I'm not 100% sure, but I believe they just pick some round payout amount which more or less corresponds to the % of the field they expect to remain after 18 levels. Then whatever money remains after this first payout goes into the day 2+ prizepool and players need to survive some number of bust-outs longer to make any more money.

This is wrong. They play each flight individually and build a payout structure based on that. So if the flight has 1000 players, they pay approximately 15% of that field and if you finish in 120th in that flight you receive whatever 120th would receive normally in a 1000 person WSOP tourney.

Then, when they combine the flights, they build an all-new payout structure where a) the min cash for all remaining players is greater than the largest cash that they paid out in *any* of the flights (which causes some significant strangeness if one flight gets under 100 players and no other flights get close) and b) the top of the payout structure corresponds, more or less, with a normal payout structure. The 888 is sometimes a bit different because they use 888 as the tail end of the payout and first place was guaranteed last year (which resulted in a huge gap between 1st and 2nd).

Or... they could concern themselves more with things that might hurt people instead of working so hard to stop the evil that is Selling Tournament Lammers.

Rio cage questions:

1) is there a min. balance?
2) can a friend with a cage balance transfer to mine?
3) is there a maximum length to hold funds or an inactivity period?

What's up with these decks?

I liked them. Easy to read the values. The backs are kind of flashy, but at least they won't be camouflaged on the felt.

Where are the livestreams on WSOP.com?

Non-exististent. They're on pokergo.com now. Subscription required and much more limited in scope.

Anyone know what the best ICM Calculator App is that's available for Android phones?

+1

you'd think the WSOP would have learned their lesson from using the Modiano's (sp?) from a few years ago.

I thought COPAQs were decent cards - not these decks though. These feel like dollar store decks.

Floor people looked incredibly busy replacing damaged cards.

^^ totally agree with decks are poop

can you store your luggage at the rio? I want to go straight from airport to the WSOP to make the 2PM daily, but need a place to drop luggage off

yes, you can

It would be at the bell desk at the front though. If you're really in a hurry ask the cab to wait and then get him to drop you off at the convention center.

If you are in a hurry and don't want to wait for you bags you can use a service like:

https://www.maketraveleasier.com/bagsvip

which will deliver your bags from the airport to the hotel for you. I haven't used this one, but I believe JetBlue uses them, so I assume they must be pretty reputable.

Decks are the same as they were last year, the only difference is the shiny backs that make it easier to spot nail marks. The cards last year had a matte finish with a busy pattern that made it hard to see them.

Floors are replacing them without complaint now. Several years ago with the Bicycle cards they'd look for any excuse to leave them in play.

I'm gonna go Wednesday and sleep in my car in the parking garage.

I'm thinking about doing the same tomorrow night. Been crashing at my pops Venetian room(gorgoues room) but he leaves tomorrow.

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86 degrees right now 2:30 am.

Hi, the MEGA $1100 Turbo satellite for the main event, which is typically in the early morning before Day 1C of the main event (this year its July 9). My question is how many players does that particular satellite typically attract?

I see the Daily DeepStacks were altered this weekend I'm guessing because of the Colossus.

Any history/thoughts as to whether the 2PM $235s during Monster Stack Sat/Sun will also be altered or canceled? (06/24 & 06/25)

lol as if I have enough money for buy ins AND hotel room

Didn't get cancelled last year, just more alternates at the start until tables broke in Monster (happens real quick). On the two day one's of Monster, the 2 pm DDS got 1042 and 853 entries respectively.

18,000 total entries with 9,000 unique entries for Colossus. Pretty large decrease.