Heavyweight Championship of Poker - great idea or doomed for failure?

[Kevmath]

For those of you who've got $105k lying around, here's a tournament for you:

http://www.pokerplayernewspaper.com/...cle.php?id=577

[RoyalLance]

I stayed at the Statosphere once (when there was no poker in there) and I thought it was nice. Even though I have yet to seen the poker room there, but I think this event has some potential to say the least. I wish I can get a sattelite to this game.

[cwsiggy]

Sounds interesting but what a convoluted mess with regard to who owns what piece of who from this and that property and if you are at the final table you own 3% and blah blah blah. Sheesh. And why are some pros getting a freeroll with 60% going to the public and others having to buy in fully.

[kleos]

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And why are some pros getting a freeroll with 60% going to the public and others having to buy in fully.

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And why is Mike Sexton on the list for that and Barry G is just a maybe? Unless Barry wants to buy in so he can donate more, that seems wrong on a moral level.

[drewjustdrew]

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And why is Mike Sexton on the list for that and Barry G is just a maybe? Unless Barry wants to buy in so he can donate more, that seems wrong on a moral level.

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Larry Flynt Challenge Cup

Not out of the realm of reality.

[hotdog da 2rd]

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And why is Mike Sexton on the list for that and Barry G is just a maybe? Unless Barry wants to buy in so he can donate more, that seems wrong on a moral level.

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Larry Flynt Challenge Cup

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2003 Poker Challenge Cup
Sun-Mon, March 9-10, 2003
Event #15
7-Card Stud
Buy-In: $125,000 + $2,000
Players: 8
Prize Pool: $1,000,000

1. Barry Greenstein $770,000
2. Larry Flynt $230,000
3. Johnny Chan
4. Ted Forrest
5. Steven Wolfe
6. Doyle Brunson
7. Dr. Jerry Buss
8. Phil Ivey

[Quicksilvre]

Is that correct? I understood that Greenstein won the whole million.

[A_C_Slater]

Can I play if I only weigh 130 pounds?

[shaniac]

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[cwsiggy]

Or perhaps these better describe the event and it's structure....

abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, daedal, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, gordian, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding