Game's on the CW today.

by GoodKeith on Jul 20, 2007 12:02 PM PDT

Today's 4:07 PM PST start will be broadcast live on the CW network so FSN can televise poker until the cows come home. That's right: The same people playing the same game for five hours.

In other news, still no new microwave but I am not attempting any popcorn cookery by means of the oven. Not that desperate.

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Gotta try

making popcorn in bacon grease. Sounds like it would kill ya instantly but well worth the treat.

"You guys should be in every major city. This is some heavy shit. This is, like, Lone Ranger heavy, man."

by AZSEAfan on Jul 20, 2007 12:16 PM PDT reply actions

Why go to all that work?

Just use some Bacon Salt. I'm thinking of using it on my morning corn flakes.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jul 20, 2007 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Mmmmm....Bacon Salt.

I am going secretly going to add bacon salt to my wife's next vegetarian dish.

by Ben in Va on Jul 20, 2007 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Vidro is salivating

by kentroyals5 on Jul 20, 2007 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions

In theory...

You could take Vidro's sweat, let it evaporate, and still end up with bacon salt.

by Ben in Va on Jul 20, 2007 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions

gross

but I laughed

I love the fat man's picnic

by InSpokane on Jul 20, 2007 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Just what i was wanting

The ability to make anything taste like bacon, god knows i love bacon

Spider pig, spider pig does whatever a spider pig does.

by wadswerth on Jul 20, 2007 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm so close to buying that

by Edgar for Pres on Jul 20, 2007 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm seriously considering it

I'll let ya know how it is.

"You guys should be in every major city. This is some heavy shit. This is, like, Lone Ranger heavy, man."

by AZSEAfan on Jul 20, 2007 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't get it either, but I find that whenever I come across is on TV I do have to willfully force myself to change the channel lest I end up sitting there watching it for hours. It's pointless I know. I probably know that more than most since I actually made my living off poker for a few years and I can tell just how warped what they show on TV is compared to the real thing (but hey, that warped version has created more fish than anyone ever imagined so yay for easy money!), but I cannot help myself.

I'm also the same way with golf. I imagine any sport that you used to play will grab your attention like that. I have no problem switching off bowling.

by Matthew on Jul 20, 2007 1:06 PM PDT reply actions

Glad to see that

I'm not the only one that gets sucked in by TV poker. I'll usually put it on during a commercial and forget to put the channel back.

"You guys should be in every major city. This is some heavy shit. This is, like, Lone Ranger heavy, man."

by AZSEAfan on Jul 20, 2007 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't watch poker on TV

but I can definitely understand why people would. The one I'll never get is ESPN's recent coverage of a Rock Paper Scissors tournament. I know, it's ESPN and what do I expect, but still.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jul 20, 2007 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Didn't watch it...

...but man, the reaction I got out of my son, when I 'cheated' and threw down my index finger and said "lightsaber!" I wonder what people would've done with something as random as that...

Baseball is 90% Mental. The other half is statistics...

by PositivePaul on Jul 20, 2007 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

They once covered a Magic: The Gathering tourney

Yeah.

by Gomez on Jul 20, 2007 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions

At some point...

...here soon, they'll televise two drips of water running down the wall, run big, annoyingly-soundtracked SportsCenter features on the "Ultimate Drip", and then spend a week deciding which drip is the most Now.

And then Joe Morgan will talk about how drips of water were better in his day because they just dripped, and didn't think so much about it.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Jul 20, 2007 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Except it'll be called

the Aquafina Ultimate Drip

by Gomez on Jul 20, 2007 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions

I watched that.

Some of the funniest and most surreal commentary I've ever heard:

"I think he misplayed the Leshrac card there, Tony, I would have waited, maybe played a Tundra card or a Breeding Pit."

"Yes, Mike, and, oh, an Icy Manipulator clears the board."

"A costly, costly mistake for Jason 'Warlock' Waltham."

Field Gulls

by John Morgan @ Lookout Landing on Jul 20, 2007 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions

An Icy Manipulator can't clear the board

I'm disappointed in myself for feeling the need to point that out.

by Katal LM on Jul 20, 2007 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions

It is warped

It's not like other sports where they show every moment of the contest. When they show poker, they're showing about one minute for every actual hour of the tournament, and so you're seeing a lot of hands out of context. Did a bluff raise on that hand work because the guy who raised had played tight for the previous hour? Is the guy who folded his pocket jacks to a bluff folding because the other guy showed down a series of winning hands? I mean, you do half the shit in a vacuum that you see on TV and you'll go broke in a hurry.

by Gomez on Jul 20, 2007 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

exactly

and since poker on TV taught millions of people how to play, I helped finance my way through college. I guess I owe ESPN for that. And for the job they gave me. But whatever, the shit they turned sportscenter and BBTN into make up for all the good they've done me.

by Matthew on Jul 20, 2007 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions

ESPN2

was running a show about buying cars at auction or something at like 4 in the morning the other night. I didn't get the gist of the show since I was immediately changing the channel.

by hcoguy on Jul 20, 2007 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions