Couldn't have said it better. I know a lot of posters here really hate Tuck and we're all entitled to our opinions, but count me as a loyal fan who always looked forward to each year's WSOP coverage with him. I don't think he's quite as interesting when he's going it alone, although he's fairly knowledgeable. However, sharing the booth with co-commentators - many who are his personal friends - and especially top level players like Nick Schulman and Jason Mercier, is where I think he really shines. I especially like that he's always been humble enough to say on air that he really doesn't know much about certain games or aspects of poker, and then gets his guest experts to explain the finer points, for all of us to learn from.

Maybe I'll even spring for a 2 month Poker Go subscription this year, although I'm still not thrilled about the whole paywall thing, especially considering while slightly better this year, the huge lack of coverage from them. Maybe if the WSOP sees relatively large numbers of people watching the free streams and Poker Go subscriptions don't increase much or at all, they'll rethink the whole thing for next year.

I think Ali Nejad is ok, although sometimes he seemed to get a bit overly dramatic on the old Poker After Dark, which is the only place I know him from. Of course, with that show being 'produced', they could have instructed him to be that way more than it's his natural personality, whereas IMO Tuck probably has had a lot more freedom to just 'be himself' on the WSOP coverage.

On the other hand, as for Lon and Chad, if I never heard/saw them again for the rest of my life I'd be more than happy. Even after all these years of covering the Main Event, they still come across like a couple of know-nothing buffoons, and I doubt that will ever change. Nothing short of cringe worthy.

IMo tuchman is ****ing FANTASTIC in mixed events, at least in the past.

Tuch would STFU when players were talking, and when he had a guest in the booth during a mixed event, he would literally ask really good questions. I remember the one time there was some old 40-80 STud8 player in the booth with him, and he would ask questions about what woudl you do here in a cash game? in a tourney? it was so so good how he tried to extract relevant info from a high stakes reg. of course the reg wouldn't answer some questions because he was afraid of being "exploited even tho he was like 70 yrs old), but tuch, for me, has don ea great job in mixed events and I learn a **** ton from watchign them when he has a pro of that game in the booth.


now for his NL events, I think he's still good, just more apt to talk more in them.


I never got the hate for tuch at all.



edit* wont say this due to him being a popular, but theres a certain regular pro who casts in the booth thats really knowledgeable but has the absolute worst nasaly voice in the ****ing world, i cant stand hearing him talk, even tho hes very informative. wont say who since hes beloved around here

FYI:

I just created a new (stickied) NVG thread with the PokerGo and Twitch 2018 WSOP live stream schedules.

Thanks man

Question for anyone, I have chromecast and can cast the PokerGo stuff onto my TV.

Can I do the same for the Twitch? Also I followed what I thought were the twitch links last night and could not find the O8b final table. Just said the 100K was upcoming.

Pretty sure it is like half on wsop and half on pokergo. Plenty of free ones to watch, no?

So Tuck is apparently MIA from Twitch coverage. Anyone know what happened?

Day 2 of 10K O8b on Twitch today

Very cool to get Day 2s because you get to see play unfold without great ICM considerations in play.

Cards are too far to the left today. Anyone else?

It’s always been fine before and I’m watching on a 70” TV

It’s good for me. Maybe change your display settings or something?

Thanks yeah maybe will play around with that

But it’s always been fine and playing around with TV settings is dangerous!

This blackout region is any area that has ESPN or other network that broadcasts the Main Event. So almost the entirety of the US and Western Europe. It seems that many people (myself included) were blindsided by this.

Despite this blackout, it seems that PokerGo has been falsely advertising that the Main Event final table is on offer.



Maybe Katz is hoping that this will save him the trouble of having to sue his own company!

It was the same situation last year. Was so effing annoying.

Were they bait and switching last year too?

As I mentioned in that Twitter thread, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to believe that all these dishonest practices were innocent mistakes. The CAN-SPAM violations, billing people that signed up for "free" trials, having no cancellation option on the website, etc.

Generally I'm a believer in assuming incompetence rather than malice, but all of these screwups work directly in their favor.