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Always been a big fan of Texas Holdem poker on TV. Televised starts tonight at 8:30pm "On the Deuce".

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The 50th running of the World Series of Poker main event is set to kick off at noon at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Defending champion John Cynn is scheduled to give the ‘Shuffle Up and Deal’ announcement that will set in motion poker’s world championship. The event will run from July 3-16, with three starting days available: Wednesday (July 3), Thursday (July 4) and Friday (July 5), with each beginning at noon local time.

In 1972 the WSOP no-limit hold’em main event first adopted the current $10,000 buy-in price point, which it has maintained in the decades that have followed. Over the years it has grown to be the richest and most prestigious poker tournament in the world.


2018 WSOP main event champion John Cynn

While the buy-in remains the same, the 2019 main event will see a number of changes implemented. The starting stack has been increased to 60,000, up from 50,000 in 2018.

For the first time ever, the WSOP main event will utilize the big blind ante format. The big blind ante was also used in every other no-limit hold’em event this summer. Another new wrinkle for the 2019 main event is that late registration will remain open until the start of Day 2, which means that players will have up until 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 7 (Day 2C) to buy into the big dance.

While some things will be different this year, many things will remain the same as they were in years past. The main event will again feature 120-minute long levels, and arguably the best structure of any no-limit hold’em event. At the end of day 1, a 60,000 starting stack would still be good for 100 big blinds.

ESPN, ESPN2 and PokerGO will be providing daily coverage, kicking off on day 1A at 8:30 p.m. ET. A full listing of ESPN’s broadcast schedule can be found at the bottom of this article. Check out PokerGo’s streaming coverage schedule on their website. The final table will be set on Friday, July 12. There will be a single day off before the final nine return to battle their way to a champion over the course of three days (July 14 – 16).

Click here to check out the 2019 WSOP main event structure sheet.

The 2018 main event drew the second largest turnout in the history of this tournament, attracting 7,874 players. John Cynn earned $8,800,000 as the eventual champion. If the numbers so far in 2019 are any indication, this year’s main event could be even bigger. Through the first 66 events of this summer’s series, a record total of 147,334 entries have been made. That’s an increase in turnout of roughly 33 percent over the same sample of events in 2018.

Here is a look at the schedule for 2019 WSOP main event televised coverage on the ESPN networks:

Network Air Date (ET) Start Time (ET) Event
ESPN2 Wed 7/3/2019 8:30 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Thu 7/4/2019 9:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Fri 7/5/2019 8:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Sat 7/6/2019 7:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN Sun 7/7/2019 2:30 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Mon 7/8/2019 10:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN Tue 7/9/2019 7:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN Wed 7/10/2019 8:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Wed 7/10/2019 11:30 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN Fri 7/12/2019 9:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Fri 7/12/2019 11:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event
ESPN2 Sun 7/14/2019 10:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Final Table
ESPN Mon 7/15/2019 10:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Final Table
ESPN Tue 7/16/2019 9:00 PM 2019 World Series of Poker Final Tabl
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I've played poker for hourse, even until the sun came up, but not for days on end. I couldn't imagine staying focused on hand 594.

Will miss good old Doyle Brunson sitting there.

Ya just know there's a private poker table or 3 somewhere that he plays at on a regular basis.

Aquaintance: "Hey Doyle, count you in on playin some holdem this weekend"?

Doyle: "No thanks, I retired last month."




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle_Brunson

Brunson was the first player to earn $1 million in poker tournaments and has won ten WSOP bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan and Phil Ivey for second all-time, behind Phil Hellmuth's fifteen bracelets. He is also one of only four players to have won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker multiple times, which he did in 1976 and 1977. He is also one of only two players, along with Bill Boyd, to have won WSOP tournaments in four consecutive years. In addition, he is the first of six players to win both the WSOP Main Event and a World Poker Tour title. In January 2006, Bluff Magazine voted Brunson the most influential force in the world of poker.[8]

On June 11, 2018, Brunson announced he was retiring from tournament poker that summer.[9] That day, he entered the $10,000 2-7 Single Draw at the 2018 WSOP and came in sixth place, earning $43,963.[1]

Play 4 tables online at the same time and you can reach hand 594 in a couple hours.

I mean, getting disqualified "AT THE MAIN EVENT"!!!

What a bonehead.


https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop/2019-wsop/main-event/chips.293864.htm

Player Disqualified from the Main Event
Posted 1 hour 48 minutes ago KaleGozer • Level 1: 100-200, 200 ante SHARE
Brasilia poker room

Over at 2015 World Champion Joe McKeehen's table in the Brasilia Red section, a player has been disqualified in the 2019 WSOP Main Event after not even one hour of play on Day 1c.

