Comments on: Super-Deep Stacks, Late RegistrationsWPT Festa al Lago $15k Main Event

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:22:57 +0000

Interesting to note, of the 30 players who registered on day 2, only 10 remain:

33. Danny Fuhs – 199,000
41. Gary Gibbs – 175,100
AVERAGE – 168,367
48. Freddy Deeb – 144,800
56. Shawn Melamed – 127,400
59. Andy Bloch – 112,200
64. Todd Brunson – 105,900
68. Hasan Habib – 95,800
70. Chris Ferguson – 90,000
71. Joseph Lacob – 89,800
81. Nestor Martinez – 74,600

By: nexgen

nexgen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:27:10 +0000

Do you think its that poker needs to match the economy or has poker just lost some of the main stream attention. I would think that a lot of people that wanted to be “pro” players have been busted.

By: DanM

DanM — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:13:02 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, BJ. You clearly need to send better emails.

By: BJ Nemeth

BJ Nemeth — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:54:06 +0000

I should clarify that when I said, “Like the December tourney …” I am referencing the upcoming Bellagio WPT event in December, 2009. (Not last December, as it seems with that quote taken out of context.)

Dan and I were discussing the upcoming December tourney at Bellagio because an email had just been sent out to the press with a schedule change for that event, including late registration during the first eight levels.

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:12:22 +0000

Matt brought it up again today:

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/10/pokernews-op-ed-are-deep-stacks-good-for-poker-tournaments-7419.htm

I think a bigger problem at the Bellagio is that Jack hasnâ€™t adjusted the buyins because of the bad poker economy. Running three 5kâ€™s within a week, and â€œmixing it upâ€ by having a 10k HORSE and 10k PLO event, each drawing less than 3 tables, didnâ€™t help much.