Just watching now and they go to a table (think 2 tables left) and say they are going to stay on it for 3 hands.
1st shorty 66 into KK
2nd A4 pushes into AQ
3rd A4 pushes into KK (same guy with KK Rack!) all hold BTW (cause they don't for me)
Would be more interesting especially given some of the mental play that i have seen on here if they spent some time in the earlier levels.
I was that short stack who pushed with 66. I had been card dead for ages and had only survived as long as I did by pushing with nothing at the right time to pick up the blinds. Was naturally gutted to see table chip leader with KK and hit a K on the flop as he had been bullying the table and always hitting his hands.
Given the blind structure there is unfortuantely no choice but to push with very marginal hands. I think at the time I pushed I was in 11/12 place on less than 5 bb.
I appreciate that the format has to fit with the time slot of the TV show, but an extra 30-60 minutes durration to the length of the tourney from tweaking the blind structure a bit would make the more exciting latter stages much less of a crapshoot.
I know this has been mentioned in other threads a few times previously but I think if a method could be worked out to slow down the last stages of the tourney that it would be much more enjoyable and attract more people (no point until the maximum number of players is raised beyond 600)
Starting an hour or so earlier and slowing down the blinds would give the production crew a chance to pick the select hands (by select I mean normal play for a lot of them including hands which don't always go to the river) which could be shown in the first part of the show. I know the reason against this has been stated that there is a chance the studio guests would be out of the tourney before the TV show has even started, but to be honest now that I have been watching the show for a long while I am only interested in the guests play when they progress further into the competition.
Maybe if they do go out early their hands could be shown prior to letting us know they were out, that way we would not be expecting the hand shown to end up with them losing and might actually prove to be more interesting as a viewer. (just dont implement any such crazy ideas prior to the end of july when I am on a winners night as a guest!)
Let's face it, the guests on the show seem to be playing a smaller and smaller part more recently and more focus is rightly placed on the hand analysis so maybe this format wouldn't have as much of a negative effect on the show as it previosuly would have.
One general comment on the show for the sky suits, by far the best guest on the show so far was on the primo night with Action Jackson. His input was great and his observations very astute. Particularly when the chip leader and 2nd place were sat adjacent to each other and both were trying to assert themselves as the table boss with raises and reraises. I'm so glad I got moved from this table after I pushed the chip leader about alot as it was only a matter of time until she picked up a big hand against me and a train wreck ensued!
In short(!) keep doing what you lot are doing, keep the new features and formats coming as this is what keeps everything as fresh as can be and stops the show becoming too tired.
Look forward to meeting some of you in Brum tomorrow, any oats supplied will be greatly recieved!
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