so exactly how much cash was on the table?

[AcesUp]

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I'm not privy to what happened during the main event, but I can relay this experience from my final table.

After I busted, they brought me over to do an exit interview, near where the table full of cash was. I ran my fingers through one of the stacks, and it indeed contained $1 bills, with one Benjamin on top.

For all I know, all the other stacks contained 100s through and through but the one stack I picked out was mostly singles.

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And I can say unequivocally that my final table experience was the same. $100 bills on the outside, $1 bills on the inside.


-Aces

[TStoneMBD]

dude you are utterly ridiculous. you obviously have no idea what youre talking about, but for some reason assume that you could not possibly be wrong here.

whether the money at the wsop was real or not i do not know, but am pretty certain that its $1 bills.

i dont have the picture on hand, but i have seen a picture from either the WPT or WSOP where the money on the table had $1 bill sticking out from the $100 roll by accident. you argue that the wsop is different from the wpt because it happens to be located in the uber-safe land of las vegas, but you have absolutely no evidence to back that claim.

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A small minority of people who actually have evidence are being completely ignored.

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How so? I've yet to see any proof in one direction or the other.

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Well then its a good thing that you seem completely sure that its real money.

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Hmm, lets see...

- It's Vegas, where large amounts of money are fairly common.

- It's the WSOP where the winner, if he/she chooses, can't take the cash.

- They are insured and there are many cameras in the room

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If you go back and look at the ESPN broadcast you will see a guy in a tux supervising the money being boxed in the cage. You then see him escorting the security guards upstairs, then he is placing the money on the side table and finally he is dumping the money onto the table. He was the Financial Director for the WSOP last year and responsible for all of the money. I think he knows what was real and not.


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So yes, I am "completely sure that its real money"

Did you have anything of substance to add?

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It's not often that someone goes out of there way to make such a complete ass of themselves. It shouldn't be this easy.

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mad l0lz, bitchez

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Zzzzzzzzzz, then why did your last post make it sound like it was?

Luckily for me...I could care less if I was right or wrong...In this case, it appears I was wrong...And still don't care.

[dlk9s]

I was standing next to Phil Ivey when he won (well, after he won...I'm not THAT special) and he picked up a wad of cash. When he thumbed through it, he saw that it was all $1 bills in the middle.

As for the final table, while I do not have a picture of the cash, I am fairly certain it was not all real. At one point, Hachem started unwrapping a bundle to toss to the crowd. He never threw any money, but what I saw sure didn't look real. I think that was one reason the tournament officials discouraged him from throwing it to the crowd.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But I know for absolute certain that there were $1 bills in the middle of the wads at the other final tables.

[dlk9s]

Ok - I am flipping through some pictures I took. Unfortunately, I didn't take any direct shots of the cash at the final table, but I am looking at one right now which, if you zoom in a bit, shows that there are not $100 bills all the way through those bundles. I will post it in a minute.

Here it is:



Underneath Hachem's right hand (the one with the bracelet), I half-assed circled a stack of money with the outside bill peeled back a bit. You can't see the denomination of the bill underneath, but you can see the edge detail. $100 bills do not have edge detail like that. $1 bills do. I am holding one of each right now and am pretty sure that's a $1 underneath.

I apologize for the pixelation if you zoom in a lot. I had to reduce the quality for ImageShack to accept the upload. It was a huge picture - something like 8 megapixels - on my computer I can zoom in like crazy with no degradation in quality.

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I apologize for the pixelation if you zoom in a lot. I had to reduce the quality for ImageShack to accept the upload. It was a huge picture - something like 8 megapixels - on my computer I can zoom in like crazy with no degradation in quality.

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Can't you crop it and post a full-res image of just that portion of the picture?

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It's not like someones going to run in their and do a beer-run on a bundle...there are a 'few' people standing around (and 2 have shotguns).

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I was surprised at these unprofessional goons. They appear to be carrying short barrelled, pump-action entry shotguns. A terrible choice for this environment where precision shots are required. Additionally, they are carrying in a high ready instead of an indoor ready, quite questionable safety-wise. I'd match a single gunman with an AR-15 and some 30-round mags, against these bozos anyday...

[A_C_Slater]

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It's not like someones going to run in their and do a beer-run on a bundle...there are a 'few' people standing around (and 2 have shotguns).

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I was surprised at these unprofessional goons. They appear to be carrying short barrelled, pump-action entry shotguns. A terrible choice for this environment where precision shots are required. Additionally, they are carrying in a high ready instead of an indoor ready, quite questionable safety-wise. I'd match a single gunman with an AR-15 and some 30-round mags, against these bozos anyday...

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Any group of serious theives intending to steal 7.5 million dollars wouldn't be swayed by two donks with shotguns.

That being said, no world class ninja-like theives would try to steal the money because they would do the research and know it was just one big mexican bankroll.