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Best advice I can give you? Give the money to Natalie to play instead of you. She'll talk them to death.
Serious answer? For the extra $400, I'd play the WSOP event. MUCH bigger field, much better structure, & the chance of a Bracelet.
If the extra $400 is a stretch for you (which I doubt) I'm pretty sure I could round up 5 or 6 Sky Poker regulars in Vegas who would buy 5% or 10% each.
See you there. I'll be based in my usual office every morning, the WSOP Media Room, Pole Position, Seat 1, Row 1.
We shall meet each other in Vegas, it seems!
Yes, I'm playing a bunch of PLO8, & PLO Events, in Vegas. I have not finalised my schedule yet, but it looks something like this at the moment.....
June 14th. 4pm, VENETIAN, PLO8, $600
June 15th, 2pm, BINIONS, PLO8, $200.
June 16th, Noon, GOLDEN NUGGET, PLO8, $230
June 17th, Noon, RIO, WSOP PLO8, $1,500
June 18th, Noon (?), Caesars Palace, PLO8, $240
June 19th, Noon, GOLDEN NUGGET, PLO, $230 OR ARIA, PLO, $340
June 20th, 2pm, BINIONS, PLO, $300
June 21st, Noon (?), CAESARS PALACE, 6 Max PLO, $240
June 23rd, 2pm, BINIONS, PLO8, $200
June 24th, 4pm, VENETIAN, Big O, 5 card PLO8, $1,100
June 26th, Noon, CAESARS PALACE, PLO8, $240
June 28th, 4pm, Venetian, PLO8, $1,100
June 29th, 2pm, BINIONS, PLO8, $200
July 3rd, Noon, CAESARS PALACE, PLO8, $240
July 5th - Start work.
It is also possible that I will play the Main Event, but that's a whole other story.
Selling action in the PLO8 & PLO Tourneys? I have a bunch of friends who take a few % each every year, & have done so for some years now, they are sort of season ticket holders. I sell, & they buy, just for the fun, & the sweat. Unfortunately, Sky Poker do not encourage staking via this Community, & I must say, that is for good & understandable reasons. Shame really, but I am aware of the reasons, it is non-negotiable, & I do agree with them.
See you in Vegas!
Can't tell you how excited I am, I'm like a kid going to the seaside.
Are we nearly there yet?
So, back to the results.....
The $1,000 "Millionaire Maker" jobbie, which had an eye-popping 6,343 runners, was won by a Texan, Mike Bennington, who pocketed $741,902. Which you may deduce is NOT a million dollars. That explains why the WSOP very carefully & deliberately used inverted commas, "Millionaire Maker", as it suggests it is just a phrase, rather than a Guarantee. The wotld of Promotions & Marketing is a murky one.....
Best placed Brit was Tom Alner from Bristol, who got just over $26,000.
Tom has quite a "Live" record, all over the world, including Macau, Seoul, Tapau, Cannes, San Remo, & Barcelona.
His best result was in the WSOP last year, when he got over $200,000 for finishing 4th in the $1,500 Event in which Neil Channing finished 2nd.
We won't bother with Event # 7, $1,000 NLHE, it was an all-American affair, currently heads up between Eric Baldwin & Matt Waxman. Matt WHO? Rofl.
Ditto Event # 8, the Eight Game Mix, where we did no good at all.
Seems we are not having a good day, not a single Brit cashed, from what I can see, in Event # 9, the Shootout.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Same story in Event # 10, though to be fair, this one is LIMIT Poker, which we generally don't play in these parts.
Ahh, at last, something to chat about - Event #11, the $2,500 SIX MAX NLHE.
Almost ALL Online poker will be 6-Max eventually, imo, though not so much in Live Poker, as the Dealer costs are so much higher.
924 paid in, 147 remain, & 108 get paid.
Chris Moorman has a Top Ten stack, you know all about Chris, the kids, somewhat confusingly, describe him as a sicko.
Andreas Hoivoid (Scandi chap, Woody Woodpecker lookalike) is 3rd at the moment. He hit the 2+2 headlines recently when he allegedly ran away with a poker dealer, which is fine of course, though his live-in girlfriend was a tad irritated one assumes. Affairs of the heart in young men run strong.
