Monday night's show: July 24th: Scottie Black (Ute Mountain), Marshall E. Lafferty (AOL), Erica Schoenberg, “Razor” Rob Boisvert, Randy Joyce (Seneca Niagara) To whet your appetite, here's a newspaper story about Marshall: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060723/LIFESTYLE08/607230310/1032 Buckle your seat belts!
Well, that match was certainly... different. The TV format sorta killed the suspense in that last hand there. With only a minute left on the clock, it was kinda obvious that Erica was either going to bust or lose against the dealer. Ah well. We'll see her in the wild-card round. Speaking of which --- here come the wild-card rounds. Do we know yet which players are in which wild-card episodes and who won the drawing from the third-place players? Or is that going to be kept secret until next week?
I think the drawing will be shown at the beginning of the wild-card show. It was at least filmed with that intent, though it could have easily been cut. I don't think the entire schedule has been officially announced, but I do know that I'll be appearing on the July 31st show in a week.
week 8 This Was A Entertaining Week And Fun To Watch And The Cards Were Something Else-i Think Lil Diablo Also Went 50k The First Hand The First Week-that Double Down On A 16 Made Me Anxious-all In All A Good Episode Hope To Be There For Wsob 2007 What Is With The Money Earlier The Winner Received 1k And Moved On But Now It Seems 1st Three Winners Are Receiving Money Like 3k For For 3rd I Am Confused About That-were All Rounds Played One Round At A Time For Taping? I Think I Have A Learned A Few Things Just Watching The Tounements At Least More Than I Knew A Year A Go So Just For Watching This Has Been Good For My Game And Knowledge-ken It Will Be Good To See You Play In The Wildcard Game Hope To Play You Soon I Am Assuming That We Are Seeing The Rounds The Way Gsn Wants Us To See Them Not In The Order That They Were Played:d :d
Missing Hands... It would be nice to see the hands that were edited out for time sake. I'm assuming there was not much exciting there. But you know what happens when you assume...
Post production problems Yes, some of the players in this year's WSOB are not the greatest tournament players I have ever seen, but they won their way onto the show through qualifiers and I have no problem with them being on the WSOB. Actually the unknown qualifiers have been kicking the "Pro's" butts so far. It's really like any other blackjack tournament; the players with the luck advance to the finals regardless of skill level, so what’s the problem with this years show? Something has been off for me this year; it just hasn't been as exciting as past two years. At first I though it may have been because I didn't know all the players, then it hit me last night. It wasn't the players or new gimmicks, but the production that wasn't winning me over. Again last night I saw several mistakes on the counts with totals changing the wrong way when players lost and I'm sorry but the two guys announcing just are not very entertaining. I hope next year they replace Ben M. with a more knowledgeable tournament play-by-play person. He maybe a really nice guy, but his play by play is as bad as the play-by-play on the "King of Vegas" show. I also prefer having each hand posted on the screen as opposed to verbally telling us they're on hand 5 after last showing hands 2. It is just all of a sudden different totals and no one knows what is going on and then half way through the hand they let us know they skipped two hands. Another problem is they're not showing Deanna's (the dealer) face when she checks her hole card. This is something I prefer to see instead of the back of her head and an above shot of her turning to her cards. I don't have a problem with the "Knockout" cards (just a version of UBT multi-elimination without a set hand predetermined), nor with the "BK" Power chip. Note I didn't say I like them (I would prefer they didn't have them), but it's "House Rules" so you learn to adjust.
Knockout and BK Card Yeah, I think they take away from the skill of the game. But I must admit that the BK card more often than not has not helped the player. Many have exchanged 6's for 2's... Only once so far have I seen a card exchanged for a 10 when an Ace was showing.
Maybe it is the lack of suave, debonaire Texans that is causing the show to drag occasionally.:laugh:
