[Alan Goehring]

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I would really like Alan Goehring's input here:

The WSOP main event structure will be different in 2007 - 20,000 in starting chips but as the OP says, blinds start at 50/100 instead of 25/50. Antes also start at a 50 ante instead of 25.

So what effect will these changes have on the event as compared to 2006? Is it worse, better, same, or just different?

thanks

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The "quality" of the 2007 WSOP $10k NLH structure is almost identical to the 2006 version. I think the primary reason for going to $20k starting chips was to discourage "chip substitution" from prelim events, rather than seeking an improvement in the $10k event structure. (It would have been easy to improve the $10k event structure simply by keeping 150/300 and 250/500 levels).

Doubling starting chips in the prelim NLH events means the big blind repeats (i.e. 100/200 wo & w ante) at a greater chip depth, plus it will take approx. one extra level to eliminate 98% of the field, etc. It is now basically the Bellagio prelim event structure with an extra level (namely 150/300/25). The structure of the WSOP prelims have gone from being slighlty worse (2006) to marginally superior (2007)to the equiv. buy-in events at Bellagio.

The OP is right, the improvement is only marginal, but it is a step in the right direction.