How many days is the main event planned to last? Thinking about heading to Vegas on Monday, is it still going to be running?

Why else would he complain about being short stacked?
Crazy lol

I think they will play down to 9 on Monday.

OK thanks that's perfect. Are they still doing November nine this year or playing it out next week?

The November 9 will be Mon. Nov. 10th and Tues. Nov. 11th.

Thank you!

Was Spadea a top-3 or so stack deep in 08?

My thought is this is a big reason why NL poker sucks.

Ronnie Bardah doubled to 110K... if he cashes that would be a record 5 in a row. That's impressive imo

Rooting for Ola Amundsgard (currently #63 in chips). For those who don't know.. Ola Amundsgard = Odd_Oddsen (High stakes PLO cash game specialist!)

Here's an interview for those of you who don't know who he is:
http://nutblocker.com/interview-with...it-to-the-top/

Edit, Bonus interview: http://www.highstakesdb.com/3511-int...oddoddsen.aspx

idk if this is the right thread for this, but day 1:

dealer sits down his first hand for the down, deals the hand normally, counts down cards after river is dealt, and while he's counting the play concludes with a river bet and fold. He finishes counting down, but has a weird look on his face. He ships the pot, then calls for the floor. He says "I might have just counted wrong, but I think it was off". Then he switches decks and we start playing with the other one (without counting it). After 3-4 hands with the new deck the floor gets there and the dealer says "I don't know if I just miscounted or this deck is off but could you count it?" The floor counts 54 cards. He then counts the one we've been playing with the last few hands and it has 49. He has people lift the rail and there is a card stuck under the rail. So we played one hand with 54 cards, and a few with either 49 or 50 cards (not sure when the card got under the rail). I know it's hard to run such a massive tournament and mistakes will happen but this is just inexcusable for a 10k buy-in tournament.

Also I'm gonna be the guy taking 1-2 minutes every decision preflop tomorrow. Commence hate.

No hate, but I hope the realize and start calling the clock every time action is on you.

Are you the guy I read about on the wsop live updating who kept taking two minutes every hand because "you put up your own 10k and have the right to?"

Nope I almost always play very fast and despise the excessive tanking that happens live. But I'm in a spot with 18bb on the bubble where the optimal play will be -chipev each hand I play so it's in my best interest to play as few bubble hands as possible. I wouldn't make dumb excuses or be a dick and I'd probably apologize and feel bad as I was doing it but I think in a 10k I'll use the rules to my advantage while fully acknowledging that they should fix the rules so people like me won't be able to do that.

True. In your spot right now, I'd do the same. You'd be foolish not to, unless you straight up don't GAF. GL!

GL zachvac... let us know if ya cash

Just noticed Hilton Laborda has a >average stack.

Name rang a bell.

2p2'er ThaKid is chipleader after day 3. He wrote it in the NBA offseason thread over in the SE forum.

Wow, what a donk. He did get paid $1M on river, but he's bleeding a ton of chips most of the time and obviously Tyler wasn't easily bluffable.

Though Bonkowski can't complain too much about running bad that series, he was down 12-1 in chips HU for a bracelet, gets but 1 of his chips in a pot in a river bet/raise/re-raise. Opponent folds, Tyler shows 6 high and comes all the way back to win bracelet.

Opponent was a friend of mine. He didn't feel bad about the fold though, as he was bluffing the 5 high.