yes

Can't believe they actually are putting Kassouf on the show. I thought everyone realized he's just strictly annoying by now?

Dwan
Ivey
Hellmuth
Rob Yong
Rick Saloman
Aussie Matt

That is the "theme" of the group. Players with a reputation for "voice play".
They are probably encouraged to mouth off, and most of them don't need any encouragement.

After "the return of Dwan" it sounds meh, but then again last week exceeded most expectations. Maybe this will as well.

I think the lineup's great. Berkey always mixes things up and you'll see plenty of unconventional stuff. Kassouf is entertaining despite being slightly cringe-inducing. Schulman is an amazing all around player, although not sure his great on-air personality translates to the poker table (think he stays kinda quiet?). Mike Matusow is fun to watch. It's also fun to watch David Williams think that he's a great poker player. This is quite a good, diverse interesting lineup. What exactly is your problem with it?

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People are forgetting, these shows are for entertainment value and they're not supposed to be educational.

Seems like an interesting line up. Will be rooting for Kassouf.

+1

David Williams is a lot closer to Matusow in entertainment value than people realize/remember. And Kassouf is great to root against, while Schulman is easy to root for.

It doesn't have the history of Dwan vs Negreanu, but a solid lineup all things considered, especially for the SitnGo format.

The SNG lineup for Wednesday is great, I'm really looking forward to that.

Jason Koon
Scott Seiver
Brian Rast
Matt Berkey
Nick Schulman
Ben Lamb


I also think tonight's 25K has the potential to be great entertainment.

edit: LOL at having Igor and Liv on the same table

It can be both.

Tomorrow should be good for both but I like both lineups. Not sure what I'd watch otherwise.

You obviously haven't seen Wednesday's lineup

Tuesday is not ideal, I'll give you that, but it's miles ahead of Wednesday.

You must be referring to the Thursday lineup, not Wednesday. If not though, then I'm definitely missing something.

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Wednesday's lineup is crushers. Crushers make for a good game when what we need is a good stream. A subtle, but critical, difference.

Watching Will Kassourf take 50 seconds to fold 83o to a 3bet preflop while talking about "speech play" is not entertainment in my book, but I guess we all have different tastes.

So you'd prefer to watch Scott Seiver breathe loudly through his mouth and make a move so you can take notes for the next time you're sitting in a 25K SNG?

That could create some awkward spots if they got 3 handed.

"poker after dark" during the hottest part of the LV day

They're saying that they like to skip class to go to the zoo.

JRB got the Matrix prequel Morpheus audtion attire on.

This is gonna be a circus

Nah, JRBuzzkill would smile at a circus.

Yes!

Has anyone from this line up actually put the 25k up themselves?

At this point I'd settle for not watching these episodes live to get better production value out of them. Sound is awful and the stream can be choppy at times. The volume level between Ali and the table needs to be constantly adjusted to hear what the hell they are talking about.

As for the lineup, not a fan of new matusow. Old matusow was awesome and 1000% better. Back when he was getting full tilt money. I don't mind Schulman. He's, for sure, not going to talk over any of these guys and I guaranty he's trying his hardest to win.

Also, I'm assuming JRB has something to do with this influx of new poker broadcasting or he's just friends with Katz, but too much JRB is bad for the game. Sprinkle him in every so often.

Shulman has no time for Kassouf haha.

I know its part of his strategy and all but jeez he's annoying

Just give Schulman the 125k and lets get on with the next one.