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PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 03:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 02:55 PM\'] It wasn't too bad. The changeover from Game Show Network to GSN before the show was utterly crappy though, IMO. [/quote]
That's something I've been wondering but no one said. What exactly took place during the "changeover"? [/quote]
 The old GSN station ID began, faded to black and white about halfway through, then disappeared in a "turned-off television" manner. Then the hideous new one began.

A simple "Thank you for 9 years of Game Show Network" would've sufficed....

clemon79:
[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 12:22 PM\'] I'm gonna disagree.  The dealer might exhibit the smallest tell based on looking at the hole card.
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 But why? The dealer has no money stake in the game, so all she cares about when she's checking that card is whether it gives her blackjack or not, so she can properly execute her job duties. It's not like she's gonna get excited inside over seeing a 19 or a 20, because her job doesn't change whether she has a made hand or she has a 12. She has no reason to react. At all.

Particleman:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 03:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 03:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 02:55 PM\'] It wasn't too bad. The changeover from Game Show Network to GSN before the show was utterly crappy though, IMO. [/quote]
That's something I've been wondering but no one said. What exactly took place during the "changeover"? [/quote]
The old GSN station ID began, faded to black and white about halfway through, then disappeared in a "turned-off television" manner. Then the hideous new one began.

A simple "Thank you for 9 years of Game Show Network" would've sufficed.... [/quote]
 You know, it was kind of sad seeing the changeover.  By no means am I "totally devistated" by any stretch of the imagination; it's just the last of GSN as I got to know it.  I was thinking, "oh well, we'll never see that spherical air hockey game ever again."  :-)

CaseyAbell:
To be honest, I barely noticed Vasgersian, one way or the other. I thought both commentators did a serviceable, unobtrusive job, rather different from the loud "they'll be talking about this hand for fifty years" puffery that Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten lavish on the Travel Channel pokerfests. Matter of taste, I guess.

In general, I thought GSN concentrated much more on the gameplay than the Travel Channel does. Part of this is a simple time constraint. When you've only got an hour minus commercials, you can't do nearly as much eye-candy/player-interviews/human-interest-segments/plugs-for-the-casino filler as when you have two hours minus commercials. Or when you have seven hours minus commercials, as EPSN did on the WSOP shows.

The show certainly held my interest to the end much more than the poker sagas usually do. After all, you can usually guess who's gonna win on the poker shows well before finis. At the very least you've got a fifty-fifty shot.

OTOH, I thought GSN could have used a live audience, or more exactly, a loud audience. Yeah, I know the cheerleading on the Travel Channel gets annoying at times, but it does spruce up the atmosphere. GSN's show more than occasionally seemed to be proceeding in a very little-used library.

All in all, a good effort with interesting gamplay and useful graphics. I'll definitely drop by for another look.

DrBear:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 02:06 PM\'] The dealer has no money stake in the game, so all she cares about when she's checking that card is whether it gives her blackjack or not, so she can properly execute her job duties. It's not like she's gonna get excited inside over seeing a 19 or a 20, because her job doesn't change whether she has a made hand or she has a 12. She has no reason to react. At all. [/quote]
 I have read from some of the experts on the game that some dealers will hesitate if they have a card that is close to a blackjack - say, a 10 and 4 and they have to look twice to see if the 4 is an A. This is especially true if the deck is rich in 10s and face cards; you assume there's a 10 wiht whatever; if she hesitates then goes ahead, you might think she has 14, a very beatable hand. It's not quite a giveaway, but if you're sensitive to such things, it could help.

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