DTD £500,000 Deepstack Day 3 and FINAL

[blueace]

Wow what a torn, 'coming out' now from a semi lurking blonde; getting more into the game/blogs after 3 busy years grinding away live and running a busy business/3 kids, etc. Guess Iv got my torn play somewhere near where I want it, although the kk helped somewhat. (Am I alone in having WON 3 tournaments inside a week at DTD, 2 > 100 runners?? !!! excuse the brag)
 
Will be interesting to see the live feed and some of the comments. Whatever, was abs shattered after 3 long days and half sleeps (amazing how many friends think its ok to ring at all hours when youve been grinding for 13).
So thanks in no order to: Dtd, rob, simon, dealers, ryan, valets, all friends and railers; yoz, shakey, baz, ian, jay, adam and fam, Blonde/tighty, Gill, Paul Ho (mate these are NOT moobs they are PECS, and wheres MY trophy) all the regs that made the shouts; charlie, raggy, gordon i think i heard, and of course my competitors, especially the generous ones along the way that shoved into my set/straight. Nice having Belton with position on me, smashing guy, all the best in future to you. So now im gonna load my dtd account and get more of those chips so I can bully the lot of you in the Chipleader final (xxwinxx)

See you all in St Kitts!

Sean (Randall)

ps am I a 'Blonde' now?
 

[TightEnd]

Sean=blueace?

I never knew(you should have said!). Bugger!

Very well done Sean. Great performance

[blueace]

Always been a bit of a private person Tighty, but feel the time is right to come out!

[smashedagain]

Sean=blueace?

I never knew(you should have said!). Bugger!

Very well done Sean. Great performance

Echoed

[bookiebasher]

Well done Sean. Thought you played really well , picked your spots and you were one of

the more active players shall we say . Congratulations.

Have to say Tightys commentry was 95% spot on. Coulden't fathom out a lot of what Paul was

saying , especially when he was suggesting his mate was thinking of "raising for value" against the

tightest player on the table on a 56j 10 j board holding 10 k.

[TightEnd]

Always been a bit of a private person Tighty, but feel the time is right to come out!

No problem

Now is most certainly the time to sing from the rooftops!

[bookiebasher]

Thinking about it....maybe he had a live telll.....

[JGill_DTD]

Very well played to all finalists, especially Mr Belton. Great run mate.

Also a huge thank you to Jonathan in what was, I believe, his last live update pre returning to uni or similar? Tighty in the box was the stuff of absolute legend. As well as a dry, quick sense of humour I didn't disagree with a single poker related suggestion he made. Also a very endearing/genuine quality of, when not knowing the 'correct'/optimum play in any given spot, not bullsh1tting.

Re: the Zimbler point....its true that almost every live stream someone gets shot at for their commentary. Until now I had always found this a bit ott.

Correct, got one year remaining at Uni since working at DTD was a placement year, tyty

[Tal]

Very well played to all finalists, especially Mr Belton. Great run mate.

Also a huge thank you to Jonathan in what was, I believe, his last live update pre returning to uni or similar? Tighty in the box was the stuff of absolute legend. As well as a dry, quick sense of humour I didn't disagree with a single poker related suggestion he made. Also a very endearing/genuine quality of, when not knowing the 'correct'/optimum play in any given spot, not bullsh1tting.

Re: the Zimbler point....its true that almost every live stream someone gets shot at for their commentary. Until now I had always found this a bit ott.

Correct, got one year remaining at Uni since working at DTD was a placement year, tyty

GL with your studies. Enjoy the last year of your life where you don't bemoan the slipping standards of education in this country, how nothing is like it was in your day and how students are the bane of your life.

[BangBang]

Very well played to all finalists, especially Mr Belton. Great run mate.

Also a huge thank you to Jonathan in what was, I believe, his last live update pre returning to uni or similar? Tighty in the box was the stuff of absolute legend. As well as a dry, quick sense of humour I didn't disagree with a single poker related suggestion he made. Also a very endearing/genuine quality of, when not knowing the 'correct'/optimum play in any given spot, not bullsh1tting.

Re: the Zimbler point....its true that almost every live stream someone gets shot at for their commentary. Until now I had always found this a bit ott.

Correct, got one year remaining at Uni since working at DTD was a placement year, tyty

GL with your studies. Enjoy the last year of your life where you don't bemoan the slipping standards of education in this country, how nothing is like it was in your day and how students are the bane of your life.

