westside8

November 9 turned into October 9 being played on Oct 28-30 to avoid conflict with US election day

800OVER

Seriously I will be there to Rail the Million dollar game...should be crazy.

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philliivey

Doh!

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GTA Poker

Classic Philliing us...cheer up sunshine

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Milo

Really wish they would kill the break for the ME. Why kill the excitement that you built up all tourney, just to try and artificially recreate it again later?

Just let the players play . . .

Basically, they turn the FT into a SnG. All the "flow" from the Main Event is gone thanks to the delay.

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philliivey

100 percent right on the mark.

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Milo

And with me almost finished that book by Phil Shaw, I will be ready should one of the FT players meet an untimely accident.

Wonder if they have a contingency for that? What does TDA say about dying during a break? Would be pretty embarassing if they were to blind off his stack, and the dead guy outlasted a few players . . .
Phil Hellmuth: Man, I was playing the best poker at the FT, I could have gone deeper, too. I was right there. Damn, I could have done better than 7th.
Reporter: Didn't a corpse finish 6th?
PH: I was at the peak of my powers, too . . . and you want to talk about a dead guy? Seriously?
Reporter: I have heard you struggle with nits, Phil . . .

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TheCoordinator

anyone see the exhibition events?!? im definately interested in the bracelet bounty for 560 and the doubles event at 560 also! both should be fun

ottawaplayer

I am not a huge fan of how they have spread the NL events, but I should also factor in that there will be some awesome Deepstack events going on as well.

I was interested in playing the $3k shootout event (#36) this year... But looking at the schedule I might settle for a Saturday $1.5k event and a Monday $2.5k event - events 43 and 46.

Still lots of time to change my mind...

800OVER

I do agree but....what excitement are you talking about? If it's poker players I agree....if it's fans, most people watch the tourney as ESPN releases the shows. The November 9 allows them to ramp up the coverage till it hits the live show in November (or October this year). You and I already know who won in years past (before the Nov 9 years)...but the people that ESPN want are the casual fan who watches the episodes every week. Those people don't care as much that they're watching pre taped shows up to the November 9...but it does give them an event to focus on and advertise for.

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westside8

There will be tons of events around at Venetian and wherever else, so I wouldn't be too worried

blackmagicz

+1

also the SNGs @ RIO will be a money maker as well