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« on: August 09, 2011, 09:37:44 AM »

The much vaunted Epic Poker League starts its first main event today. Nobody else in the poker world seems that bothered by this, but I'm quite excited so I thought I'd start a thread. The idea is:

* it's a series of $20,000 4-day events held at the Palms casino in Las Vegas
* you can only enter if you are a qualifying player.- basically you have to over $1.25m in live tournament cashes and have cashed 9 times since 2008. They're trying to operate it along the lines of the PGA tour in golf- you've got to qualify for your card and keep it to play. The full qualification rules are at http://www.federatedinc.com/poker-league/qualification-criteria. The idea is to match up the best players in the world against each other. There are
* Why would you play it if the field is ultra tough? Because they have added money: they are putting in $400,000, and the reg fee is very small.
* They plan to get back the added money through TV rights etc.

If you've ever heard big name poker players whinge about TV making demands on players (showing hole cards, using their image rights) etc. without getting anything back, then this project is an attempt to change that.

It'll be interesting to see who out of the 200 or so people qualified turn up and play.

I really like this idea, but I suspect it's just me.
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2011, 09:41:43 AM »

any live updates anywhere?
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2011, 10:27:21 AM »

There is some stuff on www.epicpoker.com, but not a lot. Not sure what will appear later- they appeared to live update the final table of the side event.
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2011, 01:41:45 PM »

its all bullshit and whichever over qualified rubber stamp PR desk johnny came up with the name needs kicking in the face

hope someone I like wins and it fails miserabley
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2011, 01:44:15 PM »

whichever over qualified rubber stamp PR desk johnny came up with the name needs kicking in the face

Yes

hope someone I like wins

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its all bullshit, I hope  it fails miserabley

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Why? Good for poker IMO.
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« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2011, 09:01:26 PM »

Live updates;
http://www.epicpoker.com/poker/tournaments/seasons/season-one/event-one/main-event/live-updates.aspx#tabs

53 (?) people in at the start. Bigish names: Mercier, Ike, Laak, Russo, Selbst. If you read this you'll have heard of most of the names, but no really big names as yet.
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« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2011, 09:18:22 PM »

Live updates;
http://www.epicpoker.com/poker/tournaments/seasons/season-one/event-one/main-event/live-updates.aspx#tabs

53 (?) people in at the start. Bigish names: Mercier, Ike, Laak, Russo, Selbst. If you read this you'll have heard of most of the names, but no really big names as yet.

Why is a poker tourney that is selective about entrants good for poker ? Couldnt agree less
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2011, 11:05:19 PM »

Live updates;
http://www.epicpoker.com/poker/tournaments/seasons/season-one/event-one/main-event/live-updates.aspx#tabs

53 (?) people in at the start. Bigish names: Mercier, Ike, Laak, Russo, Selbst. If you read this you'll have heard of most of the names, but no really big names as yet.

Why is a poker tourney that is selective about entrants good for poker ? Couldnt agree less

I'm not saying all tournaments should be run like this.

This format is good for poker because it gives the best possible show for railers and TV viewers. TV likes tournaments because they get a "winner" and a shiny cup at the end. Unfortunately most of the time most of the feature tables consist of a superstar, a moderately known player and 7 randoms.

Cash games have the good table, but they don't really have a "winner".

This is a table from the start of the Epic Poker event. You're telling me you don't want to watch this table? There are many others nearly as good.

1    Michael Mizrachi    50,000
2    Isaac Baron    50,000
3    Sam Trickett    50,000
4    Barry Greenstein    50,000
5    William Reynolds    50,000
6    Mike McDonald    50,000

I think it's good for poker if it could work because it is good for the players involved, as they are getting something for their efforts from TV and sponsorship in added money, and it's good for poker on TV because I think it will be the most compelling poker on TV, which in turn will hopefully increase viewers and interest.
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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2011, 10:24:59 AM »

Day 1: 63 remain from 137 starters.

Katchalov leads. At this point I'm supposed to point out notable players, but their all notable.

