2024 World Series of Poker May 28th to July 17th ***No Spoilers***

Wouldn't this just be a cash gm played during the wsop?

They just added cash games to bravo.

Very GTO site for filtering through all the Vegas summer events by the hendon mob

https://www.thehendonmob.com/vegas/

To answer my own question based on what I was told at the cage yesterday:

You -can- buy in with a credit card, but there -is- a fee for this.

(I didn’t ask what the fee as I just bought in with cash after being told this. I totally understand why they’d need to charge a fee for this, but this does contradict other info in this thread.)

Isildur down the the final 10 in the Dealer's Choice

And Shaun Deeb and Hennigan, and Poker Gonwont be showing it.

****ing nauseating if you ask me.

day #2 completed. two tables left.

Seat Player Chip Count
1 Lawrence Brandt 805,000
2 Robert Wells 1,960,000
3 Venkata Tayi 505,000
5 John Hennigan 1,870,000
6 Ryan Pedigo 910,000

1 Shaun Deeb 585,000
2 Clint Wolcyn 2,770,000
3 Brayden Gazlay 2,370,000
4 Peter Gelencser 170,000
6 Viktor Blom 1,650,000

Would be a solid watch. What are they broadcasting instead?

25k HU on PokerGo at 1pm PST today.

Not sure how entertaining watching an event on PokerGo with no hole cards would be.

I think what’s nauseating is every time someone remotely recognizable makes final ~2 tables, the crying bitchy birds come hollering that it’s not scheduled for PokerGo.

Viktor, Deeb and Hennigen are more than remotely recognizable.

Pokergo should learn that these type of tables are what a lot of us want to watch. Its the wsop, we've all seen enough nl crap this year, show some highly skilled mixed players.. Pokergo should learn how to adjust on the fly.

Adjust on the fly? How the hell are they supposed to reveal hole cards in dealers choice?

Probably the same way they did it in the past when they showed draw games with hole cards

Tbh we need the option to go double box quad box etc for all the simultaneous events running. Hire the red zone guys

Main character syndrome is real.

You can say that “a lot of us” want to watch a dealer’s choice event over an NL event (tbf, I’m in that group) but there’s a lot more that don’t. NL draws waaaaaaaaaaay more interest/views than mixed games. All the draw games and even the split pot games are just too confusing/advanced for the average fewer and they don’t care.

Another complication is that they announce which events they are going to cover ahead of time and presumably have to make plans to have the crew and staff ready, so just switching everything at the 11th hour because a few fun players are making deep runs can present logistical nightmares.

Love my PokerGo sub for this month. I do hope the final 27 of the WSOP is better than it was last year. Splitting the coverage down to 9 over two days really took away from the whole thing. The final table being the all time time nut low didn't help either.

Put the 25k hu on, nice starter.

According to Bravo, there are some amazing cash games going at the WSOP, a lot of mixed and PLO rather than NLHE. Also, 2 tables of bomb pot games.

Problem with that explanation is that PokerPROductions knew which game was being played for that telecast. Tougher ask when the game changes every 10-15 minutes (or how ever long it takes) on a literal whim. How quickly can the RFID system reconfigure for a new game? If it's only a few minutes, then yeah, it would be nice for dealer's choice to be streamed. If it takes a while, then it's probably not practical for everyone to sit around and wait for production to change the system from, say, PLO8 to A-5 TDL.

That said, I kind of also wish PokerGo would not try to lock down a schedule and go a little more with the flow. Sure, I get scheduling the $25K heads-up over the $1,500 Dealer's Choice, as the former is far more likely to showcase more recognizable players.

PokerGo would have to scale dramatically for this to happen, but I'd like to see the WSOP telecasts resemble the way PGA Tour golf are covered or the NCAA basketball tournaments used to be. In PGA Tour events, they will generally follow certain marquee individuals but they have cameras strewn about the course so that they can pick up action when something happens away from the group. Then this gets inserted into the broadcast. (Obviously, the Main Event gets covered like this, with the feature tables and the roving cameras around the room.)

As for the NCAA basketball tourney, back when CBS was the only network showing games, you still had broadcast crews at every site. One game was considered the 'A' game, and that's the one you saw when tuning in. However, if that game was uninteresting and/or another game across the country was close, or perhaps a possible upset was in progress, then the telecast would switch to the other crew. (I can tell you as someone who was often assigned to a 'B' game, it was pretty cool when you knew CBS had gone live at your site.)

Of course, nowadays they just televise all games to different networks – TBS, CBS, TruTV, etc. But I don't know if PokerGo could ever get to that type of operation.

Pretty cool idea. Just not sure how realistic it is for them. The money involved in broadcasting the WSOP is not PGA level money.

I think PokerGO leaves some meat on the bone when it comes to getting the most out of the WSOP license, but they are also over-hated.

Whether they get things right or wrong, at least they put effort into the productions and content.

Earlier I saw Phil all smiles about Tiger at the table.

https://x.com/LynnGilmartin/status/17971...

Maybe people understand NLHE better, but the dealer's choice event is likely to have big names at the final table and interesting play. Maybe not expecting Hennigan, Shaun Deeb, and Isildur.

I don’t know if a definitive answer was ever given in the thread, but it seems the credit/debit card fee is 3.25%

I bought into the bounty event with cash and the fee was added to the receipt and then removed for a “cash discount”.

2 bracelets already for the Brits, and a 2nd place. I don’t recall them winning many last year but I could be wrong?