2025 WSOP!!

Quick tournament report:

So disappointed with my play in the monster. Ended up getting 11ishbb in with q10o to j10s so had a shot to get back into it right before dinner break but he flopped an open ended sfd
..lol no way I was winning that. I had a pretty tough table with 4 dudes over 6 figures in winnings. I will never ever look at anyone's results again, it got in my head.

Played the USO tournament the next day and played much better outside of one mistake where I put in a bit too much money with an open ended straight draw in a sb vs bb battle. It was a French guy who was running hot as ****. I battled until about 10pm and got it in with 99 vs two different AK....GREAT. king on river.

So both tournaments i was knocked out on bad beats...ill take solace in that. But I seem to run really card dead in the bigger events I play. When you get stuck folding for 3-4 hours its pretty rough on your hopes.

I did cash in both dailies I played and even ran deep in one. Got to 40th with a top 12-15ish stack. Open shoved a million from hijack with AQ and this dumb girl in bb who literally just doubled by sucking out called off all of her million with A10h. Blinds were 30-60k. I lost but would have been top 3 in chips. Bummer. I think she thought "SUITED!" and had to call.

Hope some of you all had some good runs. Its such an exciting place to be and I cant wait to go back next year. Ill start saving pretty much next week when I start work.

Sounds like you ran bad on the table draw in the Monster. I've played it three times now and never had a difficult starting table. When you start to get deep in those $1.5ks, it becomes a different story. The difficulty progression becomes very apparent in the Monster and Milly if you make it reasonably far.

My Salute starting table was one of the easiest I've had in a bracelet event. Sticking that tournament on day 2 of the Monster filtered out a lot of the competition. Not very many "notables" made runs in that event, likely because very few of them played it. From a game selection standpoint, it was a great one to play this year.

I went 1-for-4 on WSOP bullets this summer, with the lone cash being for the minimum in the Salute. I also whiffed two WSOP dailies and bricked a $135 satty. That gets an emphatic "meh" from me. Cashing anything is better than a pure strikeout, but you hope to put a real run together and flirt with some fun pay jumps. Not this year.

My resolutions for next year:

- Try to satellite into some of the big boy NLHE events ($2k+). Smaller fields, slower structure, and tougher competition make these an attractive challenge.
- Skip two-day WSOP NLHE events. There's value in these, but they are a variance nightmare with the huge fields and short levels.
- Play the Monster and/or Milly again. These are a great experience and structure at a reasonable price point.

Barring unexpected setbacks, I'll build a trip around the Monster and/or Milly next summer and supplement with tournaments elsewhere.

My best summer out of the 4 I’ve done - cashed in 4 out of 5 tourneys; made my first day 3, getting knocked out in 41st place. All around was a blast and it’s been a tough adjustment since I got home. Bricked two monster bullets though, which was the only one I didn’t cash. Aks

I can't say I agree with the sentiment and enthusiasm of the last few posters : I truly despise the hidden fees/increased rake and the way of attributing it to hidden "staff fees". Sure the numbers have been increasing (generally) over the past few years, but the brand seems to be stemming from pure corporate greed and even more so after the GG purchase. Of course, there are no tournaments in the world that can compare to the Main Event and the PLO Championship, so it will be hard to not show up next year to play them, but I can't really say that I am impressed with the general direction that the WSOP is taking, in Vegas and across the world 😊

The WSOP remains a unique experience, however I was disappointed with the daily deepstacks and satellites being 10 handed on 9 handed tables. It is horrible being crammed so close together for hours, and an example of WSOP prioritising profit over player experience - taking 20% rake for 10-handed poker, and tables so close together that people can't even get out of their seat.

At minimum they should switch to 9-handed once they start breaking tables, but the stubborn floor staff even refused to do that.

I agree...I played 5 $250 daily deepstacks and they were a miserable experience. The close quarters and playing 10 handed were bad enough, but the PEOPLE who played are what made it miserable. I've never seen so many people trying to start **** with someone else at the table.

One 20s-something dude was antagonizing the dealer, the floor, other players, all before the first card was dealt. The dealer did not check ID of one of the players coming in, and this dude threw a tantrum, calling the floor, and loudly proclaiming that this dealer was not doing their job correctly, etc. etc. Those two players ended up having words and almost coming to blows, the floor had to come over and calm them down. Then the 20s something dude won a big pot off the guy whose ID wasn't checked, and they almost got into a fight again. "You wanna go? You wanna go?" The 20s kid goes "I got an AK-47 in my trunk, what's up now?" The floor didn't hear that one or I assume that would've been the end of his day right there. The ID guy busted, but decided to wait for the 20s something guy at the bottom of the escalator on break. They had to be separated by security and the 20s guy didn't return to the table. About 20 minutes later, the floor came by and racked up his chips and told the dealer to eliminate him from the tournament. I assume they both were kicked out of Caesars.

THEN the next one I play, two guys start getting into again. "You wanna go? You wanna go?" This one didn't escalate as much, but it left me wondering if it was even possible to play one of these things without running into adult children.

I can't deny that these tournaments are great value, but I'm not sure they're worth all the extra BS that comes along with them.

Yeah, this was my thought too, and I agree that the field was pretty soft. My first table was actually terrible - Kathy Liebert and a bunch of aggro Euros. Looking around the room it looked like every table was better than mine. Thankfully I got moved early in the day. I ended up making day 2 and spinning it up after the bubble broke, but ran out of gas, finishing in the high 100s.

I also made day 2 of the Gladiator on one bullet I won for $33 on WSOP.com. I got it in bad 3 times for my tournament life and won all 3 on day 1, including AQ > QQ vs. David Jackson on the very last hand of the day to bag over a million for day 2. Spun up to 3.5M on first break of day 2, but ended up losing a flip for like 6M in chips, finishing in the low 200s.

I bricked the first $600, the Colossus (2 bullets), the $800 4th of July one, and the $600 Ultra Stack. Also bricked the one ME satelite I played. Very sad that I didn't get into the ME for $20 like I did last year. :(

I try to avoid the WSOP dailies and nightlies. Generally recommend playing Resorts World instead in that price bracket.

I still ended up playing 2 of them for budget and convenience reasons.

I did not witness any of the clown behavior that you describe, but 10-handed poker with high rake is not desirable.

The daily deepstacks are a rake trap filter feeder that benefit from convenience and WSOP branding. I think there are usually better options.