I think every player is requited to have a players card and other ids that act as failsafes against a tournament rebuy.
I think the house take on the WSoP 10K events is about 3%. Split between the house and the dealers. I think the players (who win) generally put in about 1% of their winnings in form of dealer tokes.
assuming it is 3% and 7000 players, the rake is 2.1 Million dollars.
I’ve been trying to estimate how many “dealer hours” are logged in the WSoP main event.
Back of the envelope calculation (anyone got a better method?)
~800 out of 1125 made it through the first day. I would guess that there was an average of 1000 people per hour. 9 players/table or 111 tables * 9 hrs or back to a 1000 hours
~1018 of of 1489 players made it through Day 1b. Same calculation would lead to 1200 dealer hours)
Based on day 1, dealer hours are somewhere about 85% of the players in the field.
I am skipping some steps, but I think the total number of hours logged from dealers is about 5000 hours.
Yes, I am happy for him, and quite a bit jealous. Financially secure at age 24 and able to pursue his life’s dreams. He appears smart enough not to self destruct and “blow it”.
Phil Hellmuth is suppose to be playing today. Making his usual fashionably late appearance dressed as a MMA fighter. Can’t wait. :rolleyes:
other players in todays field include Negreanu, defending Champ Joe Cada, and Dennis Phillips.
I agree. By the mere fact he hasn’t let all the recent money go to his head and cloud his mind from pursuing his dreams shows he’s well within the realm of being responsible with his money.
"All-in pre-flop Paulo Rink, a PokerStars qualifier from Brazil, turned over pocket kings. Next to him though was Brandon Adams who had called with pocket aces leaving Rink looking for help. He got it. The door card was a king, but as the rest of the flop emerged an ace also featured. Queue that ‘punched in the stomach’ noise from everyone at the table and all those who’d heard that noise and leapt chairs to see for themselves.
But this hand wasn’t done just yet. The turn card may have blanked the Brazilian but the river card didn’t, a fourth king giving Rink quads, Adams great pain and everyone else a good story."
Hellmuth did not survive Day 1. Awwww And when it was announced in the room, there was a big cheer. His pocket Jacks were up against Pocket Queens and A-K.
Durrrr also busted out day 1c.
There were 7319 players in this years main event. Up 825 from last year. There were 400+ less people on Day 1D than last year so I guess they did avoid the clusterf**k from last year.
Reading the blog this morning, they are confirming that there are 7319 players. The total purse is $68,798,600. Simple math means that Harrahs is taking :eek: 6% :eek: of the purse as their cut. (dealers, promotion, etc)
Six percent, ($4.3 Million) is lot more than I thought.
I have no clue what Jack Links, ESPN and others pay in sponsorships.
I also have no clue what Full Tilt, Poker Stars etc. pay the “donkeys” and
“dead money” players who get lucky enough to get on a featured table.
If I ever got on a featured table, I would shave all the hair that is left on my head and pimp out my chrome dome to the highest bidder.
Harrahs is pretty evil. They do their best to delay and stiff the payments to the dealers too - last I heard (and this was 2 years ago) they had to get dealers in from out of town because thel locals didn’t want to work like crazy during the series and get stiffed by Harrahs again.
I’d go too, but I would sell some interest in my WSoP earnings at that point to stay until i was eliminated.
I would have booked an open return ticket, and you can book hotel rooms in Vegas pretty cheaply during the week. If you have to go to Holiday Inn Express.
Of course, he could have had a real job that he had to get back to.
Day 3 is complete. It appears that many of the biggest names in poker are out of this tournament by now. Negreanu, Harmin, Moneymaker, and defending champ Cada busted out on day3.
But ESPN is probably very happy that Johnny Chan is amongst the chip leaders. One of my favorite poker players, Sam Fahra, has as an above average chip stack.
1240 players remain and 747 will be in the money.
The avg chip stack is about 177,000 and they are 300/1200/2400 antes and blinds. So the average stack had enough chips for 28 orbits.
They started the day at a avg chip stack of 86,000 and 100/500/1000 antes and blinds. the avg chip stack had enough chips for 35 orbits.
