Tomorrow's wTVision call

wTVision

• Miami office at 7291 NW 74th St, Doral, so their quote shouldn't carry travel or hotel. Their headquarters is in Lisbon (part of Grupo Mediapro).
• What they do: real-time broadcast graphics at scale, for LaLiga, ESPN, Fox Sports, DAZN, the NBA and CONMEBOL.
• Poker work: their PokerStats CG system ran RFID for PokerStars tours in 2013–14 (Italian Poker Tour, LAPT, Canada Cup). Nothing public since 2014.
• RFID hardware: they supply the table and cards but never name the maker.
• Watch for: their public poker credits are 12 years old, so ask for recent work.
• What they've seen from us: Dezi's email the night before, with the show outline, the WPT clip and the topics for the call.

What we need from them

• Two prices. Rent their system and team for the 7 days, all in. Or buy a system the client keeps, plus their team for the week.
• Recent poker work, with links, and whether it was live or taped.
• Are the chips RFID too? If not, who enters bets and stacks, and how fast does the pot update?
• Graphics on their own channel. A clean fill and key we record on our timecode, so the editors can lay them over any camera.
• A custom look in Spanish. It will most likely be Spanish only. Who designs it, and what does it cost?
• NDAs for their whole team. The winner can't get out before the episodes are edited.
• The table. Do they bring an RFID table, fit antennas into one we provide, or build one?
• Crew and timing. How many operators, and how long they need for load-in and rehearsal.

• Format: 8 winner-take-all Sit & Go games, 7 players and a dealer at one table. The best of them become 20 half-hour episodes. Taped, not live.
• Dates: none set yet. We're in the quoting phase and will most likely start at the beginning of next year. 7 days on site: load-in, rehearsal with a full test game, 4 show days with two games each, load-out.
• Cameras: 8 Sony FR7 robotic cameras in 4K (2 overhead, 6 on tripods), switched on a Blackmagic ATEM, delivered in 1080. Every camera is recorded separately for post.
• Graphics wanted: hole cards, win odds, pot, stacks and player names, plus eliminations, in a custom look that will most likely be Spanish only. Ideally they come to us as their own channel (fill and key) on our timecode.
• Rooms: players sit in a closed pipe-and-drape set with no crew inside. Hole cards are seen only in the control room and, if we use live announcers, their booth.
• Budget position: RFID is priced as an optional add-on, so we need two prices: renting their system and team for the week, and buying a system the client keeps.

• 0:00The flop comes down: A♠ 9♣ 3♠.
• 0:02The graphic comes up with both players' hole cards (Alex K♦ 9♦, Dylan A♦ 10♣), their win odds (18% and 82%), the board and the pot at 1,200,000. An arrow marks who acts next.
• 0:03Alex checks. CHECK appears under his name and the arrow moves to Dylan.
• 0:11Dylan bets 300,000. His row shows BET 300,000, Alex's shows TO CALL 300,000, and the pot goes to 1,500,000.
• 0:15Alex calls. His row shows CALL 300,000 and the pot reaches 1,800,000.

The odds come from the cards alone (Dylan's pair of aces against Alex's pair of nines), so they hold at 82/18 through the betting and only move when the next card comes. The pot and the action labels update as each bet goes in.