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  1. bdluss bdluss is offline

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    Jul 13th, 2010 (7/13/2010 9:30pm) in reply to Simple

     
    Originally Posted by Simple View Post

    I can GUARANTEE they do this. Sir you are incorrect. Just this year they broke Michael Mizarchi table and CHOOSE to have Michael go to the featured table, NOT his table just him. and i am sure they "randomly" choose to have Matusow and Helmuth at the featured table (out of 1000's of ppl) a few years back and randomly have shulman, elky, and hachem at the featured table also. It has been said Live on pokerroad that this is true. that ESPN will choose a player they want at a featured table if they feel it'll improve there show. 100% they do this and if you dont think so you sir are blinded. May not be fair in some ways but it happens. IT IS A BUSINESS!

    Wow you really have no clue how it works. Yes ESPN gets to pick what is the featured table. However, they pick it from the tables that are out there. For instance, lets say Table 273 has Hellmuth on it, they are likely to choose that table to be the featured table and that table is then moved.

    Two or three years ago on the featured table I think it was either Matusow or Hachem on a day 1. The table broke, (just because it is the featured table they don't change the break order). When it did the big player joined another table, lets just say table 41. However, table 41 now became the featured table as was shifted to it to ensure the big name player stayed on the featured table.

    ESPN does not choose when tables are broke, or which player goes where.
     
  2. leftygrove leftygrove is offline

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    Jul 13th, 2010 (7/13/2010 9:30pm) in reply to Simple

     
    Originally Posted by Simple View Post

    and i am sure they "randomly" choose to have Matusow and Helmuth at the featured table (out of 1000's of ppl)

    There are a lot of big names in poker man. Replace Matusow with Ivey/Durr/Antonius/a hundred other names and the effect is the same. It could easily be a coincidence.
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    Jul 13th, 2010 (7/13/2010 10:42pm) in reply to bdluss

     
    Originally Posted by bdluss View Post

    Wow you really have no clue how it works. Yes ESPN gets to pick what is the featured table. However, they pick it from the tables that are out there. For instance, lets say Table 273 has Hellmuth on it, they are likely to choose that table to be the featured table and that table is then moved.

    Two or three years ago on the featured table I think it was either Matusow or Hachem on a day 1. The table broke, (just because it is the featured table they don't change the break order). When it did the big player joined another table, lets just say table 41. However, table 41 now became the featured table as was shifted to it to ensure the big name player stayed on the featured table.

    ESPN does not choose when tables are broke, or which player goes where.

    This makes perfect sense.
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    Jul 14th, 2010 (7/14/2010 8:03pm) in reply to N 82 50 24

    Player's shall be moved from the next table to break that still has more players than the short handed one. Not from a nearby table for convienence or other reason.
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    Jul 14th, 2010 (7/14/2010 10:06pm) in reply to superlena

    You should post this on 2+2, and have Matt Savage answer for him self.
     
  6. mr. menlo mr. menlo is offline

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    Jul 15th, 2010 (7/15/2010 12:06am) in reply to dazedace

    I would be surprised if Matt did anything unfair, at the same time I would not be surprised if the floor did something shady, the floor at harrah's are completely clueless and give preferential treatment so much it is absolutely a joke. On day 3 Matt g was seated at a table near me, he came to teh table at the beginning of the day and did not have his id, they called the floor over, Matt gave some spiel about how a lot of people know who he is, he has multiple bracelets etc (for teh record I don't blame Matt for doing this at all, I would have done the exact same) and the floor says ok it's fine this one time... don't let it happen again. I couldn't help but be stunned at this decision and be even more stunned that someone at Matt's table didn't throw a fit.
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