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And in the first day of the main event, there's already one player I'd like to punch in the mouth! :D

Oh and congrats to Jennifer Tilly for winning the Ladies Hold Em Bracelet. I'd sure like to hold her ladies!
 
Yeah, I love the game, hopefully the popularity will level out soon, haha. I really don't care about NASCAR drivers playing poker.
 
Just read a little about this year's. 5760 people with first place of aobut 10 million bucks. Thats more than double last year's and 6 times as much as 2003. So much dead money.
I bet when they started the WSOP they never would have though there would be Day 1s.
 
WasabiKing said:
Tilly's Titties needs to be on WSOP TV
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I concur, but for some stupid reason, ESPN did not film this one at all:( Probably only get an interview, but she still looks hot even at almost 50:)
 
fucking ESPN needs to show this shit live. I will literally sit in front of my TV all day just to watch and miss work for a whole week just for this.

http://taopoker.blogspot.com/
heres the best site i found for updates on the game...anyone else got a better site?

I dont know why ESPN does not make this live.
it makes me mad.
 
pollo said:
I dont know why ESPN does not make this live.
it makes me mad.
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Because watching every hand becomes boring.

That and it would take up roughly 80% of ESPN's programming every week (as oppsed to the 60% it currently is :).

Re: Hole cams + live play:
Live tournaments have been broadcast before. FSN's Turning Stone final table (the one with Ivey and D'agistino) was broadcast on a 5-minute tape delay. Although, I can see this being infeasible given that noone's really confined to their table just yet.
 
Also worth noting that current champion Greg Raymer is in good shape right now. He worked his way from a 3500 short stack back up to around 50k. That guy's got skills.
 
pollo said:
fucking ESPN needs to show this shit live. I will literally sit in front of my TV all day just to watch and miss work for a whole week just for this.

http://taopoker.blogspot.com/
heres the best site i found for updates on the game...anyone else got a better site?

I dont know why ESPN does not make this live.
it makes me mad.
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Trust me, live tournament play is mostly boredom, with a few moments a sheer terror thrown in.

What this Poker TV generation doesn't realize is that poker ISN'T a series of all-ins and big bluffs, it takes a lot more than just that. Poker on TV is essentially, like watching SportsCenter. Just a series of highlights.

On a related note, I played in one online satellite for the main event, and got busted close to the bubble. :(

The main event is getting less appealing, anyway. With fields this large, it takes a lot of short term luck to make it very deep into the tournament... if a big hand runs into a big hand, you're pretty much toast.
 
my girlfriends friend got in through a satellite on pokerstars (of the 5661 players attending 1116 won their buy-in through there btw) but hes only 19 so he couldnt go. Dunno if he sold his spot to someone else though
 
Boston Rob From Survivor Knocks Out 2

Log: Boston Rob raised preflop, and Perry Friedman moved all in for his last $2,000 in chips. Another opponent moved all in. Boston Rob called. The third opponent helf 10-10, Rob held A-J, and Friedman showed A-9. The flop came K-J-rag giving Rob a pair of jacks and the lead in the hand. The turn was a brick, and the river was a jack, making Rob trips, and sending two players home in time for dinner.
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Guess he's there:P
 
ah, I see.

I went back and read your post to see if it mentioned it, and I guess since you didn't say Elmo out right i didn't get the connection to wanting to punch him (Elmo) in the face.

I still can't get over that they even allowed that, I thought poker was supposed to be a game about reading there other players faces as much as it was strategy and luck.
 
yea...watch for her cleavage shot on pokerstars...

hubba hubba....

I really wanna go to the Rio and watch this =/
 
:lol at Shannon Sharpe playing today

Also Mouth Matusow already has a 40 minute penalty for cussing out the dealer and then the Tournament Director. :D
 
Bog said:
What he said. Who the hell played this flop, river bullshit before it was on TV?
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Hold'em has been the primary form of Poker played in casinos long before this aired on TV.

Just because you never heard of it doesn't mean people never played it.
 
Regardless, anyone play for real money on PokerStars? We need someone with enough FPPs (I think it's 2,000) to start a private tourney for GAF.
 
