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Originally Posted by rdh009
Daily deep stacks in Masquerade Village? Good move or bad move?
As someone who plays deep stacks + the 400-1000 buyins during the summer I’m slightly disappointed. Masquerade seems very disconnected from the rest of the WSOP atmosphere. Will feel like more of a circuit stop. It’s unfortunate that the days of 1000-2000 players for the 1:00/2:00 deepstacks are probably gone.
Yup. On balance they might get more entries, e.g. CET makes more money, but there are plenty of scenarios where people down at the WSOP aren't going to schlep all the way up there for a DDS without knowing how long the reg line is, etc. Diamonds won't be happy because they have to wait in long lines with the rest of the proletariat instead of having their own line, which is almost always shorter.
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Originally Posted by Black Aces 518
I think the decrease in atmosphere is offset by the increased ease of registration for all events, allowing them to be on a separate break schedule, etc.
700 or 800 guys all running to the few restrooms in the Masquerade area won't be a picnic. Plus, you can't check on buddies that are in other events, no poker kitchen, etc. The only real benefit I can think of is that they allow early reg, as in days before instead of only day of. They're going to run come hell or high water, so there's no reason to not allow early day reg, other than the software changes it will require. BUT, they won't think of that, so this year, my guess is no early reg.
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Originally Posted by BDHarrison
Does this carve out more space for them to use for the huge multi day value menu tournaments, making those less likely to be complete messes?
That's their hope, but no. They won't gain any space, since they were kicking out the DDS anyway when they needed the space.
They're a victim of their own success. I think all their convention space is being used.