Watching Poker on Television
- Watching Poker on Television
When you turn on the TV now a days you almost can’t help but find a Poker game. The players are celebrities and the sponsors of the players are making them resemble Nascar drivers.
Styles of play of course are as varied as the ‘Table-side’ manor of the players. The players that I enjoy watching have very similar qualities and are very opposite from the type I don’t like to watch. Your Just Poker Talk blogger likes things like:
- Respectful of other players and other styles
- Avoids criticism of other players when they:
- call when the odds say they shouldn’t
- overbet
- hit a 2 outer to scoop a big pot
- take too long
- or any other thing that the prima donna objects to
- Do not blame luck for not winning
- Do not tell everyone how stupid they are or that they are an idiot or that ‘kiddie games are down the street’
- Do not seem to do everything to draw more attention from the TV cameras
- Basically I enjoy the players that use their skill at the game and ability to out play the other players, not the ones that belittle other players and seem arrogant and mad at the world.
I have put together a couple polls below asking you to select the players you enjoy watching on televised poker. I put 34 of the top players in the world in the poll, though I am sure I missed a few. Select as many as you like and if one of your favorites is not on the poll please add in a comment.
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Rember if your favorite player is not on the poll please add a comment with their name so I can tabulate the write in totals.
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July 25th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
[...] Sighted July 25th, 2007 by Michael Keating If you haven’t already done so please go to this Just Poker Talk post and select your favorite players to watch on Televised [...]
July 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
[...] Polaris July 26th, 2007 by Michael Keating If you haven’t already done so please go to this Just Poker Talk post and select your favorite players to watch on Televised [...]
July 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I’m willing to bet some of those players know exactly when the camera is on them, and they milk the time or maybe try to provide a little more entertainment in their attitude, because if they’re sucessful, they have a bigger chance of a payday in endorsements or whatever.
What kills me is the local game players that have to wait 2 minutes to make a decision, mostly because they see it on TV.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:02 am
[...] ‘Em July 27th, 2007 by Michael Keating If you haven’t already done so please go to this Just Poker Talk post and select your favorite players to watch on Televised [...]