9 places paid in a 48 player 8-max event and percentage wise small difference in the jumps from 9 to 5.

Why not just make it 6 places paid and even out the prizes a bit? Just looks really weird now.

It's pretty obvious. They want to keep as much money as possible in the poker community.

$2k/$4k game at Aria, he's probably freerolling today after last night.

? sick deg gambler? And in before Gus sends Hellmuth home 10th on the bubble and Hellmuth jumps out of his chair after a horrible bad beat and screams at Gus YOU NORTHERN EUROPEAN IDIOT.

I guarantee Negreanu, Ivey, Seidel love that payout structure. Their eye is only on 18m.

http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-bi...f-death-31714/

This is a sick table. 8 guys with 50 mil+ in winnings

Doyle Brunson is not playing?

He sold his seat to Haralabob.

Just stop with all the unfair payout structure talk. Do you really think the pros that are playing havent already talked about this? There`s probably already 50 different payout structures being discussed depending on who goes deep. $18M for first is more than anyone out there has made in their LIFETIME, no way the actual payouts are gonna be like that in such a small field where most players know each other. Even if 1 or 2 business men actually make it deep itm and wont deal no matter what, that still gonna be deals made, like Pro 1 and Pro 2 have similar amount of chips with 6 left and just agree to swap 30% of each other. Lots of questionable deals will be made away from the table, but there`s no way to control it, hence no need to talk about it in every2nd post. Think of the payout structure as a "recommended suggestion" of the WSOP, cause that`s all it is in such a big BI tourney with relatively few players.

Very disappointed there is no Tony G. Was looking forward to him berating Robl when he tanks for 30 min in a 1 million dollar decision.

Thanks

now the posts will stop. that pretty much sums it. depending who goes deep and how deep they r relative to blinds they wud make a deal between em even if ppl dont wanna agree. this aint the internet.

In the Satellite there were some unscheduled breaks at the final table. We will see if WSOP allows this at the final table of OneDrop as well? I dont think so!

"Playing poker" should be a pretty good guess ...

I assumed that the reason they're paying more spots than they would usually is all down to the buy in. It's not like there's one of these every week and a million dollars is a ****load of money to put up for one tourney. I think people took that as a positive thing when deciding to enter, that they had a 1 in 6 chance of at least getting their money back.

A min cash is still 100k profit, that's more than first place in some events.

Based on the bios, it seems like a lot of these businessman have a lot of experience in tournaments, and aren't total "dead money" like a lot of people are saying. Obviously they're going to be outclassed given the pros who are in this but they're not all Phil Ruffin

pretty sure dwan rented all ten seasons of america's next top model and just can't stop watching

Found this interesting. I also believe deals are not allowed in any WSOP event. Interesting to hear what Jack Effel has to say about this, as Gus and Shaun clearly did this.


SECTION IV – PLAYER CONDUCT AND TOURNAMENT INTEGRITY
39.
A.
The competitive integrity of all Tournament play at the World Series of Poker is paramount. All participants must adhere to the spirit and letter of the Official Rules of the WSOP which forbid play or any action that is illegal, unethical or constitutes cheating or collusion in any form.
i.
Cheating is defined as any act a person engages in to break the established rules of play to gain an advantage.
ii.
Cheating includes, but is not limited to, acts such as: collusion; chip stealing; transferring non-value Tournament chips from one event to another; card marking; card substitution; or the use of any kind of cheating device.
iii.
Collusion is defined as any agreement amongst two (2) or more players to engage in illegal or unethical acts against other players.
iv.
Collusion includes, but is not limited to, acts such as: chip dumping; soft play; sharing card information with another player; sending or receiving signals from or to another player; the use of electronic communication with the intent to facilitate collusion; and any other act that Rio and WSOP deem inappropriate.

gunna be dramatic. sp on the bubble

100k/ 20 backers

"Collusion is defined as any agreement amongst two (2) or more players to engage in illegal or unethical acts against other players."

What Gus and Deeb did is fine, since they were HU

Surely it is still chip dumping though?

Looking forward to this!!

Hansen to ship!

the point is that it doesn't harm anyone else so nobody gives a ****

Thoughts?