Hey Everyone,


PokerGo is hosting a 1MM buy-in game on February 17th at 3:30pm PST. Thought starting a thread here would be a good idea to facilitate discussion prior to and during the event.

It seems this event will be freely broadcasted on their YouTube page, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pay wall a portion of the event. Each player must buy in for 1MM and there is an escalating blind structure. Sounds like the same format as "The Cage" on ACR, but I could be mistaken. It's unclear if re-buys or adding on is allowed. It will also be interesting to see what the blind structure is. I wonder if they start at 2K/4K or something crazy.

The Players:


Andrew Robl
Rick Salomon
Patrik Antonius
MJ Gonzalez
Rob Yong
Eric Persson

PokerGo's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PokerGO

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What do you think of the lineup?

Who do you think will be the biggest winner?

Do you think this is an interesting format?

Robl biggest winner

Hustler have also just announced the same thing. $1 million minimum buy-in cash game to be played over multiple days straight in May. Alan Keating confirmed.

Which one will be the best?

That's awesome news!

We're spoiled with great TV games atm.

I hope they keep the game 6max.

I also think everyone on this list might have 100% of themselves in this game, which is pretty crazy! Anyone disagree?

What does MJ Gonzlez add to lineup? Why invite him

MJ Gonzalez is the Massive Favorite in this game. No one in the lineup comes close.

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Interesting. I don't know much about him and have only seen him play a couple of TV cash games. Thought he played them kind of weak tight. To be fair the games I saw were super loose and that might be a great strat if you don't have to worry about getting invited back or not lol.


I think Robl will be the biggest winner in this game. Salomon also has a good chance. I think he has strong reads, even though his fundamentals are obviously lacking.

how did that 3million headsup between mj gonzales & limitless ever pan out? cant find nothing about it except the announcement in 2020/2021

I like roman numerals too!

Exciting thing but 3hrs is way too short of a show. Hustler will probably run their stream for 10 hours lol

I work in finance and we write 1MM too. It's just simple.

Antonius and Persson are great friends who travel together and play in the same games. i have no idea how Patrik has been doing financially since virtually disappearing from the online felt, but if anyone in the lineup is backed to some degree i'd guess it will be him.

I, for one, also like Roman numerals

FWIW, I learned in accounting class that it's 1MM because of the Roman numerals. 1000*1000. Somebody asked why we did 1MM instead of 1M and that was the answer. No idea if true or not.

Did they also teach you to express 1,000 as 1M and 1,000,000,000 as 1MMM?

What about 1XX, does that represent 100 in the world of accounting?

Not from accounting world, we regularly to nearly always in the USA used:
1MM = 1,000,000
1B = 1,000,000,000
1M = 1,000 but rarely (though increasing) used 1K

We did this not only for dollars but many (not all) other units. We used these even in formal documents like contracts albeit normally specifically defined in addendum/ appendix (or whatever proper term is).

We did not use 1XX for 100 because there is no savings or ease of clarity

Lol, that is all really messed up (apart from 1B for a billion). M is the Roman numeral for 1000, and is also the first letter in Latin based languages of the word for 1000, mille in Italian and French, and mil in Spanish and Portuguese.

But it makes no sense to have MM as an abbreviation for million, when it literally means 2,000 in Roman numerals. If accountancy terminology was all standardised as Latin based language derivatives, then it might make sense to have 1M meaning one million and 1m meaning one thousand, because the Latin based language words for a million also begin with M, millioni, million, millón and milhão, so a small m and a capital M could differentiate between a thousand and a million.

But using MM for a million is frankly laughable, certainly in the English speaking world or English language economies or commerce, because it is using Latin word abbreviations and it isn't even correct as MM, unless it's changed to MxM.

Me asking if 1M in accountancy represented 1,000 was me 100% making a flippant joke, and I am amazed, and highly amused, that it turns out that it actually sometimes is!!

Maybe I can turn up at Hustler with a thousand bucks and stick a little note on top of it that says "1M" and they'll give me a million in chips for it, based on my accountant's say so!

The Romans actually had a letter/symbol for a million, which was a barred M (sorry, I can't get one to copy and paste into this post), the bar was called a vinculum, written over a numeral to express the numeral was a number 1000 times its original value. So that's really what should be used in accountancy to represent a million, if anything, a barred M, not the rofl MM!

My experience is only from one of the largest international industries while close to universal in USA the ones I shared were also in very common international usage.

I don’t think they are worried about your amusement with their choices. They are just happy accepting your money. Btw, MxM is not a proper usage in Roman numeral system.

You might also be amused that historically (though becoming much less common) billion meaning was different for USA (10^9) and England (10^12). That was why we would sometimes use 1,500MM Instead of 1.5B. Though again this has decreased over time as England and others dropped use of the long scale.

Still that way in a lot of non-english speaking countries. 1000 million is 1 milliard in French and 1 Milliarde in German. 1 billion is 1000x that.

Interesting that Hustler announced their event that far in advance. Probably to snatch up some of the coverage and get free exposure during the PokerGo event?

Continental Europe uses long scale of numbers. It can cause a bit of confusion.

USA // Europe
Million = Million
Billion = Milliard
Trillion = Billion

It's problem

According to Ryan Feldman on the Hustler Pre-Game show with DGAF yesterday, he decided to announce the event late last week and very shortly after that PokerGo announced their event. He thinks someone close to him/Hustler leaked the info to PokerGo.

He went on to say that he's close with Brent Hanks and others at PokerGo, and they're not in competition with one another due to significantly different business models. But this wreaks of jealousy.

Yeah, I knew about the historical difference between a billion in the the USA and the UK. MxM is obviously not proper usage of the Roman numeral system but it makes a lot more sense than using MM to represent a million. Just because something is the convention and is widely adopted and accepted, doesn't preclude it from also being incredibly stupid.

I never use accountants, I do my own accounts, because accounting is a piece of p*ss, so I don't need to pay a shiny a*s*d bean counter to do my accounts for me.

Back to the game itself, I agree with a previous poster that MJ is an excellent player. It wouldn't surprise me to see him clean up.

cluttering up yet another perfectly good thread with your infantile and mindless nonsense

please stop posting forever

TIA

everybody

The subject of MM used for a million was started in post #15 by another poster not by me, and please point out to me exactly what part of my posts were nonsense.

I pointed out how illogical the accounting conventions for certain numbers are. If you think they are logical, then please explain why. If you can't, then I suggest you refrain from the personal attack on me, as all it does is makes you look like a nasty piece of work, that enjoys bullying people, as indicated by you ending your post with "everybody".

You have no chance of ever bullying me on a chat forum and less than zero chance of doing it irl.