2025 World Series of Poker May 27th - July 16th

No they didnt? Or I was in a coma that year

Post-Covid, 2021 WSOP was in October. And yeah, loved it.

Vegas in October is amazing, I recommend it

Thankfully WSOP (an indoor grinding activity) is not going on all at that time to distract from beautiful weather and football weekends

We need more mix games

I think you're overestimating the games based on a sample of a bunch of professionals/semi professionals playing during the series. Go around to most casinos outside of Vegas and its nearly all NL still. At least in my experience.

Everybody wants to gamble and play something different, and this is one of the few times you're afforded that opportunity.

So….apparently they canceled online Event #7 because some people couldn’t login for technical reasons.

Seems it was a bounty event where one player pulled a $100, 000 bounty and others had pulled $10, 000-20, 000 ones and aren’t going to get paid now. Looks like they determined it wasn’t fair since the whole field wasn’t there to participate.

They say they will contact those who were in the field for the start of Day Two but I have no idea what they’re going to do.

Apparently, all online events were down for people so I’m not sure what they’re planning on doing for the other events.

What a complete train wreck for an online platform that shelled out $500, 000, 000 for the brand only to have their online platform crash during their inaugural running of the WSOP.

https://x.com/wsop/status/1932276937051025911?s=46

Wow, can you imagine pulling a $100,000 bounty only to have them later tell you that you don't get to keep the money?

I hope WSOP is learning from what's happening. This is another reason why the new app shouldn't have been designed as an absolute requirement. Can you imagine if the new app went down right in the middle of the main event?

Contingency plans people!

Not the app going down but the following happened to me earlier tonight.
We are in the money of the $800 NLH deep stack. 450 left out of 4500. My table breaks, the app sends me to a new table, seat 6.

I get there and someone is in the seat. Floor is called, they had removed the wrong player recently, they removed seat 6 instead of seat 5.

The floor tells dealer to continue dealing, I tell dealer to deal me in but the floor tells him not to deal me in!!!

I asked what is the problem? You can fix the players in the app and I'll sit in seat 5, the one they should have opened and deal me in, floor says no!

Now I am told to follow him and we go to other floor people, I am on a wait-list the one floor says!?!!!. Average stack is 27 BB, and I am at 25, I don't want to miss hands. Finally they assign me to a completely different table. Between my old table breaking and finally getting cards again I missed 15 minutes (half a level).

I don't understand why they couldn't deal me in at the seat that was open at the table I was sent too and let me play my hands there and just fix the names or whatever in the app. Remove the proper person from seat 5, put seat 6 back in since he was not eliminated and put me in the 5 seat. They screwed up and I miss an orbit? Wtf

Pretty sure this is to your advantage, not your detriment.

Yeah precisely that. 15 mins deep in a tournament and I’m still in but don’t have to post blinds? I’ll take that trade every day of the week.

This speaks to a big issue with the app - they are dependent on the dealers to eliminate the correct players.

We all know they hire incompetent dealers with no experience and now they give them the ability to click the wrong person and eliminate them from the tournament.

I can’t tell you how many times I had to be the one to literally click the tablet for the dealer to eliminate people and check in new players at the table when I was in seat 1.

This is too much responsibility for dealers who don’t even know how to deal.

The app has been a resounding success. WTF are you talking about?

Online poker tournaments have been running for, what, two decades? A horrifying mistake happens with one technology and your takeaway is that it was a mistake to mandate using a different technology that is two decades old to sign up for live poker tournaments? LOL.

This completely sucks. I would have been furious and I'm sorry this happened to you. As you note, this is human error, not app error, but that is cold comfort when you've missed half a level. Infuriating.

So what happened after you got seated? Did you double up immediately and get to the next day?

Clearly has to be canceled. If Im going into Day 2 with a huge stack ready for the bounties and I cant play because Im disconnected and some other guy who is connected gets to pull the top bounty for free from people who also arent connected and are blinded down then that obviously is not fair.

