LAS VEGAS (AP) Cardplayers, celebrities and amateurs with deep pockets are back in Las Vegas and hoping for a handsome score as the World Series of Poker Main Event begins. Full Article at USA Today
I've still only been playing for three years
I still have a lot to learn.
For a minute, I thought I was going to win anyway.
Only in Vegas do you have a dinner break at 4:20
Next year, I'm going to be last out
It also gives the players a little more play time in the beginning, where a lot of the average players were feeling left out like they didn't get their money's worth ... These first few days of the main event, it's all about survival - these guys just want to make it through the first day.
I think the game has become so much more aggressive ... that as a good fold player having 30,000 chips gives you that little flexibility to play a few more pots
I can't see the structure not catching up to the chips on Day 6 or 7, when nobody's going to have more than eight bets in front of them, so that's something that they're going to have to worry about
There's a lot to be said for these young players who are aggressive and accumulate all those chips, but do they know how to change gears, do they know how to get to the final table and play solid poker without getting all those chips in there on a stone cold bluff? I don't think they do - I think that's...
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