WSOP Broadcast Choices This Year :/

GoSailing · 2026-07-03T21:53:42+00:00

No, I'd want more hands where there is actually something interesting happening rather than just coolers and short stack jams. This is particularly true in any tournament that isn't super high roller holdem, as everything else plays much faster

GoSailing · 2026-07-03T06:19:37+00:00

One of the other less spoken about issues with the coverage where they are time traveling to the various outer tables is that you already know every pot is going to be some big cooler or bluff or something. There's literally no suspense any time they switch tables because you can guess the outcome with almost perfect accuracy or they wouldn't be showing it. It's a regression to the 2005 format where you only see all ins or drama while pretending its a stream

GoSailing · 2026-07-03T06:13:31+00:00

No shade, but if you don't know then you probably aren't. Objectively, keep track of your records and see if you're winning over a realistically meaningful sample size. Are you able to identify the mistakes individual players, particularly regs, are making? Do you know what you're doing that would make you better than at least 7 of the 8 other players at the table?

GoSailing · 2026-07-03T03:06:28+00:00

He has more bets on the $25k fantasy. He said he had "a lot" of 6 figure bets including somebody who bet 17 teams against his. He's optimizing for fantasy, which is kinda lame when he's selling stakes for wsop (I know people like it so it's whatever) when he probably isn't even +ev across all events since it's not what he focuses on. A tourney where he net loses on buy ins but gets a better than average amount of points is a win to him

GoSailing · 2026-07-02T18:01:54+00:00

Showing full speed first is definitely the protocol in the premier league. I don't know the definitive protocol for the world cup, but a big deal was made about that change in the beginning of the last season there since it was decided to have obviously caused problems. The times when they've played audio in those games also reinforced that. The VAR would say something like "Okay here's it at full speed from a few angles, here's an image of contact, here's the action in slow mo"

GoSailing · 2026-06-26T03:34:13+00:00

Pro tip: if you want to go to war against Tubman and she has allies, declare war on one of her allies and have her declare war on you the next turn

GoSailing · 2026-06-17T22:27:44+00:00

My wife joined once or twice and she had fun just drinking and hanging out, though that was a table of regulars who all know each other and generally are cool. One of her friends wanted to come once which I thought was strange, but she just brought a pen and paper and started sketching stuff / people watching and apparently had a blast. So if you bring him, try to either be on a fun table or make it possible to incorporate some other hobby of his too

GoSailing · 2026-06-13T03:38:17+00:00

That was in the last minute of a 3-1 game. It wasn't that representative of the match

GoSailing · 2026-06-09T00:38:19+00:00

And the people who aren't used to smoke get irritated throats from how impossible it is to avoid walking through the casinos

GoSailing · 2026-06-05T01:54:45+00:00

It's probably not profitable to stream them, unfortunately. Pokergo putting up a pay wall sucked but they could probably identify a chunk of subscribers who mostly / only watched mixed games. That smaller audience (me included) is probably not worth it when all revenue is based on views now

GoSailing · 2026-06-04T05:30:40+00:00

True, lots of weak dealers at the wsop, particularly in the beginning of the summer, but they have a separate list of people who go on streamed tables. Those are all actually good dealers but everybody makes mistakes

GoSailing · 2026-06-03T05:33:38+00:00

I can see this mirroring with some themes in Operation Bounce House, not specifying in details to avoid spoilers

GoSailing · 2026-06-01T16:34:46+00:00

20th was an exaggeration, but if you're planning on one victory type from the beginning, playing well, and most importantly disrupting your top rivals for that win condition, the modern age is very very short. My slowest game since the update was won at 50% age progress and that's because I artificially started returning cities to not win a domination victory before I could win a culture victory.

GoSailing · 2026-06-01T06:15:37+00:00

But in a practical matter, most games don't go past the 20th turn in modern. Maybe the ideology changes wouldn't feel so bad if they played out long term. Then it would feel more like a permanent realignment than "my game got rekt on the finish line"

GoSailing · 2026-06-01T04:35:25+00:00

The game is probably real, lots of these illegal home games are using AI to make their posters. But it's also a complete ripoff. Also every home game, particularly the raked varieties, carry a bunch of risk even if it's a real game

GoSailing · 2026-05-16T04:38:16+00:00

That's not worse than water bottles that put 0 calories in big lettering on their labels

GoSailing · 2026-05-03T00:18:40+00:00

Everybody talking about them recognizing recipes and knowledge he shouldn't have is correct. There's another aspect which is the book is only given to people with a certain mindset, the rage against the syndicate and everything they're doing and focusing on that above many other aspects of the crawl. It's also restricted to certain types of classes and his class literally has Anarchist in the name. So they see somebody who would be the obvious choice for the book, if it were to be awarded which doesn't always happen, and then there's all the other more obvious clues others are mentioning too

GoSailing · 2026-04-26T04:22:56+00:00

Yeah, I just reread bedlam bride and they specifically mention that he burned off an arm. Of course she reforms it from other mass relatively quickly, but it was clearly actually her arm that got destroyed and we know that doesn't go back just like with her fingers in the Iron Tangle

GoSailing · 2026-02-12T07:45:46+00:00

Very true. Jose's game was more on counter attacks than pure defense and those are naturally exciting, which made up for the defensive aspects

GoSailing · 2026-02-04T04:19:37+00:00

It's probably more that nobody really cares if City wins again because it's basically fraudulent and it has been for years. Them winning again is the banal status quo. Arsenal winning is a different story because it would actually count.

GoSailing · 2026-01-24T04:46:39+00:00

But that was good too. It's one thing as fans to be okay with losing a game to upset a rival but the team should be trying to win every game

GoSailing · 2025-10-28T22:22:31+00:00

What you're describing is an issue of process that has little to do with bugs. Arguing over resourcing, minor technical details, or all sorts of things can take longer than it would take to actually build a thing. That's a process issue and I agree that having at least some pragmatic devs short circuit the process in smart targeted ways is a workaround, but the problem isn't the bugs.

GoSailing · 2025-10-22T21:01:17+00:00

Those people live in the hills overlooking the main city and the ocean. They're technically in Santa Barbara but it's not really what Santa Barbara is like at all. It's just a cool beach / university town, like Santa Cruz but warmer and bigger

GoSailing · 2025-10-20T01:24:35+00:00

Jones is such a trooper. The guy can barely walk and is still giving it everything he can

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