MATH Recap
May 27, 2008
Wow, it seems like I picked a terrible day to completely miss out on Mondays at the Hoy. Four of the top 8 finishers (and ITM players) came out of the massive BBT3 prop bet going on here as the 3-month challenge rolls on to a close, and it looks like o…
2008 WSOP in Three days
May 27, 2008
A Mega Satellite will have the cards in the air on Thursday, May 29, at Noon. A $500 buy-in will put players in a seat behind a $4,000 stack of tournament chips. No rebuys and no add-ons for this race to win a seat in the 2008 World Series of Poker Championship Main Event. The tournament is scheduled for 1 day.
All levels will last 30 minutes. One seat will be awarded for every $10,200 collected from buy-ins. Seats are non-transferable so winners must play the seat in the event. WSOP staff will receive 3% from the total buy-ins. This event is a great way to start your 2008 WSOP experience and it offers players an opportunity to get a feel for the World’s biggest poker show.
Event #1, the World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em contest, gets under way on Friday at Noon and is a 3 day tournament. The Pot-Limit Hold’em defending champion, Allen Cunningham, collected $487,287 after outlasting a field of 398 players. A major difference in the 2008 championship is the doubling of the buy-in from the $5,000 in 2007 to $10,000 in this year’s event. All levels will last 60 minutes and players will begin with $20,000 in play money.
The Big Poker Show is here. All the excitement, the thrills, the winners, the losers, the drama, and and the greatest collection of finely honed poker skills in the world. Throw in the life changing prize pools of millions and millions of dollars paid out to players and you have a formula that will keep the adrenalin flowing continuously for the next month and a half.
Of course, you really need to be here and experience this poker circus first hand at least once in your poker life so make plans to spend some quality time at the Rio Las Vegas, home of the 2008 World Series of Poker.
PokerStars Sunday Tournament Results (5-25-08)
May 26, 2008
What a day. What. A. Day. Sunday May 25 was one of those days players had to be at PokerStars. In one 24-hour period, PokerStars put up more than $4 million in guaranteed tournament prizes. Everywhere we turned, there was…
Memorial Day Quickie, and MATH Pimp
May 26, 2008
Quick post for a holiday Monday. This feels like the tenth time I’ve posted on Memorial Day, partly because I’m a sicko about updating my blog and partly because I’m always coming on here to clarify for everyone that the Memorial Day Mondays at the Ho…
Schmidl89 wins May Turbo Takedown
May 25, 2008
It’s the type of turbo tournament you don’t see every day. The buy-in is Frequent Player Points. The prize pool is a whopping $1 million. First place comes in at a cool $100,000. When PokerStars tried out the Turbo Takedown…
Gr8DSip wins Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout
May 25, 2008
The Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout is not something for nothing, although it might feel like it to the people who win thousands of dollars for doing what they’d normally be doing anyway. Everyone knows, there are tons of…
Vectile masters the Barry Greenstein Masterclass
May 25, 2008
It’s quite a proposition for any player with 60,000 Frequent Player Points to spend them all on a single table HORSE tournament. It’s something else entirely to do it at the table with one of the best poker players in…