A friends 28yo son is in a poker group that they pay into a fund monthly and the year end winner, our friends son this year, gets the $10K entry fee into the WSOP paid for. Think they started with around 9600 players and he passed "into the money" yesterday, which I think was around the top 1400. As of this morning he was around 80th with 1.9m in chips. Think at this point he's guaranteed 33K and if he were to maintain his position, it would be about $100K payday. To top things off, super nice young man and family.
I've known a few people that have done it, but no one ever came close to cashing. Cheering for him to keep on going!
So jealous!A friends 28yo son is in a poker group that they pay into a fund monthly and the year end winner, our friends son this year, gets the $10K entry fee into the WSOP paid for. Think they started with around 3800 players and he passed "into the money" yesterday, which I think was around the top 1400. As of this morning he was around 80th with 1.9m in chips. Think at this point he's guaranteed 33K and if we were to maintain his position, it would be about $100K payday. To top things off, super nice young man and family.
I've known a few people that have done it, but no one ever came close to cashing. Cheering for him to keep on going!
I need to start one of these poker groups.
@bradstevens I was in a great poker group, but it caught covid and died. We still play a couple times a year, but can't get the energy back for a monthly game sadly. We weren't serious enough to put away $10K in a year though. We cash $20 to start and a good night is +$80, and a bad one, down that much. Fun though. My first poker group. Wish we could get back to regular games.
@kkott yeah I was running the #s in my head and it would be tough to raise $10k or more if you’re covering flight and hotel in a year. You’d need some dedicated guys willing to play for decent stakes ($1/3 or 2/5 NL at minimum).
A buddy of mine has been in it the last couple years, finished in the top 2000 or so out of the $. I came close once a long time in an online tourny on Aol.com. Needed to finish top 3 to win a seat in the wsop, but finished 5th out of like 10000 people(probably some bots though). I have won my share of tournys, biggest was around 500 participants, but never won any big $$$ prizes. It’s always some smaller priced gifts and crap.😒 I always like to play the Westfield Lions poker tourny for a chance at $10k. I just want to get enough $ once to try the Wsop in Vegas before I die! Too bad I suck at saving my hard earned cash though!
@bradstevens I don't know details for sure, because I'm only following via group texts from his Mom and Dad, but I think the poker group only covers the $10K entry fee and you're on your own for travel expenses. Not sure if they just let the winner take the $10K. If you had 8-10 guys, it would be about $100/month, so not bad. And, I have no idea, it might be a bigger overall group (2-3 8 person groups) and they all pay and only the overall winner goes.
His Dad flew out last night and is there today and going forward (cool pic of them having dinner last night!). Sent the video from yesterday where they announced everyone still remaining was cashing and the celebration. Also, last night of his bag of 1.9M in chips was pretty cool!
I don't think it's being televised yet because I assume they have a boatload of editing to do, but do they run it through til it's conclusion, or do they get the final table and then delay that for a month or 2? Thought it was the latter, but that would add a lot of logistical problems.
Just a bit of perspective about how much of a marathon the WSOP main event is, before starting day five today, the biggest chip stack is 4,195,000 out of about 584,100,000 total chips, or 0.718% of all the chips. Less than 1%. Lot of ballgame left.A friends 28yo son is in a poker group that they pay into a fund monthly and the year end winner, our friends son this year, gets the $10K entry fee into the WSOP paid for. Think they started with around 9600 players and he passed "into the money" yesterday, which I think was around the top 1400. As of this morning he was around 80th with 1.9m in chips. Think at this point he's guaranteed 33K and if we were to maintain his position, it would be about $100K payday. To top things off, super nice young man and family.
I've known a few people that have done it, but no one ever came close to cashing. Cheering for him to keep on going!
And that’s 10 hours a day of table time. Five two-hour sessions a day
@hhlurker I just checked and at 3:47est he's in 75th with 1.95M.
@kkott @bradstevens i thought we had a poker player on teh wc who was big time. had played in the wsop won a bunch online etc. i can't remember who it was. eppy?
@kkott @bradstevens i thought we had a poker player on teh wc who was big time. had played in the wsop won a bunch online etc. i can't remember who it was. eppy?
I'm not sure about poker, but @eppy won a huge pot in a DFS football contest.
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@kkott go to YouTube and search for PokerGo. They are showing free coverage of it. Also, pokernews.com has chip stacks and etc. The WSOP app is great, but you have to download it.
Just a bit of perspective about how much of a marathon the WSOP main event is, before starting day five today, the biggest chip stack is 4,195,000 out of about 584,100,000 total chips, or 0.718% of all the chips. Less than 1%. Lot of ballgame left.A friends 28yo son is in a poker group that they pay into a fund monthly and the year end winner, our friends son this year, gets the $10K entry fee into the WSOP paid for. Think they started with around 9600 players and he passed "into the money" yesterday, which I think was around the top 1400. As of this morning he was around 80th with 1.9m in chips. Think at this point he's guaranteed 33K and if we were to maintain his position, it would be about $100K payday. To top things off, super nice young man and family.
I've known a few people that have done it, but no one ever came close to cashing. Cheering for him to keep on going!
And that’s 10 hours a day of table time. Five two-hour sessions a day
That’s nothing if you can get a few good beers in you! Back in my college days at Vincennes U, we’d have poker tournys in our apartment that would last a good 12 hours straight! This was back when it got popular with Chris Moneymaker. Nobody was sober at the end of our tournaments. I asked Phil Helmuth about that on the old sportsnation chat and he thought I was crazy to play poker for that long in a given time. If I got the chance, I think I can compete with the best of them if anyone would want to sponser me! I’d split the winnings 50/50! Any takers???
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