Who's doing it?

In. Partner is horse who is just taking half and playing an orbit.



I was excited to play and talk to partner while playing but can live with this too.

2 Man Crue is in.

I am in and will need a partner

I am a WSOP Circuit ring holder and have plenty of experience

any one available to join up?

Anybody hear about how they're going to handle the logistics? If every team member who currently isn't playing ends up railing the whole thing, it'll be awfully clogged aisles. And what if a little liquid courage starts flowing and some team members start trash-talking? Can't that potentially lead to some security issues?

Maybe I'm just being pessimistic.

maybe they could only use every other table in a given room to have extra seating for non-playing players.
As for security, that's a good question. I am guessing that the talent juice consumption will be kept to a minimum by most teams, a lot of people may go in with the "we want the first ever bracelet(s) in this event" mentality and may take it seriously...

Yeah, I hope you're right. Unfortunately, my team backed out and now I have to work so I won't be partaking. But I'm very excited to see how this goes and have high hopes that it will lead to many other similar events in the future.

It would be nice to hear some updates/results here from those playing when it happens.

Credit to the WSOP for trying this innovation, but I can't see this event being popular. Poker is essentially a solo game. It seems to me that whenever you have any kind of team event, it's always highly contrived in its set-up.

Furthermore, having the "team" requirement be just one orbit per player in the event ... tells me it's not even really a proper team event.

I expect it will be difficult to get groups of players together who really want to share the playing experience.

Maybe I am just too skeptical / not imaginative enough! I hope everyone taking part has a great time, but I would bet against seeing this event again next year.

I think for the rec player who has a core group of guys he plays home games with, this will be great. At only $1000 per team, a team of four is just $250 each. I'm guessing it will be mostly teams of home game guys who don't have the bankroll for individual events but were able to come up with the relatively small buyin so they can fulfill a WSOP dream.

I like the idea but I'm kinda worried about the execution. If 3 friends and I got together to do this and one of my friends spews off the kinda short starting stack before I even get to play a hand, I would definitely be upset. That's where I'd see the "security concerns" come in as fights break out within teams where players disagree with the team mate that busted in a sub-optimal spot.

A cool idea for the future of this would be a scenario where there is no end of day, the tournament is played in a non-stop format, no breaks, no bags, tag out if you're tired and let the guy just coming off a nap jump in. Make it a larger starting stack with 60 or even 90 minute levels and let it be a true team competition as no one would really be able to play at their best for 20+ hours of tournament poker (I know we all do 20+ hour cash sessions but often those include several breaks).

I think the no break concept is a great idea. Than there would be more strategy around when to substitute etc. However, they still shoot for the 18 hour range in the tournament.

I don't think fighting among teammates will be a problem. Buying pieces of players is fairly common, this is pretty similar.

But yeah, they should tighten down the rules for sure.

I don't like that a player can play a single orbit on day 1 and just be a railbird for the rest of the day. I'd be a fan of having to rotate every orbit or at least every level. Maybe a rule too that all teammates must play at least 1 orbit if the team makes an FT (unless they bust before that happens, of course).

They ran one of these a few years ago as a side event, no bracelet. It was 2 person team and you switched off every 30 min. It ran fine with no issues, fighting, etc... Other than the guy who sucked out on us w QJ vs our KK .....hehehe. Friends of our actually ended up chopping with that team.

Where were they railing from?

I think it'll be a huge success despite 100% chance of at least one verbal, if not physical, altercation among team mates.

Hi,

My name is Arnaud Im looking for a last minute team mate to play the team event tomorrow. I have good online results 250k profit on only one site.(playing .fr). Team winamax pro let me down last minute... , . My cell is 541 393 7113. thks

Asked like 30 people all declined. Lol don't know why they would say no to pay less money and have extra chance to win the bracelet... silly

How's this playing. About to jump in

I have to admit that despite my skepticism about this event, it has produced some great stories.

With some modifications, I guess it will be back next year!

What modification do you think there would be/are needed?

Did Jason Mercier play this? I would think he would because he could play one orbit at the start, let someone else play for him so he can play higher stakes, and then come back in if it's a deep run to win his 3rd bracelet with minimal work. He wouldn't even have to come back for the deep run, in which case he'd win his big 3rd bracelet for just 1 orbit of work. Maybe this event doesn't count for his bet...

Yeah, he'd have the third bracelet with an asterisk by it ala Barry Bonds.

Because they don't know you? Maybe they don't want a stranger donking off all their chips?

I personally think the format should require a bit more actual tagging in / out and I agree with those who suggested no breaks.

Still, it got a strong turnout and it sounds like people had a lot of fun with it so perhaps it's just fine.

Hi Arnaud, it's not a toomor!

Very nice tournament.

They should put team event in the schedule every year.