Player    Chip Count    Difference For Level
   Eugene Katchalov
Table 3    356,300    +356,300
   Ben Lamb
Table 6    287,200    +237,200
Brian Rast    Brian Rast
Table 4    260,500    +210,500
   Antonio Esfandiari
Table 2    248,100    +198,100
   Noah Schwartz
Table 9    220,200    +170,200
   Mclean Karr
Table 10    191,800    +191,800
   Hoyt Corkins
Table 8    187,400    +137,400
   Isaac Baron
Table 8    167,700    +117,700
   Daniel O'Brien
Table 11    163,300    +163,300
   Erik Seidel
Table 6    161,200    +111,200
   Gavin Smith
Table 3    161,000    +111,000
   Shawn Buchanan
Table 1    155,700    +105,700
   Justin Grant Young
Table 9    154,200    +154,200
   John Racener
Table 1    153,600    +153,600
   Dan Fleyshman
Table 1    152,200    +152,200
   Brandon Meyers
Table 3    149,500    +149,500
   Jason Mercier
Table 10    146,700    +146,700
   Justin Bonomo
Table 7    140,800    +140,800
David    David 'Chino' Rheem
Table 2    131,000    +81,000
   Hasan Habib
Table 5    128,100    +78,100
   Vitaly Lunkin
Table 5    121,200    +71,200
   Sorel Mizzi
Table 5    117,300    +67,300
   Matthew Glantz
Table 8    111,300    +61,300
   Matthew Graham
Table 2    110,100    +110,100
--------- Average Chip Count 108,730 ---------
   Mike Sexton
Table 8    108,700    +108,700
   Joanne Jishung 'J.J.' Liu
Table 11    107,500    +57,500
   Vanessa Selbst
Table 11    107,400    +107,400
   Jason Lester
Table 4    107,200    +57,200
   Samuel Stein
Table 4    107,100    +107,100
Tom Marchese    Thomas Marchese
Table 5    100,100    +50,100
   Amit Makhija
Table 8    100,100    +100,100
   James Mackey
Table 6    99,100    +49,100
   Huck Seed
Table 6    96,300    +46,300
   Sean Getzwiller
Table 6    95,000    +45,000
   Erik Cajelais
Table 1    90,700    +40,700
   Shannon Shorr
Table 2    87,000    +87,000
   Daniel Shak
Table 10    87,000    +87,000
   Adam Levy
Table 7    87,000    +87,000
   Ted Lawson
Table 9    83,000    +83,000
   Steve Brecher
Table 9    79,000    +79,000
   Timothy West
Table 4    73,000    +23,000
   Lee Markholt
Table 1    70,100    +20,100
   Alec Torelli
Table 5    69,400    +19,400
   Brandon Cantu
Table 10    68,500    +18,500
   Chad Brown
Table 7    59,300    +9,300
   Frank Kassela
Table 1    57,900    +7,900
   David Paul Steicke
Table 11    57,800    +7,800
   Matt Brady
Table 3    56,300    +56,300
   Dwyte Pilgrim
Table 3    55,600    +55,600
   Matt Hawirlenko
Table 4    54,200    +54,200
   Hafiz Khan
Table 9    53,000    +3,000
   Matt Marafioti
Table 2    50,900    +900
   Sam Trickett
Table 9    50,700    +700
   Daniel Alaei
Table 2    50,000    0
   James Van Alstyne
Table 10    42,100    -7,900
   Gavin Griffin
Table 11    41,400    +41,400
   Michael Martin
Table 3    39,900    -10,100
   Clifford Waite
Table 10    39,700    -10,300
   Jeremiah DeGreef
Table 5    38,600    -11,400
   David Bach
Table 11    33,000    -29,000
   Phil Laak
Table 7    28,700    -21,300
   Nam Thien Le
Table 4    25,100    -24,900
   Nenad Medic
Table 7    16,400    -33,600
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« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2011, 12:12:31 PM »

can ben lamb settle the fuck down please?
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« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2011, 12:21:00 PM »

You're telling me you don't want to watch this table?

Hell yes, that is exactly what I am telling you ;-)
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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2011, 12:33:05 PM »

Number of players who have 100% of their action and paid for it themselves

12-14
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« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2011, 01:07:27 PM »

Number of players who have 100% of their action and paid for it themselves

12-14

Only losing players have 100% of their own action these days.
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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2011, 01:25:36 PM »

Not entirely accurate but there is some truth in that statement. If anything 12 was a sell. Anyway im with LilDave on this one- ridiculous tournament, and couldnt give a toss who wins
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« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2011, 01:36:21 PM »

Wether this is a crap tournament or not, Ben Lamb is on FIRE
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