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Title: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: Ironside on July 14, 2005, 09:41:22 PM for the last couple of years pokerstars have had very good main events including 2 winners but numerous final tables finishes, above the % of the number of players entered compared to the field
this year they have 4 left out of the 27 remaining and 1 of those didnt quailfy on stars he is sponsored (raymer) is this a bad year for pokerstars or can they pull a rabbit out the hat with 3 ins in 3 years with there four remaining players being Greg "FossilMan" Raymer $3,840,000 Team PokerStars Brad "bogey54" Kondracki $3,160,000 $160 Double Shootout Daniel "berka" Bergsdorf $1,144,000 $33 Rebuy Bernard "Dogger9" Lee $770,000 1000 FPPs remember they supplied over 20% of the players this year Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: guru_raj on July 14, 2005, 10:25:22 PM if Greg Raymer wins again this year it would be an absolutely remarkable feat and very very very good for the game. naturally i would like to see a Brit win but if not then i will be hoping he can do it.
Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: Nakor on July 14, 2005, 10:51:26 PM I may be imagining it but I am sure Full Tilt were offering a mad bonus if one of there qualifiers won ($10 million)?
Is my memory of this fact correct? and do they have any representatives going into todays play? I assume this deal does not count for Mr Ivey. Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: Sheriff Fatman on July 14, 2005, 11:26:24 PM The small print of the $10million bonus was quite revealing - it was actually a 10 year 'contract' to be a Full Tilt sponsored player, for which the payment was $1million per year. I'm not sure how this compares with any deals the other sites would offer their players if they were WSOP champ (there's only Stars with a track history for a start!)
There's nothing to indicate that there are any Full Tilt Qualifiers still in but Matusow and Ivey are both sponsored players. I guess they don't qualify for the additional payment if they were to win. Sheriff Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: Bongo on July 14, 2005, 11:29:34 PM Couldn't you win pieces of the FTP players in the run up to the WSOP?
Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: Sheriff Fatman on July 15, 2005, 02:19:22 AM Yes - they had a series of tournaments where the winner got 10% of the pro's Main Event action and the rest of the final table got 1%.
Somewhere out there someone's got 10% of Ivey and Matusow for their $109 buy-in (in addition to the cash they won). Sheriff Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: redsimon on July 15, 2005, 07:57:18 AM Certainly looks a better deal than ultimatebet.com's "Piece of Phil" a few years ago when you won a % of hellmuth and he had one small cash out and nothing else. :D
Title: Re: Bad year for Pokerstars Post by: jbsc7769 on July 15, 2005, 03:50:04 PM PokerStars have a better ratio now, 2 from 9. Would be very interesting if they were to do it again!
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