July 6, 2010
Day 1: What if You Didn’t Play a Hand? More poker-by-numbers in the WSOP main event
Had an interesting convo last night with @HeartlandPokerTodd (not his real twitter name, though it prolly should be) …
Todd Anderson from Fargo, North Dakota, bought into his first WSOP Main Event a few days ago, and we were talking about the value of chips acquired early in this $10k, long blind-levels, triple-stacked tournament. Before long we began to conclude that a player would be fine making it to Day 2 without playing a single hand. We couldn’t agree, however, on where that chipstack would be at the end of Day 1.
So here is my attempt to calculate it … feel free to disagree and/or disparage:
