Poker Central has announced the broadcast talent and live stream schedule for the upcoming World Series of Poker, and the team is playing it safe with the tried and tested trio of Ali Nejad, Lon McEachern and Norman Chad.

I haven’t watched the World Poker Tour (WPT) in donkey’s years. I don’t have a TV. I don’t have the luxury of time. If I did tune in, it wouldn’t be the same. Mike Sexton leaving to join the partypoker revolution must have left the WPT feeling like a Feast without the chunk of chocolate in the middle.

Poker’s like Clark Kent. There’s not much to look at, but there is some unseen, unfelt power, bubbling underneath the shirt. Sexton used to rip it off, Hulk Hogan style. His voice became the WPT, and without it, I am not sure the experience would be the same.

The WPT knew that.