June 15, 2008
A common question I’m getting these days: “So are you playing much? How’s it going?”
In a nutshell, at the tables, not particularly well. (Especially compared to last year, whence I shocked myself by making more money playing during the WSOP than actually working during the WSOP.) I’ll see if we can’t whip up a visually compelling WSOP bankroll chart/graph … but in the meantime, it’s not like you have to be able to read music to get a sense of what the following — which is all the poker I have played over the past two weeks — would look like:
Day 2, 2/5 NL, Rio, 3 hours:
-$300
Day 6, 2/5 NL, Rio, 2 hours:
-$300
Day 12, 1/3 NL, Rio, 3.5 hours:
-$187
More…
Posted by
DanM at 5:12 pm
March 3, 2008
A Las Vegas poker-room development … Starting last week (or maybe a few days before) the Mirage has changed from 9-handed tables to 10-handed.
No confirmation on what the rationale was behind the decision to change. But you can think originally that 9-handed offered a faster game on more tables … i.e. more rake … and perhaps a better player experience, too. Let’s say you had 81 players wanting action … great, nine tables of nine does everyone better than eight tables of 10 with one alternate, right?
But I suppose if there isn’t a constant influx of new players, then 10-handed is better because it presumably slows the pace of tables breaking down.
Posted by
DanM at 4:58 am
February 8, 2008
The World Poker Tour will be announcing its Season 7 schedule next week, and according to some recent banter around the high-stakes tournament tables, at least two (not-so?) major events will be, er, disappeared — the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship and the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown.
A company spokeswoman could neither confirm nor deny, but did say that WPT Enterprises has “really looked at the market and listened closely to feedback from players.” So I suppose we’ll see next week when the official press release comes out.
In the meantime, here’s Pokerati’s super-undercover investigative reporter Tom Schneider with the report:
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Posted by
DanM at 5:24 pm
