Poker stars
Since I am a very well-rounded sports writer, I watched the final round of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC today, while occasionally switching over to the Orioles/Nationals game on MASN.
Even after all these years of poker on television, I'm amazed at the number of people who want to watch other people play cards. I've played in a few tournaments in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, so it's not like I have anything against Texas Hold-em, but the only reason this event held my interest was because it was on opposite the O's.
I mean, did they really need a slow-motion replay of runner-up Eric Seidel tossing in a stack of chips? Not unless some Jeffrey Maier wannabe lunged out of the crowd and caught them before they reached the pot.
While I'm shuffling baseball and poker, I should point out that the reason I haven't blogged very frequently the past couple of days is because this weekend has been jam-packed with important family stuff.
Friday was college graduation day for both of my kids and both of their significant others, so I spent Saturday deciding what to do with all the spending money I'm going to have now. And today is my daughter's birthday, so my credit card is going to take a severe beating at some foofy restaurant tonight. I hope you understand.
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Comments
Thats a pretty bad use of replay..
Watched some of the NYY/NYM game last night on (EXPLODING GRAPHICS) FOX (EXPLODING GRAPHICS).
Do you really need to show replays after EVERY pitch? Like a care where the ball was when Aroid fouled it off to even the count at 1-1 in the 1st inning. Even better, when a ball is put into play, look out for at least 2 (EXPLODING GRAPHICS) replay (EXPLODING GRAPHICS).
I love what they do for news, but Fox is god awful at sports.
El Terrible'.
Posted by: SHAMROCK | May 23, 2010 3:37 PM
Decent point, but I guess that's the different between "pokertainment" and watching no-frills poker trraining videos online, for example.. unfortunately the latter triumphs in presentation in so many ways.. hands/min, lack of hype and BS etc.
Posted by: nhggfu | May 24, 2010 3:06 AM
Congrats, Pete, on having both of yor kids - as well as their significant others - for being graduated from Grade-16.
Being graduated from Cullege-Park in the 1970s cost me roughly a $10,000 Pell Grant, and that was for al four years at something like two percent interest.
Now it's along the lines of taking out a mortgage before actually taking out a mortgage.
But on the bright side, it appears that the Orioles will be needing a manager in the very near future. Qualifications consist of taking full reponsibilty for the inability to win with a deadful team.
Besides, I have alwas wanted to call you ' dad''!
Posted by: Fang | May 24, 2010 5:24 PM