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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1258833, member: 23910"] The thing is, ESPN [I]has [/I]tried to educate Joe Q Public about HORSE and promote the $50K event as the professional's championship that decides who the best of the best is. They've shown the final table for the past two years in its unadulterated HORSE format, they've explained all the games as they've gone and they've had stacked final tables with huge prize pools. I really don't think there's much more* they could have done to promote the game. And yet by all accounts it's still been a massive disaster for them. Showing HORSE has been ratings suicide, the audiences have stayed away in droves. One of the most basic rules of business is that [B]the customer is always right[/B]. Joe Q Public, the customer, has told ESPN in no uncertain terms that what he wants to watch is NLHE, then more NLHE, followed by a little more NLHE and to hell with Stud8, Razz and all those other weird games. ESPN won't take any notice of what the pros think, even if they did all get together and double the number of entrants in the $50K HORSE (we'd still be talking well under 500 entrants, BTW) because professional poker players [B]aren't[/B] ESPN's customers. As long as there are loads of NLHE tournaments for them to show (and there are - ESPN is showing nothing but this year) I don't think we'll see HORSE on our TV screens again any time soon. Joe Q Public knows what he likes and ESPN has plenty of it to give to him. Maybe at some point in the distant future the public will change its mind or develop a taste for HORSE. But for the forseeable future it's unlikely and ESPN has already done all that's practical to promote the game. The $50K HORSE event needs to either accept this, change its final table to NLHE (and probably change its name as well - which is probably the best compromise IMO) or accept the consequences of not being televised. [I][SIZE=1]* within the realms of practicality, remembering that poker in general is a very small part of ESPN's overall programming and that the Main Event will always take precedence for them. It's simply not practical for them to, say, air a series of programs just explaining how HORSE works.[/SIZE][/I] [/QUOTE]

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