"Official" ESPN Coverage of WSOP Main Event: Final 27

[splashpot]

When is the next episode?

[Dynasty]

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When is the next episode?

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I assume it's next Tuesday night.

[Kevmath]

It's Tuesday night, probably from 9-11pm, a check at ESPN's TV schedule for Tuesday has 4 hours of WSOP coverage (assuming a repeat of tonight's 2 hours starting at 7pm). ESPN's schedule for 11/15

[B Dids]

That was about the two most entertaining hours of televised poker I've seen. ESPN did a good job putting this one together.

Dannemann, Matusow and Black all seemed really cool. Especially Black.

[shant]

Very very entertaining. I especially enjoyed the Sheik/Matusow confrontations.

[dlk9s]

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That was about the two most entertaining hours of televised poker I've seen. ESPN did a good job putting this one together.

Dannemann, Matusow and Black all seemed really cool. Especially Black.

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From witnessing it all in person (and getting a chance to be at the press conferences), Black is definitely a cool guy. Strangely spiritual for a poker player, but cool nonetheless.

Dannenmann is exactly what he seems like - your next door neighbor. Friendly, funny, unassuming. The visor he was wearing was for his buddy's company. The friend did give him half his buy-in in exchange for wearing the visor, but the visor request was more of a joke than anything, considering he didn't expect to get it on TV.

Matusow, while still "The Mouth," was a good sport even when things didn't go his way. I was standing a few yards away when he had that blowup with Sheik and I can tell you that virtually nobody was siding with Sheik. That chest bump someone asked about was for entertainment value.

Hachem is also a very cool guy. He should be a great ambassador for the game. Seems appreciate the game, appreciate people, and appreciate life.

[gobboboy]

Can you imagine what would happen if Sheik had won? *shudder*

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This is a standard stop and go play. He is committed to call preflop no matter what, and if greg knows the money is getting in no matter what then why not give himself the slightest possibility of getting his opponent to fold on the flop when overcards appear? The paired board was pretty bad. If the flop had come KQ7 instead of KK7 I think he would've folded.

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I see. So given Alsancak's range of hands and given all possible flops, he's more likely to fold on the flop than he would preflop?

-McGee

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He's never folding preflop if he thinks he's in a coinflip with 55 for that few chips. He will, however, fold on a scary flop when he doesn't think he is getting odds.

[tonypaladino]

So here's what I don't understand:

The "final table" consists of 9 players, yet when they were down to 10, instead of running 2 5 handed tables, they went to 1 10 handed table. Then, after 1 is eliminated the remianing players return the next day to play the "final table". How is the 10 handed table not the final table? I thought by definition, when there is 1 table left in a MTT, it becomes the final table?

[Dynasty]

Sometimes terms used aren't accurate. An accurate term could be "final day table".

Mike: "You want action? If you say you do, I'll call, but if you don't, I won't."

Shiek: "I want action."

Mike: "I fold."