and he was in his prime well before most of us were alive. Wait, who died? Oh the dude that has a drink named after him. I guess that's how he transcended the sport. Sure, if Jack Nicklaus had died or if Tiger Woods had died that would have been a big deal. This is more akin to Yogi Berra dying than Muhammed Ali. Oh the guy who they named the cartoon bear after died? Chalk this up as another former celebrity that "I assumed was already dead a couple decades ago"

The WSOP does not get the play it once did. I could not find any repeats for the previous episodes. In previous years they would play an episode multiple times each week.

Epic stuff mate

I'm no maths genius, but I'd like to know what are the odds of going to a flop pair v pair, flopping quads, and your opp turning his overpair full?

This is so regular that I have started taping the two shows following the Main Event broadcast just to ensure nothing gets cut off. Of course, did me no good last night.

Sort of oversold this one there Paco

Anyone think Griffin Benger was kind of salty with the guy next to him when he told him he'd give up all the cash in his wallet if he could guess his exact cards? Seemed like he was getting sick of having the guy guess his hand all the time. But then later it seemed like they were more friendly.

I didn't even realize they showed his bluff on TV until after I saw this comment. If he had hero'ed in that spot with 6 high I would have been impressed.

Well it was a bluff it was a 6-high. I just didn't mention the size of the pot hahah

After the coverage so far busto I'm starting to feel like folding 99 to you was not correct lol.

Same here. I did see it on ESPNews luckily while watching the recorded broadcast...only after it quit being broadcast. I still missed over an hour of it and its not being rebroadcasted any time soon.

It is on ESPN3 aka WatchESPN online. I have satellite TV and a few years ago was unable to access ESPN3 but it works for me now. I recommend checking that out (login with the credentials you use for your TV provider)

Cant find the full episode of episode 5 anywhere on youtube ffs.

Is it up anywhere else? About 30 minutes cut from all the ones i have found.

They're re-airing it right now on ESPN2

To the guy named Pal at the final table...you're not allowed to say "I run so bad" when you're in the top 100 of a 6000+ entry event!

It's like whining when you're up in a cash game...truly bad form.