Backed off On HBO

With the UBT bringing blackjack tournaments to a national stage on CBS during a sports Saturday time spot,Many other networks have taken noticed and realized that our game is the game of choice with the majority of people entering a casino anywhere in the world .

But what comes with this game is the ever present casino suits who will not allow anyone who can play a winning game the opportunity to play .If you have never been the victim of verbal and or physical harassment from a casino and would like to see it as it happens to one of our members you will now be able.

The HBO network recently filmed one of our members MIT Mike in Las Vegas during a playing session, he was equipped with a hidden camera and audio device to record what was being said to him by the casino suits and security.

It is something no one should miss it will be shown on HBO on Nov 21 during the show Real Sports I believe at 10 PM eastern but check your local HBO listings for the exact time slot.. Imagine that our game on the much acclaimed network HBO and its show Real Sports

For those who do not know MIT Mike he was one of the key team members of the famous MIT Count team and the WSOB Champion in 2004.

Enjoy the show !!!!!!

CBS, HBO, ESPN, FOX SPORTS,WGN some of the networks with plans to show blackjack tournaments and shows covering blackjack.

2 years ago we just had GSN now look, man is this getting good

Have you noticed what it did for poker ?

Wake up smell the coffee

When I watch poker on TV, I can learn how to improve my game. The same can not be said about watching blackjack on TV. My limited knowledge of the tournament aspect of blackjack is greater than the announcer's knowledge and so I can't learn a thing watching blackjack on TV. Sorry, I have tried but it is not interesting.

Dr 21

TV poker has had three very significant effects:
#1. sales of aviator glasses are up 800%,
#2. no limit games are being spread everywhere, and
#3. card rooms are packed with young swaggerers sporting new aviator glasses who learned their Hold'em by watching Gus Hansen.

The best way I can describe it is that it looks like a convention of blind hipsters who've replaced the term "right on" with the words "all in".

TV exposure will most probably bring forth the second wave of 21's popularity, after Thorp's book. Like the viewers glimpsing the players' hole cards in poker and the creation of popular characters out of poker pros, 21 needs a suitable directorial packaging to give it mass appeal.

"Look what TV did to poker" is correct.

Dave Jay was asking about you.

> "Look what TV did to poker" is correct.

It wasn't TV that 'did' for poker. It was the hole-card camera that 'did' for Poker. TV Poker had been around, and it was boring.

Blackjack needs to find something similiar to make it interesting.

People under a kaleidoscope of lighting sitting around in goofy wigs being beligerant to one another while taking 60 seconds to mug for the camera and make a basic decision, then running around high fiving some stranger in the twenty person makeshift gallery they threw together is embarrassing.

Poker TV is real life (I can't believe I just said that.)
Blackjack TV is a bad game show.

Good to see you again. When can we see you back on GC? The Politics Page is calling. :-)

"Second coming." Good one.

Miss reading your posts on GC. Hope to see you back in action there soon.

Regards,
drumz1

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