1. 
   Kevin Mathers says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:14am
   

   Is it time to ask the obvious: Where is Yevgeniy Timoshenko?

   I’m assuming the answer is that he had another commitment.

2. 
   DanM says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:15am
   

   Maybe he’s got plans with Kathy Liebert?

3. 
   Tropical Steve says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:30am
   

   Freddie Najafabadi, who won the big heads up event at Borgata, should have gotten an invite.

4. 
   DanM says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:32am
   

   How big was that event. Assuming pretty damn big, it suggests the Borgata is an afterthought … or second-tier poker venue.

   Did the WSOP heads-up champion get invited?

5. 
   Kevin Mathers says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:37am
   

   That was Leo Wolpert.

   For those wondering about Hougaard/John Paul Kelly: They both won a WSOP bracelet in Vegas and London in the same year (Hougaard 2008, Kelly 2009).

   The Borgata event was a 64 player, 2k buy-in event. Last year, the LAPC had a 10k HU event with over 100 entries, and didn’t get an invite either.

6. 
   Kevin Mathers says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:57am
   

   Another thing, no Joe Sebok?

7. 
   Mean Gene says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 7:03am
   

   I covered the event Hougaard won, the guy did a chip-trick that I almost couldn’t believe, he serpentined a chip between his fingers…I can’t even describe it. It was some Ricky Jay-caliber sleight of hand.

   You think Robert Varkonyi ever thinks that while he got lucky in winning the Main Event, he got a bit unlucky winning the 2002 Main Event? Every champ since Moneymaker gets an invite year after year, and he’s on the outside looking in. Darvin Moon got the nod and he didn’t even win!

   And there are 7 online qualifiers? OK, I guess that gets Caesars a little business with people desperately trying to make the field, but who wants to see a bunch of probably-anonymous qualifiers play? Come on, put Liebert in, put a couple of online heads-up terrors in the field, a couple more Euro/Asian players. Let’s get some flavor, let’s get some players people should know about instead of some qualifier who’ll freeze in front of the cameras.

8. 
   Kevin Mathers says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 7:11am
   

   It does ruin the “64 best players in the world” idea to have that many qualifiers. It looks like at least 2 were from Full Tilt, 1 from Stars, 1 from nbcsports.com, and three from elsewhere.

9. 
   DanM says:
   February 23rd, 2010 at 7:12am
   

   Maybe a fan favorite by vote? Text in your answers to …

   I’d still like to see a bot get a seat. Would be great for TV and lead to legends — whom would “Loose Larry” take down, and who would step up to save all humanity?

   And how did Fr. Andrew Trapp get overlooked!

10. 
    DanM says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 7:27am
    

    Still can’t wait to see the brackets …

11. 
    gobbomom says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 9:48am
    

    fan favorite and probable winner: LuckyChewy

12. 
    Mark Honbo says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 10:28am
    

    I notice the number of “celebrity” players stands at four: Cheadle, Kaplan, Tilly, Hershiser. (Five, if you count Annie Duke, which I don’t.) Not quite at the 2008 level, when this group plus Jason Alexander and Shannon Elizabeth were in it.

    It makes me wonder, have the network execs and/or the show producers formally tested the audience to see who watches this? I know the ultra-fast structure and certain inclusions/exclusions are defended as being “TV-friendly.” But I’m really starting to wonder — in 2010, mind you — if the show’s audience doesn’t largely consist of poker-savvy types? In other words, it might not be necessary to broaden the appeal to John Q. Public and Mary Sixpack when they’re simply watching reruns of Shark Tank.

13. 
    scott diamond says:
    February 23rd, 2010 at 11:24am
    

    No J.C.Tran or Nam Le…very unusual since J.C. Played last year. No Michael Mizrachi who has over 6 million in tournament cashes. Yes he has been out of the limelight lately but he is still young and a good player. What has Sammy Farha and Johhny Chan done lately

    No Jeff Madsen who has been on a tear this year…..

14. 
    Kevin Mathers says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 10:21am
    

    To fill in the blanks:

    Annette Dworsky – FTP Qualifier
    Richard Edwards – FTP Qualifier
    William Huntress – Caesars Palace Qualiifer
    Stephen Quinn – PokerStars Qualifier
    Dan Ramirez – NBCsports.com Qualifier
    Shawn Rice – Caesars Palace Qualifier
    Andrew Wilson – PokerStars Qualifier

15. 
    Jason B says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 12:39pm
    

    Wasn’t shawn rice a UB red player at one time? If its the same guy, he had a run in WPT event like 6 years ago

16. 
    DanM says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 12:44pm
    

    yeah, good on him for making it. wondering who he’ll be representing. once upon a time Team UB was not the seciest bunch out there:

    

    (Rice, center)

17. 
    Kevin Mathers says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 12:47pm
    

    He’s still a UB Team Pro.

18. 
    DanM says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 12:55pm
    

    what does UB call their B-squad? not red pros …

19. 
    Kevin Mathers says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 1:25pm
    

    Super users?

20. 
    DanM says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 1:30pm
    

    lol, that would be funny. great name for a softball or dream-team team.

21. 
    bigdaddy says:
    February 24th, 2010 at 4:47pm
    

    what does UB call their B-squad? not red pros …

    Super users?

    Kevin thats funny enough for the award winning Poker Beat… Dan try to work that in to this weeks episode

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