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One of the businessmen to root for is John Morgan. If he cashes, 10% of his winnings goes into the prize pool of a $130 tournament at Canterbury Park in October.

Seems like that could lead to a riot or something if he wins. $1.8mil added $130 tourney? I can't even imagine the outcome of something like that being offered.

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Originally Posted by thatsnotplusev

It's almost 7am AKA I'm ****ed up right now as I'm doing this.

My math isn't wrong, which is why I kept it nice and simple, so obviousssly you just don't like my ICM PACKED structure?

3rd - 6,000,000
4th - 4,000,000
5th - 2,900,000
6th - 1,600,000

6th to 5th is $1.3mil jump. 5th to 4th is $1.1mil jump. Usually the pay jumps go up or stay the same as you progress through the final table, although on Merge they often don't since their payout structures were created by a drunken toddler imo.

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07-01-2012 , 07:25 AM

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thatsnotplusev

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Originally Posted by phil0pp

Unlike other tourneys right? Jamie Gold obv top TOP 10 greatest ever

fyp

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07-01-2012 , 07:29 AM

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The Camel

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Originally Posted by 663366

Out of the 48 players registered for One Drop now, not counting the 2 satellite winners, and excluding all professional players as well as the 2 Chinese businessmen who regularly play in the highest games in Macau, there are still 16 entrants who are venture capitalists, hedge fund managers, film producer, etc etc etc who are basically "dead money".

So that's $16M of dead money to be spread between the other 32 players.

No wonder all the top players are trying so hard to get in on this... those 16 guys practically have almost no chance of winning and the other 32 players pretty much gets $500,000 in return for buying in $1M.

Have you played a poker tournament before?

What odds will you give me that one the "dead money" wins?

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07-01-2012 , 07:29 AM

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wsmp

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Is there a reason why the payout structure is absolutely terrible?

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07-01-2012 , 07:29 AM

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FishNChips1

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couple naab question:
how far away is 1.10pm?/when is that in CET?
is day 1 going to be live streamed?

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07-01-2012 , 07:30 AM

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Kevmath

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Forgot to note in the Canterbury Park tournament: The field is capped at 750 players, 250 per flight.

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07-01-2012 , 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by robhimself

4th - 4,000,000
5th - 2,900,000
6th - 1,600,000

6th to 5th is $1.3mil jump. 5th to 4th is $1.1mil jump. Usually the pay jumps go up or stay the same as you progress through the final table, although on Merge they often don't since their payout structures were created by a drunken toddler imo.

You're right, what I should have put was something more like:
1st - 18,000,000
2nd - 10,000,000
3rd - 6,000,000
4th - 4,000,000
5th - 2,800,000
6th - 1,700,000

Wanted to keep 1st at 18,000,000 with a huge pay bump between 1-2 & 2-3

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07-01-2012 , 07:33 AM

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fyp

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07-01-2012 , 07:35 AM

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d1sc0nnec7ed

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Is there a reason why the payout structure is absolutely terrible?

I read somewhere that the 1st prize money will be the most ever paid out for a sport/game apart from individual boxing purses.

So I assume they are doing that to create more headlines from the non poker media to help promote poker and the one drop charity.

I'm pretty certain 1-3 will be making a deal unless it's 3 buisnessmen.

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07-01-2012 , 07:35 AM

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Jellurrrr1

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Hmm, I can's seem to find Chan, antonius and Hansen on the list of participants, but they are on the picture.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/phot...=887&tid=12155

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07-01-2012 , 07:40 AM

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madlondoner

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I'd like to see Gus win vs De WOlfe hu. It would be funny

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07-01-2012 , 07:42 AM

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Patrick Jane

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Youngest pro in the field has 100% of himself. Man crush.

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07-01-2012 , 07:43 AM

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So any confirmed word if Hellmuth actually won a satellite, or was their shenanigans in that whole thing?

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07-01-2012 , 07:46 AM

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snapehead

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[ ] no deal will be made 3-5 handed
[x] a deal will be made 3-5 handed

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07-01-2012 , 07:46 AM

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i read it and still don't know

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The plan is for cards in the air at 1:11pm PT, so all the festivities/etc. start early.

There will be a feature table STREAMING at WSOP.com (5-minute delay, commentary, no hole cards) Sunday and Monday.

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07-01-2012 , 07:53 AM

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Degnovic

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Pretty stoked about this.

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07-01-2012 , 07:53 AM

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nochtm

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what's the time now PT?

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07-01-2012 , 07:56 AM

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wsmp

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To all Eurotards:

It start 20:11 CET.

Spoiler:

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07-01-2012 , 07:56 AM

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what's the time now PT?

Tried asking the all-mighty google-machine?

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07-01-2012 , 07:58 AM

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joeyrulesall

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This tourney is the dumbest thing in the history of poker. All so some millionaire can have the highest cash in the history of poker? The onyx cup was the same idea by the FTP donk live pros to take over the all time cash list.

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07-01-2012 , 07:59 AM

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I don't think its cool to predict the FT given the businessmen etc but prolly cool to pick a couple players

I'd pick Ivey, Marchese, Antonio and Rast to make the FT

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07-01-2012 , 08:06 AM

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I don't think its cool to predict the FT given the businessmen etc but prolly cool to pick a couple players

I'd pick Ivey, Marchese, Antonio and Rast to make the FT

Table draws matter a lot. I think haralobob reinkemeier and negreanu are the most likely to go deep

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07-01-2012 , 08:06 AM

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JACKTEN

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pls could someone translate all the scheduled start times etc, in to the uk time equivalent? thanks!

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07-01-2012 , 08:11 AM

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Table draws matter a lot. I think haralobob reinkemeier and negreanu are the most likely to go deep

For sure table draws are gonna be interesting

Willing to bet up to $100 on merge/paypal/amazon/gdmp for the 4 players I mentioned above vs any 4 of your choice for LL