Tweeting Live Tourney's

Ok, this may seem like more of a rant, than a blog, but I have to get this off my chest.

Full Tilt Poker's twitter feed PISSED me off this weekend. I follow all 3 (ub, you don't count) Major poker sites twitter feeds, because a couple of them have exclusive tourney's for their followers and such. FTP being one of them.

Now I am all for Pro's, and the sites tweeting hands that are sick, and when their pro's update their blogs and such. But Tweeting LIVE tourney result that will be Airing on TV soon NEEDS to stop.

This past weekend was NBC's National Heads-Up Championship, and had a exciting field of 64 players. Except Tony G was excluded, and was upset about it. Read about that here. Continuing, FTP started tweeting pics of the players at the read carpet, and taking seats and that was good stuff. They even were tweeting some big hands. But then they started tweeting the results. This person is out, this person is moving on and so on and so forth. Right until the end of the tourny last night.

This was not done at any other tourny this year, by FTP, PP or PS at anytime, and it needs to stay that way. I enjoy watching some of these tourny's on TV without knowing the results before hand. WSOP 2010 was a great example of that. Before ESPN broadcasted the Main Event and the 50k Players Championship, TOC, and the Nov Nine. I had very little info to go on. Cause nothing was tweeted and I ignored the WSOP site.

I do realize "Social Media" has changed the way we do things. But you need to be responsible about it. Stuff like this makes me angry.

/end rant

Now, congrats to who Won the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. You deserve it. I will not reveal who it was, cause that's not my style.

Takin a slight break from the felt this week. Might play on PartyPoker tonight and at Red Hot Poker Tour on wed. But real life has got in the way a bit this week.