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Originally Posted by yada
How was your experience with WSOP this year? Mine has not been great.
My results were less than great, but from an experience standpoint, I thought it was okay.
As far as registration goes, I never had any issues. I've never understood people who show up 1 hour before an event and then complain about lines. If you know you want to play, buy your ticket the night before. I never waited more than 10 minutes to register. You are courting disaster if you wait until the last minute.
Bathroom lines are better than the Rio. I'll give some advice earned from experience. There are three bathrooms that usually have short waits if you're willing to walk a bit. #1 is by the main entrance doors in Paris, roughly near Mon Ami Gabi and the sports book. If you're playing in Paris, you have enough time on a 20 minute break to get there and back. #2 is near the food courts downstairs in the Horseshoe, past the Twilight Zone golf area. If you're playing in Horseshoe, this is going to have shorter lines than the side bathrooms directly outside the MTT area. #3 is in the events center in the Horseshoe. A lot of people don't know there are bathrooms in there and the crowds in that room are smaller.
On a negative note, I did not enjoy playing 10-handed. We were 10-handed in the Colossus, Deep Stack Championship, $500 flippament, the $1k turbo bounty, and several of the nightly turbos. Not only is the poker more boring than even just 9-handed, but you also feel physically squeezed and suffocated at the tables. I'm probably done playing the cheap mega-field lotteries. If you have the budget to play a little higher, it seems worth it to spend more for a better experience.
Apart from that, they obviously seemed stretched with dealers/tables this year, reflected by delayed starts in certain events and all the 10-handed play.
You can certainly find faults with many aspects of the WSOP, but it still provides a unique spectacle, scale, atmosphere, and experience.