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Today and tomorrow are probably the two deadest days of sports in a given year in this country. I mean I imagine these two days are the only days of the year where none of the NFL,MLB,NBA, or NHL have games. Surprised the WSOP doesn't target the Wednesday and Thursday after the MLB all star game to have the final table of the main event. Surely they'd get the most eyes on the sport.

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07-18-2018 , 04:04 PM

#5777

ziggyzaooo

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,936

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Originally Posted by Toupee Jay

Phil can't even pronounce Justin's last name properly! He continually calls him "Bone emo."

Poor Lon, he never sees flush or straight draws on the flop, will say someone has paired his Ace when they actually flopped two pair, doesn't know the difference between a flopped set and trips, rarely knows if a player has called or raised, has trouble keeping track of the action and the list goes on and on. You would think after doing this for how many years he might began to learn how Hold'em is played.

Granted he has a lot of enthusiasm and can fill in the blank spaces with ideal chatter about a player's hat or shirt, but that's about all he's good for. And this is the best ESPN can do for the most important event in poker? It's way past time for Ali and Nick to take over!

Lon is there for the average american viewer, a guy would have JhTh on 8h9hx and Lon would say he has J high. Thats why they bring a pro in to discuss further analysis.

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07-18-2018 , 04:38 PM

#5778

inmyrav

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 1,719

Lon doesn't seem to be putting in any effort. Don't know how much he's paid but he seems disinterested. That said, Nick Schulman's style is very interesting, and seems at this point to have an advantage for the turn.

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07-18-2018 , 04:43 PM

#5779

72off

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Originally Posted by inmyrav

Lon doesn't seem to be putting in any effort. Don't know how much he's paid but he seems disinterested.

disagree

he's not perfect, and maybe they could get someone better, but tbf to him he's also working a lot of long ass days
i was kind of impressed with his stamina during the ME:FT the other day, given that it's on him to carry the broadcast for the most part

let's put it this way, he's way better than the corny ass WPT broadcasts

Hellmuth is meh, but at least unintentionally funny
would probably rather have lots of other ppl in there instead tho, ya

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07-18-2018 , 05:53 PM

#5780

Yuv

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Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,940

I saw Bonomo in line at subway in the Venetian food court at 1 am about two weeks ago. I feel like he really needed this one to get out a rough patch. I hope you can afford some decent food now Justin.

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07-18-2018 , 06:12 PM

#5781

p2ryan

adept

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 821

so who are the consistent donors in these highrollers? how do the Aria $25ks continue to run?

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07-18-2018 , 08:56 PM

#5782

fuluck

banned

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,532

Still can't figure out how Saloman flashed a card. Anyone have a slow motion replay?

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07-19-2018 , 12:08 AM

#5783

SuperSwag

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 5,765

It was crazy watching this in real time and seeing how well Fedor and Bonomo could read Dan Smith. They literally played perfectly against him.

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07-19-2018 , 12:16 AM

#5784

Dynasty

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Originally Posted by fuluck

Still can't figure out how Saloman flashed a card. Anyone have a slow motion replay?

11:40 of Doug Polk's video may be helpful.

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07-19-2018 , 12:19 AM

#5785

m2smith2

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 476

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Justin sold $90k of his buyin to randoms online. FWIW

Did anyone catch that Hellmuth only got 10% premium from his stake (as the player). Wasn't 50% standard for the player back in the day?

Selling 900k at the mark-up means he put in 10k for a milly buy-in...🙄

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07-19-2018 , 07:11 AM

#5786

kerr

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,851

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Originally Posted by fuluck

Still can't figure out how Saloman flashed a card. Anyone have a slow motion replay?

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07-19-2018 , 08:32 AM

#5787

Barry Urinstein

veteran

Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 2,445

[ ] Saloman

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07-19-2018 , 10:45 AM

#5788

Wildspoke

grinder

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 525

I thought for sure this year no one was going to win two bracelets. In the end three did.

I was doing a little poking around. There's a theory called the Mathew Effect. Which basically says that Winners pile on the wins because of momentum. Unfortunately, the momentum goes both ways. If you're running bad it has a compounding effect as well. That's why here some players going "O-fer" the series.

It also might explain the amazing years of Siedel, Coleman, Holz, and most recently Bonomo.

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07-19-2018 , 11:26 AM

#5789

All-inMcLovin

Wholesome Mod

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 49,557

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Originally Posted by Wildspoke

Luck bunching is a known phenomenon.

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07-19-2018 , 12:13 PM

#5790

rm81

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,621

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Originally Posted by m2smith2

Selling 900k at the mark-up means he put in 10k for a milly buy-in...🙄

He didnt play

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07-19-2018 , 12:21 PM

#5791

that_pope

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lol @ momentum.

It's more likely that at the end of the summer there are 30+ bracelet winners in some of the low buy-in events, and 10+ in the bigger events, meaning the likelihood that someone wins who already won one goes up. Obviously event 74 is more likely to have a second bracelet winner than event #5.

But no, it is luck, momentum, and clutchness.

Learn math.

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07-19-2018 , 09:21 PM

#5792

ScotchOnDaRocks

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Weird that it’s happened every year for a long time but I still head into each following year thinking that someone winning two is an underdog

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07-20-2018 , 05:05 AM

#5793

rm81

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,621

It is like the equation of two people in the same class having the same bday, does not seem logical but is true.

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07-20-2018 , 06:02 AM

#5794

All-inMcLovin

Wholesome Mod

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 49,557

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Originally Posted by rm81

It is like the equation of two people in the same class having the same bday, does not seem logical but is true.

But it *is* logical because often babies are born during storms when the barometric pressure drops.

YEAH SCIENCE

WSOP 2018 results/tournament discussion (**NO SPOILERS**)

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07-20-2018 , 02:51 PM

#5795

yimyammer

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Originally Posted by Frenbar

VPN is virtual private network. It basically encrypts your data and bounces it through another computer somewhere else to make it look like you are connected from that other computer, wherever it may be.

Opera browser is free and has a free, built-in VPN if you don't want to worry about installing anything, signing up for anything, or configuring anything.

https://www.opera.com/

I downloaded Opera and logged in but I was still blocked (I made sure VPN was turned on and tried again without success). Is there a trick I missed to get this to work? Since I have to login and give my address in order to pay with my CC, they know where I am, so this maybe an exercise in futility.

Has anyone had success watching the replays of the final table or Million dollar one drop at Poker? Elsewhere?

I made the mistake of thinking I could watch the one drop later, only to find out day 2 & 3 are blacked out

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07-20-2018 , 11:24 PM

#5796

RunninMan5K

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,542

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Originally Posted by Yuv

He does not strike me as one who would eat at Subway or needs money lol

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07-20-2018 , 11:51 PM

#5797

that_pope

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Here ya'll go:

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07-21-2018 , 12:15 AM

#5798

ScotchOnDaRocks

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Originally Posted by that_pope

Here ya'll go:

Cool of him to donate the 75K markup, but maybe to Einhorns charity would have been better but still

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07-21-2018 , 12:35 AM

#5799

kamuz

banned

Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 114

Does anyone know how much him/they tipped the dealers? Think it was mentioned somewhere but i didn't catch it.

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07-21-2018 , 01:02 AM

#5800

SuperSwag

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 5,765

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Originally Posted by Wildspoke

Mckeehan did this as well. The year before he won main he had a ridiculous amount of first place cashes. Fedor's run seemed to have lasted since 2015. What would be explanation for that?

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