Do we have any idea as to when the schedule is going to drop??

No

I always kinda liked the Horseshoe Hammond. They had a great 5/10nl, 1500 buy-in game. One time as a dumb kid I managed to 3b/5b/7b shove the 65o and got stacked by KK. It's funny, as somebody who used to smoke cigarettes, I never even noticed this smoky smell. Now that I managed to quit, 1.5 years ago or so, I wonder if the smell would particularly bother me, like you alluded to.

The real downside to the place was the surroundings. Hammond/Gary is one of the most dilapidated areas in the entire country. Hammond in particular is a hollowed-out ghost town. And every time I had any significant win at night, I had security follow me to my car.

Sorry my post has nothing to do with WSOP 22, you made me nostalgic. Feel free to educate me about Chicago-area games running today, I like to go when there are MTT series, but since COVID that's not really a thing around here, but I have a live poker itch right now. I live in Indianapolis; something within 4 hours would be nice.

Edit: there is a huuuuuuuuuge drought of live MTT series' in the Midwest, and really mostly everywhere that's not on a coast, since COVID, but every time I see the numbers for these Vegas or Florida or California tournaments, they're looking great. There has to be a massive pent-up demand for live tournaments throughout the country. I keep looking at cardplayer.com and pokeratlas hoping for something new. What's up?

New tab added but it's blank for now.

as long as you've regained your sense of smell of course you'd notice the gross smell of smoke.

i just watched a documentary about gary and how delapitated it was just a few weeks ago. ****ing depressing! i think it was a vice documtary, not sure.

99% sure one of their press releases a couple months back said full schedule in January.

So my guess would be sometime in the next 2 weeks.

As another poster noted, they just updated the tabs on their home page today.

Schedule may be imminent.

Do the other casino series schedules drop shortly after WSOP? Like GN, Venetian, PH (RIP), Wynn?

Almost all of them base their series off the WSOP. So usually the weeks after the WSOP drops theirs

Has there been any info suggesting when the schedule will be release. I know it was said end of January a few months back but would be nice to know a more concrete date. I assume it comes out very soon.

This has been getting a lot of comments. lol

Hasn't it been thoroughly demonstrated that "previous infection" provides a highly varied level of protection, much more varied than the vaccine, and can't be counted on for large populations? Google is replete with stories about people contracting COVID, with symptoms, 2 or even 3 times. Is there a reason the Merciers don't want to take a free shot that has been successfully given to millions of people and has been extensively proven to massively lower one's risk of severe illness (AND reduces risk of transmission to other people)? I spent a couple minutes looking at both Jason and Natasha Mercier's Twitter and there's no more info, just constant talking about their kids.

My only interaction with Jason Mercier: one time, at the PCA in the Bahamas (back before Black Friday) after I had busted the main event, I was supposed to fly home, but I lost my passport. Since I was stuck there for a few more days, I played the 5k 6max. One hand, I was in the BB, and Mercier open-limped the button. I had not seen that before from a good player (I was only ever a semi-reg in MTTs though) and felt, honestly, kind of offended that he didn't respect me, an anonymous 20-something online reg, enough to open or fold the button like a normal person. I learned later he limped buttons on some occasions, and then I learned much later that GTO allows for such a thing at certain stack depths. Since then, I've been wondering if he was ahead of his time, or just clicking buttons. This was, like, 2009 or 2010 or something.

There's a fair amount of religious **** on their Twitters. I bet that has something to do with it. Let me know when we, as a species, can stop relying on the words of a fantasy story written by a bunch of sheep farmers and conmen from 300 AD.

Question about logistics at WSOP 2022. For those in the know or who have attended a large event at Ballys/Paris, does anyone know what the parking situation will be like? Will they offer their parking garage, or open up one of the lots in the back? Also, will there be parking fees if you play any events, or could it be free? (I imagine this might upset a number of players if, unlike Rio, they start charging parking fees.)

