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New hands on TV. 2am - 7am?
This has been mentioned loads of times before.....but I haven't seen an answer/explanation.
Is it possible that through the night, on the TV channel, you can just run hand after hand of play that's taken place during the day?
For example some micro stakes mtt final tables? micro sngs? and obviously the mastercash action from the designated tables?
Is it as simple as loading in say 500 hand id's into a computer before someone clocks off from the office, and letting it run between 2am and 7am????? - Every single hand tho, even he boring ones, so it could be like 1 id code per final table or whatever?
This would be very popular.
Can you do it? And if not, why not?????
Is it possible that through the night, on the TV channel, you can just run hand after hand of play that's taken place during the day?
For example some micro stakes mtt final tables? micro sngs? and obviously the mastercash action from the designated tables?
Is it as simple as loading in say 500 hand id's into a computer before someone clocks off from the office, and letting it run between 2am and 7am????? - Every single hand tho, even he boring ones, so it could be like 1 id code per final table or whatever?
This would be very popular.
Can you do it? And if not, why not?????
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In answer to your question, this is on 'my list.' However its not as simple as you would think. During the show each hand is individually loaded from our console. Sometimes during the show the hands freeze or the console simply crashes, therefore if we played them out during the night we would have to be monitored by one of our engineers.
Hopefully I will have more information for you in the near future.
Thanks
Would you really want to watch several hands being played out with no commentary?
Thought I would give you an update. we should be showing 'automated' hands from 2am every night from this April..... fingers crossed!
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I had to edit Greghogg's comments from this brief chat, lol.
The TV channel ppl and the tech boffins are by far the best part of the sky poker team!!!- In the words of Tikay 'Ilove you' ha ha
What sort of things do you plan to show then?- only cash tables at the moment and a variety of levels. Later in the year we will look at tournaments but we have to deal with some technical issues. As we are going to try and show a variety of levels it should keep everyone happy.
How much "unique" footage will there be every night? we will be showing as much new cash play as possible from that week. It mainly depends how busy the tables are. I hope to play this out from 2am- 8am every night, so yes each night will have new hands. If there is not alot of play then the technology will loop some of the table.
How easy was it for the tech guys to "bunch" hands and enter them into the hand player thingy as a "bunch" of hand ID's, rather than entering them individually?- we simply select a table and play it for aslong as there is action on it. The console will automatically throw to another table if there is nobody on it anymore.
Hope that helps
Thanks
Can we have this played in the background on repeat ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo
We're going to be sat up all night/morning staring at a documentary on trains presented by Tikay.
The voice-over is so annoying - "raise" (even though it's an opening bet)
Still in the pipeline but might be a slight delay due to 3 reasons-
Technology- just making sure we are getting it right and dealing with all the bugs
Me- I am hectic with other projects on the channel so its not getting pushed as quickly as I would like.... me being honest
Tea- I would have more time if I wasnt running around making cups of tea for Tikay all the time
In short we will get this but might push into May
Thanks
you know we didnt have a show last Thursday, well that was due to testing the automated poker...... Finish last bits and hopefully out in November. HOPEFULLY!
+1 for getting hoggers on.
Its gotta be better than watching the most scarey thing on tv in the sky poker promo when Tikay says in a very hammer house of horror voice " IT CAME ON THE RIVER ! "
Also i gotta agree with the comments on here about the brilliant job you are doing to make the live shows as good as they are, some fantastic guests and great banter. Nice 1.
REALLY appreciate the feedback on the channel. All working hard hear to bring you a good mixture of entertainment and poker. Got some more exciting things coming soon
This sounds like a great idea, something i would definitely watch