2024 World Series of Poker May 28th to July 17th ***No Spoilers***
The 2024 WSOP will take place at Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas from May 28 to July 17, 2024, with the Main Event running from July 3 to July 17. The Main Event – poker’s undisputed freezeout world championship – will have four starting days, beginning on Wednesday, July 3. Players may also register directly on Day 2.
JFC I don't need more Will Kassouf. Please call, Stacy.
Lol the thief Zinno gets nitrolled, he thought he about to double up. But ends up getting busted last hand before break.
Karma. Hope we get new table.
Played blackjack with him once (before his casino ban roulette incident). He's a complete douchebag. Stories like this are not surprising at all https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world...
Ivey & Dwan doing fairly well. Lonis crushing it.
So many WSOP bracelet winners are at the top of the leaderboard (e.g. Alex Keating, Francis Anderson). At this stage in the tournament you're seeing the advantage of skill & experience really play out.
Legitimate question, do people outside of poker know who Kevin Pollck is?
Like I know him from poker… and because he’s been treated like a celebrity on ESPN WSOP.
And I guess I saw Usual Suspects? But I can’t imagine anyone cares about this guy? Just put Dwan, Nacho, Barstool Nate etc on
well he is easily the most famous person playing who your average joe would recognize
dude has been in 156 movies
Chip leading with over 3m is the guy who 5bet against Okamoto with a 72s close to the bubble.
He doesn't have live results, but has played online 5K's. Young asian man, probably a really good player.
His 3bet with 72s was very out of line, but there was open and multiple flats and he was in BB I think which is underbluffed position so he was able to make it big and it looks really strong. Then the opener folds and Okamoto 4bets after flatting first so she has bit capped range, and they had equal stacks so it could have been a decent exploit at that point. Wonder what Okamoto had, maybe AKo or QQ.
well he is easily the most famous person playing who your average joe would recognize
dude has been in 156 movies
I didn't know him by name. But if you would have said he's the dude that played Moishe Maisel then I would've beenike oh that guy.
Chip leading with over 3m is the guy who 5bet against Okamoto with a 72s close to the bubble.
He doesn't have live results, but has played online 5K's. Young asian man, probably a really good player.
His 3bet with 72s was very out of line, but there was open and multiple flats and he was in BB I think which is underbluffed position so he was able to make it big and it looks really strong. Then the opener folds and Okamoto 4bets after flatting first so she has bit capped range, and they had equal s
His name is Lingkun Lu. He's not a poker pro; he works as a quantitative analyst at an elite hedge fund in NYC. So he is obviously super smart & analytical.
His name is Lingkun Lu. He's not a poker pro; he works as a quantitative analyst at an elite hedge fund in NYC. So he is obviously super smart & analytical.
Lol I see highest distinction in mathematics and 4.0 GPA, typical asian student.
Will be fun to see him on the feature table on the upcoming days
Lol I see highest distinction in mathematics and 4.0 GPA, typical asian student.
Will be fun to see him on the feature table on the upcoming days
He works at Balyasny, an elite multi-strategy hedge fund. In terms of pure brainpower, he might be the smartest remaining player in the Main Event. Hopefully he goes far.
Just that boring thing those nit pros do to torture amateurs. Just in case so the amateur doesnt hide his hand in the muck. Even tho they wont play ever again but the nit pros value the information they get from amateurs in these spots to confirm reads and tendencies.
Ponakovs a nit. lol……..
He rolled over the 10-2 btw
Christopher Vitch just doubled up in the biggest pot of the Main Event so far: 2.5M pot. Classic pocket aces vs pocket kings, all-in preflop. Aces held.
Sick fold with the AQ there
Ivey & Dwan doing fairly well. Lonis crushing it.
So many WSOP bracelet winners are at the top of the leaderboard (e.g. Alex Keating, Francis Anderson). At this stage in the tournament you're seeing the advantage of skill & experience really play out.
I have to stop myself from getting excited about sweats this early because, while it feels like we're getting deep, the tournament is really just starting.
That being said, it's a testament to the high quality of the Main's structure that there hasn't been an outright bad winner in forever. To a man I'd say Weinman, Jorstad, Aldemir, Ensan, and Cynn are all some degree of very good. It's likely that whoever gets down there this year will be too, even if not a familiar name.
I just hope it the run in is more exciting than last year's final few days, which felt lacking to me for some reason.
People are calling 2BB opens with AQ
Flops AJK
and folding to 4 BB bets from original raiser
I was thinking the opposite. The best female player currently actually playing poker is kirsten foxen, she has a healthy stack. Maria Ho is a very good player as well. I also see a healthy amount of women who are “randoms” for this stage of the tournament.
edit: by best player currently playing what I mean is that I think Vanessa Selbst is the best female poker player of all time but she is mostly doing STONKS now. Foxen is best heavily active player.
speaking of Vanessa, she is currently in 13th place in the $10k 8-game event
And Viktor Blom in 3rd just FYI 😃
still got ways to go though
lol at getting ivey for feature and not showing barely that table at all, but only the table weve already had for hours...
guy with queens missed a massive chance to stack the caller who hit top pair, way too nitty, he didnt have a huge stack.
Hard to watch people fold QTs in the cutoff for 2BB, Livingston just folded ATo to a 2BB open.
Seems like someone should just be running this table over
I was watching the AA vs AK hand. Brutal runout, something i like about this game.
Why Ike Haxton said on a podcast that no one has over 30% ROI on main event?
He is good with numbers and also should be good at estimating ROI because he is backing a lot of the top level MTT regs, so its hard for me to understand why would he say something like that? To hustle cheaper stakes from his future horses, business move?
Lets say Adrian Mateos had 5bb/hr chipEV winrate on day 1. That would be 20k chips. So 80k stack for the day 2 on avg. That already is almost 25% ROI for the tournament just from day 1 play. And on average you play multiple days.
I mean the man with the mask and vax might be good at the card game but he might not be that smart in general if he was not leveling the audience for some reason.
Edit: Okay he said max 30% himself while being top100 in the field for sure. Said someone could possible have up to 50%. But later he tweeted that he might have been wrong.
So he just wanted to take the opposite side of the discussion and gave a nit answer. As I said earlier ITT there must have been calculations made of this because there is massive amounts of data from games already. If a large hedge fund had to bet on ME ROI's they would be able to get a decent answer with elite analytics.
Why Ike Haxton said on a podcast that no one has over 30% ROI on main event?
He is good with numbers and also should be good at estimating ROI because he is backing a lot of the top level MTT regs, so its hard for me to understand why would he say something like that? To hustle cheaper stakes from his future horses, business move?
Lets say Adrian Mateos had 5bb/hr chipEV winrate on day 1. That would be 20k chips. So 80k stack for the day 2 on avg. That already is almost 25% ROI for the tournament
IKE is smart but smart ppls make assumption base on thinking that everyone would behave like they would in a given scenario. He was wrong in the Yani Challenge when he misjudged the 5/10 PLO player pool.
what was his assumption about the 5/10 PLO player pool? just curious
