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30 minutes left to win that Turbo Tuesday Main Event seat.
I'll give you Brett's hand - Ah-Qh ("AQ" is not good enough, we need suits).
Now you just have to guess Day-Glo's hand.
sigh - all out of guesses before the rule change
Ryan is having a tough time, 22,000 now. Will get all the other chip counts during or after the imminent break.
For now, I gotta go interview Little Danny, then get those Videos up.
Will do the Day-Glo reveal when I get back.
We'll try & do another "guess the hands" later, too.
OK, time is up.
Brett had Ah-Qh
Day-Glo had As-8s
Seems to me Day-Glo was getting a bit miffed that Brett had been pounding him, & chose to play a marginal oop.
Anyway, after the hand, Brett had 52,000, & Day-Glo had dust.
Breaking News
Matt Bates is no longer short.
In fact, sad to say, he has disappeared completely.
Just one of those days, one of those tables.
Really feel for him, he's stood in the Corridor, a consolation beer in his hand, all dressed up with nowhere to go.
There is no place in poker for sympathy, but empathy, well yes, you have to feel for him, his shoes won't be too comfy right now.
Been there, done that, & it's horrible, but he'll wake up tomorrow morning as right as rein, & life will go on, because he's a proper bloke.
Meanwhile, Brett is giving his table some gip, he has north of 60,000 now. No sign of Day-Glo man though, he got tango'd.
Go tell out have a few beers mate and crush the tournies tomorrow
Sorry guys, we were interrupted by scheduled maintenance.
Now then, let us try & get up to date.
We've interviewed Danny Negreanu & Sam Trickett, & those Videos will appear in the next 24 hours.
Of our 4 players, Matt Bates has sadly departed, but the last time I looked, just before the break, we still had three of them trundling along happily.
I'll go get some chip counts now, assuming I can find them, the place is rammed today, it is the biggest Main Event flight ever.
Ooh, nearly forgot.
How many Main Event entries?
Well today had a remarkable 3,963.
That means the total field size of this year's Main Event is.......
6,420
Let's do some maths on those numbers.
The winner of the event will need to amass just shy of 193,000,000 chips.
And to make the November Nine with an average stack? You'd need 21 million chips.
To amass 21,000,000 from a 30,000 starting stack means increasing your starting stack by some 713 times.
And with those scary thoughts, I'm off to see if I can find our 3 survivors amongst the remains of today's near 4,000 entrants.
Sorry for the delay.
2 of our players are (or were.....) seated as far away as it is possible to be from the Media Centre, so it takes a bit of walking & finding.
Anyway, here's the latest news, with 90 minutes of play remaining on Day 1c.
Nico 11,000
Martin, 40,000
Brett, 60,000
That's pretty good, huh?
Ryan Spittles has had a testing day, he currently nurses a 10,000 stack.
The payouts have been announced, & this year, they (sort of) guaranteed that 1,000 players would cash.
649th to 1,000th will all receive $15,000.
The first player to bust on the November Nine will get $1,001,020, a pleasing number which will look good in the corporate PR.
And the winner?
$7,680,021
For perspective, that's more than the winner of the Sky Poker Sunday Roller gets most weeks.
In fact, you'd need to win the Sunday Roller 1,000 times to earn that much. Or, put another way, every Sunday for 20 years.
Still, it costs 65 times more to enter the WSOP Main Event.
It's all relative, right?
45 minutes play remain, so I'll go have a last walk round now, to see how our boys are doing.
BRB
Ok here's the situation, with just 30 minutes play remaining today.
Nico - 18,000
Martin - 50,000
Brett - 55,000
That looks pretty good to me. Pure guesswork at this stage, but I would expect the average at close of play to be in the region of 45,000.
So with that rather pleasing news, it's nearly time for me to sign off from here for today.
Today's survivors - looks like 3 of them - will return on THURSDAY.
Tomorrow - WEDNESDAY - the Day 1A & 1B survivors will be playing, so for us, that means Daren Moreton.
Then, on Friday, all the players blend together for Day 3.
And that, for now, is a wrap.
Night all.
Ooh, one last piece of news - Ryan Spittles, who has run awfully all Series, has just bust, running 7-7 into J-J.
As soon as the Day 2C tables are put out there, I'll try and post them on here. (Daren's Day 2AB table is featured on the other WSOP thread)