Cardplayer Inc.,.com Etc

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Now we are seeing the effects of WPT giving exculsive media coverage to one company (Cardplayer Inc.)There is no coverage for the prelim events which had great final table with a lot of great players, and with the POY leader David Pham at another final table you would think they would have reporters there. And they are based in Las Vegas (Go figure)Instead they update the website with the chip counts and winners two or three days later. Not to mention the $5000 event from Sat. 12/8/07 as of today Tues 12/11/07am still has not been updated and I hear it was a stacked final table.This is why I agree with other media outlets, It is not good for the game when the said company mentioned above does not provide up to the minute coverage, and they call themselves "The Leading Poker Authority".The Five Diamond at Bellagio prelims has always been the best events to cover and they had great numbers and great final table action and we missed it all, unless you were there. Congrads to Pokerxfactor.com that lets it members send live text updates from there phone. Thanks to Bax, Sheets, BeLoWaBove, and all the others.I get more information from Shannon Shorr blog. Thx to him also.Just venting some frustration since I was not able to play any prelims this year, but I will play the main event on Thurs.

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Now we are seeing the effects of WPT giving exculsive media coverage to one company (Cardplayer Inc.)There is no coverage for the prelim events which had great final table with a lot of great players, and with the POY leader David Pham at another final table you would think they would have reporters there. And they are based in Las Vegas (Go figure)Instead they update the website with the chip counts and winners two or three days later. Not to mention the $5000 event from Sat. 12/8/07 as of today Tues 12/11/07am still has not been updated and I hear it was a stacked final table.This is why I agree with other media outlets, It is not good for the game when the said company mentioned above does not provide up to the minute coverage, and they call themselves "The Leading Poker Authority".The Five Diamond at Bellagio prelims has always been the best events to cover and they had great numbers and great final table action and we missed it all, unless you were there. Congrads to Pokerxfactor.com that lets it members send live text updates from there phone. Thanks to Bax, Sheets, BeLoWaBove, and all the others.I get more information from Shannon Shorr blog. Thx to him also.Just venting some frustration since I was not able to play any prelims this year, but I will play the main event on Thurs.

understand your frustration but employees cost a lot of moneyand good luck thursday, take it to the final table but i hope u don't win

[WhatArunAA 0]

I agree.. it sucks.. now that they have monopoly they don't need to step it up.

[DunkSB 0]

correct me if i'm wrong but the only tournament that WPT has exclusive rights to is the main event. therefore any other media outlet could cover the prelims if Bellagio allowed it. I don't think WPT/Cardplayer made a deal with the casino for every tournament, only the big ones. Maybe other outlets aren't covering the prelims in order to spite Bellagio/WPT/Cardplayer since they can't have access to the Main Event but i don't think Cardplayer should be blamed for that.

[MJINK3 0]

Hey Kurt, can you take some time off work and be the offical FCP correspondant/reporter? I'm sure Daniel will let you stay at his place.