tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11828468.post1821756602938791140..comments2023-10-12T07:52:41.914-04:00Comments on Poker Wannabe: WSOP 2013 event #40 recapcolumbo (at eifco dot org)http://www.blogger.com/profile/16116768669414563102noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11828468.post-28926048048496285432013-06-26T15:48:15.144-04:002013-06-26T15:48:15.144-04:00Hey Ray.
Enjoyed following you closely on Twitter...Hey Ray.<br /><br />Enjoyed following you closely on Twitter and was rooting hard for you to cash. You kind of bumped up against the thing I had commented on in your post right before you left -- they start you off so short stacked in these events that even doubling up a couple of times in the first day is really not enough to have a ton of chips by the end of the day. You were basically at average late in Day 1, and one preflop reraise-fold later, you are feeling short and making decisions that you wish you did not have to make. It sounds like you played pretty solid and made some good moves, though it sure would have been nice to have been paid off more on what sounds like quite a few premium starting hands you were dealt for just one day of a tournament. Of course, you slow play those pocket Kings or Queens and we all know how that ends.<br /><br />For the life of me I cannot understand why the World Series is insistent on starting off with such crappy starting stacks in their events. I am fully down with the notion of a higher buyin event having a larger starting chipstack, but playing live in the Northeast where you have the Borgata in AC and Parx in Philly starting people at 25-50 but with 40k and 50k stacks and nice, slow structures for even a $500 buyin event, ponying up $1500 to start with under 5k in chips at 25-25 at the Rio just seems like a needlessly penalizing position to take, and one that it seems to me clearly weakens the WSOP brand overall, particularly in the minds of the more skilled players that the WSOP is supposed to be catering to. I keep waiting for the WSOP to start up a new "deepstack series" or something similar -- which would then make some sense out of this draconian starting-stack position for their regular non-deepstack events -- but so far I have heard nothing and it's been going on for a few years already now.<br /><br />Harrahs has basically been crushing the WSOP brand little by little, year by year, ever since they took it over in the last decade. Even in my first few WSOP events you weren't sitting down to 3k or 4k in chips, that really is a very new and I think very unfortunate, non skill-favoring turn of events for what is supposed to be the most prestigious poker tournament in the history of the world.<br /><br />Glad you got out to play and really did appreciate the twitter updates and this writeup. Go get 'em next time my man.Hammer Player a.k.a Hoyazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031535857121915911noreply@blogger.com