BOOM - http://www.pokernews.com/live-report...hips.31185.htm

Any questions about the action or the hand, feel free.

^ questions:

I don't play stud at all... but I can't figure out why Angry John doesn't follow through and barrel 7th street after he decided to raise.

It seems like he's bluff raising the turn with a draw and then decided to give up because he had some kind of pair... but my hunch is that he already had that pair when he raised and that he bricked 7th so actually he never intended to follow through and was kind of free SD raising.

If he thinks he's ahead but also has a big draw, why not just call down? Does he think Bakes would raise 5th with a made hand that he's now immediately willing to fold when played back at? Even if bakes is that weak I think his board will often give him a draw that has to call. If so this semibluff needs to bet on 7th to get through.

Blom just 1 outer'd Joe Cassidy to take the chip lead in the 50K

Johnny thinks he's not ahead, free showdown/semi-bluffs raises, and once Bakes calls, he knows Bakes is not folding, and also knows what to valuebet.

The question he asked, "You didn't even have a pair???" is throwing your read on him off. It was meant to throw the read off for Bakes is well.

Was looking at the structure and payouts for the One Drop.

Thought it was awesome they actually followed the 3x convention for starting chips ($3mm starting stack). Would be hilarious if they started with 25-25, instead of the 3000/6000/1000 starting level.

Also noticed something interesting on the payout sheet:
- "22 for bracelet"
- "29 to break all-time tournament record"

Obviously both of these milestones are passed, but am I to read there is a 22 player minimum for a bracelet event?

Correct. They stipulated that it become a bracelet event once there was 22 confirmed participants. With the hard cap of 48. I personally do not believe it is bracelet worthy for this reason.

Isn't the 22 player minimum set for just this event? In the early years they have had bracelet events with much softer fields and as many players.

We may want bracelets to be high prestige, and having big fields is one way to legitimize them, but in this respect I don't think they've ever had a chance.

I'm really happy that the biggest poker tournament ever will be a bracelet event for the WSOP. Would we let it just be another charity event? not a chance. This will be huge exposure and everyone with money burning a hole will want to win a bracelet.

Its going to be a tough event for the pros (1M BI, talk about pressure) and for the rich guys (after all they're up against the worlds top pros).

@ around 1:54:00 in the show, Adam uses the word circumvented and keeps going... but a small snicker in the background insues.. to funny!