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gameshowguy2000:
[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 07:09 PM\'] Blackjack is a horrifically painful spectator sport to watch.

Brandon Brooks [/quote]
 It is?

The only thing I find horrible is when someone bets a lot, and BUSTS (Goes over 21, for those who don't know your Blackjack lingo)!

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 08:24 PM\'] [quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 07:09 PM\'] Blackjack is a horrifically painful spectator sport to watch.

Brandon Brooks [/quote]
It is?
 [/quote]
 Poker is a game of bluffing, and a good bluffer makes watching the game suspenseful. I don't know too much bluffing someone could do with blackjack...you either hit or stand, rinse and repeat. Involving it with a game show element is cool, because of the strategy, but watching someone play straight blackjack is not as engaging.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 05:35 PM\'] Blackjack could work. Other than Gambit, who could forget Top Card?

As for Poker, that could work, too. I like both games, as they are both easy to play, easy to win, and easy to lose.

Speaking of Poker, who could forget Pay Cards/Super Pay Cards? [/quote]
 Did you even READ Chris's post above yours?

The reason Gambit and Top Card made air is because the artificial aspects of playing against another person were introduced into the game.

Actually, Brandon just said all of this, so I'll move on to your argument that watching straight blackjack on TV might be entertaining:

If it's your bag, great. But the game of blackjack not only involves NO human interaction, you could program a machine to do it.

Would you watch a guy play video blackjack for an hour? Just sitting there, pressing the hit and stand buttons, for the same money? Do you REALLY find that exciting?

If so, I dun wanna party with you. I don't think my heart could handle the excitement when the regular Oreos got put away and the Double-Stuf ones came out. Whoo, doggie.

Brakus:
[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 06:14 PM\'] The Travel Channel has aired a one hour summary of a $1M blackjack tournament a few times the past month.  Watching the highlights of that tournament was the equivalent of watching paint dry.  The psychological aspect of poker isn't there with blackjack since everybody's trying to beat the dealer, not trying to outwit, outdraw, or outbet an opponent. [/quote]
 I'm one of the few players here that actually prefers playing blackjack to poker, so as with many things with me, my opinions are quite jaded. I play lots of blackjack at the casinos (I bet upwards of $25-50 per hand and not break out in a sweat doing so), and there are things about it I like, besides of course winning money.

But remember, these televised blackjack games are coverage of tournaments (as opposed to ordinary games), where the players are at the table are indeed trying to outwit and outbet each other, since after all, the player with the highest total at the end of the round advances. That's when you get into betting strategy and the possibility of big catch-ups when the chips are down. The poker series on ESPN and Bravo have worked because you're following along with the players and their bankrolls and strategies. Blackjack might work also, although to what degree is still uncertain. Blackjack seems to go at a faster pace than poker with more hands dealt out. And of course there's more to blackjack than hitting and standing; there's doubling, splitting, and in some cases, surrendering. If this blackjack series is going to be set up like a tournament, then it just might get an audience.

Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 08:24 PM\'] [quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Jan 17 2004, 07:09 PM\'] Blackjack is a horrifically painful spectator sport to watch.

Brandon Brooks [/quote]
It is?

The only thing I find horrible is when someone bets a lot, and BUSTS (Goes over 21, for those who don't know your Blackjack lingo)! [/quote]
 I find it ironic that you take us for idiots.

Obviously, you've never been to a casino.

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