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.
Is it just me or is this year's Main Event the best in terms of raw poker talent? The level of play and analysis has been unreal.
Poker continues to evolve as a strategy game for high IQ analytical folks. People such as Moneymaker, Gold, Yang, will never again win the Main Event.
The average skill level of players in the final 100 is greater than an average year.However, I think someone like that will win again. I think a lot of smart young people on an intuitive level overestimate their edge against peopke like yamg, gold, and moneymaker. There were very very smart people playing in 2007 too.
Yeah Montoya sucks. Mouth writing checks his body can’t cash.
QUEEN on time
Shundan Xiao is one of 2 women remaining along with Kristen Foxen and is top 5 in chip counts. She's a software engineer at Google.
Asian Americans are doing very well in this Main Event. I think as more super smart Asian Americans get into poker, they will crush it.
I’m looking forward to seeing her play and hope she final tables this.
The average skill level of players in the final 100 is greater than an average year.However, I think someone like that will win again. I think a lot of smart young people on an intuitive level overestimate their edge against peopke like yamg, gold, and moneymaker. There were very very smart people playing in 2007 too.
Tournament poker is now GTO driven. The smart players are making better decisions, better bluffs, better value bets, etc. NO way someone like Moneymaker, Gold, Yang, will win a Main Event. The level of play back then was atrocious compared to now. Go back and look at the final tables from those years.
i just lose my place in the stream and with no active player count I've no real idea where I was
Folks it's gone down every day or there's been a loss of audio. This isn't run to the required level.
Tournament poker is now GTO driven. The smart players are making better decisions, better bluffs, better value bets, etc. NO way someone like Moneymaker, Gold, Yang, will win a Main Event. The level of play back then was atrocious compared to now. Go back and look at the final tables from those years.
I recall people like Phil Ivey, Dan Harrington, and Eric Seidel playing with the best tools available at the time. There is much more information available now, and you’re right the average level of play has increased. This change isnt as fundamental as you’re suggesting. People still play competitive chess even with all the tools available no one can play perfect chess just as no one can play perfect poker. The mass market tools, everyone has acvess to those. Someone who is an accountant now like Chris moneymaker was then will surely know how to run a solve.
Poker fundamentally has a large degree of luck, especially tournament poker. Furthermore, many otherwise intelligent people misapply all kinds of ideas and concepts, even very smart people because gambling is unintuitive to most humans.
Totally agree here. One of the nicer people I've met from the poker world. And I'll reiterate what I bring up every year with this topic comes up, Lon's background was not in live broadcasting (best I can tell). Fantastic announcer for prepackaged stuff, but calling stuff in real time is a totally different skill set.
My favorite Lon call was from a few years ago. Heads-up pot. Flop is dealt. Lon says something like "No help to Player A. Player B's Jack high is still ahead."
There were three people in the booth at the time. First analyst says something like "Actually Player A flopped a double-gutshot and a flush draw."
Second analyst says something like "And Player B flopped bottom two pair."
It was very funny.
That's solid. 😀
Loosely related, I can't remember where I saw it, but someone pointed out that in the mid-2000s, a player might be described as having "completely missed the flop." Yet in the 2020s, the same player with the same two cards will get a "he picks up backdoor straight and flush possibilities with an overcard, plus a board that misses his opponent's range" call from the talent.
If you go back and watch the archived WSOP telecasts from the early-boom era, then come back and watch it now, the difference is quite dramatic.
Loosely related, I can't remember where I saw it, but someone pointed out that in the mid-2000s, a player might be described as having "completely missed the flop." Yet in the 2020s, the same player with the same two cards will get a "he picks up backdoor straight and flush possibilities with an overcard, plus a board that misses his opponent's range" call from the talent.
If you go back and watch the archived WSOP telecasts from the early-boom era, then come back and watch it now, the differenc
Different audience is why you can get away with talking a bit like the latter but also that latter point is just a nice way of saying he completely missed the flop but he thinks the other guy might've too.
the tanking when you're going to fold for no reason I don't know what to do about this but it's gotta stop.
World Series of payjump tanking
So poor
i think the people who criticize norman chad and lon mceachern lack proper perspective
back in the day, they were really flying blind, taking a largely unknown product and hoping it would find an audience and it did
lon and norm were incredibly good at narrating those highlight reel montages to make it more interesting and accessible to the general audience
it's unfair to judge them for doing live stuff not for the general public on espn, but instead for a niche of highly informed people on a subscription streaming service
Ali's last longer joke was hilarious XD
I would tank fold the **** out of every hand every pay jump unless I was the biggest stack at the table and not ashamed to admit it
Schulman - What do you mean? What do you even mean?? lololol
can't wait for cantu to finally get a hand, double and still be under where he doubled to last time, which was under where he started
Nick not knowing what [Washington] DC means
Krissy finding the 5bet jam with 99 pretty sick
Foxen's activated beast mode. What a crusher.
Imagine thinking about calling Cantù with anything
porto needs to rename himself to punto
