World Poker Tour announces new All-In version
Tour Enterprises, a leader in presenting the heart-pounding action of televised, high-stakes, no-limit Texas Hold em poker tournaments, has announced a new series of events designed to revive the sagging ratings for poker shows.
WPT President Steve Lipscomb made the announcement today. Alongside our fantastic brands
American card game. We call it the All-In Poker Tour.
In a standard game of Texas Hold em, players can exercise multiple options during the course of a hand as they combine their two face-down cards with up to five face-up cards in the middle of the table. Players can choose to fold (quit the hand), call (match a made bet), or raise (increase the bet). In major poker tournaments, players usually make their decisions based on a combination of strategy and psychology
With our new All-In Tour, it s all-in, all the time. We re taking out all the boring parts like strategizing, calculating pot odds, and general-purpose thinking. Instead, everybody goes all-in before the cards are dealt, Lipscomb explained. Players get their cards face-up so that everybody, especially the TV audience, can see all the hands at once. Then, the dealer spreads out all five cards on the board simultaneously; no more confusing flop or turn or river or showdown or any of those other confusing Texan words. This way, the cards decide who wins. It s much faster, fairer and more exciting.
Since I never get good cards, how am I supposed to beat a game that s all about the cards? Huh? Tell me how, smartass!
Hellmuth continued his objections while overturning chairs, throwing cards at a dealer and spewing profanities at a passing cocktail waitress.
Veteran professional player and two-time world champion Doyle Texas Dolly Brunson has played no-limit hold em for over fifty years, and was one of the players credited with bringing the game from the dusty back roads of West Texas to the neon-lit casinos
Sin City. Now nearly eighty years old, Brunson attempted to offer his opinion on the new format with a pithy, funny Texan saying, but fell asleep before he could complete the sentence.
I understand why some players would be upset at the changes. Sure, they pay their own airfare, hotel and tournament fees. Of course, they re very highly skilled, experienced professionals. What they fail to understand is that TV poker is now less about poker and more about TV, Lipscomb said, responding to the players concerns. TV viewers don t want to watch fat middle-aged men stare each other down for an hour. If they wanted that, then C-SPAN would be the highest-rated cable channel.
Nobody wants to hear about strategy and pot-odds and hand analysis. If TV viewers wanted to think, they d watch Jeopardy . What we want is the Deal or No Deal audience. More cards, more luck and more action, less of that strategerization and thinky-type stuff.
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