High Stakes Poker thread (11/5 - 500k buyin - Spoilers expected)

[Kevmath]

Tonight's the first of 7 weeks of poker that many have been waiting for, a 500k min buyin table which will start with these players:

Doyle Brunson
Antonio Esfandiari
Jamie Gold
Sammy Farha
Barry Greenstein
Patrik Antonius
David Benyamine
Guy Laliberte

Since the interest for this event has been large, I would hope that we all could attempt to keep things about the broadcast to this thread only. Another note worth mentioning, if you know of any streams of the broadcast that you're doing or know of someone doing said streams, please keep it to yourself. Consider this your warning because I don't want to spend all night banning people who don't pay attention. Also, to those that aren't able to watch because you're not in the Eastern time zone or are Tivoing or watching on some other source and don't want to see what happened, expect people to make posts in this thread about events that are happening during the show, so you're also warned. For those asking about when the show will be up in the various places one can see the show, expect it to be sometime early Tuesday morning. From those that were at the taping, they said it was some of the best poker ever broadcast, hopefully those words will ring true.

[sapol]

who was at the taping?

[Kevmath]

Brandon Adams for one.

[andy099]

My predictions- Sammy to be the big winnar in the game

[selurah]

Can't wait to see this. Sucks that I don't have GSN so I have to wait until tomorrow morning to watch it online. Blah.

[JMX]

Anyone know how much each person bought in for? Or will Gabe and AJ tell us during the broadcast?

[EWS87]

i think i heard PA buys in for a cool million

[Tornado69]

OMGZ BENYAMINE MUST BE SOOO SICK !!!

[Hollywade]

The more I see of David Benyamine, the more I like him. It seems like he's always smiling and having a good time. If he's in a heads up pot, he'll talk about the hand just as casually as if he was discussing the weather or something. It's pretty funny when you consider the amount of money that's in the pot. It would seem like you'd want to clam up (unless you're Jamie Gold) and try not to give anything away. I love his attitude and the way he plays though. I also like the way he says "flush draw."

That's ballsy to fire a third bullet of 80k on the turn with no pair, no draw, and 7 high. I like it. Could never do it, but I like it a lot.

[kerze]

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The more I see of David Benyamine, the more I like him. It seems like he's always smiling and having a good time.

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