According to several players at the table, after winning a small pot, the player in question reached out to his left-hand neighbor's stack as well and scooped up his entire stack in the process to add it to his. Allegedly, the player did so with a smile on his face.

The player subsequently got disqualified for stealing another person's chips at the table and will not be active in the 2019 Main Event anymore. It was Jack Effel who came over and escorted the player out of the tournament area. His chips will be taken out of play, while his buy-in stays in the prize pool.

And another bonehead.....

WATCH: Man Disqualified From World Series Of Poker Main Event After Pulling His Pants Down, Throwing Shoe On Table
Second Player Disqualified For Taking His Neighbor's Chips
by Card Player News Team | Published: Jul 05, 2019

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The World Series of Poker main event saw its final starting flight take off on Friday with day 1C, but a pair of poker players in the $10,000 buy-in event won’t be advancing, despite the fact that neither were ever knocked out of the tournament.

One player was disqualified in one of the most egregious breaches of etiquette seen at the poker tables in quite some time… and it was all caught on camera.

The player, decked out in Pittsburgh Pirates gear, decided to go all in without looking at his cards. With the table staring at him in disbelief, he then flipped over his cards to prove he hadn’t looked, exposing Q-3 offsuit.

The action then fell on another player, who had to decide whether or not to call off a big portion of his stack with pocket fives. The all-in player then proceeded to turn around from his table and pull his pants down, mooning his opponents while simultaneously exposing his genitals to the adjacent tables.

He then finished his performance by removing his shoes and socks, before tossing a sneaker on the table towards the dealer and walking away.

The player eventually made the call, but suffered a bit of a bad beat to lose the pot. The shoeless man may have doubled up in the hand, but it ultimately didn’t matter when he was removed from the tournament.

Check out the video of the incident below, courtesy of Dean Blatt.

Warning: This video is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (and a little gross).


https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/24...g-shoe-on-table

Something in the water?

A former drinking buddy who now considers himself an excellent poker player just got back from Vegas a couple weeks ago.

He finished 307 out of 5900+ players in the Seniors No-Limit Hold'em event (last month) and won $2,800. (it was a $1,000 “buy in”)

His best finish in three trips.

Of course, a player is never happy with their finish (unless they win it all).

Those first years when they started televising the Main event were a blast.

It's one of the three worst things I can think of to ever have seen broadcast on T.V. I can't understand why people would play, but why someone would watch someone else play, it's a really bad idea in my opinion.

I'm glad it's over, if it's over,

I keep thinking it's baseball when I read the thread title.

Chris Ferguson - 2000 WSOP Main Event winner.

Both Ferguson's parents have doctoral degrees in mathematics and his father, Thomas Ferguson, teaches game theory and theoretical probability at UCLA.

Chris ain't as smart. He only has a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Hossein Ensan Brings Massive Lead to WSOP Main Event Final Table

After a week of twelve-plus hour days grinding away at the felt in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event has come down to nine players. Nine players and one will walk away with $10 million and poker immortality.

Five North Americans and four Europeans. An EPT champion with a monstrous chip lead. A poker industry lifer who crushes the WSOP Main Event. A nosebleed regular with over $8 million in cashes. A little-known software engineer who busted a legend with the semi-bluff shove heard 'round the poker world.

Each has his own story, but they all have one thing in common: they've spent the past week making their way through a field of 8,569, and they all earned the right to play for $10 million on poker's grandest stage.

2019 WSOP Main Event Official Final Table
Seat Player Country Chip Count Big Blinds
1 Hossein Ensan Germany 177,000,000 177
2 Nick Marchington United Kingdom 20,100,000 20
3 Dario Sammartino Italy 33,400,000 33
4 Kevin Maahs United States 43,000,000 43
5 Timothy Su United States 20,200,000 20
6 Zhen Cai United States 60,600,000 61
7 Garry Gates United States 99,300,000 99
8 Milos Skrbic Serbia 23,400,000 23
9 Alex Livingston Canada 37,800,000 38
There is 1:31:35 remaining in Level 37 (500,000/1,000,000, with a 1,000,000-big blind ante).

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/07/wsop-2019-main-event-final-table-hossein-ensan-34844.htm

Opinion noted

Ensan was using his chip stack like a club last night . Thats how you use that stack but he was being brutal on the short stacks

Chip leader going into the final 9 with 177 million and the 2nd biggest stack 78 million less. Oye vey I say.

Insurmountable stack? Nah.

I'll be glued starting tomorrow night thru the finish just like I've been the last week or so.

