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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041025/lam136_1.html
Looks like they are anticipating 3000 to 6000 for the Main Event. |
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Have they always had a short-handed no limit tourney?
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Nope - that would be new. Damn interesting, too. Also big changes in the start date (6 weeks later), and the buy-in for the 1st weekend of events (all $1500), and the number of events - up to 45 from 30-something last year. See y'all there...
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Have they always had a short-handed no limit tourney? [/ QUOTE ] That must be new. Looks like there's 12 more events than last year. |
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Looks like there's 12 more events than last year.
lots of added events, and tv coverage for *all* events i hear. this should mean several payouts for the cheaper events will exceed a million for first. |
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Just 1 lowball and razz tourney? Boo hiss!
I never did get tivo to record the lowball tourney..... |
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there was a lowball? i only remember razz. when was lowball aired?
oh man, nothing better than razz other than lowball. 900 year old dinosaurs figting over 2 betting rounds. |
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gonna be 10,000 for the main event. they are understating the estimates on purpose.
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gonna be 10,000 for the main event. they are understating the estimates on purpose.
I must be the only person on the planet expecting less runners this year. What am I missing? Lori |
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Expanded TV coverage....more and more players.
I'm predicting 7k-8k or so.....but wouldn't be completely surprised by 9k-10k. The TV series 'Tilt' (on ESPN in January from the guys that did the movie Rounders) will continue to feed the frenzy. And all the WSOP-tour events on ESPN from AC and New Orleans etc will add to it. The ESPN coverage is the key. The WPT and the Fox-Sports Net stuff (PSI and other shows) don't even come close to the audiences that ESPN gets. The WSOP went from 800 to 2600 mostly from ESPN showing the same 6 or 7 episodes of 2003 WSOP-championship coverage. This year they are constantly showing ALL of the events over and over....not just the championship table. They were showing the 7-card stud again today for example. Fox-Net is showing a lot of poker-reruns too (PSI and others) although this doesn't have the same kind of influence. More and more people I know that previously knew NOTHING about poker (had never seen WPT or anything) just can't avoid it on ESPN anymore. Example: About 12-14 mths ago I read a post on a sportscasters' message-board (bunch of guys who mostly call high-school football, etc). This guy described this bizarre 'poker coverage' that he saw on TV when he was at a friends' house and couldn't believe how ridiculous it was (I think he was watching WPT but I'm not sure). "Can you believe Poker on TV?? How weird is that? I just had to tell you guys because I know you would all find this as hilarious as I did." He made jokes about whether the 'play-by-play' (PxP) announcer should really be referred to as a 'card-by-card' (CxC) announcer. Some of the responses he got on the forums from other sportscasters pretty much agreed that they thought that sounded really ridiculous. Keep in mind, this was AFTER Moneymaker had won. Less than 2 years ago I didn't know what a 'flop' or 'big-blind' and had never heard of Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, etc. So I can kinda/sorta identify with the "What the hell is poker?" type crowd because it wasn't too long ago I was part of that crowd. Now, virtually everyone has run across some of the poker coverage on ESPN (and other channels). We just hadn't reached the ultimate saturation point when the WSOP had 2600 last April. It's still been growing since then. |
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