Friday, April 10, 2009

Live Cash Game Webcast With Hole Cards From CPC.tv

CPC.tv will do a free live webcast of a cash game, with hole cards, from Turning Stone on July 21. The game will be 8-handed $50/$100 NLHE with a $10,000 minimum buyin. Seats will be appropriated on a first-come, first-serve basis. Players must pay a player sponsor fee but will be allowed to wear sponsor logos (visit their web site for more information). The game will run seven hours, from noon-7 PM, and will be webcast on a one-hour delay, from 1-8 PM. Tom Schneider and CPC CEO Eric Ulis will provide commentary.

CPC.tv previously ran a tournament webcast (at that time they were known as Continental Poker Championship), and will run both tournaments and cash games in the future. Their last broadcast did have technical problems, but CEO Eric Ulis says "since the last webcast, the technical problems have been solved. It turns out that the last show's problems related to a new piece of hardware that had only been received two days before the show."

I hope this succeeds and becomes a regular show: live cash games that show all the hands and hole cards are the holy grail to a lot of us. The old Live at the Bike shot for that ideal, but was technically inadequate in my opinion (I'm aware that it has a lot of die-hard fans). If CPC.tv gets the technology down, this could be an amazing show.

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Posted by Self Made at Friday, April 10, 2009

4 comments:

  1. Updated with earlier taping/webcast times.
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  2. They're rebranding from Continental Poker Championship to CPC.tv (Continental Poker Channnel), and plan to add content from other sources starting June 1.
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  3. They're just showing a tournament broadcast for late July now, and saying "Check back later this Summer" about the cash game.
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  4. The latest on the cash game: "We made some changes to the cash game. Specifically, we decided to make it a six-handed game of top pros and others. To that end, we've got commitments from Shaun Deeb and Jimmy Fricke. Also, the game will be a mix of No Limit Hold'em and PLO. In addition, we decided the best place to hold the game is in Vegas, so we've been actively talking with three casinos in Vegas about serving as a host property. All said, we're now targeting the first week of August to conduct the table."
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