Hi Tighty

Has anyone mentioned the payout structure yet?

I completely understand the thinking behind trying to pay the majority of returning players something towards their expenses, but paying 260 put of the 318 that returned diluted the payouts for the players that progressed well on Day 2. I have tried to find the exact figures, but I believe that there was only £75 difference between someone finishing 260 to someone finishing 51st. I personally feel that if you had paid the top 100. it would have made more sense.

I witnessed players entering flight 1 on Friday, re-entering, then playing in flight 2 ( they may even have re-entered that flight. Therefore the spend would have been £240, they would then have had to make the final 3 tables to cover there entry's let alone travelling, hotel, food ( plenty of drink for blonde members)

Your thoughts?

Could I have Paul Woods chip count O tight one

How do you know what Paul has spent??

It's the "chipleader" tourney you wallyxx

You had to win the chips online playing SNG's @ €3 a pop for the last three months.

Did you win any money or was it just chips. Been out of circulation Ralph me old mate.

No you had to build your entire stack playing those itty-bitty SNG's and then bring them all to the live event.

I think there's a thread about it on the front page.

There was also MTT's but most players tended to play the STT's or the two table ( 20 players) STT

The final will be live streamed?

"Caroline for commentary" I hear you all cry.

That's a hint, people....

Lol I've already been asked, may well do a stint, perhaps we can have a phone in on the other hot topic here today- Feldman & Trickett - both as bad as each other?

I thought it was a firm of dodgy solicitors

We need a little sound of weeping in the back though

Now into Level 21
blinds up to 8k/16k/2k
Average at 500k
36 remain, meaning half these players will get paid

36 / half = 18

any chip counts on the top few?

Congrats Des

I take it someone will buying the drinks to wet the babies head?

In

Seems years since we had one

Halsey is a joke

True, but Young is better than Tom Daley

Having had a decent run yesterday at the Genting series, and helped Mad Marty run around the car park in the snow partly undressed. I would like to raise the subject of live streams.

The viewing of hole cards has transformed the world of poker since it's inception on LNP. Obviously with so much money now being on offer week in and week out, everyone is looking to cash in on the boom, whether through playing, supplying equipment, etc, etc. My point is, the new equipment that is capable of detecting the chipped cards and broadcasting information on the internet, is in someway giving an unfair advantage to certain players. The 15 minute delay helps the player who has friends relaying information back to the participant. Yesterday during the live stream broadcast ( where the "studio" was approx 7 feet from the feature table, the players were enquiring and receiving information about the cards that the players were playing or mucking after the hand was played. Mobile phones were not allowed to be used at the tables, but you could stand up walk 6 paces and speak or receive text messages. This cannot be the way forward for poker.

Having been fortunate enough to play on the TV in the past, the security was airtight, searched before entering the studio, accompanied to the toilet, segregated from everyone apart from your fellow competitors at the break, basically a million miles from the green room.

I believe the way forward is to delay the broadcast longer than the 15 minutes,say an hour also the "studios" should be non accessable to anyone other that the commentators, certainly not the players still in the competition, and finally mobile phones taken from the players on the feature table. I realise that information can still be available from friends, but this info perhaps could only be passed at breaks.

I would be interested in your thoughts, and ways to make our beloved game cleaner and straighter

No idea what June means.when I went to school,it was a month of the year.now presumably it means something else

Looks like the plan is for some of us on here to do the Berlin marathon next year. Fancy it?
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Oh yeah, count me in.............................I'll carry the water

You still running Boshi?

but they ran good on line last night

True, but everybody was trying to get the bounty...................therefore their stacks grew considerably early doors

Showing my ignorance, what is tez?

They seemed to be unstoppable a few years ago, but any headline wins in the past 12 months?