The third broadcast of the 2008 WSOP events will be live tonight at 8 PM on ESPN, featuring a $1500 pot limit hold em event.
Hopefully it will be more eventful than the first broadcast. They really are digressing in a ‘Real World’ style way, focusing on bullcrap more than actual poker.
I’m hoping tonight is better.

Watching the first televised event of the 2008 WSOP, the pot limit hold em event, it’s probably one of the most boring of all of the ESPN broadcasts I’ve seen.
Even for the two hours they stretch it out to, they somehow whittle it down to all in hands almost every other minute. Why do they think people want to see all in races every single hand? We’d like to see good poker. If we want to watch races we’ll take turns throwing coins. It’s really not exciting, ESPN. Please get an editor who knows more about poker and less about …read more