I was on the pile, got off and now want to jump back on.

Instead of racing around and standing in a long line, you could wake up late and be relaxing at breakfast with your ticket in hand.

Book the night before at the Rio and let them know you will be checking in that morning. Yes, you end up paying for a night you aren't there, but at least it will be available to you when you arrive for a nap.

Smart. Why didn't I think of that!

Are all of you 50 years old or something? I don't understand why you guys get so tired after flying on a plane. You're acting like I'm going to be up for 3 days or something.

Maybe because I'm younger I'm not really concerned about it?

Like I said I appreciate the advice but trip is booked and ready to go. Not going to change it now.

I will probably book the night before though.

Thanks everyone and see you all out there!!!

With that issue resolved anyone want to speculate on the turnout?

I'd be pretty surprised if they don't get 4K+. Their regular mid-week $1500 NLH tourneys typically get between 1500 and 2500 people during this timeframe. I don't know why anyone who plays those wouldn't want to play this event unless an extra day or two is really a big deal. I don't think it is. In any case there are lots of people, myself included, who don't typically play the mid-week NLH events, but will make an exception for this one.

I suppose anything can happen (who would have thought they would fail so miserably in their COP tourneys last year?), but everyone is talking about this event. It won't rival the Main because there aren't nearly as many satellites, but its probably going to end up being the biggest single day draw. Frankly, it will be interesting to see if they have the capacity to handle it without capping.

I could be 1,5,21,35,48,55, or 80. I would not like to wake up at 4am(?) and then wait in a line to register. That's the main issue to me, my man

Its like standing in line at disneyland!

If that

I assume with 4k+ expected (and I think there will be closer to 6k) there will need to be multiple Day 1s, but the schedule doesn't allow for multiple Day 1s. Does anyone know how Day 1s will be handled?

Usually if the bracelet event that day gets a huge field (4500+) they will cancel the 3pm deep stack or delay it by several hours, so that they have additional tables available. I believe this happened during last year's Millionaire maker.

I would assume that there will not be change to the structure of the tournament. Per the announced schedule, there is going to be ONE day one flight. I agree they will likely move back or cancel altogether the early (3pm) daily if they need the space. I hope they do need the space....

Adding another starting flight with the 15k starting stack would likely compound the problem of having to eliminate the entire field(n-1) in the 4 allotted days, no?

6K is a big big number.... but event 51 is obv drawing lots of buzz. If i had a limited supply of bullets, or was looking to take one shot, or pop my WSOP cherry.... I would target event 51. Which is why everybody else will target it as well.

If I'm coming for the main... I would view 51 as a great spot to get a "warm up" in if I had not been able to grind all summer in Vegas. And if I bust 51, i can hit the Wynn flight B $2500 or the DSE flight B/C $600 on Friday/Saturday. Aria has their Ladies on Thursday and a couple of daily $340s in their series on Fri/Sat....

The overall point being event 51 offers huge value for multiple segments of the community with plenty of additional options that weekend for the range of bankrolls. Boom.

LOL no but when I did this I was about 32, which I guess is "poker old". Again, it isn't so much the "flying on the plane" that makes you tired, although I think most people are a bit sore/tired if it is a longer flight. If you have a 90 minute direct flight to Vegas, that means it leaves at 6AM. That means you need to be at your departure airport at 5AM. So I am assuming you will be waking around 4AM.

Now, if you were in Vegas the night before, and you had your first ever WSOP tournament that day, what time would you wake up? 4AM is doubtful. Your performance in the tournament would be considerably better by being able to get a full night's sleep the night before. If you wake at 4AM, seriously doubt you are playing optimally at 130AM the next morning after 13 hours in your first WSOP event.

Again, I had a flight scheduled to arrive Vegas at 830AM for a noon tourney. Flight delay had me land instead at 1145AM. ****show at the rental car counter, ****show traffic, ****show registration line. Not to mention that I had been up since 6AM (4AM Vegas time) to get to the airport.

If you are flying Southwest you can almost surely switch flights for free. You already said that you will probably go ahead and reserve your room for the night before. So for free you can get extra sleep and a shorter reg line and a chance to acclimate to Vegas.

It was a terrible experience for me, and I'm just trying to help a fellow poker player avoid it. Won't mention it again unless you respond with specifics on flights or reasons or whatever. Good luck.

Agree also zero chance they add a Day 1. My guess for turnout is 3700.

Got my room booked, but need to wait for my frikkin boss to approve my time off before I can book my flight. Soooooo frustrating!!!

Tell him to F off and then go deep.

hmmm. IMO, I'd go deep first... then tell him/her to F off.

I'm booked and heading up the day before this event. Playing this and the Venetian $600 as my two big events of the package. Excited!!

That's the plan!

Were you looking at my schedule and following the fish (me) around?

This event has to be the 2nd best tournament in WSOP history IMO behind the Main.

Let's try and put a % on the odds of a sellout.

If this event were on Friday instead of Thursday, I would say 100%. As it stands, its hard to say. With all the buzz surrounding it, there's reason to believe it has the potential to eclipse the largest single-day field at the wsop, which I think was around 4400. But you never know. Monster fields are caused by there being a ton of recreational players and the Thu start could dampen those number a bit. I still feel like 3500+ is close to a lock and 4000+ is very possible. I'm not sure what the official capacity of the Rio is, considering all the other things going on, but if this tourney gets 4000+, it could very well get capped. Regardless, I'm sure the folks at the Rio will do everything in their power to get as many entrants in as possible.

Not even close: http://www.thehendonmob.com/wsop2009..._final_reports

From that link: He was saying biggest single-day ever.

n/m there were 2 day 1's for this stimulus. I got confused because they ran out of room on the day 1 that I played. I think back in 2009 they only had room for 3000 players and they expanded the next year.

At least read the links u post. That tourney had two starting days.

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