AFAIK you can still look at the schedule on their website if you are not subbed. But Main Event coverage starts tomorrow.

I subscribe to Pokergo and am glad to see whatever coverage they provide. I can remember when the only WSOP coverage would be for the Main Event (on ESPN). For many years ESPN only gave spotty coverage to a handful of tournaments. With Pokergo you get to see a variety of tournaments. I also felt that they have a good roster of commentators for the most part. All knowledgeable poker people who pretty much stick to a play by play with some humor thrown in. Sure, I'd like to see the full final tables, starting with nine players, but even with only five or six players, it is lasting for hours. Three or four hours of poker is enough for me. Especially when it is contested between a group of good players. I feel like I've seen a lot of very good poker this year so far.

I think I paid something like $65 or $70 for the entire year on one of their promotions. Kind of a cheap date imo. One last thing, I loved Norm and Lon for the first few years, but that schtick got old after awhile, and all the mistakes and omissions became more glaring over time. Give me Nick and Ali or any one of today's current teams and I'm a happy camper. At least they stick to calling the play of the game (and quite accurately I might add) instead of telling a bunch of nonsensical stories while a good hand is being played out. Just my two cents.

Given 99.9% of website redesigns make things worse, be careful what you wish for

In addition to live WSOP broadcasts available on PokerGO, CBS Sports Network will broadcast 15 episodes of WSOP Main Event coverage plus 36 episodes from additional WSOP gold bracelet events. Looks like Norm and Lon have jobs still.


Above is a clip from the May 2022 PokerGo press release.


'Back in the day' when streaming was a baby and ESPN was paying the bill it was done differently. The November 9 was great .. until technology made it obsolete (like Redbox) in 10% of the time it's ESPN episode predecessor lasted (Blockbuster). Whether smart or not, WSOP found someone willing to purchase/control the broadcasting rights when there was very few offers/takers at 'real' money after the 2nd Black Friday and there were no poker websites paying for commercial time.

If you don't think that PokerGo has improved each year since inception, then you're going to be hard to please. The sub price hasn't changed and they are 'allowing' the YouTube sessions for free as a sub hook. IMO they somehow survived CV when others may have just walked away .. perhaps this is a hobby of sorts for those involved and Brent Hanks has figured out how to keep the lights on so to speak.

For whatever reasons it appears they've lost Nick Schulman but have offered a pretty decent stable of color co-hosts that understand the various games 'of the day'.

Don't know how long the contract with CBS Sports is .. other than 'multi-year' .. so buckle up or get off the train since it will continue to move forward under the current formats. GL

I'm trying to watch some stuff on demand at PokerGo but I cant drag the bar forward more than a few minutes at a time


I feel asleep watching day one of the ME, woke up and it was locked up so I had to restart at the beginning but could only move it forward about 5 minutes at a time and then have to wait for several seconds for a buffer to build up and try again, its a real pain in the ass to get to where I felt off


I'm hoping I'm just technically clueless, is there a way to fast forward to any point I want or has PokerGo really dropped the ball this bad?

Imagine paying to watch poker lol

Source?

imagine being so poor you can't afford $15 a month to watch good content

It's $10

But the content is not good, well, it's worse than it was many years ago when it was free

It's $7 when using the code

Most of the "good content" was previously free for everyone until some rich ******* decided to pay for the rights and charge a fee.

Most of pokergo's original content is downright garbage.

It’s not so much about the price tag, and moresoe about how trash their product is.

How often has live WSOP coverage actually been free? I'm actually asking.

Prior to things like PokerGo, I can't remember how I watched the coverage, but it seems like ESPN (ESPN3 at the time) was my only means. And ESPN wan't truly free because you had to have a cable subscription to watch it. Obviously, people outside the U.S. had other ways.

One thing that strikes me funny, though: most of the time, everyone complains that the table is boring, because the nine players just sitting there playing in relative silence (as poker often is). And that's understandable. This game is not exactly wall-to-wall action.

But then in that rare instance when someone talkative is at the featured table, everyone complains how annoying he (or she) is, how they want to mute the audio, etc.

I can remember free final table streams around 2007-2011.

The majority of the internet. Heck, I got logged out of here the other day and the default theme made my eyes bleed

I subscribed the other day to watch the ME and don't really have any complaints. The announcers are pretty good, sometimes they talk a bit too much where i'd prefer to hear the table talk. But the production in general is solid for a small streaming service that does poker only.

Back in 2011 ESPN provided live coverage of the Main Event from Day 3 to the end on TV. It was unfortunately a massive failure, and immediately scrapped.

In 2017 ESPN tried again, with the ESPN/PokerGo hybrid, where you could watch 1-2 levels a day on ESPN and the rest on PokerGo. Apparently that wasn’t deemed successful for them either.

Unfortunately, live poker just does not sell to a wide enough audience to be on national TV in prime time. Because of this, the only way we’re going to get live coverage anymore is behind a paywall, and that is never going to change. Accept it.

Pokergo main event coverage has been solid. Night shift is a lot of fun.

Still don't know why the only recent Platt/Hanks commentary that I recall was for a PLO event.

Agree with this. Ali and Schulman are legit funny and work well together. Also love the day time coverage with Long norman, and Jamie. Can't say they have a commentator that I do not like.

cancelled my sub when they rolled out norman chad as the color commentator for the 50k PPC.

the main announcer guy was fine (I think it was Ali) but to have Norman as your 2nd and just be denied any observation from a winning player is disrespectful.

at some point lon and norm will stop getting work for meaningful final tables and that will be a good day.

Hours upon hours of live, every hand, 8 robots at the table poker sucks. It will never run well on ESPN or any commercial channel. I have had PokerGO for years but the limited value of the live streams is my wife likes to use it to go to sleep.

Even knowing the winner, I find the production versions (especially the boom time ones) infinitely better. Unfortunately, local cable doesn't have CBS sports, so I did not even see last year final table. Need to check if my Paramount+ includes it.

It'd be great if PG invited Lex Veldhuis to join the FT commentary teams.

What happened to PAD? The schedule has events listed through Jan 2023, but I don't see PAD.

At the end of last season, they showed a promo for a SnG that was going to have

Doyle
Hellmuth
That chess chick
Mr Beast
Ted Cruz

Who the hell wants to watch Ted Cruz on PAD? They should be ashamed for inviting that scumbag.

Me, I voted for him