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

For once Kessler's bitching is perfectly fine imo. The world needs people like him for balance.

Does AK not realize playing 4 handed you win many more hands than playing 9 handed?

He also had a good one yesterday about always being ahead when all in and Jaka roasted him good.

There is no such rule. When they break your table, there is a rule that you must proceed directly to your new table. But when you late reg, there simply is no such rule. Maybe there should be, but ...

Kessler's bitching, over the years, has done lots to make the tournament experience better for everyone.

He sounds like a judgmental prick.

I enjoy smoking the occasional cigarette and it's my life. You're not going to get lung cancer hanging out in a casino a few days a year. And as Karl mentions, if health is your real concern, stop drinking alcohol. Drunk driving kills and ruins people's lives much more than 2nd hand smoke in America. And both have effected me.

Anyway, on topic. I'll be there in a week for a week. Planning on the Monster and maybe an Aria tourney. Would Saturday or Sunday be preferable for the Monster?

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Is that true? How long can you wait to take you seat after you late reg? Can you just hold on to your ticket until you're in the money? What happens when you late reg and your table breaks before you sit down?

You’ve never played WSOP yet?

Generally, when you late reg a bigger field tourny, you don’t get a seat, your ticket says “late” and you proceed to the late desk on the floor where you get your chips and a seat card from a freshly busted punter. If you never show up to late desk before the late reg table closes, I think you can be refunded but I’m not sure.

Loosely related, such a stacked table was a topic of convo on PokerRoad Radio or maybe the PokerRoad forums a while back. It wasn't a thing at the WSOP, but rather the flagship event at the other series: e.g. Festa al Lago, Five Diamond. I don't remember the particulars but it was quite common to see one table that had (say) Antonius, Ivey, Dwan, Robl and Galfond... plus two recs.

The reason for the loaded table? This was a new table added to accommodate the late-reg crowd, a disproportionately high number of which are the biggest pros. Perhaps they were squeezing every hour they could in the cash games before heading to the Fontana room or something. The saving grace, as I recall, is that such a table was also the first to break as the field diminished.

But still funny to think of some rando tourist sleeping through his alarm or losing his bout with a lunch buffet, showing up to the tourney in Level 4, then looking around at his table to see what appears to be a rerun of Poker After Dark.

I'll be firing one bullet at the Milly Maker the next weekend and contemplated the same decision. I feel like you go with flight C. My logic is that many of the good players will bag the first two flights, leaving you to play against single bullet shot takers, bad players, and then a moderate number of pros on infinite bullets who ran bad in flights A-B. Seems like it should be the biggest/softest day. I doubt it matters THAT much either way though.

Since he was sitting at the table (or standing next to it?) we can assume that he already picked up a seat card?

I played 2 bracelet events this year already. I registered both about 2 hours late, and in each case, I was immediately given my seat assignment on my registration ticket.

But this sounds like the situation Kessler was in right? Once you get an actual seat assignment, you are supposed to take your seat immediately.

It depends on how late you reg. They start by not selling all the seats at tables. So for example on a 9-handed table all the 9 seats will not be sold before the tournament starts, meaning that if you register within the first few hours these are the seats you will get on a ticket. Afterwards you'll be directed to the late reg line and receive the seat card from a busted player.

I have done what Alan did before and also seen others do it. It's fine and you generally don't have to wait long. As far as "do you have to go directly to your table after late regging" the answer is no. I have been at a table with an unsold seat as described above and someone has shown up there 6 hours into the tournament with a ticket for that seat (rather than a seat card like you get when you join from the late reg line), well after the late reg line had formed because they had obviously late regged earlier and just held on to their ticket.

Why not a 10% bonus to your starting stack for registering early?

I think this is mostly because the tournaments I was late-regging were limit events, where almost no one busts in the first two hours, so I'm filling a seat that has been open since the start of the event rather than the seat of someone who has busted.

The WSOP should really just stop penalizing people for registering early.

If you register early but don't show up on time, they blind out your stack. But if you register late, you get to start with a full stack regardless of when you actually sit down.

I don't understand how this is helpful to either the players or the WSOP administration. By penalizing early registration, you just create longer lines and wait time, and an increased burden on WSOP staff while the tournament is actually going on, and make it more difficult for player to plan when they will start playing.

I played the $1500 6max and we sat out 32 mins of the 40 min first level due to 4 player rule while other tables played. I busted in the second level. Vpipd like 3 hands total lol.

Idk, not in this case. We all just started with the original starting stack once 4 players were present. And all the seats were sold in advance.

Were there seats that were sold but that didn't have players present once you started playing? In my experience, they put those stacks in play and blind them off once there are 4 players at the table. Obviously they aren't blinding off stacks before play has begun.

Everyone late sort of showed up at the same time, fashionably late and very much not penalized for it

Seats sold prior to start of tourny are supposed to be in play and blinding if player isn’t present.

If the table isn't playing, stacks can't blind down.

Looking for information on the number of entrants to the Landmark Mega Satellites. Specifically, I am will be entering a $240 for a $2k tournament shot when I arrive. Just curious as to how many people are entering the Mega satellites and what to expect.

Would guess 50-150 entries. I played one last year.

Warp speed structure. Cross your fingers and hope you get dealt the winning bingo card.

Are you allowed to look through the mucked cards to see what someone had? Kessler may have had 3456 drawing to a 6, but nit that he is I am sure he didn't have a junk hand. Seems pretty bad particularly from the SB to call and draw 3.

Racener is ahead HU in the $10K limit holdem tournament. I have been at his table in tournaments. He is a very strong player, and aggressive bluffy, which should do well in limit holdem.