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When does the money kick in? .... How many places get paid?

Good work fellahs, come on the Irish !!

Hi all....nice report from Deauville all you Blonde 

I have one request. If you may take one photos from Patrick Antonious table and post on this forum ill be very happy. I have a friend who is on that table! (he is Matej) thx for all posting....take care 

Greetings from Croatia

Where in Croatia?

How is Dave O'Callaghan getting on, and KP Nuts ... tell them Culchie says hello

I think 4% of the WSOP main event pool is taken out for the dealers.

There was a bit of a fuss last year when one of the final tables finishers (Andy Black?) got some stick in some quarters because he didn't leave any money behind when he collected his million dollars. The player made the very valid point that the 4% deduction meant he had actually already tipped the dealers over $25,000.

Andy was pretty peed off with the organisors over a couple of issues, so I'm not surprised.

They with held a portion of his prize money for the IRS, despite him being Irish (US players tax is deducted there and then).....then there was the other situation when some guy had not returned from dinner (having receiving incorrect info from organisors) Andy wanted the table to sit out and wait for the guy to return, but organisors insisted the empty stach was to be check/folded and so lost an hours worth of blinds, which were huge at this stage.

I saw this with andy black in tears, didn't the guy then go and do something stupid like give him a rubdown.

When i win the wsop this year there is no way i am tipping the dealers 50k, i would rather give it to a friend.

Yeh, I think he was genuinely upset alright, as he put himself on the other players shoes. I think it was the second final table or so at this stage, and it was 100% the organisors mis-communication that caused the problem.

Andy is a good guy, very well liked over here in Ireland, and himself and Matusow were far and away the best players on that final table.

I think 4% of the WSOP main event pool is taken out for the dealers.

There was a bit of a fuss last year when one of the final tables finishers (Andy Black?) got some stick in some quarters because he didn't leave any money behind when he collected his million dollars. The player made the very valid point that the 4% deduction meant he had actually already tipped the dealers over $25,000.

Andy was pretty peed off with the organisors over a couple of issues, so I'm not surprised.

They with held a portion of his prize money for the IRS, despite him being Irish (US players tax is deducted there and then).....then there was the other situation when some guy had not returned from dinner (having receiving incorrect info from organisors) Andy wanted the table to sit out and wait for the guy to return, but organisors insisted the empty stach was to be check/folded and so lost an hours worth of blinds, which were huge at this stage.