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World Series of Poker has a winner: I'm not spilling it
I posted Saturday night some results from the World Series of Poker, as the final table played down from nine to two. And I got some complaints that I had spoiled it for TV tonight. ESPN has a two-hour show, from 9-11 p.m., taking us through the final nine.
But I'm not going to post who won the head-to-head matchup, which went off at 1 a.m. our time last night, although I'll give you a link.
I kind of know how you commenters Sunday felt upon reading the Saturday results. I wanted to not know today and watch it "plausibly live" tonight. But WIOD radio spouted out who won at 9 this morning, then I got an email that has photos of the winner, a press release, etc. Part of the travails of being a gambling writer, I guess.
Meanwhile, if you want some Kevin Schaffel, here are some post-tournament comments, via PokerStars link.
So, I want some quick input here: Who is watching cold, and who doesn't care if they already know who won?
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, early training for his...
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Its dumb to not want to know before watching, its in the same catagory as a sporting event so tell me this, if the Dolphins game was played 2 hrs after live would you wait to see the score then?
Posted by: 954suited | November 10, 2009 11:06 AM
Here's a thought, if you don't want to know who won then don't pay attention!!!
How hard of a concept is that, instead of getting mad at people for writing stories and doing their jobs?
For example, I went to the beach with my Dog on Sunday but I also wanted to watch the Fins game. Hmmmmmm, what was I to do?
Oh wait, I went to the beach and DVR'd the Fins game. I also shut my phone off so I didn't get all of the game updates from my friends. I then went home and watched the game at 5. Wow, I can't believe I was able to figure out something so complex!
Posted by: NotThatHard | November 10, 2009 11:38 AM
Joe Cada!
Posted by: joe cada | November 10, 2009 12:26 PM
I figured I'd have it on tonite to see what happened while at my weekly poker game. But then I found out who won on Yahoo's home page so there went that. Thanks for doing the right think and leaving it up to your blog readers whether or not they wanted to find out. And whomever posted that third post here today - you're a D!cK.
Posted by: aces cracked | November 10, 2009 1:36 PM
thanks, aces.
I deleted it quickly, and I don't think readers got that far, anyway.
(fyi, everyone else: a commenter threw out the supposed name of the winner)
Posted by: Nick Sortal | November 10, 2009 3:43 PM
Hey "Not That Hard"-
(1) Did your wife give you that nickname?
(2) The fact that Kevin Schaffel got knocked out at the final table was posted on the front page of sunsentinel.com on Saturday. The broadcast was not until Tuesday night. The fact that it was on the front page was the issue. You could have been avoiding the gambling section to not know the results, yet this news hit you anyhow. You can't expect people to ignore all media for several days. They could have posted it elsewhere or done a spoiler alert.
(3) Try Viagra, maybe it will get hard
Posted by: HardAndThick | November 11, 2009 1:16 AM