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Brakus:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 18 2004, 03:11 AM\'] See, television has been around for over half a century. Blackjack has been around much longer than that. Think there could be a REASON TV Blackjack has never taken off in that half century? [/quote]
 Well, poker's been around as long as blackjack as, if not longer. Maybe why TV blackjack hasn't taken off is becase NO ONE HAS TRIED IT YET?

Same reason why poker hadn't been televised regularly; no one tried it up until recently.

What's good for poker may not necessarily be good for blackjack. But we'll find out.

DrBear:
[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Jan 18 2004, 02:14 AM\'] Same reason why poker hadn't been televised regularly; no one tried it up until recently.
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 Well, it had been tried, but fairly recent changes - notably the small cameras that allow us to see what everyone's holding - have made it interesting.

Has GSn found some new trick to showing it? We'll see...

Jimmy Owen:
I'm holding out for a revival of "Championship Bridge."

joshg:
Fresh and edgy for the 18-35 demo:

Extreme Pinochle

'Nuff Said

JOSH

Speedy G:
[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Jan 18 2004, 03:02 AM\']Well, if no one watches the show for the competition aspect, I would hope that the commentators would pick up on the player's decisions on his cards. It's a nice way to learn basic strategy, at least.

Perhaps if they can get blackjack experts like Arnold Snyder and Anthony Curtis as color commentators to give more insight. Who knows. I would hope that the commentators would know basic strategy inside out, so that they can explain to the viewers why the player is doubling his soft 17 versus the dealer's 6. In turn that would give the viewers some pointers on blackjack basic strategy... Always split Aces and 8's but never 5's and 10's; never take insurance, even if you have a blackjack; stand on a hard 16 versus the dealer's 2 through 6 (otherwise hit); and so on.[/quote]
"Here's a table of basic strategy.  Look for every player to follow this table every time."

Unless you're using Real People, or celebrities who don't know/care about basic strategy, you're not going to see much (if any) deviation from that with a table of experts sitting there.  That leaves only the betting, and then it's almost like watching your friends try and get the high score on a video game.  You can taunt all you want, but if they ignore you, there's nothing you can do.

That said, who's up for Celebrity Spades Showdown?  World Series of Rummy?

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