2010 WSOP Schedule Stuff -- Existentialist musings of an online poker player

The news of that WSOP Tournament of Champions got me looking at the schedule for this summer once again, something I hadn’t really done much since it was first announced back in December. You can check out the 2010 WSOP schedule in full here.

A few items of note here as I look over the sucker once more.

No Main Event on Fourth of July. This year Sunday, July 4 has been scheduled as an off-day for the WSOP -- the Main Event this year begins on July 5. If you recall, in 2009 the Fourth of July (a Saturday) was one of the four Day Ones for the Main Event (Day 1b), and drew only 873 players, the lowest of any of the Day Ones. That helped create the fiasco that was Day 1d, when 2,809 players ended up playing while hundreds more were turned away.

Then again, it isn’t quite right to call July 4 “off-day” for the WSOP this year, as it looks as though two other events -- Event No. 54, the last of the six open-field $1,000 no-limit hold’em tourneys & Event No. 56, a $2,500 NLH event -- will be playing their final tables that day. And the TOC final table (also scheduled for July 4) will make three. Am glad, though, that the schedule-makers saw the problem with trying to get folks out to start a new tourney -- esp. the Main Event -- on the Fourth of July.

Everyone who wants to gets to play the Main Event this year. Preregistration is open for all 57 bracelet events, and those registering to play in the Main Event will find a section of the form noting how “you may request which First Day you prefer to start.” All four days are listed (7/5, 7/6, 7/7, and 7/8), and one is directed to rank the four days according to preference. “Placement in the event is not guaranteed and will be based on availability,” explains the form, meaning you don't necessarily get your first choice. Also, if you don't indicate a preference, “you will automatically be placed based on availability.”

Seems like not too much to ask, and a simple solution to last year’s problem. There will be those who complain about having not their first choice come July, but those complaints won’t be nearly as loud or significant as what we heard last year from those who were shut out of the Main Event.

The juice. Glancing at the structure sheets for this year’s events, the “juice” -- that is, the amount taken out of the prize pool as “entry fees” and “for tournament staff” -- appears to be the same for most of the events with just a couple of exceptions. For the $1,500 and $2,000 buy-in events, a total of 10% will be withheld this year as opposed to 9% last year.

Of course, those $1,000 events (eight total this year) also have 10% taken out, as will the Casino Employees Event No. 1 ($500 buy-in). The larger the buy-in, the lower the percentages, e.g., the $50,000 “Poker Player’s Championship” (Event No. 2) will have just 4% taken out, just like the $40K event last year. A total of 6% is taken from the prize pool for the $10,000 buy-in events, including the Main Event.

All those $1,000 events. The addition of those extra $1,000 buy-in NLH events attracted a lot of attention when the schedule was first announced. If you recall, there was one -- called a “Stimulus Special” -- last time around, while this time there are six. The Ladies Event (No. 22) and the Seniors Event (No. 34) also remain $1,000 buy-in events.

One might think that adding all of those low buy-in events -- while still keeping the same overall total of 57 events -- might have altered the WSOP landscape, class-wise. That is, are the low buy-in events taking over the schedule? Actually, no. In 2009, there were 38 events with buy-ins $2,500 or lower. In 2010, there are 37. And we’re looking at the same number of $10,000 buy-in events (10), too, plus once again a couple of biggies (the $25,000 six-handed NLH Event No. 52 & the $50K “Player’s Championship).

WSOP Countdown Clock

The clock is ticking. The other thing that TOC announcement has done is made me more aware that we’re only a little over ten weeks away from the thing kicking off, thanks to that Jack Link’s Beef Jerky countdown clock staring you right in the face on the WSOP home page.

Won’t be long. Jeez, I can almost smell the beef, water, sugar, salt, dried soy sauce, maltodextrin, fructose, monosodium glutamate, flavorings, hydrolyzed corn protein, sodium erythorbate, paprika extract, and sodium nitrate now.

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Marlon
from: Sprankle Mills, PA
Post #9646

When play was stopped for the night just 18 remained of the 3929 starters in event #2 the $1500 nlh. In third place was Londoner, HitSquad member and my friend James Akenhead.

With 1,039,000 chips James will come back at 9.30pm, (London, 1.30pm Vegas), in a great position to win a bracelet.

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Buford
from: Mount Pleasant, SC
Post #7385

GL shove and think of england!

Tehani
from: Ajo, AZ
Post #6003

Grumbledook wrote: GL shove and think of england!

Please don't do this! it will end in tears!

Best of luck!

Shondie
from: Woodburn, OR
Post #5614

Please don't do this! it will end in tears!

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Aimee
from: Ranchester, WY
Post #5404

gl sickdog!

Pepper
from: Saint Bonifacius, MN
Post #9768

Chip leader at the dinner break with 10 left (after having his pocked aces cracked earlier by some joker.)
Good luck fella.

Ike
from: Salem, MA
Post #7924

He's heads up for the bracelet....................

Grant Hinkle - 7,595,000
James Akenhead - 4,235,000

Dove
from: Hubbell, MI
Post #5511

AJPoker wrote: He's heads up for the bracelet....................

Grant Hinkle - 7,595,000
James Akenhead - 4,235,000

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Tomara
from: Ballwin, MO
Post #8110

gogogo

Lyna
from: Ashley, IN
Post #5395

James Akenhead now ahead slightly. GL

Rosslyn
from: Grand Forks, ND
Post #9176

How much for 1st and 2nd?

Myrle
from: Star City, AR
Post #6081

1 $ 831,462
2 $ 520,219

James Akenhead - 6,735,000
Grant Hinkle - 5,050,000

Isobel
from: Still River, MA
Post #8985

Sounded like Ferguson had a good run he was nearly out several times
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Caren
from: Barnum, MN
Post #9706

Anyone else following the updates on Pokernews? They seem to be making a lot of condesending remarks about boring heads up play and the players being over cautious. Maybe they need reminded it's probably a once in a lifetime chance for the players to win a bracelet and the biggest payday of their poker careers
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Jaylin
from: Woodward, IA
Post #8743

Well I think the reporters probably wanted a quick final table and I think it's been the same two reporters who covered it since the start of the day so they could be forgiven for being tetchy and a little scathing.

It's 4:35am Las Vegas time and the last 18 playing down to the final two has taken at least 14 hours.

Codi
from: Dade City, FL
Post #9549

UL for 2nd. last hand was sick

Deandre
from: Charlestown, MD
Post #5016

Looks like they got their wish. Unlucky James sick flop
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