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Originally Posted by El bastardo
Will be a riot when they say 'This is high stakes poker!!!' and it's half the stakes pokergo normally streams.
I was thinking the same since it was announced.
Imo HSP had those good things:
- the highest stakes poker televised
- good lineup with great personalities
- great commentary
- side bets and gamble
- very good production
- broadcasted on a tv channel that reached non-poker player.
Now we have 500-1k games being streamed on Robs home game.
PADs with minimum 100/200 games.
We still have great lineups to be made and thats a positive thing.
Hope that we will be seeing side bets and some random gambling (it’s a must have) and things like 72 game.
Very good production is achievable too.
But I don’t think that it will succeed with the same commentary strategy. I mean... everyone who knows some poker don’t want to be listening nonsense comments on the hands and much of the poker audience nowadays are looking for insightfull comments that they can (think) apply on their games to get better (that being true or not).
So I don’t see how gabe and norm could be any good.
And the show will now be limited to an exclusive platform (that I love), but can’t reach ppl outside the community.
I just don’t have big expectations on this one, but hope I’m wrong about it.