Mickey Petersen, who I have interviewed several timers for Sky Poker, is running well, too. He is an EPT Winner & another online sicko. Very nice chap.
Another in good shape, & who I also interviewed the very same day I interviewed Mickey, is Vanessa Rousso. Vanessa is perfectly lovely - intelligent, well-spoken, excellent manners & very amiable table demeanour. We rarely see Vanessa without her trademark hat.
Anyone think Vanessa looks a bit like a much younger version of our very own JamieLou?
Also running well in that Event are two interesting chaps, Chino Rheem & Erick Lindgren.
Both would, in a perverse way, be popular winners, or if they cashed big. I would imagine the Rail will be 6 deep if either make the Final Table.
Think we are up to date now.
Keep the questions coming please, the thread is warming up nicely.
I think Thewy heads out to Vegas next Tuesday, & a few days later, Scotty, Runitsrann, & a random Welsh bloke will be on the Vegas 'plane.
Oi!
What's wrong with slate & concrete?
Noted, Alan, will try & do so when possible. Guess it will mainly be well-known names, so I'll do them fo sho.....
Quick diversion from Vegas to Vembley.
Did anyone see the Julian Gardner exit hand yesterday?
Julian was playing about 2 million chips I think, & Pete Linton was big-stacked, it was Blind v Blind.
Pete Linton raised from the small, Gardner called in the Big.
Th 9h Ts
Julian had 10-5, for flopped trips, Pete had As-8s for, pretty much, no hand no draw.
It goes bet bet bet all-in on that flop.
It then came runner runner spades to bust Julian.
As a matter of interest Alan, because this interests me greatly, why would you prefer "no deal"?
If you were on that Final Table, would YOU want to do a deal?
There really is some pressure on those lads, & whatever they do, they will get battered on the Forums by folks who have never been in that spot.
Nice problem to have, but right now the pressure must be absolutely incredible. It's like waiting 24 hours for the river card to be dealt when you are all-in for your Tourney life.
Incidentally, both Nick Hicks & Pete Linton both play the SPT Events at DTD, & Nick plays from time to time on Sky Poker.
Hi Tikay. I hope you don't mind me correcting you but this tourney was won by Benny Chen who won $1,198,780, Mike Bennington came second for $741,902.
I was watching the live stream and some of the beats given out were horific but it was a great watch.
I've seen that situation a lot here in the UK, it's really comical actually, folks come rushing from all over the country to get their place in the queue!
Course I don't mind you correcting me, the more who get involved in the thread the better.
The bad beats in poker are par for the course, it's the nature of the beast, but the good thing about Live Poker is that you don't hear all the usual "it's rigged" comments. That beat Julian Gardner took yesterday was eye-watering!
I'm hoping someone else will run the thread, or at least help, from Friday of next week, as I'll be otherwise engaged from June 14th & I'm not 100% certain to have the time to do it from then onwards.
I'll try and post as many updates as I can while you're away, I may have to miss the odd day or two but otherwise I can keep this thread ticking over
WSOP9- $3000 NLH Shootout
After 2 of 3 days, 10 remain. With the nature of this tournament, stacks are as near as makes no difference level. 8 US players and 2 Euros left in, most well known players to me anyway are David Bakes Baker & Chris Klodnicki. Day 3 today.
WSOP10 - S1500 Limit Holdem, 645 entrants
After Day 2, 19 remain, all appear to be US. Chip leader Eric Froelich has 319000, short stack Barry Shulman (these Shulmans get everywhere) has 3BB at 4000/8000
WSOP11 - $2500 NLH 6 Max , 924 entrants
After Day 1, 133 are left. Tikay has given an excellent update re Moornan, Hoivold and the rest above. Others doing well include Chino Reem, Andrew Lichtenberger, Erika Schoenberg and Jesse Silvia who was chip leader entering last year's October 9 and eventually came 2nd for over 5 million dollars.
To Start Today
WSOP12 - $1500 Pot Limit Holdem - 3 Day Event
WSOP13 - $5000 7 card stud Hi-Low Split 8 or better - 3 Day Event
All 8 bracelet winners so far were winning their first bracelet