Welcome to Day Two
Today the second day of this unique event will commence. Well, to be honest, it's not totally unique since the World Series of Poker Europe already had a tournament like this before Caesars Entertainment introduced it here this summer.
Yesterday the tournament format was set up like a regular No-Limit Hold'em tournament where the players were seated at nine handed tables. Today is a little bit different though, as players will be playing on six-handed tables. Less players at the tables means playing more hands, and that requires a different strategy. The tournament will know one more twist: when the tournament will be down to 32 players they change again, this time to a heads-up format.
Yesterday PokerNews' Pamela Maldonado talked to Olivier Busquet about the format. So if you're still in and need some tips, or thinking of entering next year, be sure to give that a read.
Another twist in todays tournament is that we don't know the name of the chip leader. There's a player in the tournament who build his 9,000 starting stack into a 122,375 one but he wrote down a made up name on his bag at the end of the day. A batch of familiar players are in pursuit of this anonymous player though with Isaac Hagerling (83,975), Calvin Anderson (79,425), Dominik Nitsche (72,900), John Hennigan (71,600) and Ognjen Sekularac (69,650) amongst the players who have ammassed big stacks on day one.
Today they'll play 10 levels with a sixty minute dinner break after the sixth level. Yesterday there were eight levels scheduled so the first level starting today will be level nine (300/600 with 75 ante). There are 181 players left in the tournament and, as said, they'll halt the tournament when they're down to 32 to change the format again.
Be ready; from 2 p.m. there will be more than enough action for you to read up on.
- Day 2 Counts by Chips (.pdf)
- Day 2 Counts by Name (.pdf)
- Day 2 Counts by Table (.pdf)