2024 World Series of Poker May 28th to July 17th ***No Spoilers***

It's his ear lobe.

Too bad Foxen's rail wasn't coaching her as well, somebody would have told her to quit playing when she was maybe 15th with 75M, and fold her way to the FT.

Boom

Cliff ?

Bottom line, he doesn't care, he has his 6M and it's over. He saw them doing something on the rail but had no evidence they were using sims, etc. if he did then he may have called the floor.

He said he would leave option open for legal, etc. but that won't happen, he doesn't care.

No, it's Griff.

Joe McKeehan's 2015 WSOP with Jonathan Tamayo and Dominik Nitsche on the rail. Laptop sims/audio devices in play? .... what are the odds 2 roommates win the ME 9 years apart?

Scott Seiver winning 3 tournaments too. How could that happen

If they were that good at cheating, wouldn't they win more often?

Is McKeehan actually studied? I thought he was more of "feel" player. Looks like he spent his entire life in front of a computer or Nintendo but seems way too lazy to study sims.

Wow, good eye. I think I alluded to this, but the notion of having people on the rail doing intel dates back a while, correct? Not saying it makes it okay, just that this is not unprecedented. Obviously, this year's situation can't possibly compare to previous FTs because of the advancement in tech.

I'm still curious to know how much advantage there is to be gained by a solver if the hand does not get entered until after it's done. I get that it's non-zero. The comment in another thread about establishing ranges, particularly as stacks get to the point of AIPF, is the one point that makes the most sense to me. But I also don't use a solver, so I have less of a handle of how helpful they are when not done in real time.

I believe it helps greatly with preflop ranges in contrast to you and your opponents stack size. Betting tendencies can be tracked with the use of the live stream showing your hands witch can increase you chance of not getting bluffs through as well as not getting paid off with winning hands. VPIP,c-betting, how much you bet/ check when your opponent misses the flop/hits the flop etc. can be tracked with real time assistance to increase your win rate dramatically pre and post flop. All the range solutions according to stack size, position and tracking your opponents tendencies preflop eliminates the first street of difficulty for you or at least narrows your decision down. Id say that is a huge advantage over your opponents.

According to Pads himself he was relaying in super computer sims back in like 2015.

As an aside, if you want to see giga levels of cope just read Pads tweets since the FT controversy started. Hes basically admitted to like 10 different types of cheating in the past and is using that as reasons why this current scandal is no big deal. Pretty hilarious stuff.

It's not surprising.
If we had today's computing power in 2015 he probably would have been doing it from the rail instead of his home super computer.

"Crazy Lady" Sunita Advaney kicked out of WSOP 2024 gives her side - interview by Amir Namatinia

29 bad beats!!!

This. She set a once in a lifetime opportunity on fire, cost herself millions. She couldÂ’ve easily nitted her way to the final five by shoving with AA, KK & AK. Insanity.

The amount of ignorance in this thread WRT solvers is amazing.

What's bothering you today, Allen?!?!

Lol, probably a bad play, but not a good idea to nit ones way to the final table. I watched the videos, and there is a lot of weak/tight play and not much bluffing.

Are you all successful tournament players? The way to win long-term is to play for the top 3 or top 5 places, not nit your way to the final table. Doesn't matter if it is an online $50 or the WSOP. You play for the $10M, 6M, 4M, 3M, not to move up from 600K to 1.25 M.

[QUOTE=Pokernews]Kessler, who detailed his win in a video, revealed that he had been playing the Aristocrat slot machine for an intense 12-hour stretch. Throughout this marathon session, he was betting $125 per spin and had a remaining balance of $2,458 when the jackpot struck.[/QUOTE]

lol? 125 per spin for 12 hours? Didnt know the dude was a massive slots degen. Ive always had the impression that he was just some poker loving retiree with a big bankroll amassed from his career, or a frugal guy with a nice chunk of family money.

But if this is true he has to be incredibly rich.

I don't think he'd consider himself a slot degen, but rather a VP/slot advantage player. Although so-called advantage plays on slots are often pretty suspect.

He's not a degen. I'm sure he was +ev with every slot pull. He probably knew the jackpot was going to hit at some point in the near future.

Btw... what a ****ing hit. That covers his WSOP buy ins for the next 5 yrs.

These machines are a group of machines that are linked together. Every time someone makes a wages an increment of that wager it added to a "side pot" that side pot grows and grows and it randomly goes off but must be hit at say $1,800 as a typical example. If the zombie apocalypse was happening and you walked into an empty casino and the side pot was at $1,799.99 and it must be hit by $1800 then you know when make a bet and in increment of your bet is going into the side pot then you know it is going to hit.

That is why Allen was there playing for 12 hours and not leaving. The side pot was at whatever amount you think is worth sitting down, if you can find a seat, be it already at $1,300 or $1,400 and then you ride the volatility wave of the machine trying to be the one to randomly hit the side pot that must hit by $1,800. And once the side pot is hit and reset to a low number, then all the advantage players stand up and leave and check on the machine again hours later when it has grown again. Chainsaw didn't hit the side pot, he binked the jackpot of the slot machine which is a lot better.

Sounds like a great way to make a living