My boyfriend and I (recreational players) really enjoyed watching this tourny. With the hole card delay, we could discuss on each hand what we thought the players had and what they should do, but the announcers (Esfandari and Chad) added nothing to the process except a huge annoyance factor. It was actually enjoyable when Hellmuth visited the booth on Sunday and gave some pretty decent insight and analysis, which just made these guys look even worse. We were praying that they'd bring him back in on Tuesday.

For probably the first half of Tuesday's coverage it seemed the only hand possibilities the announcers could come up with were an ace, high card, or a single pair, each announced with resounding confidence and authority. The " he has an ace" theme was repeated for innumerable hands in a row, in spite of the fact that neither player had anything even close. Two pair, flush, straight, and boat possibilities were largely overlooked. It was really sad (and funny) later in the evening, when having missed so many calls they just started naming every possibile hand they could think of, but even then they often missed the ones that seemed most obvious to us which more often than not turned out to be close or correct.

It's really a sad state of affairs when players at our level (rec micro stakes) feel like we have a significantly better understanding of the game than the announcers for an international broadcasting company, hired to give expert commentary at the equivelent of the Superbowl of poker. We didn't even need a little kid to tell us that these 'Emperors' truely 'had no clothes'.

heinz won but he was also the best player IMO, was rooting for him to win from the early beginning

does anyone still take DN serious? he seems to criticize others a lot, maybe he should focus on himself instead some more

“It was really sad (and funny) later in the evening, when having missed so many calls they just started naming every possible hand they could think of, but even then they often missed the ones that seemed most obvious to us which more often than not turned out to be close or correct.”___ That WAS very sad and funny. There were many times Antonio just named almost every possible hand, and then he still missed. So sad.

re-watch it if you forgot, cheong's play was uber melt-down. He played extremely well and at same time made some gigantic mistakes.

50 BBs

Are you saying Bob Bounahra was a good player??? Who are you talking about. Stazko was 2nd, Makievskyi went out 2nd.

Did I get something wrong? Thought, there is no ICM heads-up?! And to last longer in a HU is always the maingoal, isn't it? So which hands you mean then specificly?

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Yes, agree, although Heinz may bet smaller than allin. Heinz was definitely bluffing the river. However, it is pretty usual to float call a turn raise. Think checking the river might be better, as it could induce a bluff or value bet.