Re: WATCHING the WSOP main event
 

To elaborate - Many of the tables in the main-event are not right on the rail or very close to it.
There is a very good chance any spectators would be watching from 5 or 6 tables away.

I was 1 table away from the rail in 2005 and on the same table as Johnny Chan.
Shannon Elizabeth was a table over. We had a few people trying to watch our table. But even just one table away from the table you really couldn't see very much.

Also - when you're referring to 'family' trying to watch you...be advised that it's 21+ to watch the main-event.

If you're 19 or 20 there's almost no chance they will run up to you and card you. They probably won't care.
But for a 12-year-old kid they are going to ask them to leave I suspect.

I think there have been conflicting stories about geting away with this though.

Re: WATCHING the WSOP main event
 

Tip: Buy into the lowest limit cash game when the main event is going on because if you are in a live game they can't kick you out when they kick the rest of the spectators out of the room and security will let you right back in when you show them you are in a live game.
It was kind of funny last year sweating my brother a few tables over playing in the Main Event of the WSOP at the table with Sammy Farha as I drink beer and play a 4/8 cash game.

Re: WATCHING the WSOP main event
 

The trick was convincing security you really were playing in a game, since you had no way of proving it.