$50K WSOP HORSE Tourney

[J_V]

Doyle Brunson set his over/under at 50. If 150 play, I will probably play as well.

[A_C_Slater]

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i plan on playing/winning this event

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Pfft. I would play if they added some stud hi-lo no qualifier and maybe some NL draw/NL 5 stud. But these are just a bunch of kiddie games.

[Jourdain]

As I already said in the other section,

$50.000 buy-in is pretty much for an amateur player, so I think this will be a poker walk of fame with some great players.

If you look at the 2003 H.O.R.S.E. event at the WSOP:

Some notable players:

Doyle Brunson - 1st
Scotty Nguyen - 5th
Allen Cunnigham - 10th
Carlos Mortensen - 11th
Phil Hellmuth - 12th

Other players capable of playing:

Chris Ferguson
John Juanda
Chip Reese
Ted Forrest
Men the master

Overall, would be very interesting TV.

[Turn Prophet]

I'm really disappointed they would switch it to NL at the end. HORSE is a technical game that involves a great deal of overall Poker skill. I'm sick of NL Hold'em being emphasized ALL the time as though it's the only Poker game out there.

Guess it's just another example of how Poker is being changed to accomodate TV and not the other way around... but I guess I should be grateful, because without TV, I never would have started playing Poker seriously.

[MicroBob]

I don't even like HORSE or the non-holdem games...and even I think it's retarded that they are switching to all NLHE for the final-table.


Not much different than the WPT in a way though.
Play an entire with a normal, slowish strcture for a few days....and then have the final 6 play turbo-style.

[MadTiger]

Made ultra-palatable for the eventual TV audience.

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I'm really disappointed they would switch it to NL at the end. HORSE is a technical game that involves a great deal of overall Poker skill. I'm sick of NL Hold'em being emphasized ALL the time as though it's the only Poker game out there.

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but its the cadillac man... the cadillac

[betgo]

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100% star stacked table of No Limit Holdem?


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not quite a guarantee.

Party is giving away $50k HORSE seats in their freerolls which I'm sure the Ivey's and Greenstein's won't be complaining about.

I'm guessing that there might be other sites that will place some people in the $50k HORSE event also.

Not saying that they can or will make the final-table. Would be quite the tall order indeed.
But the implication seemed to be that this event will have ONLY well-known rich-pros entering. But there actually WILL be unknown (and ridiculously overmatched) online-qualifers in there too.



Greg - 100+ would have been my guess. But obviously you know these things much better than I do.
You saying 150+ shows me that there might actually be as much buzz about this event as I am guessing.

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I don't think there will be many satellite entries, any of which will probably be very dead money. There was some discussion on the MTT forum of people who would like to play, but I think most of them would also be fairly dead money.

There will be a lot of top players and some rich guys who think it is cheaper than sitting in "the big game". Probably there won't be many Europeans. They play a lot of dealers choice there, but it is PL. Some limit stud and holdem in Germany/Austria. This appeals most to old timer US pros used to all these games. I am just speculating and don't have Fossilman's inside information.

I agree that the switch to NLHE, apparently for TV purposes, is lame.

[Kyo Souma II]

6% vig seems kind of obscene for this event.

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6% vig seems kind of obscene for this event.

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It's Walma...err Harrahs. Did you expect anything else?

ENJOY!