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Article in Today's Racing Post
Hope so, that would make for good viewing.
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The Sky Poker Million Pound Cash Game :-D
yeah yeah, whatever.....but have you got any (non virtual) racing tips for us yet???
Hmmmmm, this I've got to see!
Yeah, largely speaking, sort of.
Jim Cremin, from the Racing Post, & with whom we have good connections, came to the Studio during last Thursday's Show. We gave him the behind-the-scenes Tour, & he came into the actual Studio during the breaks, with Mother, obv I could only chat briefly during each break, but Mother fully briefed him on various stuff.
We told him of some future plans, & had assumed he'd realise we were not ready to announce yet.
I also done some other business with him the next day by e-Mail, "thanks for coming along, da de da", & we opened discussions about me possibly getting some Sky-Poker based content into the Racing Post. (Negotiations continue, watch this space).
As to what he said in the Racing Post today, I've not seen the article, but as it appears the story is "out" now, I might as well tell you that.....
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brassi sleeps with the fishes.
Yes, it's true. We've just purchased a pretty neat whizz bang bit of kit, cost a fortune.
As I don't know what he revealed, & our plans are only 80% developed, I will just say this for now......
The kit is being installed in a different studio to ours in the next few weeks. We need a bigger studio for this particular Show, plus ancillary facilities, a different gallery, & a special sound booth, & somewhere to fit all the gizmos & kit it needs. Mother has sorted all this.
As to the game, yup, it'll be a Studio-based cash game. We'll probably record a straight 12 hour session for starters, then edit it into x half-hour or one hour Shows.
It will in all probability go onto another Channel, a high-traffic one, as well as 865. So to a degree, we need to fit in with their tx schedule & plans.
It will be, for technical reasons, a 6 seater cash game, & we'll do it periodically, 3 or 4 times per year, giving us 30 or 40 Shows.
The line-up of players is still under discussion. But we are pretty firmly set on a top pro or two, a TSP-er or two, a Sky Poker High-Roller, maybe one of the Analysts or Presenters, & a Sky Poker Site Qualifier. The last-named is crucial, but needs some thought & care to set up & finance properly, but the basic idea is that a regular, or "lower-limit" player will be able to find the means, via special qualifiers, to sit in the game.
The kit will also be used as much, if not more so, for Poker School, because it enables very precise mathematical & odds analysis in real-time, so, combined with an Analyst & a Top Pro, Sky Poker high-roller, or TSP-er, the "Education" remit as well as the "Entertainment" remits can be better addressed.
So that's the basic thrust of the whole thing, & when Mother returns from her jollies, in St Lucia - MBN - I'll ask her to fill in the gaps as soon as she's able. Mothers in charge of the whole thing. Obv.
For now, that's about it, really.
Cat well & truly out of the bag, most unexpectedly! These thinga happen, a pure misunderstandiong, Jim was not to know.
We have a lot more things cooking, too.......Things don't stand still round here for long.
As for the article, there's not much more than what I typed in the OP, there are two other short paragraphs loosely explaining the SkyPoker channel.
By the bye, the long-term plan is to show LIVE cash Action, as it happens, but it's been sensibly decided to Record the first few Series, till we sort out all the potential gremlins, bugs, etc.
Personally - not my decision, but I have input, as the 865 poker consultant (shush, don't mock), I'm not convinced "Live" would work well - not enough action, too much dead time. Everyone thirsts for LIVE cash action on TV, just as so many want antes in Tourneys, but I think there's a clear lack of grasp there - in neither case does it produce the result that most expect.
When we show Mastercash action, we have to either cover several Tables, or "fill" a lot between hands. Which then gets peeps complaining that we talk too much......
So, Recorded Shows are probably more likely, but we'll try it from all angles, & see how it goes.
We'd prefer - MUCH prefer - to discuss stuff openly as it's being developed, but you know how it is, peeps jump to conclusions, add 2 & 2 & get 5, & it all gets messy. Sky Poker - & particularly myself - were mullered when we first introduced VLV, ditto Total Player, ditto TSP, this that & the other, etc etc, so we'd rather get everything tickity-boo, & all our little ducks lined up in a nice row before going public.
But now it's out there, well you know as much about it as I do now. Almost......
Cash, SNG, big Tourney Finals, all are being developed, but I think the idea is to start with a Cash Game, for all sorts of reasons.
Once we get up to speed - & "if", fingers crossed - we could turn out a great deal of stuff in fact.
Hard to know how all that will fit into 3 nights a week, eh?
Great news tikay too,
Any linkup with Sky Atlantic for late night poker on there?
Whatever the plans turn out to be it sounds very very interesting.
Sky Atlantic HD is the Home of HBO, don't you know......
By coincidence, I was at the Sky Atlantic HD Launch Party last Fridy evening, representing Sky Poker, in a special poker "speak-easy", dressed in 1930's gear & all sorts.....might even be some Blog material there.
Once I have more information I will update on here, but if you have any questions let me know
Thanks