If the point of the vaccine mandate is to prevent the spread, then Mercier's point is completely valid. No offense but your opinion on this matter sounds about as outdated as the vaccines themselves. Sort of like the people still wearing ineffective cloth masks in 2022.

Please use
Religion, theology and other issues (excised from Covid-19 thread)

This is the WSOP 2022 thread. Thanks

It's not. The point is to SLOW the spread (and, very importantly, to weaken the symptoms of those who do contract COVID). Which it does, as a matter of established fact. "Prevent the spread"? What kind of insane idiot ever thought vaccines, that some people will refuse to take, were supposed to STOP all transmission of an airborne virus?!?

There are people whose opinions on this matter are apparently derived from the literal ****in' BIBLE. Now THAT is outdated. Oh, and cloth masks very obviously offer SOME level of protection, and so to call them "ineffective" is moronic. Cloth masks most certainly have an effect.

We are on a tangent that arose directly from discussing WSOP '22. This type of thing happens constantly in conversation. Back to the station with you, Forum Police.

I'm so glad I'm vaccinated and boosted. Gonna finally get me a bracelet.

I guess there are a lot of "insane idiots" as you call them that thought if they took the vaccine that they wouldn't spread the virus to other people. Turns out they were wrong.

There have actually been studies showing that wearing a cloth masks actually results in higher particle emissions than wearing no mask at all when doing things like breathing and talking. It's at best a placebo, a very dangerous one that has contributed to the 800k+ Americans dead from this virus. As opposed to South Korea where the vast majority of people have worn medical grade masks such as KF94 from the very start of the pandemic resulting in only 6,500 deaths for a country more populated than California.

I do hope, come WSOP, we're at a spot where masks won't be necessary at the table. I played in the most recent WSOP, and found it way more comfortable to play the games where masks weren't required. Rio cash games were better for me than Bellagio cash games for this reason, even though the Bellagio spreads a wider variety of games I like to play (40/80 and 80/160 LHE is a fun game), and I like the chips and table, and has a cooler overall vibe.

At Bellagio we were constantly taking off the masks every time to take a drink or a bite, there's quite a bit of theater in it.

They were, although the number of people who thought that is way, way bigger in your head than in reality. Nobody of any esteem said vaccines were supposed to PREVENT ALL transmission. Certainly after they were fully developed and available to the public.

False, on all claims. In before you post some refutation from Joe Rogan or that one discredited Dr. Malone guy. And well done on your cherry-picked and missing 1,000,000 other bits of relevant context South Korea comparison. Leave it to some live pro to have no ability to discern correlation from causation.

But here I am, talking earnestly with arguably the worst poster in the history of media. I guess you stay winning.

I'm not a live pro, and you have resorted to name calling rather than data which suggests that perhaps you shouldn't have taken this thread off-topic in the first place.

South Korea 6,500 deaths. California 78,000 deaths. Wearing cloth masks rather than medical grade masks was stupid at the start of the pandemic and its absolutely moronic now given everything we've learned.

Please stop.

This thread, unlike the previous WSOP NVG thread, will not turn into a "debate" about vaccines, masks, Covid, etc. There are about a million places on the internet (including other places on 2+2) where those posts are welcome.

Any subsequent posts along those lines in this thread will be deleted and temp-bans will be handed out to repeat offenders.

Sounds like you're looking for this thread:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...hread-1285169/

You can ask whatever you want, but not in here. There are plenty of Covid threads on 2+2, for example in the politics forum:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/285/politics-society

That Jason Mercier tweet is a straight up troll, nothing else. He's obviously aware that the WSOP most likely isn't going to tell him anything vaccine related right now and even if they did, they could just change their stance at a later time. If anyone is so bored that they feel the need to discuss that tweet, the right place for that is Twitter.

There's also exactly one appropriate place to discuss the moderation policies for this thread. Bobo just provided you with the link: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...hread-1285169/

It's pretty sad that relevant questions like this one here get buried under the Covid derail:
Unfortunately, I've never been to a convention there. But if they charge convention guests for parking, they might charge WSOP players too.