Episode #467 - July 18th, 2017

Live from the Two Plus Two Studios - This week on the Pokercast: Everything you need to know about the 2017 Main Event so far! Lance Bradley, formerly of Bluff magazine and current President & Editor in Chief of Pocket Fives has been live reporting from the Rio every step of the way. Lance joins us to give an in person recount of all of the story lines emerging from the main this year. Before we get into the main event we have to catch you up on the last bracelet events such as the Poker Players Championship as well, and the man who entered the ladies event. Some of the storylines from the Main are: Field size, demographics, crazy coolers, the bubble, Mickey Craft, Christian Pham, John Hesp and more! After all of the Main Event action we’ve also got some all star tweets in 140 or less before we run out of time.

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first time listener , enjoyed it
might someone explain the difference between hand for hand and round for/by round thanks

On the bubble of a multi table tournament people tend to stall. It's +EV to stall if you're a short stack because you pay less blinds and antes compared to the rest of the field and there will be fewer hands to get coolered in. If everyone decided to stall then no one would get an advantage and play would be horrendous.

So something needs to be done about it.

Hand for hand is one such thing that can be applied to remove this issue. Each table plays one hand and then waits for the slowest table to finish their hand before playing hand two.

Round for round is another such thing that can be applied and it's very similar but instead of waiting at the end of each hand for the slowest table you'd just wait at the end of each round for the slowest table (A round is the number of hands it takes for the button to make it all the way round the table).

There are advantages and disadvantages to each idea.

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How could you guys not remember this?



you even referenced it on the show when it happened

FYI TSN2 is covering final table in Canada https://ca.pokernews.com/news/2017/0...vent-18114.htm give or take the first half hour

How bad am i running that my main table was 5 under 30 Euros/Russians, 2 under 30 USA USA USA's and only 1 40 year old 'Merican.

Great show as always, belated congratulations on the news to Terrance better get that sleep in now !

Thanks to Lance for running with the WSOPTeamOMeara story. I was one of the five to play in Tom's honor. It was a humbling experience to fulfill Tom's dream of playing in the Main Event. He wanted to give us an experience which he felt cheated out of. Our objectives for the week to honor Tom, Play our best poker and enjoy ourselves. When greatly exceeded all of these and more. The media attention and the support we received from other players was great. Playing on the feature table at the Main Event was surreal. Making it to the money was a dream and having ESPN feature me on their coverage of the money bubble cemented Tom's legacy.

Here is the article: https://www.pocketfives.com/articles...-dream-593215/

I've been meaning to read it but didn't get around to it yet, so your post helped me to get it back in my browser!

Great read, very moving story