WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Day 1 Live Update - Interactive

[totalise]

totalise, you're quite right about the reasoning behind it, but perhaps underestimating the general public's interest in exactly that kind of content - it's true that the all-in potential is zero, but I remember quite a few people (not technically-minded poker purists) watching the Limit Hold'em WPT event program and finding it pretty interesting.  It just seems a lot of cash (from a player's perspective) to pony up to play your speciality games, to end up going for the big money in a completely different game.

true true, but I think we probably have a different perception of the general public... in that I think the general public is someone who rarely watches poker, but might flick onto channel X and see the glitz and glamour of people moving all in and winning $2m and the turn of a card, which isn't (imo)  likely to happen if they see someone with rolled up deuces going for a crafty sixth street check raise which earns them an extra 1/2 of a bet.

I only say this because my nans next door neighbour came to see me in my house and i was watching poker, and she was sat there as they were flicking 100,000 around like it was nothing, and it got me thinking "if this old bat can get excited from poker, it really has a great future".. which likely wouldn't happen if it stayed limit, and i am sure that whilst their target audience isn't the antiquated amonst us (no offense tikay), it is going to be targeted at people with similar exposure

I do know this much though, if I stumped up $50k to play a HORSE tourney, I would be disgusted if it reverted back to NL at the final table just to appease the public

[snoopy1239]

Layne Flack -- 39,000
Gabe Kaplan -- 41,000
John D'Agostino -- 55,000
Daniel Negreanu -- 42,000

[snoopy1239]

We're currently playing 7 card stud.

[snoopy1239]

We're currently playing 7 card stud.

the players that is, not Jen and I

[snoopy1239]

D'Agostino takes down a nice pot with a straight.

[snoopy1239]

3 players in

Negreanu bets a few hundred with

Cloutier and Mateyboy call.

Negreanu then bets 1k after receiving a

Cloutier folds, Mateyboy calls with

Face down card deatl.

Negreanu bets around 2k, Mateyboy calls again.

Negreanu shows and take down the pot with a flush.

Mateyboy mucks.

[snoopy1239]

Carlos Mortensen loses a 10k pot after his opponent hits a straight on the last card.

[Nem]

NEIGHHHHHHHHHHH

[snoopy1239]

Here is the quiet, but deadly Jon Hennighan, seated next to the now beardless Scott Fischman.

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[Bongo]

Wasn't the old tournament of champions event all horse until the final table where it became NLHE?

Was fine back then?

[Karabiner]

Well, I think they consider today a success.

They've just announced the prize pool.

$6.84 million with 1,784,620 going to first.

Don't forget that 20 dollars!

That makes it around $300K in juice, heavens to murgatroid 

I bet they never announced that.

[snoopy1239]

The Shiek - A recent emerging star (mainly due to his Matusow Main Event quarrels - hmm, clever self-promotion perhaps?)



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[ifm]

Flopsy have a drink FFS, you are shaking like a shaky thing!!

The pics are blurred

[Djinn]

Game has just become Stud 8-or-better...

And at the end of the Stud 40 mins, some counts for you:

Kristy Gazes       35,100
Freddy Deeb      68,000
Ram Vaswani     43,500
John D'Agostino  50,200
Howard Lederer  43,100
Tod Brunson       54,000
Daniel Negreanu  38,400
TJ Cloutier          46,500
John Juanda       64,000
Phil Ivey             51,500
Greg Raymer       52,600
Patrik Antonius    60,000
Tony G              45,100
Devilfish             37,200
Doyle Brunson     54,800
David Benyamine  48,000
Marcel Luske        67,000
Scott Fischman    44,600
Mike Matusow      55,500
Andy Bloch          43,800
David Grey           49,000
Michael Mizrachi    56,500
Tony Bloom        48,000
Gus Hansen         54,500
Scotty Nguyen     51,000
Rob Hollink          55,600
Annie Duke          52,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Flopsy have a drink FFS, you are shaking like a shaky thing!!

The pics are blurred

I'm not in Vegas taking the pictures though...

So shouldn't that be Snoopy, not Flopsy? Snoops, he's confused the two of us, get your guns out!!!