Congratulations, Monty. Please provide more updates. Very entertaining!

You might get a competitive advantage from a hydration pack and Depends? Go for it. Unleash the kracken!

Have friends that have been coming and going as the series has played out. No huge scores for them yet. The things I’ve heard have been the new venue is significantly better than the Rio. Also Covid has been sweeping through the rooms, but there are a lot of people suspected of playing while sick.

I’ll check the updates before I leave for work here on the East Coast. Crazy that some of the tournaments are still playing down when I’m leaving for work. Can’t imagine grinding the entire series at my age let alone 20 years from how.

Although the big money has always been at the top, I’m sure you remember just a few years ago when generally only the top 10% paid so the min-cashes were a little bigger.

Did you play in the Seniors event? Saw old school Kathy Liebert was doing very well. Good luck in the Super!

I'm not sure if he's in this round but if you see Steve Albini, please say "Hi" for me

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Good luck in the WSOP. I mainly play online on America’s Cardroom.

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That's pretty awesome!

How does the tourney work? I'm assuming you spent a certain amount of cash to buy in. I didn't realize you could just cash out at some point.

So you buy in for like $X, and they give you $10,000 in chips, or something, right? Seat you with 9 other players. Play down until you've got 5, and then join you with another table of 5? Or am I way off?


There was a time I was really into TH no limit tourney poker. I played weekly with a group, and some free online stuff. The online stuff sucked because there was no money involved, people made stupid bets, which more or less randomizes the results. I got pretty good at calculating odds and making smart plays. I never improved at reading bluffs or utilizing it myself.

I tried setting up a regular game with the neighbors several years ago, but I hated the way they played.

Anyway, congrats on making it so far through such a big tourney!

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How does the tourney work? I'm assuming you spent a certain amount of cash to buy in. I didn't realize you could just cash out at some point. //

You pay a certain amount for a set amount of chips, and when you run out of chips, you get paid if you are in the top 10 to 15%. You dont just quit, you get fired!

Have friends that have been coming and going as the series has played out. No huge scores for them yet. The things I’ve heard have been the new venue is significantly better than the Rio. Also Covid has been sweeping through the rooms, but there are a lot of people suspected of playing while sick. //

I have no doubt that covid is spreading like a wildfire, I counted maybe 3% of us actually wearing masks, and maybe 20% of the dealers. And think about it, you are going deep into a tourney, you get sick, but you basically have to keep going if you want to win your money. That is a huge incentive to keep going in sick, not to mention that it is a total cattle call in there, with 10's of thousands crushing each other. And then you sit at a table for hours and hours, right nest to the same folks(until I bust them out) so it is a Petri dish for spreading the virus. I hope my N95 is doing its job for me, along with my quadruple vax.


For now I like the Rio better, this is just too spread out between the Paris and Ballys, and they are gouging the shit out of the players at just about every establishment. I went for a small cup of black coffee, and at the register she says that will be 14 bucks!!! Then I had a shitty 18 dollar burrito(similar to Taco Bell) for dinner, cannot even imagine what a real decent meal costs in there. So now I wait for the game to start, and get the same exact cup of coffee from the drink service for a rich tip..


I did play in the seniors event, made it 8 hours before busting out. The over 50 group is not quite as predictable as the over 60, so looking forward to that game tomorrow. Did finally have time and energy to swim today, but that is for another thread on that other forum..


Thanks for the well wishes everyone, I will post updates and answer any questions on this new venue in the era of covid..

Keep grinding Monty!!!!!!!!

So day 1 of the seniors in the books, and I had the hardest day I have ever spent playing poker. Got KK and QQ in the first 3 hands played, and had both of them cracked to relegate me to a very short stack. I played that stack for the next NINE hours, inching up, only to get another great hand cracked. It was my best short stack effort, ever..

But made it to the midnight cutoff, and going back today to battle the last 700 or so that are left from the original 2700 starts. I dont have a ton of chips, but just checked, and there are hoards of short stacks, and the money bubble is at 400, and I'm sitting about 200th at this point. So probably be patient, try and make the money, then get aggressive and try and get some chips to continue to day 3. But most likely this will be my last day, unless I can change the dynamic of my great hands getting cracked every time I get my head above water...

Fun tourney, old people are more friendly and predictable. Only reason I'm still around...

Not many chips and 200/700? Yup, sounds like a old person tournament! Everyone waiting for premiums while getting blinded out. Ha! I can imagine that bubble is going to be excruciating. Good luck!

No kidding, tighter is righter!! Just finished first level of the day and chipped up to double the average stack. Saw James Woods name high up on the board, hope I get to eventually play with him, he’s a hoot. His 180 IQ is a little daunting though

What’s the scene like there? You’re inside a big cavernous casino with tons of people and tables? Mostly men or are there women, too? Lots of background noise? Everybody wearing sweaters because of a/c?

Let’s get a report, man. How’s morale?

So age for the senior is what? 29 And super seniors 35?

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

I really miss poker sometimes hearing stuff like this.

Like, if you understand the concepts of payouts and “blinded out” you don’t even need to know the rules of the game.

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Not many women but 2 at my table with big stacks. We’re down in the low 300’s now that the money bubble has burst, and a new aggressive guy just showed up with a half million in chips. Playing almost every hand too will look for a spot to double on him. Still sitting at just over 200k

Got in a monster pot with loose aggressive guy and he spiked his king against my pocket nines, 600k pot, ouch!! Made it to dinner break with a much smaller stack, 2 more hour’s tonight and I make day3 again. Down to low 100’s left, so time to get lucky 🍀

Good luck, Monty!

Got it! Thanks!

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Same. It's been a while but the game still pulls at me.

Kinda like how I fell back into golf, come to think of it.

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Gotta win those flips! Happy to hear you had him covered. Hope you were able to run it back up.

I want to play online but I’m afraid of bots and scams.

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“You are experiencing the criminal coverup of a foreign backed fascist hostile takeover of a mafia shakedown of an authoritarian religious slow motion coup. Persuade people to vote for Democracy.”

I've still got like $5K in winnings in a Full Tilt Poker account that I can't access. Fuck that noise.

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Why haven’t you gotten paid? The gov’t allowed Pokerstars to repay the player pool when they took it over. The EFT’s literally said “DOJ payment” or something like that. Not a single person I know didn’t eventually get their money. I’m not sure what the statute of limitations was on claiming that money, but you may want to reach out to Pokerstars.

I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago...I'll re-check it, thanks!

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