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damn I'd hate to see the vig on 10 million.

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If I'm gettin' tha vig, it sounds pretty OK to me.

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bones,

Team PokerStars is bringing back Erin Ness for this event.

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I will be using this tournament to launder cocaine profits.

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anyone wanna stake me? i'm only short 10 million or so.

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Team PokerStars is bringing back Erin Ness for this event.

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God bless PokerStars!!!

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Seriously, how could this even be real. Just think about the reality of those numbers. How much could Phil Ivey possibly have in his bankroll. And why would he want to gamble that much of it away in one shot? My guess is this, there are detail about this thing that we don't know about yet, or they will get sponsors to cover each players buy in, maybe up to 9 million or something like that. This thing just makes next to no sense.

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If this event does take place, I'm sure Phil Ivey would have no trouble getting as much of his entry paid as he likes. In other words there would be no shortage of backers for a player of his caliber.

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From the link

""If Joe wants to play, we'd be happy to have him on board," Mr Longhurst said. "We're going to have talks with Joe." Mr Longhurst said players would either put up their own $13.3 million to play or have their entry fee paid by sponsors.

In high-stakes international poker competitions it is common for sponsors, such as online poker companies, to pay the entry fees for players they use to promote their online gambling sites."


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Something tells me that Stars won't be putting Evelyn Ng in this one.

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Bones,

You're avatar is a godsend.

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Also Ivey has stated that he believes that he needs to play higher stakes to take his game to the next level. I don't understand how that is possible because what would a 1 million dollar game do to his game that he doesn't already have?

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Seriously, how could this even be real. Just think about the reality of those numbers. How much could Phil Ivey possibly have in his bankroll. And why would he want to gamble that much of it away in one shot? My guess is this, there are detail about this thing that we don't know about yet, or they will get sponsors to cover each players buy in, maybe up to 9 million or something like that. This thing just makes next to no sense.

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I don't know about the sponsorship. Like somebody said in another thread, it would be far more than even a Super Bowl commercial.