"Oh Thank Heaven for Seven Eleven".......and the invention of Dvr's.

Glad to see an oldtimer win one for us old coots.


Hossein Ensan Wins the 2019 WSOP Main Event ($10,000,000)

His railbirds' shirts, black with conjoining colors of German and Iranian flags, called Hossein Ensan a "sure bet."

For most of the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, he looked like just that. Ensan entered with a massive lead and only strengthened his grip on things over the course of the first two days, toting 63 percent of the chips into three-handed play.

It took him about nine hours and things got a little rocky at times, but Ensan closed the deal. He eliminated both Alex Livingston and then Dario Sammartino across a little under 200 hands of play, securing the historic bracelet for the 50th running of the WSOP, as well as $10 million and poker immortality as the next world champion.

He called the moment, the culmination of getting through a field of 8,569, "unbelievable."

"It is the best feeling I have in all my life," he said, grinning the smile that seems eternally etched on his features.

Final Result: 2019 WSOP Main Event

Place Winner Country Prize (USD)
1 Hossein Ensan Germany $10,000,000
2 Dario Sammartino Italy $6,000,000
3 Alex Livingston Canada $4,000,000
4 Garry Gates United States $3,000,000
5 Kevin Maahs United States $2,200,000
6 Zhen Cai United States $1,850,000
7 Nick Marchington United Kingdom $1,525,000
8 Timothy Su United States $1,250,000
9 Milos Skrbic Serbia $1,000,000

Ensan said his plan for the tournament was just to bag up every day and get to the money. When he got a big stack starting on Day 4, he began to dream bigger and the cards kept cooperating.

Still, despite Ensan's stack and credentials that included numerous excellent results, including a European Poker Tour title and over $2.6 million in tournament cashes, many observers tabbed Sammartino as the man to beat at the final table.

Ensan had a chance to make short work of him and take an overwhelming lead against Livingston as the two Europeans flipped for Sammartino's stack early on the final day. The board ran out a straight for the Italian and it was game on with everyone having a very playable stack over 50 big blinds.

In what would be a theme throughout the final table, the railbirds for Sammartino went absolutely bananas. Fans of each player seemed determined to outdo the others, chanting louder and stomping harder, creating a raucous atmosphere that never really slowed down.

The slide continued for Ensan as he ceded the lead to Livingston for one hand before Sammartino doubled through the Canadian, turning two pair against pocket kings.

Sammartino and Ensan then traded the lead for a bit before Ensan woke up with ace-queen against Livingston, who shoved with ace-jack on the button.

Alex Livingston
Alex Livingston watches the last of hopes die in the Main Event.
Sammartino grabbed an early lead heads up when he hit a three-outer after calling a check-raise on the turn then got big value on a river bet with aces up against jacks up.

No longer did Ensan seem a sure bet. The Italian, widely considered the best player at the final table and certainly the most accomplished with millions in cashes against no-limit hold'em's most elite, had the chips and the chops. It seemed his title to lose.

His rail knew it too, as the chants only grew in force, drowning out Ensan's rail's responses.

"He's a super Dario! He's a super Dario! He's a super Dario!"

Ensan turned things around, though. Over the course of the next roughly 100 hands, he methodically reduced Sammartino to about 40 big blinds and a 2-to-1 deficit. Sammartino tried slowing the slide by limping some buttons, but the big pots all seemed to go Ensan's way.

"He's a big name and he's a very good player," Ensan said. "But, short-handed you need cards. You need hands and for sure luck. Luck and hands [were] on my side."

Finally, things ended in a hand eerily similar to Sammartino's double against Livingston. The Italian again check-raised all in on the turn and again was up against two kings. This time, however, he only had a combo draw and needed to improve on the river. A brick river fell and Sammartino had to console himself with $6 million and another close call in a marquee bracelet event — he previously finished third in the $100K High Roller for One Drop in 2017.

Dario Sammartino
Sammartino fell just short of being world champion.
Ensan, meanwhile, drank it in. He raised the bejeweled bracelet to the heavens, kissed it, and spread his arms to soak in the adulation of his supporters. He said he'd have to go to sleep and wake up to make sure it wasn't a dream.

"I am so happy I am here with bracelet in hand," he said. "What can I say?"

While he may not have had much to say, his railbirds somehow still had voice.

"Ensan! Ensan! Hosseiiiin Ensan!"

This time, the chants rang alone in the quickly emptying Amazon Room as media filtered out to write their final words and production crews broke down the set. Nobody could respond. Ensan had all of the chips and the $10 million, and the next banner to drop from the ceiling at the WSOP will bear his face.