How not to give poker commentary
Oct. 27th, 2010 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackHow not to give poker commentary:
- "That is poker"
- "He's either got a big hand, or he's bluffing"
- "They both have pairs and they're both red"
- "He's trying to decide whether to call"
It seems to veer wildly between repeating what happens to be on the screen in a fake excited voice, and assuming a professional-level of poker experience. I know commentating is hard to do excellently, but I'd have thought a reasonable level of explanation would be to assume people know the basic rules, but might not know basic strategy, so saying things like "A has a better hand, but has to decide between X and Y" or "A has to guess whether B has X or Y" might actually help. Or maybe I'm just biased by my own level of experience.
- "That is poker"
- "He's either got a big hand, or he's bluffing"
- "They both have pairs and they're both red"
- "He's trying to decide whether to call"
It seems to veer wildly between repeating what happens to be on the screen in a fake excited voice, and assuming a professional-level of poker experience. I know commentating is hard to do excellently, but I'd have thought a reasonable level of explanation would be to assume people know the basic rules, but might not know basic strategy, so saying things like "A has a better hand, but has to decide between X and Y" or "A has to guess whether B has X or Y" might actually help. Or maybe I'm just biased by my own level of experience.