now here's a stupid idea. WSOP ME FT to be postponed?

[doubleup]

gatso I really don't know why you are persisting in this line.  An event of some kind that prevents a player returning is clearly a realistic possibility given the considerable delay.  To try and state that there is a similar likelyhood when the final is played next day is simply silly.

[Royal Flush]

What about the unfair advantage that those not on the feature table before hand will have.


Being able to watch all the action on TV and make notes on your oppo's hole cards when they cant do the same to you, seems ludicrous to me.

[gatso]

gatso I really don't know why you are persisting in this line.  An event of some kind that prevents a player returning is clearly a realistic possibility given the considerable delay.  To try and state that there is a similar likelyhood when the final is played next day is simply silly.

cba to re-read but I'm pretty sure I haven't stated that at any point

[DaveShoelace]

I personally do not like the idea of moving the date, however I would love it if I was one of the final table. You can almost certainly snag a sponsorship deal, naming your price. You can spend a few months making a few bob doing interviews, the whole build up will make casual observers think you are a bigger and better player than you may be etc. If it were me I'd be going in there sponsored from top to bottom, occassionally shouting things like 'Ahhhhh that great coca-cola taste' whenever I was in a hand.

[boldie]

I personally do not like the idea of moving the date, however I would love it if I was one of the final table. You can almost certainly snag a sponsorship deal, naming your price. You can spend a few months making a few bob doing interviews, the whole build up will make casual observers think you are a bigger and better player than you may be etc. If it were me I'd be going in there sponsored from top to bottom, occassionally shouting things like 'Ahhhhh that great coca-cola taste' whenever I was in a hand.

you can always get a poker sponsorship at a decent price...and you don't need to make money form interviews before hand FFS..you just became a millionaire..how greedy would you need to be?

flushy brings up an interesting point about the feature tables.

[AlrightJack]

If they're going to postpone it for 4 months, they should at least try and screen it live. Instead its going to be recorded and shown the next day. They could easily seal off the players from the outside world for that day to ensure hole card security.

[boldie]

If they're going to postpone it for 4 months, they should at least try and screen it live. Instead its going to be recorded and shown the next day. They could easily seal off the players from the outside world for that day to ensure hole card security.

yes but it's the 3 table stage before the FT that Flushy is talking about. The feature table can still be seen online and all that. you can study all those players on the feature table for 4 months and analyze their play as it will be online...and if you yourself have not been on the feature table at any considerable stage before the final table, you have a massive advantage over the rest of the final table whose play you have been analyzing.

[ariston]

I must be the only guy to love the idea on here. Will give me a few months partying and a chance to lose the million knowing I can go back hungry and skint with a chance of topping up my roll. I would obviously do a reality type show for 4 months showing how it is easily possible to blow a million on strippers etc knowing you have a chance of a few more million when the final is played. Would probably go back and have a few badbeats meaning I finished 9th but oh well what the hell. After playing poker solid for like 10 days I doubt you are able to play an optimum game in the final anyway so this would give you chance to recharge your batteries (ie do loads of drugs/strippers etc) and also do a bit of studying on your opponents (ie watch the odd tape/bit of internet coverage while being blown by high class hookers)










nb above is obviously tongue in cheek but I do believe its a good idea and look forward to it.

[fatshaft]

I personally do not like the idea of moving the date, however I would love it if I was one of the final table. You can almost certainly snag a sponsorship deal, naming your price. You can spend a few months making a few bob doing interviews, the whole build up will make casual observers think you are a bigger and better player than you may be etc. If it were me I'd be going in there sponsored from top to bottom, occassionally shouting things like 'Ahhhhh that great coca-cola taste' whenever I was in a hand.

you can always get a poker sponsorship at a decent price...and you don't need to make money form interviews before hand FFS..you just became a millionaire..how greedy would you need to be?

flushy brings up an interesting point about the feature tables.

Yes, you can get sponsorship at a decent price, but becasue of the time delay, you'll now be able to get one (or more, Pollack says ,ultiple sponsors are not an issue) at a GREAT price. Not only will you have a chance to pick the best deal, but there is far more coverage available to you if you want to work at it.

How greedy? Well for starters we're all poker players who would rather win the moeny than work for it. Secondly, many of the final table won;t be millionaires, and this may be a once in a lifetime opportunity to make an immediatte retirment sum.

The sponsorship oppostunities are the major (and probably only) plus side to this change, I certainly don't buy the line that it will create more fishies/interest in poker.

[stoneii]

flushy brings up an interesting point about the feature tables.

works both ways - you can study it too and know what your opponents have seen of you at the feature table - adjust accordingly and advantage can be back in your "hands" so to speak. 

I don't think it's that bad an idea but it's an idea nonetheless, usually worth a try and then assess afterwards if it's a success or failure.  I recall a lot of players hated the idea of hole card cams etc but that has been embraced now and folk seem to adjust to the knowledge opponents get from watching them play their hands in any particular tournament.

[NoflopsHomer]

It hasn't been mentioned yet, but if it doesn't work out, they can always change it back next year.

[LLevan]

It hasn't been mentioned yet, but if it doesn't work out, they can always change it back next year.

Why not make the main event the first event then play the final 2 days at the end of the other 50 odd tournies, ok so its only 2 months down the road but at least those that have made the final table will be tempted to stay in Vegas and give their 9th place money a spin. Harrahs could arrange to put them up FOC and feed and water them too, surely then Harrahs would get the full benefit, imagine if either TJ Cloutier or Willie Tann made the FT the action on the dice tables would be mad.

[I KNOW IT]

It hasn't been mentioned yet, but if it doesn't work out, they can always change it back next year.

Why not make the main event the first event then play the final 2 days at the end of the other 50 odd tournies, ok so its only 2 months down the road but at least those that have made the final table will be tempted to stay in Vegas and give their 9th place money a spin. Harrahs could arrange to put them up FOC and feed and water them too, surely then Harrahs would get the full benefit, imagine if either TJ Cloutier or Willie Tann made the FT the action on the dice tables would be mad.

They wouldnt be able to run any live super sats or the endless 1 table sattelites where you can accumalate tourny tokens which they have running right upto the main event

[LLevan]

Surely people would get there a week early for satellites.

[doubleup]

I recall a lot of players hated the idea of hole card cams etc but that has been embraced now

I recall the Sinclair - a lot of people said it was pish, and they were right.  Just because some players once didn't like an idea that was actually good, it doesn't mean that every idea is a good one.