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.

[shaniac]

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convoluted

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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

[jjnidguy]

If I'm going to pay a 5k entry fee to play in a 100k tourney, shana hiatt better be waiting for me in my hotel room.

seems like a retarded rate.

[MrClutch]

It'll probably cost $500K just to tell everyone what's going on.

[cwsiggy]

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It'll probably cost $500K just to tell everyone what's going on.


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lol - good one

[odellthurman]

If everyone finishing out of the money gets a $5,000 consolation prize, then what you are really talking about is a $95,000 buy-in with $5,000 in fees.