was Gavin drunk? I listened on the train home from work so it may have been just a bad connection his end and the outside noises. Not criticizing if he was just curious.

Thanks Kevmath!

Haven't listened to the last 7 minutes of the most recent show, but can we get a show schedule for the next few weeks?

'Snoopy' and all Poker News journalists-great, great poker reporting. Poker News might consider putting a few more journalists on staff to report on the 60,000+ entrant field of the WSOP.

I didn't do the math, but I seem to remember that 23 was the over/under point for the birthday bet that Adam mentioned. I remember the Amarillo Slim biography mentioning that he would set up the bet where he would get action at whether or not two people among thirty would have the same birthday. To memory that made his chances of winning at something like 73%. pzhon may have done a thread on this once in the probability forum.

Birthday problem is 70.6% with 30 people (according to the Wikipedia link posted above).

W/r/t the $1500 PLO8 field, i can confirm it's a soft field. My initial table was fantastic.

That said, Hellmuth came in 14th in the same event last year (7th this year). He's still not very good at the game. Last year, he twice raised pre-Flop with AJ52 with the suited ace and folded to a Cantu re-raise after a even though he started the hand with only 7-9 BBs. Even though Cantu had AA both times (including once with AA2), that's a bad play. Cantu had been playing like a crazy person all day.

Then again, Hellmuth did outlast me both years (me: 17th in 2009, 35th in 2010) including (basically) knocking me out this year with a UTG limp re-raise with AA32ss (he had 6 BBs and i only had 7 BBs).

There were several other repeat deep runs in the $1500 PLO8, including 2010 winner Steve Jelinek, who came in 6th last year. Of course, the multiple deep runs in the same event is a variation of the birthday problem.

Finally, i think that Hellmuth is a clear favorite to win a non-Holdem bracelet over Ivey winning a NL Holdem one. Not only do the non-Holdem events have smaller fields, but Hellmuth enters many more non-Holdem events than Ivey enters NLH ones. I'm rooting for Ivey.

Thanks, I missed the J. Douglas post above. Gotta love wikipedia.

Invitational is now in the lobby: T#287725974

Remember you need to have PLO enabled in your tourney filters.

Did you say there was a schedule for the Big Game somewhere on Pokerstars? I can't find one. I get WUHF and KAYU.

For the second time SportsNet bumped the show, they had a Poker After Dark on.

you can view the Big Game online
http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-chann...ig-game-2.html

Have heard that a lot of times the online schedules circulating aren't all that reliable. Remember you can always watch the show on pokerstars.tv, though (I think) it's better for the show if you watch it on "real tv".

MJ mentioned it, and I found a similar problem: the show/description wasn't anything close to "the big game".

I think the one I watched on sportsnet was called "poker" with the description "poker".

Ship me to the NAPT, looking forward to that promotion!

Did my first $1.10 micromania 1k added 1784 players and won 6bux for 50th place.

Got a headstart on my July goldstar today playing 10hours at nl25c50c 600 vpps and profited over 300bucks

had espn3 video of the toc on - good stuff in the replay section. Cloutier won't kiss a man on the cheek for a million bucks, Esfandiari and fold a straight flush when it was acethru5 on the board vs Negreanu, he can multitable for exercise, Mouth acting like an idiot, Scotty turning over the nutflush vs Annie Duke on a paired board and then calling, the large space between Duke and Negreanu at the table sitting by each other hardly ever looking his way, were some of the highlights.

Then watched the last half hour of Gavin's victory.

Let's make it 3 times!

And more triple draw strategy too.

Just saw this after I fired an email to you - nit!

Why do you guys hate Annie Duke so much. I mean I liked her before the BJ information, now I like her even more. It's a no brainer!!!

Adam, you don't like "Take On Me" by a-ha?! For me, it's a great 80's classic, and the video was pretty groundbreaking IMO. What do you Canadians listen to up there? (I'm kidding!)

My favorite word english football commentators use is "fortuitous." Saying lucky is beneath them.

Thank you, I try to point this out every year that it isn't that big of a deal, same with multiple bracelet winners. People continue to make it out like this person is gods gift to poker.