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Originally Posted by pig4bill
Something must have gone wrong with the regging into Mini Main. In the morning, before 10, a huge line stretching into Horseshoe.
I certainly wasn’t behind the scenes to know if something went wrong. That line was reminiscent of years past. To my surprise and delight, you didn’t see a whole lot of stuff like that up to that point.
But that whole week of <= $1k buy-ins was just too compressed. I think they had over two thousand people coming back for day 2 of the colossus. And then they’re trying to hold the only flight of a large field event at the same time?
They got rid of the traditional “satellite day” and replaced it essentially with the Mini-main. In the past they could cap satellites and run traditional
satellite structures which were faster, had no re-entries and ended sooner by design. Not so much with the mini-Main.
IMO the WSOP just bit off more than it could chew that week. They tried to stuff the schedule with events too many people would want to fire multiple bullets into. It was certainly profitable, but a huge logistical challenge which they were not capable of handling smoothly, even with more dealers and tables this year.