Here is a link for the full schedule of events for this summer.
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/
Here is a link for the full schedule of events for this summer.
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/
Jack Effel released it today in preparation of Todd Witteles's Poker Fraud Alert show. He was super depressed when he was told that the show, which is regularly scheduled on Wednesdays, was actually on Tuesday this week and it will be another 7+ days before it's talked about on PFA radio!
Last edited by AhoosierA; 01-25-2017 at 11:25 AM.
Will comment more later.
I should point out that I find it lame that they have two events this year for buyins of less than $400.
That cheapens the bracelet, which has already been somewhat cheapened over the past decade.
One of those two events is the $333 WSOP.com event, so I'll ignore that one, since it's not live.
However, event #19 is a live $365 buyin event. To show you how outrageously low that is, it equates to $59 in 1970 when the WSOP started. Imagine if they were giving out bracelets for $59 buyin events back in 1970. Everyone would have laughed.
At least I'm happy to see that they haven't killed any of the 3 limit holdem events for 2017. I was afraid the $3k 6-Max LHE would be removed because it was kind of a fail in 2016.
I agree. The $365 buy-in should be kept at the circuit level only. Personally I think $1.5k should be the lowest buy-in bracelet event.Originally Posted by Dan Druff
The $365 is going to be a shit show.
The $333 online event has unlimited reentry for what is an undisclosed time period at the moment unless someone else can find how long then please post it. The $1,000 and $3,333 online events are unlimited reentry too.
The $365 is spread over 5 starting days every Friday during the WSOP with unlimited reentry as well. I'm sure the player pool will get huge for this by the time it's over but it could steer away some players who are just showing up at the beginning of the WSOP to play an event or two not intending to return for other events. Keep in mind if you play on the very first flight on June 9th and make day 2 you won't be playing until July 8th. I haven't read up on anything but hopefully they will make this where if you survive day 1 you are in the money.
Too many events have cheapen the bracelet if anything has but the reality is someone might fire this event 5 times meaning it was really a $1,825 event for them and then have to beat out some minefield of entrants to win it so that is an accomplishment in itself deserving of a bracelet just as much as all these other 1k buyin events.
I'd love to see something along the lines of this
For NL especially it would work and might bring a little bit of prestige for the bracelets..maybe you could do something with PLO with a few minor tweaks
Run 6 events at 1k 3k and 5k and instead of awarding a braclet + cash you take the winner from each event and run a 1 table SNG with a determined Amt of money that was taken from the first place prize pool as a winner take all + bracelet at each level. you can do the final tables just prior to the start of the ME...I understand there's some logistical issue with people who only come in to play an event or two but I'm sure with an additional winner take all option most people would make the time to come back for say 150k-200k winner take all single table tourney
Last edited by lvpkr1009; 01-28-2017 at 12:01 AM.
The $333 WSOP.com event has 3:45 of late reg/re-entry.
The $365 Giant will be playing well into the money, playing 18 levels or down to 10 players.
You can find almost all of the structures online at http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/
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