People are stuck on this saying "it's a soft field" and loads more silly sayings. You are playing the WSOP if you go deep, then you ae up against the very best players in the world & not to mention previous to that, you still need the massive amount of luck to get deep in that tournament. If you are saying that Daniel Morgan is a 1.6 player in any tournament, then Chris Brammer, Alex, Trigg and numerous more will be selling a package at 2.5.
Aaron, you need a massive amount of luck to go deep in ANY tournament that is a totally moot point.
I'm not saying, and have never said that Dan Morgan is 1.6 mark-up value in any tournament - Phil Ivey is NOT 1.6 mark up value in ANY tournament, no-one in the world is, so another moot point.
Do you know ANYTHING about Dan's game? Do you know ANYTHING about his background? You know plenty about Alex because he has a diary here, we know plenty about Trigg because of his very public results, and we know about Brammer because of his success - I'd hazard a guess that you actually know nothing about any of there poker games. There is certain things I'd back brammer in over Dan, Dan in over Alex and Alex in over Bram, but I can make these statements with authority because I know the three of them and their poker games very well.
Incidently, Brammer would have sold in the main event at a higher price than 1.6 if he had put a package up im sure of that.
You say I have nothing to back it up with, but everything speaks for itself. The package did not even come close to selling out & it's the only BAP I can remember that has never sold on Blonde. Furthermore you say I continue to insist it's a bad value package, but I have already mentioned that a lot of better players was already selling Vegas action for a lot lower, why would I buy in a player who is selling at a higher rate who I believe is not a better player than someone else who is selling a lot cheaper?
Like Adam said (and I said earlier) there were actually
better value propositions out there probably (not by a lot I hasten to add) so if you had $1000 to spend on main event action you'd prolly have got a little more "bang for your buck" buying something else, however if you had $50,000 to spend on Mai Event action you'd have made at least a good buy.
I can sit here and think I'm being harsh on Dan, but then I am of the opinion that he was genuinely trying to get pretty much a free meal ticket out of the stake.
You're not being harsh, you're just calling someone you don't out in public over a situation you don't know anything about - you know how people I know get 50/50 freerolls in the main event - it's that type of tournament.
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