This thing's almost ready to start, so might as well get the field setup:

1st Round matchups:

First round (* indicates winner):

Benyamine v Turbofluen*
garet777 v Steve Zolotow*
Daevils* v FakeSky
Erik Seidel v The guru 11*
Nenad Medic v Steve Sung*
Huck Seed v Max Pescatori*
Gavin Smith* v JonasDaniellson
durrr* v PrtectYaNeck
aejones* v wlustudent
Eli Elezra* v Yachting49er
David Oppenheim* v The Grinder
Nick Schuman v Taylor Caby*
Brandon Adams* v Jesus Ferguson
Ansky* v Urindanger
ActionJeff* v PostFlop Action
Andy Mcloed v Howard Lederer*
Bckdoor Joe v buck99*
boosted j* v shipchipsplz
Brian Hastings* v ugotpzd
genius v mischiefofmagic*
rex55 v spiked*
Andy Bloch* v nespro
Erick lindgren v iceview_*
David Singer* v jman
ivey v whitelime*
aeron73 v Patrik Antonius*
flipokeher v plz_stop_lookin*
jimmie23* v peter jepsen
mastrblastr* v sergei berezin
mrcall912 v nordberg*
hansen v pr1nnyraid*
thecranium* v trex313


Round 2 matchups:

Spiked v Turbofluen*
mastrblastr* v Steve Zolotow
Daevils* v jimmi23
Nordberg* v the guru 11
pr1nnryraid* v SteveSung
Brian Hastings* v Max Pescatori
buck99* v Gavin Smith
Andy Bloch* v durrr
aejones* v thecranium
Eli Elezra v Patrik Antonius*
David Oppenheim v mischiefofmagic*
Taylor Caby v whitelime*
Brandon Adams v David Singer*
Ansky* v Iceview_
ActionJeff* v Plz_Stop_Lookin
Boosted J v Howard Lederer*

Round 3 matchups:

Patrik Antonius* v Turbofluen
aejones v mastrblastr*
daevils v mischiefofmagic*
nordberg v whitelime*
ansky* v pr1nnyraid
Brian Hastings* v Howard Lederer
buck99 v David Singer
Action Jeff v Andy Bloch*

Round 4 matchups (Losers win $96,000):

Patrik Antonius v Andy Bloch*
David Singer* v mastrblastr
Brian Hastings* v mischiefofmagic
ansky v whitelime*

Semifinals (Losers win $168,000)
Andy Bloch v whitelime*
Brian Hastings v David Singer*

Final (Winner gets $560,000, loser receives $320,000)
David Singer* v whitelime

I wanna know who I play

Which one is PA?

Also I hope ActionJeff wins and a side prize is a two-week LA sight-seeing vacation.

55. FinddaGrind

i expect at least one person will have forgotten about it (phil ivey)

gl aejones

esp. vs PA

Fwiw, here is the complaint/analysis written by my friend Thomas Fuller after last year's WSOP HU event. Again, I don't quite understand why using byes is so unfair (since everyone has an equal shot at a bye), but Thomas uses math and stuff to support his position here, so maybe some of y'all will comprehend it better.

anyone interested in putting their $200 to my $15 on daevils winning? same thing for whitelime. (x post from other thread)

buckk99 will take it down

not possible hes registered in a FTOPS bubble freeroll for a ME seat in the next FTOPS so he will be around.

not even playing and i feel like im gonna puke!!

IMO, PA would be the one to most likely forget about the tournament, followed by:
Ivey, Bloch, Ferguson, Elezra, Singer and Hansen.

get ya popcorn ready. Mstr_blstr FTW!!!!!

Automatically registered after he bubbled an FTOPS event, so he might miss that to....

Like 40-50 guys should joke reg right now, since it won't fill and you'll get your $$$ back.

Bad event to have your internet go down in imo...

Sick tournament! I'm not a railtard but I'll watch this one. It would be nice if all tournament was filmed and we could watch it on web.

sikkkkkk

gl everyone who's in

Can't wait for this.

I find it sad how some of us fanboys who have nothing invested into this shootout can't wait for this and some pros who actually invested the 25,000$ might forget about it.

They're going to be doing key hands with commentary from Ali Nejad and Chris Ferguson after the tournament.

It looks like the semis/finals get played Sunday afternoon.

What's the line on Durrr being the first one out?

Joke would be even funnier if this many people actually did it, they got to 128, and they all lost 25k for a laugh.

Would be sick if enough people actually registered and you were forced to play vs Ivey for 25k.

2:Standard

Im sure TonyBlair is having a good laugh,