Everytime I watch Gus Hansen make one of his crazy raises and/or calls, the poker player in me says "How the fuck does he always win when he chooses to do something like this?"


Seriously, the guy has the best luck ever when it comes to winning with ridiculous hands. :lol
 
Well except for this year he does, hehe. he's got a very unique style that I like just for showing people that there's more than one way to play the game:)
 
Antonio, Ivey, and Laak are my favorite players to watch, though.
 
Mister Zimbu said:
Regardless, anyone play for real money on PokerStars? We need someone with enough FPPs (I think it's 2,000) to start a private tourney for GAF.
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i would have had close to 600 fpp but i spent all them trying to get into the WSOP main event via satellite.

Worst fpp spent ever. Might as well have just bought a hat.
 
pollo said:
i would have had close to 600 fpp but i spent all them trying to get into the WSOP main event via satellite.

Worst fpp spent ever. Might as well have just bought a hat.
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You dont need them in the account at the time- you just have had to have accumulated 2,000 total. Once you do that, e-mail support asking for the ability to create private tourneys.
 
Off to play some 2/4 at my bud's house, but I leave you with EVIL JACKASSERY AT THE WSOP

With two first days behind us, there isn't much news on the scene today. Different players are playing, and they have different bad beat stories to tell during the breaks, but the overall scene is a very familiar one at this point, at least until we get to Day Two.


However, there was a controversial "coffee incident" during the most recent break. Lisa Wheeler took the long, long walk down to Starbucks to wait in a long, long line to get a tall Mint Mocha Frappuchino (without chips) for her boyfriend, Tony Frederick, who is playing in today's field.


She returned to the tournament area during the break, and left the drink on his table, right in front of his chips. But when she returned a few minutes later to check on him, she was shocked by what she saw.


The player in the next seat over was sucking down that tall Mint Mocha Frappuchino (without chips) without a care in the world. Lisa challenged him, and he responded with, "I thought it was mine," even though he had nothing but chips (not chocolate chips, but poker chips) in his area.


Perhaps he believes that Harrah's has little Frappuchino Fairies delivering drinks to random players during the breaks. So if you find a tall Mint Mocha Frappuchino (without chips) anywhere near your seat, drink it at your own risk. Lisa Wheeler won't be as forgiving next time.
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What a dick!
 
1 Tim Phan 3,244,000 Chips
2 Mike Matusow 2,561,000 Chips
3 Farzad Bonyadi 2,402,000 Chips
4 Steven Dannenmann 2,143,000 Chips
5 Phil Ivey 2,027,000 Chips
6 John Barch 2,025,000 Chips
7 Tiffany Williamson 1,992,000 Chips
8 Johnny Howard 1,806,000 Chips
9 Scott Lazar 1,629,000 Chips
10 Tuan 'Tommy' Vu 1,571,000 Chips
11 Gregory Rice 1,414,000 Chips
12 Raymi Thorn 1,288,000 Chips
13 Lee Watkinson 1,221,000 Chips
14 Tom Sartori 1,208,000 Chips
15 Daniel Bergsdorf 1,144,000 Chips
16 Brad Kondracki 1,136,000 Chips
17 Minh Ly 1,102,000 Chips
18 Terence Burt 1,080,000 Chips
19 Steve Marx 1,042,000 Chips
20 Per Hildebrand 1,017,000 Chips
21 Michael Kessler 986,000 Chips
22 Shahram "Sean" Sheikhan 983,000 Chips
23 Patrick Hayden 972,000 Chips
24 Dustin Woolf 968,000 Chips
25 John Juanda 841,000 Chips
26 Joseph Hachem 814,000 Chips
27 Nick Gibson 811,000 Chips
28 John McGrane 780,880 Chips
29 Aaron Kanter 778,000 Chips
30 Ayhan Alsancak 775,000 Chips
31 Greg Raymer 766,000 Chips
32 Radu Butan 762,000 Chips
33 Bing Wang 739,000 Chips
34 Oskar Silow 720,000 Chips
35 Adam Friedman 719,000 Chips
36 James Butt 716,000 Chips
37 Russ Salzer 710,000 Chips
38 Bryant King 702,000 Chips
39 Franklin Caldwell 690,000 Chips
40 Yakov Hirsch 658,000 Chips
41 Joe Connor 641,000 Chips
42 Mark Forrester 628,000 Chips
43 Karlo Lopez 607,000 Chips
44 Joe Stillman 584,000 Chips
45 Kevin Kaikko 571,000 Chips
46 Antonio Abesamis 513,000 Chips
47 Kenna James 510,000 Chips
48 Hung La 505,000 Chips
49 David Richardson 501,000 Chips
50 Roland Israelashvili 469,000 Chips
51 Francis O'Brien 423,000 Chips
52 Bernard Lee 379,000 Chips
53 Andrew Black 371,000 Chips
54 Conor Tate 368,000 Chips
55 Derek Dix 202,000 Chips
56 Rod Pardey Jr. 187,000 Chips
57 Larry Prugh 166,000 Chips
58 Jarl Lindholt 101,000 Chips

