Really like the format of the new show on a Tuesday night on Skysports. Hopefully it will get some new sign ups for the site!
Since 861 has disappeared it seems numbers are down on the site. The guarantee on a Thursday/ Monday for the main has been reduced down to £8000 - the lowest I can ever remember it being. Has been overlay in quite afew MTT's too. Traffic on the cash tables has also been really poor.
Worse than I can remember it being at the height of the summer last year. I always wondered what impact 861 had on numbers playing on the site and especially new sign ups.
The new format on the show the £100 challenge is a really simple idea but very effective. Just hope that it is popular amongst new potential players.
It also ties in nicely with the EPT show on c4 at 12 for folk to watch straight afterwards. There really is a lack of poker on the TV now-a-days.
When I first started playing - 4 years ago - used to love the wild cannon on Channel 5 plus the ept shows. As quite a newbie loved the big bluffs and massive pots. That's what I thought poker was loads of bluffing:) Know many others who started playing before me cited "poker after dark" and such programmes as being a big influence on them taking up the game.
Another show that is currently being shown is "poker celebrity club", more shows like this would be awesome too, it's a bunch of celebrities, no pros, and it shows them limping in a lot of pots, making strange plays, but it shows poker to be fun and accessible. Programmes like this, if a bit more mainstream, would for sure encourage new folk to play.
The biggest % of those watching poker programmes will be proper poker players, but it also needs to be understandable / entertaining for a wider audience. The sharkcage was an excellent example of this and turned out to be a great show.
It's really good in the new sky show they show players playing 50nl straight away it is showing it is accessible to most players, as opposed to just focussing on high stakes action. This is covered really well with the "top pot of the week". A lot of folk would disagree, but would be really good to see a bit of the basic stuff targeted for brand new players/ those who have hardly played, just the rough basics of the game.
This was a fun hand from last night:)
StuRutter Small blind £0.25 £0.25 £94.70
LARSON7 Big blind £0.50 £0.75 £145.05
Your hole cards
mcvitty25 Fold
rancid Fold
JJJOHNSON Fold
stewie7 Fold
StuRutter Call £0.25 £1.00 £94.45
LARSON7 Check
Flop
StuRutter Bet £0.50 £1.50 £93.95
LARSON7 Call £0.50 £2.00 £144.55
Turn
StuRutter Bet £2.00 £4.00 £91.95
LARSON7 Raise £6.50 £10.50 £138.05
StuRutter Call £4.50 £15.00 £87.45
River
StuRutter Check
LARSON7 Bet £10.00 £25.00 £128.05
StuRutter Call £10.00 £35.00 £77.45
LARSON7 Show
6
2
StuRutter Muck
LARSON7 Win Pair of
£33.25 £161.30
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