Terrible from GG to not have a working platform but the resulting handling of the situation is obvious.

Unfortunately, I did not. Played an orbit at the new table, then out of the big bind got all the money in on the turn with 2 pair vs top pair and a gut shot. he rivered the gut shot :(. Busted somewhere in the low 400s.

As for the people saying it's good to sit out an orbit with no blinds, you might be right but I had a middling stack, pay jumps are small at this point and I wanted to be in there and try to build my stack, whether technically correct or not.

I cant attend this year but have a question if some people would be kind enough to answer. Who are the vendors that are out in the hallway this year? Curious what kinds of products, swag, and offerings are out there this year...

You're missing my point, which is that they need to think one step further to what if. Like the real issue was not the technical issues in the online event. The real issue was that they had no plan for it. They allowed the event to continue, players to be eliminated and bounties to be drawn when likely more than half the field couldn't even log in.

I like the app, but I think it was unwise for WSOP to make themselves completely dependent on it, especially in year one.

Nevermind that there are still a ton of bugs to be worked out. I've been eliminated from a satellite and been unable to re-register, been sent to Paris with a seat assignment only for my seat assignment to then change before I've even received my first hand, and now I have to walk all the way back to Horseshoe, etc. But that's ultimately all small stuff.

Wait until they get hit with a cyber attack and the whole system goes down during a marquee event. It's clear they have not thought through how they would respond to any potential problems.

Possibly but not necessarily when you incorporate the individual’s utility curve. For example, if someone is a final table or bust kind of guy.

And he acknowledged as such, but he also said he wanted to be in there but wasn’t. So since he’s the ultimate decider then it was not good.

Yes, I understand 100%. For me personally I didn't care about the pay jumps for at least the next 200 people or so. (See attached). As scotch mentioned my preference was to be in action and try to build a stack towards a deeper run. No big deal, everyone has their own preference. I was more trying to bring to light a problem that occurred, good or bad for me, with the app and the dealer mistake. Even if positive for me, it's not fair to the rest of the field.

I finished low 400s for $1729, sacrificing play time to possibly pick up a half of this tournament buy in was not my on my mind. I also don't blame this mistake for my bustout, who knows, moving me to that table good have catapulted me to win.

Anyways good luck out there everyone battling.

It's a shame there's no PokerGo coverage of the 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship, should be a good FT

Schulman chip leader, Elias/Smith/Mueller/Evelsage/Negreanu/Yu all still in with 10 left

Not sure if serious but T-Mobile was the only one I recall seeing.

So far their biggest views has come from a PLO8 10k. I'll never understand for the life of me why PokerGO doesn't have a simple barebones stream that can handle mix games and then have a stage for NL events that they can edit for CBS sports for the 20 patrons of whatever small town bar that has it on that is totally ignoring it.

You have a series of 10k events that will have small fields that will most likely draw in well known names to the tiny community that is poker. Why the hell wouldn't you want to market that to the community who are just diehards now. I asked that and Tim Duckworth who is apart of the crew said "Well its really hard to tell who is going to make it to these final tables and besides we stream the PGT Mixed Series for you guys"

edit: its amazing they say how hard it is to setup for a mix game stream, but when they need to they just magically can do it.

https://x.com/PokerGO/status/19326166558...

its on at 11:30pm

I hope for the day when that company finally burns through its money. Unlikely but until then they'll do they're damndest to sink this thing to new lows.

WSOP dealers are like NBA refs—these are the best you’re going to get. There’s nobody else. They will never remotely come close to paying what it would take to get good out of towners to leave home for two months, sleep four to a trailer on Koval or by the Stratosphere, and up put up with everyone who’s been watching Hellmuth the past thirty years.

Any glamorous idea of dealing at the WSOP went out the window decades ago with Puggy’s peepee. I’m still amazed a player has never been ktfo by a dealer.

By the way, did I miss all the lol chino poasts?