Updated Chip Counts.
Day 5 starts today and continues till 27 players are left. Im rooting for Raymer - and I hope Mike the mouth gets kicked out soon. I hate the guy.
 
You gotta admit it'd be good TV if Mouth busts Raymer.

"I told ya I was going to bust ya"

Much as I dislike Mouth haha.
 
ToxicAdam said:
I'm rooting for Ivey.... and a WOMAN in the top 10? Never heard of her before.
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In a perfect world she'd be a really really hot chick.

For terrific tv i hope matusow makes it to heads up against a no name player, they play a hand where no name player is slightly up in chips, matusow goes all in, and loses the hand to a miricle draw on 5th street and whines and moans like the punk bitch he is. Helmuth is a crybaby but man that matusow is just downright irritating.
 
37 players left

Player Amount Table Seat
Tex Barch $4,200,000 117 9
Mike Matusow $4,200,000 117 7
Steve Dannenmann $4,000,000 118 3
Phil Ivey $3,600,000 131 3
Scott Lazar $2,640,000 129 6
Daniel Bergsdorf $2,350,000 118 2
Shawn Sheikhan $2,300,000 0 8
Tim Phan $2,260,000 0 6
Minh Ly $2,250,000 118 7
Tommy Vu $1,800,000 129 5
Johnny Howard $1,600,000 118 9
Andrew Black $1,600,000 131 1
Aaron Kanter $1,400,000 131 7
Burt Rice $1,300,000 117 1
Greg Raymer $1,250,000 0 5
Michael Kessler $1,140,000 0 2
Tom Sartori $1,120,000 0 3
Per Hildebrand $1,110,000 129 2
Brad Kondracki $1,100,000 117 8
Ayhan Alsancak $1,090,000 129 8
Bryant King $1,010,000 129 3
Bernard Lee $920,000 129 7
Connor Tate $920,000 129 1
Joseph Hachem $900,000 131 2
Karlo Lopez $900,000 0 1
Oskar Silow $800,000 131 6
Radu Butan $800,000 0 7
Bing Wang $750,000 117 4
Dustin Woolf $720,000 117 6
Roland Israelashvili $650,000 131 4
Joe Connor $650,000 117 3
Burt Rice $640,000 129 9
Russell Salzer $630,000 118 5
John Juanda $550,000 131 5
John McGrane $500,000 129 4
Steve Marx $500,000 118 4
Francis O'Brien $460,000 118 8

Raymers fallen off a bit, but he'll come back.
I actually want Kondracki to do well - Ive been following him on Pokerstars and he seems like an interesting fellow
 
I saw a commercial today that ESPN will start showing the 2005 WSOP on Tuesday July 19th.
 
Fuzzy said:
I saw a commercial today that ESPN will start showing the 2005 WSOP on Tuesday July 19th.
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those are just the smaller events like the 1000 dollar buy ins + rebuy NL hold'em games.
The main event wont be shown till some time in october.
 
pollo said:
those are just the smaller events like the 1000 dollar buy ins + rebuy NL hold'em games.
The main event wont be shown till some time in october.
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That sucks but at least we'll be able to see Jennifer Tilly's win.
 
Only briefly, probably just a quick shot and an interview, for some STUPID reason ESPN didn't tape the Women's tourney. :lol
 
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