Comments on: Commerce Hold’em Series: Ironman Event and Other Curious Tourneys http://pokerati.com/2009/09/11/commerce-holdem-series/ Poker News, Poker Skills, Poker Laws, Poker Lives Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:06:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2009/09/11/commerce-holdem-series/comment-page-1/#comment-171843 DanM Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:31:15 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=11742#comment-171843 LOL, mix it in with a 3-mile swim, 110-mile bike ride, and 26-mile marathon and you've got a real winner! Whoever won that could definitely get on Ellen. LOL, mix it in with a 3-mile swim, 110-mile bike ride, and 26-mile marathon and you’ve got a real winner!

Whoever won that could definitely get on Ellen.

]]> By: Mean Gene http://pokerati.com/2009/09/11/commerce-holdem-series/comment-page-1/#comment-171841 Mean Gene Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:04:48 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=11742#comment-171841 I freakin' LOVE the Ironma...IronPERSON concept. But what's this coddling nonsense? They get served meals at the table? No WAY. No food delivery, no cocktail service. You wanna eat or you wanna play poker? You get hungry, race over to the food court or coffee shop and hustle back to your stack. I'd give the players 50,000 chips, start the levels at 25-25, play 2-hour levels, and set up a FEMA trailer outside so hallucinating players could get a nap on a bedbug-infested cot. Oh, and I'd make it winner-take-all, which would turn the heads-up match into the fricking battle of Verdun. This HAS to become a WSOP event. Put the tables up by Buzios so the casino traffic can gawk at them. Don't allow the players to use the bathrooms in the casino--make it a rule they have to use the ones down by the Amazon Room. You want something to drink, elbow your way through the drunks at the Hooker Bar and get a Red Bull and vodka. Players could use their own hygenic deficiencies to their advantage--how geeked would you be to play next to a 300-pound guy who hasn't showered since Valentine's Day and, over the last twelve hours, has consumed the Szechuan Beef, the Nachos Grande, the Meatball Sub, and has drank 27 Coors Lights? I'd make the juice for the event 10% because the dealers and floor staff would need to get tetanus and diptheria vaccinations before working the event (players would be exempt). You want ESPN to televise the $50K HORSE? A $40K Hold-em event? A Tournament of Champions? Bull-SHIT. THIS is the event ESPN has been looking for. I freakin’ LOVE the Ironma…IronPERSON concept. But what’s this coddling nonsense? They get served meals at the table? No WAY. No food delivery, no cocktail service. You wanna eat or you wanna play poker? You get hungry, race over to the food court or coffee shop and hustle back to your stack. I’d give the players 50,000 chips, start the levels at 25-25, play 2-hour levels, and set up a FEMA trailer outside so hallucinating players could get a nap on a bedbug-infested cot. Oh, and I’d make it winner-take-all, which would turn the heads-up match into the fricking battle of Verdun.

This HAS to become a WSOP event. Put the tables up by Buzios so the casino traffic can gawk at them. Don’t allow the players to use the bathrooms in the casino–make it a rule they have to use the ones down by the Amazon Room. You want something to drink, elbow your way through the drunks at the Hooker Bar and get a Red Bull and vodka. Players could use their own hygenic deficiencies to their advantage–how geeked would you be to play next to a 300-pound guy who hasn’t showered since Valentine’s Day and, over the last twelve hours, has consumed the Szechuan Beef, the Nachos Grande, the Meatball Sub, and has drank 27 Coors Lights?

I’d make the juice for the event 10% because the dealers and floor staff would need to get tetanus and diptheria vaccinations before working the event (players would be exempt). You want ESPN to televise the $50K HORSE? A $40K Hold-em event? A Tournament of Champions? Bull-SHIT. THIS is the event ESPN has been looking for.

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