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WSOP Main Event, Day 1C

Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
edited July 2017 in Poker Chat

And a very good morning to you all. It's an almost bearable 36c here today, though it's early yet & will no doubt warm up later.

Before we look at what the late Jimmy Young would have called today's recipe, a quick recap on yesterday.

 
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    Sky Poker had 4 qualifiers playing the WSOP Main Event, & all 4 made Day 2. I think that's a quite splendid achievement, & I congratulate them all heartily.

    Who, & how many?

    Tedson - 37,700

    Jiggawhat - 8,700

    GSmith13 - 51,600

    Boggo - 95,200


    So all 4 of them will return tomorrow (Tuesday) @ 11am (7pm UK) for Day 2. Day 2 will consist of all survivors from Days 1A & 1B, however, they will be kept separate.

    Then, on Wednesday, the survivors from day 1C will play their Day 2. For reasons which are unclear, Wednesday's play will begin at Noon, not 11am. 

    On Thursday, all the flights then combine.  
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  • JonTSnowJonTSnow Member Posts: 3
    edited July 2017
    looking forward to it, ledge tikay
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    Today, the WSOP Main Event will be graced by none other than Sky Poker's roving & raving ambasador, Neil Channing.

    I could not begin to estimate how many times he has played the WSOP Main, but I bet it's north of 25. Even so, I bet it still gives him a tingle in his willy. 
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017
    In Response to Re: WSOP Main Event, Day 1C:
    looking forward to it, ledge tikay
    Posted by JonTSnow
    Ha, thank you Jon.

    May I ask - if it's not too personal - is JonTSnow your real name, if not, why did you choose that alias?

    It rolls off the tongue so nicely, rather like, say, ice-cream, or custard skin.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    Today will be MONSTA.

    Day 1A had just under 800 entrants, Day 1B had just over 2,000.

    Today? Your guess is as good as mine, but I expct over 4,000, which is more than 1A & 1B combined.

    Can you even begin to imagine that?

    4,000 - FOUR THOUSAND - players in one building in one day. Try to imagine the biggest UK cardroom you know, & think what their capacity is. The sheer scale of all things in Las Vegas is beyond imagination.

    And guess how much will be ponied up by players today? $40 MILLION $$$'s. 

    Just wow.

    Meanwhile, every country has homeless people, & in many countries folks struggle to find enough to eat.

    Funny old world.

    It's all relative of course, but it does not behove poker players to take themselves too seriously imo. 

    Poker is, & should be, just fun, fun, fun.      
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    The Registration rooms are heaving, queues galore, & the Rio corridor is rammed.

    Play starts in just 15 minutes. 

    No sign of Lord Channing yet. Not like him to arrive at the last minute.  
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  • MAXALLYMAXALLY Member Posts: 17,638
    edited July 2017


    Is TommyD still in? ;)
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    With just minutes to SU&D, there are, literally, hundreds of folk in the queue to buy in. 

    Just think - each & every one of them has $10,000 in their pocket. It's a muggers paradise.

    Think what a task the Rio Security has, too. They'll have some $40 million, mostly in CASH behind those cages today. One of these days they'll get turned over, for sure.

    In all, the Main Event accumulated cash will come to about $70 milly, & of course it all has to be paid out again over the coming days. Minus, of course, the Reg Fee etc.

    Incidentally, 6% of the Prize Pool is withheld, being 4.2% Reg Fees, & 1.8% "dealers & staff" whatever that means. Very reasonable, that. 

    Would love to see what happened if Sky Poker withheld 1.8% of players entry fees for "staff", rofl.      
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017
    In Response to Re: WSOP Main Event, Day 1C:
    Is TommyD still in? ;)
    Posted by MAXALLY
    He's been busy cashing in Bowl Comps all over the place. 
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    Still no sign of Mr C.

    Guess I'm gonn have to go hunting for him.

    Just the 400 tables to scan, then.

    FOUR HUNDRED tables, can you imagine. Allowing for "pushes" they need 500 Dealers today for the Main Event alone. Ever wondered what they will all be doing next week?

