Posted on 06/26/2006 8:23:51 AM PDT by frogjerk
LAS VEGAS - The World Series of Poker kicked off the first of 45 events yesterday at the Rio casino-hotel, as defending champ Joseph Hachem faced 26 other elite players for a 2-day, $2 million prize pool Tournament of Champions.
Thousands of players from around the world are expected to come to Las Vegas over the next 2 months before the final table in the $10,000-buy-in main event plays down for the grand prize Aug. 10.
Hachem, a 40-year-old mortgage broker, beat 5,618 players to win the main event last year. This year, organizers say seating will accommodate up to 9,000.
If a particular player happens to be be playing extremely loose on a certain day, live coverage would make it quite likely that that information could be communicated to the other players during a break, which would be extremely valuable information to have.
I hope to be there. I play on Full Tilt and they have series of free tournaments with 20 entries into the Finals as grand prize. I've made it through the first two levels (top 36 out of 1800 and top 9 out of 646) and I play the final level next month. Top 20 in that one gets the $10,000 entry and $2,000 spending/travel money.
I don't really expect live coverage. But it would be nice if we could see it the week after it is over.
They are great. And waiting for any of the tournaments or SNG's to begin as is the case with pokerstars. And a lot of truly 'real' freebies also. I play and post here at the same time.
Meant to say *no waiting - for any of the tournaments or SNGs.
Hellmuth is married to a psychologist (or a psychiatrist). That cracks me up!
LOL.
I've never tried Full Tilt...how is it?
Thanks...I'm going to open an account at ultimatebet. Waiting for an SNG table at pokerstars has really become a pain.
He can get free checkups - regularly then, lol.
Yep, I remember how slow it was at pokerstars, but ultimatebet is not that way. Any wait is only about four or five minutes at most.
This year I'm actually looking forward to the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event even more than the main event. The field is going to be much smaller; for the most part it is going to strictly be the top professional players in the world. I expect it to be poker at its absolute best!
Sounds great!
exactly my problem on full tilt dot net (the free side).
When I'm alert and watching the play, I can't be beat. I'm patient to a fault, not looking or betting into the flop over 50% of the hands. If i dont have a k-6 or higher, i fold. I'm a sucker for 2 cards suited, especially 2 runners suited.
After the flop I fold if I don't have a pair, with one of them in the hole.
I've made millions of samolians (fake money) using this stragety, but the bored factor is high. You wind up playing less than one hand in 10 to the river.
Nah, CardPlayer and other organizations do live updates. There's no way they could keep it secret. The delay they have to do huge amounts of editing to get it down to a reasonable amount of time. I think they should broadcast the final tables live; FSN has done that for a few tournaments and it works well.
Last year I remember Cardplayer did a live blog with updates on big hands and how the professionals were doing. Then they had radio commentary live at the final table. The delay on the ESPN broadcast probably has more to do with editing 1000s of hands in order to make a show of it.
Hello all,
I was wondering how many freepers play online. I play at ultimate bet for small stakes. I usually play the $5 SNGs and multitable tourneys. The multi-tables can be a crap-shoot until the fish are weeded out. I'd say after the first hour you can play "real" poker for the most part. It's frustrating though when some of these geniuses call you all the way down with their flush draws or spike the third ten on the river.
I play small stakes no-limit ring games on pokerroom. Not a big fan of tournaments for the reasons you say; one bad beat and you're gone.
shooottt everyone bribes the loooseyannah judges!
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