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I really don't think the commentators had much to do with this. They just got sucked in by the group think. I mean think about Lon and Norman. Most people around here that follow the WSOP think they're terrible. The Mike Rah Rah stuff comes from top down in my opinion and the only one with enough brains to not get sucked in to the bs was Veronica. Thankfully!
Imo opinion the alleged cheating has nothing to do with the DJ type commentators (the show didn't try to target an audience of poker savants) and everything is to do with Mike and one techie. We are likely wasting our time looking at commentators who exhibit very little clue about poker.
100%. Most of the commentators appear to be not great at poker, kinda dumb in general, often drunk and only half paying attention a lot of the time. They hype Mike up because he's the biggest winner, makes crazy moves, appears to be by far the best player in their game, and gets people in the chat excited.
Things like the commentary being 'suspicious' on the T6s hand because the guy says 'watch [this guy who runs insanely hot] hit [his only outs] here, you know it's coming'...everyone who plays and watches poker says stuff like this all the time? It's completely normal. But because this general situation is very not-normal, people are projecting meaning onto it that isn't there. What is even the theory here? That the commentator actually knows the deck order, knows Mike is about to win twice and he's just gleefully rubbing the viewers faces in it because....lulz?
Also a very obvious point but I'm pretty sure if you're running a enormously risky criminal conspiracy on camera every night for a year, you would want as few people knowing about it as possible - not be yukking it up with half a dozen different commentators, who you would then presumably have to pay off/share profits with, and any of whom could rat you out.
tl;dr - commentator stuff is dumb, leave them alone unless you're bringing evidence that isn't 'that isn't what I would say/that isn't how I would react'.