Catan will never die because too many people find saying “I’ve got wood for sheep” too funny to ever get old.

Why doesn’t a casino try holding a $100 buy-in Catan tournament and see what sort of turnout it gets? Catan specifically might not be the best for this because the opportunity for collusion is so obvious, but there are several other popular board games that might.

But more generally, why couldn’t any of the less gambly and less intimidating poker variants be marketed not just to people who enjoy board games, but people who like puzzly casual games like Candy Crush?

I got into poker through board games myself, and probably played a hundred games of Catan before I ever set foot in a poker room. But the way poker is marketed now doesn’t appeal to what got me into games in the first place. It’s all just “look at all this money flying all over the place”.

Event #38 $10k Limit 2-7 has one of the most interesting fields with 26 left.

8 players left have 3+ bracelets.

Negreanu & Matusow both in.

Siever
Monette
Friedman
Glaser
Martini
Bakes

Hellmuth is in the 250k lol

A moment of insanity I guess.

Fitting that this table draw is table 666 in the 250k

excellent post, except that I disagree that a poker operator would not "want" an influx of limit players. at least online.

I think the challenge is getting ANY population to "crawl out of the video game dungeon" and into real money gambling.

The parallel challenge has been a reluctance by real money gambling regulators to embrace popular video games as a permitted offering. There are gaming issues I think solvable and I took a run at it a number of years ago. However, I got distracted by poker matters. I do think it will happen as a gambling offering, but not in any way related to "poker" as a game.

I have had that lobbying on a back burner and do not know what, if anything, has eveloved in the area in a few years. Anyone ???

$250k Super High Roller got 56 entries on Day 1 which surpasses the 2022 total of 54.

Registration is still open so I guess we could see around 10 more entries.

Negreanu and Brynn Kenney might join.

I would at least expect Alex Foxen, Sean Winter, and Badziakouski to fire a second bullet today.

Here is a list of players who are already in for 2 bullets:

Chris Brewer
Jonathan Jaffe
Espen Jorstad
Alex Kulev
Artur Martirosian
Michael Moncek
Aleksejs Ponkakovs
Jake Schindler
Dan Smith

Rick Salomon also late-reg'd

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interesting

With late registration closed, the total number of entries for this event has been confirmed at 69, generating a prizepool of $17,181,000. There will be 11 places paid with a min-cash being worth $411,940 and the winner taking home $5,293,556 and the WSOP gold bracelet.

Complete list of players on 2 bullets:

Makita Badziakouski
Chris Brewer
Alex Foxen
Jonathan Jaffe
Espen Jorstad
Martin Kabrhel
Brian Kim
Alex Kulev
Artur Martirosian
Michael Moncek
Aleksejs Ponkakovs
Jake Schindler
Dan Smith
Sam Soverel
Christoph Vogelsang
Sean Winter

Goat. Love he Check raises as a bluff and ends up hero calling lol.

Makes sense though too as I don’t see much value kenney has there after checking back flop IP.

Ivey 2nd in chips right now after coolering mikita

I agree, I was speaking about the profitable player pool wouldn't want that influx. Of course operators want customers. Regs want fishy customers.

Sampo Ryynänen currently 2nd in chips with 7 left in the $10k 2-7 TD. Might be the most entertaining guy in all of poker. Criminally underrated. Somewhat known for having made out with Ziigmund in the most OOL plo game ever recorded



Can't recall his dumb pokerstars SN but it's something like XD89<3Lol. Would love to see him win a bracelet, dude's a beast

^^^Ziigmund looking like Putin

Seeing how well Kahbrel is doing early on in day 2 of the 250k, I can't imagine a more annoying player to win it. I wonder how far one person can go by driving everyone else in the tournament insane.

It makes me wonder, if someone constantly says stupid things to the table over and over again, can a casino kick them out or could Kahbrel just constantly needle, badger, and interrupt the table as long as he still has chips?

Hellmuth no more.

https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop...ips.570511.htm

Whenever someone posts a Hellmuth hand history, you can just insta type "lol wtf is he even doing" and he won't disappoint.

On a side note, Phil Ivey was the bubble boy in this one.

One of the dealers on a PLO cash game was washing the deck after the hand and before they put it in the shuffling machine. Didn't wanna be out of line but i brought it up and asked why are you doing that, am i right that there is zero reason to wash the deck when using the deckmate? Seems relevant when we are paying a timed session fee.

First part of the statement is super obvious but wow if the second part is true as well

Kabrhel actually has a couple supporters in that thread. Now I have truly seen it all. The least funny, least charismatic, table talker I've ever seen. Nothing but pure distilled obnoxiousness

Very serious allegation. Would be cool if someone had footage of people complaining over marked cards in an event with Kabrhel at the table (wouldn't be definite proof obv, but..)