ESPN Main Event Final Table Broadcast Ratings Surge

In fact, according to the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event broadcast by ESPN last week, major poker tournaments can attract as many viewers as regular-season NBA or major league games.

ESPN officials released the "Breaking Day Report" on the final report of the main event on Sunday night, and scored 1.9 points. The figure averaged 1.905 million households and 2.364 million viewers per minute. The viewership on the home turf increased by 43 percent (1.329 million) and 45 percent (1.63 million) on the home turf.

The impressive ratings were especially important for both ESPN and WSOP, as they decided to postpone the final table play of the controversial main event earlier this year. Instead of streaming the entire event back in the fall after completing a $10,000 buy-in tournament in July, Harraz and WSOP decided to play the final table of nine out of 6,844 fields and then take 117 days off, which was created last Sunday and Monday with more than 15 hours of action in Las Vegas.

"The last table show was the funniest two hours of poker we've ever produced this year," ESPN senior producer Jamie Horowitz told Casino City on Monday. "ESPN is fortunate that the production team led by Matt Maranz and Dave Swartz produced poker in two days, which usually takes more than a month."

"It was a piece of poker, an experience of playing poker," Horowitz added. "Dave, Matt, and I learned short-term TV production skills on NBC while covering Sam Flood's Olympic track and field events. Sam's rule was simple - to record the story. And that's what our team did."

Denmark's Peter Eastgate was crowned the main event champion on Wednesday morning at 2:30 a.m. The entire final took 15 hours and 39 minutes, making it the longest-running main event final in WSOP history. Eastgate was 22 years old when he became the youngest player to win the main event, breaking Phil Hellmuth's record. Helmuth was 24 when he won in 1989.    카지노사이트 모음

"It wasn't just about Peter Eastgate winning," Horowitz said. "It looked like Dennis Philip's fans, and what made the most interesting night of the final poker was trying to get the professional title and all the little stories we tried to detail.