2015 WSOP sweat thread - Page 4 - Poker News

In a HUSNG format, you never have THAT huge of an edge. I think if I have a sizable edge over someone I'm maybe only 56-58% to win (And that would be starting 200bb deep). Pokers all about volume and pressing those small edges over and over again.

I give all the credit in the world to Nick for playing great the entire final table and putting up a real tough game heads-up. He earned that win.

gg it was a fun ft to watch

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05-31-2015 , 08:25 PM

#77

beauvanlaanen

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robert mizrachi wins

http://www.wsop.com/news/2015/May/62...-BRACELET.html

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05-31-2015 , 08:58 PM

#78

Big_Mick00

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Twitter not happy with the tiny 1st pace, few mentioning Caesars got 2x 1st place in rake.

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05-31-2015 , 09:05 PM

#79

JPantz

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What a joke.

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05-31-2015 , 09:54 PM

#80

swd805

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That's mind blowing really, they only pay 10% (which I think is great) then go and put <10% up top.

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05-31-2015 , 09:58 PM

#81

kep

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By comparison the low SCOOP main with a $109 buy in (222164 players) paid 15% of the field and first was $221k. The WSOP could have easily came up with a pay structure that pays 20% of the field with $1 milly up top.

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05-31-2015 , 10:19 PM

#82

thatguywiththenuts

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Did anyone get a vid of Hellmuth when he got one-outer'd and busted?

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05-31-2015 , 11:08 PM

#83

Atarirob

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05-31-2015 , 11:11 PM

#84

beauvanlaanen

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lol colossus fiasco

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05-31-2015 , 11:12 PM

#85

beauvanlaanen

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surprised to see this many notable names left in the $1k turbo

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05-31-2015 , 11:32 PM

#86

swd805

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Originally Posted by beauvanlaanen

surprised to see this many notable names left in the $1k turbo

Really? Pros love turbos and recs are typically horrible at them.

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06-01-2015 , 12:10 AM

#87

burnJa

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Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,630

Code:

1st $638,880
2nd $386,253
3rd $308,761
4th $234,927
5th $182,348
6th $140,956
7th $109,632
8th $87,817
9th $67,681

Spoiler:

they ****ed this one up pretty bad imo

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06-01-2015 , 12:47 AM

#88

outpostnorth

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is the 3k shootout video corrupt for anyone else?

was watching the first couple hours earlier and now the video has not been loading correctly for a few hours now.

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06-01-2015 , 01:18 AM

#89

Coasterbrad

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The collective gasp and groan followed by increasingly loud chatter in the Pavillion room when they announced the payouts was pretty telling. I don't think anybody was expecting 1st to be only 6% of the prize pool. Everyone at my tables expecting 1-1.3 million up top. I don't have an issue with the payout but they should publicize the payout structure before the tournament imo.

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06-01-2015 , 01:33 AM

#90

cheet

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Originally Posted by outpostnorth

is the 3k shootout video corrupt for anyone else?

was watching the first couple hours earlier and now the video has not been loading correctly for a few hours now.

yeah same

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06-01-2015 , 01:55 AM

#91

SuperSwag

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I thought the whole point of the colossus was to pay a small amount to possibly win a million.

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06-01-2015 , 02:22 AM

#92

4TeHloLz

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Speculation:

I think they made it flat to help the economics of the WSOP. 11M dispersed more evenly over 2,000 players who will in turn play more events, cash games, satellites, deepstacks, maybe even the Main Event. Much more important to them than paying somebody $1.5M instead of 680k.

This is fine, but should be known beforehand. I would be mad if I played this XD

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06-01-2015 , 02:52 AM

#93

the pleasure

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I don't mind the payouts

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06-01-2015 , 04:25 AM

#94

Phil9

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Was at the Rio and yeah, many of the dealers also thought first place would be a million or so.

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06-01-2015 , 04:46 AM

#95

Cassim II

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Why should anyone be disappointed with the prize structure? I mean definitely better to distribute it more evenly

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06-01-2015 , 06:25 AM

#96

JPantz

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Originally Posted by 4TeHloLz

Pretty obvious that's what's going on here. Also, whoever was running the wsop twitter last night was getting pretty defensive.

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06-01-2015 , 07:35 AM

#97

JackRandall

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Everyone slated the ME payouts last year because it benefited the winner at the expense of everybody else. The colossus is the opposite and still everyone hates it. Well, they hate it until they don't win and realise they got more than they would have