Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[HutchGF]

As a generally silent investor, I would just like to congratulate you on your win and thank you for allowing me to be a small part of your Nevada adventure.

As with all parts of the game, deal making is entirely your call and I trust your judgement implicity in these matters.

Well played Tony and lets use this momentum in the next tournament.

[JohnCharver]

Well done on your recent success, been building nicely after a poor start, and has been an excellent read.

[bagel]

iced buns are on you

well done

[Machka]

Great result tikay you must be over the moon.  Those updates read like the end of that tournament was pretty fast paced.

Question though, do all tournaments these days end with deals being done?  I hardly seem to see any being played out to the final chip, even when they do some deal has been arranged before hand.

Not complaining mind, cash out > buy in = win

[Simon Galloway]

Well done on the result Tony.  I know you historically never got actively involved in deal discussions.  But any time the deal being offered is close to "you guys chop 2nd and 3rd and I'll take the win" it is clearly a bad deal.  Effectively the winner got a fairly cheap insurance policy here on not suffering a couple of outdraws.

[redsimon]

Nice cash WP

[Doobs]

Well done on the result Tony.  I know you historically never got actively involved in deal discussions.  But any time the deal being offered is close to "you guys chop 2nd and 3rd and I'll take the win" it is clearly a bad deal.  Effectively the winner got a fairly cheap insurance policy here on not suffering a couple of outdraws.

The deal was ICM?  I never propose deals, but after 16 hours play if someone proposes ICM and I am struggling to keep my eyes open it is pretty hard to say no.   Fairly sure Tony is going to be on his last legs too.

On the first one I took (also ICM). If I have 6 bigs and am next in the BB, tough to see it is a bad decision to take it. 

[Ledders]

Congrats Tikay!

ICM chop is always going to be the way to go after 16hr+ grinding. Edges probably aren't massive either way and reducing variance is fantastic.

[Karabiner]

Well done on the result Tony.  I know you historically never got actively involved in deal discussions.  But any time the deal being offered is close to "you guys chop 2nd and 3rd and I'll take the win" it is clearly a bad deal.  Effectively the winner got a fairly cheap insurance policy here on not suffering a couple of outdraws.

The deal was ICM?  I never propose deals, but after 16 hours play if someone proposes ICM and I am struggling to keep my eyes open it is pretty hard to say no.   Fairly sure Tony is going to be on his last legs too.

On the first one I took (also ICM). If I have 6 bigs and am next in the BB, tough to see it is a bad decision to take it. 

If it's a straight chip-chop then that would favour the CL in the 50%/25%/25% situation - I think ICM would be much fairer.

Can Binions TD figure out ICM accurately?

[Supernova]

vwp Tikay you still the man xx 

[Omm]

Well done, who knows what's next with the form your in.

[tikay]

Good morning all.

I'll address the vexing matters of that Deal, & Tipping, shortly, but first;

Today is a biggie, an $1,100 PLO8, & today is Day 1B. A big field is likely. Unforch, play does not commence until 5.05pm local, which is 0105 AM UK, so you'll all be tucked up in bed before it even starts.

Fingers crossed you awake to 5 or 6 pages of my usual waffle about grinding 3 bigs & hoping to min cash.
 
Where is it?

[tikay]

Day 1a yesterday attracted 106 hopefuls, just 14 of whom survived into Day 2, so most of the fallers & failures will also play today.

Looks a high attrition rate to me.

[typhoon13]

Hope you have kept some of that run good for this one Sir

Good luck

[typhoon13]

Will you be playing the Satt for WSOP £10k