And if it is anything like the way they handled the SHR if you login to watch the replay they post the winner spoiler right on their front page. They need to make some adjustments.

I thinks cool were streaming day 2, 3 ect but overall I'm disappointed. Add few people and stream the final tables. No reason not to stream 10k tag team right now.

This. Would be more than happy to also watch FT streams with 0 commentary too, just showing the action from 2-3 angles with holecards.

Having guest commentary or normal commentary for the bigger events too as per their schedule, but ffs, stream every FT.

We are going backwards here vs last few years

Yep, all of this. An excellent discussion on all of this starts at 03:38:00 here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dru...d-911-50273765

You have the right idea but their retention rate would be no where near 40% more like 5-10% max.**

I'll tell you one thing it will be an interesting conversation with their advertisers after just the SHR event.

Adman: So how many tuned in to watch the show?
pGo: Well we had 14K or so the first day on Twitch.*
Adman: Awesome!! and what about the other days they must have been even higher?
pGo: Well no we averaged 1500 or so for the final 3 days.**
Adman: What? Why so low?
gGo: We moved to our own platform and opened a subscription service charging $10 each to watch the final 3 days.
Adman: Oh... so much of the $10 do we get?
pGo: umm..well you get don't any.
Adman. Nice, that's nice. You do know it's 2017 right?


* close to the number I remember seeing for twitch viewers on day 1

It was going to be in July this year too but was moved up to accommodate Super High Roller Bowl players who will still be in town. If they moved it for Leon, then I approve. I can't wait to watch!

Why wasnt tag team on?

I doubt this even pulled 3k subs. You have to keep in mind the people posting here are the biggest poker fans on the planet. If anybody would subscribe for this service it would be us. Of however many people did get this some will cancel as well. I've talked to a few hardcore poker players off of 2+2 who have no interest in this whatsoever. People might want to check into twitch for a couple hours but not be commited to a monthly service that takes time to cancel.

They should of went with a cheaper quality stream on twitch. Cut Ho and some of the other unneeded commentators to keep the budget down. Then they could use the "this is a free service we need donations to run the stream and you get access to the vods" as a line to make back money on top of ads. Then they actually get access to all those video gamers and grow the game with them rather then the small % of the playerbase whos going to buy this.

Yikes Ali Nejad. This is the schedule and who is doing what stream
" pokercentral articles wsop pokergo streaming schedule announced "
sorry this was the only way to post the link. the forum always destroyed the link.
just google the sentence between the quotation marks

Canceled + refunded my sub today. Honestly 10 bucks/month is probably still worth it for the content that they have listed, but out of principle I'm not supporting a paid content service that offers less content that was given for free last year. Would have been so much better for poker if they put the same content for free on twitch and monetized the vods.

Exactly this, I would have paid for what was put out last year, but they have made it worse and are charging for it

I think they topped out at 21k live viewers on Day 1 of the SHRB when they put that on Twitch (perhaps higher, I saw 21k though) and then whatever they got on YT.

That. Something I haven't seen mentioned and I'll mention it since I don't want to echo others and I'm a nit: I hate so much that they advertise their service while we're watching the stream. We already know about your product and are paying for it, please stop ****ing advertising it. I am not keeping PokerGo.

Yeah that's really frustrating. Our cable TV companies in Australia are notorious for this. You're watching Fox Footy and there's a ****ing minute long ad about how great Fox Footy is. Like come on guys...

And yeah, some content is better than no content, but I'm choosing not to subscribe as well since I'm super unhappy about the decision to not show 3/4 of the tournaments.

What's tilting is if they were worried about getting commentary for all those streams it's not needed!! A lot of time the table talk is better, just nice to see hole cards.... and you throw out a tweet saying anyone want to commentate on X final table stream you will have a few top quality pros to choose from who volunteer

Any cash games being streamed on PokerGo..? The Tony G / Leon / Dan Bilzerian game would have pulled some views surely...

Mori Eskandani hinted very strongly on Chicago Joeys podcast that there was a lot of new cash game content coming very soon but that was before the Poker Go announcement. He obviously knew that was coming though so my assumption is it is for Poker Go.