    400 poker tables, 400 dealer chairs, 4,000 player's chairs, 400 dealer buttons, & - wait for it - the equivelant of 200 million in chips.

    Don't even ask - or THINK - about the toilets, or, as they are known over here, "restrooms".      
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    Play has commenced.

     
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  • pompeynicpompeynic Member Posts: 2,834
    edited July 2017
    At least all the walking helps make up for the rising choc ice count.
    Good luck to Mr C, any other Sky players in today that you know of?
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017

    The Rio Cardroom on a big day like today is perhaps the only place in Vegas where there is no music.

    There is music in all the casinos, on the sidewalks, at the Bellagio Fountains & Mirage Volcano, in the Elevators, Restrooms, EVERYWHERE. It drives me chuffing nuts. I have a Walkman & a bag of cassettes if I want to listen to music, and I can choose my own music, I don't like Billy Joel or that frumpy Adele woman, & I have a mind and a brain so I prefer to choose WHEN I want music, & WHAT & WHO I want to listen to. Who wants to listen to music someone else has chosen?

    But in that Rio Cardroom there is total silence, except for one sound - the sound of 4,000 chip stacks being riffled, almost like a plague of crickets.

    Great sound, great atmo. 

    The WSOP Main is the greatest.   
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  • bbMikebbMike Member Posts: 3,720
    edited July 2017
    In Response to Re: WSOP Main Event, Day 1C:
    With just minutes to SU&D, there are, literally, hundreds of folk in the queue to buy in.  Just think - each & every one of them has $10,000 in their pocket. It's a muggers paradise. Think what a task the Rio Security has, too. They'll have some $40 million, mostly in CASH behind those cages today. One of these days they'll get turned over, for sure. In all, the Main Event accumulated cash will come to about $70 milly, & of course it all has to be paid out again over the coming days. Minus, of course, the Reg Fee etc. Incidentally, 6% of the Prize Pool is withheld, being 4.2% Reg Fees, & 1.8% "dealers & staff" whatever that means. Very reasonable, that.  Would love to see what happened if Sky Poker withheld 1.8% of players entry fees for "staff", rofl.      
    Posted by Tikay10
    If the suits are willing to drop the reg fee to 4.2% I'm sure no-one would begrudge you 2.8% for staff ��

    Great work as always Tikay catching up when I can
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017
    In Response to Re: WSOP Main Event, Day 1C:
    At least all the walking helps make up for the rising choc ice count. Good luck to Mr C, any other Sky players in today that you know of?
    Posted by pompeynic
    Not that I know of, Nick.

    Don't even ask about the choc ice count, it's embarrassing.

    When I get home, I'm due to get my cholesterol tested, to see if it has reduced, as required. Dreading the result of that. Not sure choc ices & burgers are ideal for reducing cholestrol.

    Did you know that according to the British Heart Foundation, there are two types of cholesterol?

    With unbeleivable clarity, they are known as "good cholesterol" & "bad cholesterol".  

    I'm not making this up, go take a look. 


       
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited July 2017
    In Response to Re: WSOP Main Event, Day 1C:
    In Response to Re: WSOP Main Event, Day 1C : If the suits are willing to drop the reg fee to 4.2% I'm sure no-one would begrudge you 2.8% for staff �� Great work as always Tikay catching up when I can
    Posted by bbMike
    Ha, touche. 

    Good luck with that. 
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  • MaggiesdadMaggiesdad Member Posts: 439
    edited July 2017
    Good luck to all the Sky players today. You make sure that you keep it all in proportion as it were....
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  • MAXALLYMAXALLY Member Posts: 17,638
    edited July 2017


     Was there not 5 package winners for this?
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  • karllukekarlluke Member Posts: 914
    edited July 2017
    looking forward to updates tonight  good luck everyone
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  • MaggiesdadMaggiesdad Member Posts: 439
    edited July 2017
    Good luck to all the Sky players today. You make sure that you keep it all in proportion as it were....
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