Tal you are too funny...

GL for your final year ....

And very well played Sean aka Blueace ...

[cambridgealex]

Loving the updates from Jonathan and Tighty, well played both.

Congrats to Sean Randall, seems like he played very well, and deserved the win.
Was rooting for Mr Belton obv, and would have loved to see him take top spot, but am made up for him binking a decent score.

Watched the stream for a couple of hours yesterday, when down to 3 & 2 tables, and really enjoyed it.
Was very watchable, the quality is good, and Tighty and Zimbler flowed well together.
Tighty is a natural, and, although it is easy to disagree with some of the lines Zimbler suggests, it didn't affect my viewing experience at all.

The negative noise that reaches a crescendo during most of the DTD live streams, is extremely embarrassing, and, IMO, reflects more on the people making those comments, than on the commentators themselves.

It's highly likely that you are missing out on some competent potential commentators, who will be dissuaded from contributing due to the probable response.

I don't really agree with this Neil. I see what you're saying about other potential good commentators being put off, but personally, it'd make me think "I could do a better job than that" and make me more likely to want to try it out and test myself against a tough crowd.

People saying that everyone gets slated in there - that's not true, I never did, nor did PJ, or Tighty or JP Kelly, or Mitch and Keys when they did it. Even you didn't get lynched for your Sky Poker appearance.

It is possible and sorry if this sounds arrogant, I think it's easy to
a) be balanced and neutral even if you have a close mate on the table
b) offer good analysis without over complicating things, and still appeal to the masses
c) make it funny and entertaining for those not so interested in the technical side of things.

Congratulations Sean (Randall) on the win, and other Sean on coming 6th - great results for the local boys, keeping it in the neighbourhood ftw!

[titaniumbean]

Well done to all, looking forward to the next one already!

we're looking forward to yr £560 too mate

not enough love for this

[jakally]

But why do we have to say anything at all?
We have a free live stream, with the commentators usually giving their time for free, trying to do their best, and almost always not saying anything intentionally offensive.

In the middle of this happening, we get a bunch of haters who stick the knife into one, or both, of the people delivering the commentary.
We then get a unintelligent-mob mentality, which wades in and adds a few extra kicks.
Doesn't seem like an adult way of dealing with the situation to me.

If you don't think the commentators are very good, either see Rob or Simon after the event, or start a thread on here, with some constructive comments on who you would like to see on the mike.

As to your point of some of the other people who have 'performed' without criticism.
Most of those named have almost certainly done a decent job, but even if they hadn't, the fact that they are 'friends' of Blonde would mean they will be given much more leeway than others.
Zimbler was almost certain to get criticism if he wasn't very, very good, given some of his press on here recently.

The commentators are always judged, on here, by their poker analysis.
As you know, there is much more to commentary than that - delivery, flow, giving background information, filling in when the action is slow, humour etc...
Whilst Zimbler has some flaws in terms of MTT strat, he ticks some of the other boxes, to the point that it certainly wasn't unwatchable.

Would I pick Zimbler if I was given a choice of commentators for the next event - no.
However, I don't think it's right, or fair, that he gets a kicking whilst he is doing his shift.

Jakally, sat in the sun, 32 degrees, with a beer, signing off.

[smashedagain]

I remember telling Rob that I thought Paul and Mad Marty were a good combination on the stream I had watched.

Must be Tighty's fault then

[cambridgealex]

I personally didn't make any negative comments about the commentary, I was just disagreeing with the notion that those that had criticisms should not be made to shut up and "start a thread elsewhere". The update thread is the natural place for such comments, just like it's the natural place for people to say "Great structure, really enjoyed it, Thanks DTD" or to say "I'd prefer a 60 minute clock on day 1" for example or other such comments.

The commentary is a huge part of the the live stream experience so people should be free to comment on it. I'm not saying that all the comments were helpful and constructive, and I agree it did turn into a bit of a "mob mentality" like you said, but people making negative comments does not = "bunch of haters who are sticking the knife in".

I also disagree (this is odd - I rarely disagree with you Neil, making me think I'm probably wrong!) with you saying that his recent bad press meant he was always going to get a bad reception. Most people don't know about it for one. Especially since the thread with all the details is called Andrew Feldman. And he got a similar reception after the Stoke GPS commentary which was before all this came out.

PS. If he was giving his time for free like you say to do this commentary, then it'd be slightly different, but he wasn't.