That said, the SHR Bowl cash game was really good last year from the bits I saw of it, seems odd they haven't had one this time around

When I emailed them asking for the refund and politely stated my reasoning, the response I got was incredibly insulting as well.

"We have over 100 scheduled events, so thank you for your concern".

No you don't bro, you have 6 events scheduled before the main and 0 coverage of any other event. If you are going to not even be streaming those events at a minimum maybe you could put chip counts and updates in the app? Like anything? We got to watch most events for free last year.

Interesting, sure would love to hear what they are...

I'll be impressed if they somehow miss three quarters of the WSoP then find another 85 events throughout the year to stream.

How are you coming up with 6?

From this article, I see way more than 6, in fact, if its accurate, the coverage looks pretty good, especially if the production quality is anything like the SHRB:

Complete PokerGO WSOP Broadcast Schedule
Date Time (PST) Event
Saturday, June 3 2:30 p.m. WSOP $111,111 High Roller for One Drop: Day 2
Sunday, June 4 2:30 p.m. WSOP $111,111 High Roller for One Drop: Day 3
Monday, June 5 2:30 p.m. WSOP $111,111 High Roller for One Drop: Day 4
Wednesday, June 7 3:30 p.m. WSOP $10,000 Heads Up: Day 1
Thursday, June 8 12:30 p.m. WSOP $10,000 Heads Up: Day 2
Friday, June 9 12:30 p.m. WSOP $10,000 Heads Up: Day 3
Saturday, June 10 12:30 p.m. WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max
Wednesday, June 14 11:30 a.m. WSOP $1,500 Millionaire Maker
Friday, June 16 12:30 p.m. WSOP $3,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max
Saturday, June 17 2:30 p.m. WSOP $10,000 H.O.R.S.E
Sunday, June 18 11:30 a.m. WSOP $1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Seniors)
Wednesday, June 21 2:30 p.m. WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max
Friday, June 23 2:30 p.m. WSOP $10,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max
Saturday, June 24 12:30 p.m. WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Tuesday, June 27 2:30 p.m. WSOP $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max
Thursday, June 29 12:30 p.m. WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
Friday, June 30 12:30 p.m. WSOP $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha
Sunday, July 2 12:30 p.m. WSOP $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Saturday, July 8 11 a.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 1A (Part A)
Saturday, July 8 5 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 1A (Part B)
Sunday, July 9 3 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 1B
Monday, July 10 11:30 a.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 1C
Tuesday, July 11 11:30 a.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 2A/B (Part A)
Tuesday, July 11 8 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 2A/B (Part B)
Wednesday, July 12 12:30 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 2C
Thursday, July 13 11:30 a.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 3
Friday, July 14 11:30 a.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 4 (Part A)
Friday, July 14 8 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 4 (Part B)
Saturday, July 15 1 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 5
Sunday, July 16 3 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 6
Monday, July 17 11 a.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 7 (Part A)
Monday, July 17 7:45 p.m. WSOP Main Event: Day 7 (Part B)

I am hoping the feature table is Kempe, Seidel, Robert Mizrachi, Elky.
I wouldn't mind seeing Hellmuth, Dan Smith and Sam Stein.
Leon's table looks boring.

I got my info directly from the app, half of these are not listed. The "live events" page shows exactly 8 events before the main, with most of them just being final tables.

I mentioned in my previous post, I do believe that the content right now is worth 10$ a month. The issue is that they have overall less coverage, with 3-4 marquee events. I openly admit the production of the SHR was really good, but its a paid content service that's offering less live content then was available for free last year. If you have the broadcasting rights, why wouldnt you be streaming every single FT even without commentary>

So you go from seeing almost all the final tables for free to paying $10 a month for some of the final tables. Sounds like a deal.

they should have just kept WSOP live as the strong service for the other events and just let PokerGo do the main event. That seems to be their primary focus.

does anyone know if david tuchman will be running the booth for them also ? maybe they could make some adjustments there, some of the final table commentaries last couple of years were pretty lame imo

Jonathan Little tweeted that he's commentating 6 of the events.