XX44466XX 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Been watching GSN's High Stakes Poker? It would be a lot more interesting and entertaining, to me at least, if there was no commentating. I would much rather be able to listen, unimpeded, to the players' table-talk. What do you think? We should petition GSN, as the viewing public! Link to post Share on other sites
WKTSWAY 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 That would be good for us, but not a normal audience. They do a lot of explaining about things that some people need so they know what's going on.I would like it though if we could hear them better when they are doing the normal banter. I can't count how many times I've re-wound it on my TiVo so I could try and hear what they are trying to say. In my mind: "Shut up Gabe, I wanna hear what Brunson just said to Sheik!" Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteSpade 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Been watching GSN's High Stakes Poker? It would be a lot more interesting and entertaining, to me at least, if there was no commentating. I would much rather be able to listen, unimpeded, to the players' table-talk. What do you think? We should petition GSN, as the viewing public!I think it's one of those things that hardcore poker players would want, but the general viewing public wouldn't. I dont think they'll ever make uncommentated (is that a word?) poker on tv, as there are a lot of people that wouldnt be able to follow.And how are you supposed to follow the action when you run to the washroom? Pumping up the volume wont tell you hole cards. Link to post Share on other sites
WKTSWAY 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 washroomlol, washroomcall it the crapper, at LEAST bathroom. Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteSpade 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 lol, washroomcall it the crapper, at LEAST bathroom.Sorry, I'm canadian Link to post Share on other sites
WKTSWAY 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Sorry, I'm canadian ahhhh, that explains a lot Link to post Share on other sites
jjdylan 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 does anyone have that link to the guys blog with all the torrents for these? i still need to get the last 3 Link to post Share on other sites
FourFlusher 0 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I think they do a lousy job of giving the chip counts, too. It would be more fun to know who was up and who was down without using a pencil. They kinda gloss over it at the end, not enough.I'm sick of crap like on the WPT, every time Sexton uses a poker expression they pop up a definition. If you don't know what a straight, or, big blind is, you prolly aren't watching poker on tv anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
No_Neck 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I like gabe's comentary Link to post Share on other sites
tswing 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Can somebody please explain to me what I need to download to use those torrents. I downloaded one of the episodes, but have no clue what to open it with?? Link to post Share on other sites
nell789 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 does anyone have that link to the guys blog with all the torrents for these? i still need to get the last 3 Search for High Stakes Poker hereCan somebody please explain to me what I need to download to use those torrents. I downloaded one of the episodes, but have no clue what to open it with?? Download This Link to post Share on other sites
mosley 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 lol, washroomcall it the crapper, at LEAST bathroom.oh, this is a can/am kinda thing.i always find it weird when people in a restaurant ask where the bathroom is when there is zero expectation of finding a bathtub in there. now i know. Link to post Share on other sites
astros11ss 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 http://flamevault.com/~etaipo/BitTorrent/torrents/ have fun Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 What we need is a Poker Cable channelAll Poker All the TimeThen we could have poker tv the right way.They got a golf channel, now time for poker channelPlus we could get alot more tournaments on and see more of the good ones, like final two tablesAND we wouldn't be stuck with 19,000 episodes of Poker Superstar II being rerun every othe weekand we need a good $2 cigar Link to post Share on other sites
bcook823 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I think Gabe is great, AJ, well not so much.Doyle is getting everyone to live straddle, and my bother thought everyone put in $1200 preflop. They had explained it but not very well, he hasn't got a clue mind you. If they didn't have commentary he wouldn't be able to follow the show. Link to post Share on other sites
cfinnn 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 "I can't count how many times I've re-wound it on my TiVo so I could try and hear what they are trying to say. In my mind: "Shut up Gabe, I wanna hear what Brunson just said to Sheik!" Yes! Thank you! I thought I was the only one. The commentary is fine, just crank up the volume of the ambient sound so we can hear the table talk clearly. It's half of the fun.I also agree on the chip counts. I have spent almost entire shows wondering what the chip count was. Very frustrating.Oh, and I could be mistaken, but I could have sworn I heard something about a poker channel in the works. Link to post Share on other sites
dEv~ 19 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 maybe a good idea for the Dvd...which is prolly in the works, they have an option to disable commentary so you just hear the table talk. Link to post Share on other sites
BNH77 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I think the commentary is pretty good as far as Poker on TV goes. Link to post Share on other sites
reedmcneal 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I like Gabe Kaplan, but AJ Benza says some pretty idiotic things. Most of all I despise when this situation occurs:Farha bets 30,000 into a 20,000 pot. No one calls and Mr. Benza says that Sammy took down a 50k pot. That is so misleading and just drives me crazy. Sorry, just venting. Link to post Share on other sites
rogerwilco 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Been watching GSN's High Stakes Poker? It would be a lot more interesting and entertaining, to me at least, if there was no commentating. I would much rather be able to listen, unimpeded, to the players' table-talk. What do you think? We should petition GSN, as the viewing public!I agree, that the table talk is very interesting, and I would like to hear it better, but Kaplans commentary is insightful too, the way GSN is doing it is alright in my opinion. Link to post Share on other sites
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