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Live TV Final Tables / Head to Head

  • 18-04-2006 11:39am
    #1
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,603 ✭✭✭✭


    Couple of comments regarding last nights largely excellent PPP/Sky production, and other live final tables I've seen on TV.

    1. Why cant they have 2 dealers for the head2head? Frankly the 60 second card shuffle followed by the small blind folding, followed by cards taken in and another 60 second shuffle is momentously boring, and would have been a massive turn-off to anyone coming in from the pub and tuning in about 2AM. A second dealer would mean that generally there would be a 2nd deck ready to go straight after a hand has ended, and could double, even triple the amount of hands that the players get through.
    This would also allow the blinds-clock to be reduced - those 2 could have played for another 10 hours the way things were going.

    2. The chip denominations were horrid - only a fraction of the green chips in play seemed necessary for the blinds/antes to be posted. 50K chips should have been introduced to get rid of most of the greens (and quite a lot of the reds as well). Maybe a gold chip for 50K (actually made out of gold might be a novelty for PPP to consider next year).
    It would make it easier to bet (raising 200K seemed to take about 30seconds last night, by the time the bettor counted his stack). The audience would have a better idea as to how much each player has and the long chip count at the end could have been avoided.

    AJ


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  • #2
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    Excellent point AJ... I was at a tourney on Good Friday, where one co-dealer always had a a shuffled and riffled deck ready for the table dealer, when it got to the last 3.

    It really allowed for alot more play than normal.... first time I seen it in operation.


    Regarding chips.... it probably makes for better TV (Visually) to have a mountain of chips, when a molehill would have been appropiate.


  • #3
    califano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,443 ✭✭✭califano


    Punters want to see a lot of chips over the line to create more excitement. When three 50k chips go over the line they go "Who cares" when they see the same amount in four stacks go over the line they go "Wow thats a lot".


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