Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Generally, ESPN used poker-playing
Generally, ESPN used poker-playing actors such as Dick Van Patten, Vince Van Patten, and Gabe Kaplan, with either the tournament director (usually Jim Albrecht) or a poker professional like Phil Hellmuth joining the team. Unlike today's coverage, ESPN featured no
pre-taped interviews
pre-taped interviews or profiles on the players. In addition, the commentators were generally on the casino floor itself. In the 1994 coverage of the final hand of the main event shows Hugh Vincent holding 8? 5? . The flop was 8? 2? 6?, indicating that there were two 8? in the deck. The tournament director announces that