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Originally Posted by Tommy_Tomich969
The commentary combo of Maria and Lon is really not working. Maria is great when she has someone interesting to bounce off, but Lon without Norman spends the whole time fumbling his way through mostly uninteresting rhetoric about poker hands and repeating the same basic info about each player about 50 times, and Maria doesn't seem to be able to steer the conversation into something more interesting. Jamie is better at being able to make the broadcast more fun.
I agree. My heart sank when I tuned in and found Lon on the call for a high roller of all things. At one point I'm sure he said "ranges don't matter three-handed". High Rollers should really be Ali/Nick or Ali/Special Guest (Prahlad was good in spots last year for example and Vitch was good when he did some commentary for mixed games too).
Lon is fine with Norm or Jamie in the low level flipaments, but he should never be calling $50ks.
I think it's a pretty hard thing to call 8+ hours of poker without being repetitive or dull and I think the PokerGo commentators do a really good job of keeping things entertaining, but it's just lining up the right hosts to the right events.