$5K Heads-Up Today at the Rio

[FortWorthJim]

I agree. That's the format of the tournament.

Some people get byes and have to play one less match. As long as it's a fair draw, who cares?

[peterpjames]

Strasser vs Jon "Pearljammer" Turner is round one should be good stuff.

People not getting a bye are probably pissed but what can they do. I really thought they'd get 512 for this.

[sirtimo]

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Please explain to me mathematically how it would be more fair to give people a bye in later rounds (against presumably slightly better competition) than it would in the first round.

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Where did I say anything about it being mathimatically 'more fair'? I'm strictly talking about how it appears to see 130 or so players of any caliber get a bye in the first round. Pretty stupid in my opinion. YMMV.

I can think of 3 or 4 other interesting ways of doing it besides having a huge chunk of the field sit out the first round.


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The lack of brainpower often exhibited in the non strategy forums truly amazes me sometimes.

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Guess you don't read that much of the strat forums, plenty of clulessness abounds there as well. Thanks for the comments, have a nice day.

[cbloom]

They should really do it Chess/soccer style where you play a few games in a group and the people with the most wins move on to the single elimination bracket.

[Cornell Fiji]

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Guess you don't read that much of the strat forums, plenty of clulessness abounds there as well. Thanks for the comments, have a nice day.


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I read the MTT strat forums. We have some pretty bright guys over there.

[wisehandpoker]

I think they should have done two heats of 256, allowing rebuys for first round losers from the initial heat.

[Rottersod]

Does anyone know how TonyLA is doing? He said he might play this tourney.

[THEOSU]

No Bye
Yes, earlier we wrote that Justin Bonomo has received a first-round bye, and we reported that because they announced it twice to the entire room. But "ZeeJustin" did play a first-round match, against Annie Duke, and he was eliminated.

[J.C. Gloves]

There's no good way to cover this craziness. There are no brackets up. No idea who is where or what is going on visually. Just all unorganized...sigh. Hope it works out. Jeez, $5k buy-in too..Plz keep trying Pokernews kthx. Harrah's also...meh.




In good news from round 1:
Bart Hanson > Jeff Madsen
David Tuchman > Sean Sheikhan

Gogogogogogogogo!

[CrazyLond]

In the second round, if a player who didn't have a bye in the first round faces a player who did have one, would that person start with twice as many chips or will they reset to even stacks?