WSOP Rejects Main Event Players
Introduction.
The WSOP 2009 Main Event got off to just the sort of start that the organizers would have wanted it to. News is just starting to filter through that the WSOP organizers have prevented some 500 poker players from entering this years Main Event. In an amazing turn of events some 500 players were refused admission to the Main Event not because they weren’t of a high enough poker playing standard, nor because they couldn’t make the $10,000 buy in – but because they couldn’t be accommodated at the poker tables!
A bad start to the week for the organizers.
On the final day for entries to register, Monday, the WSOP received around 2700 applications for just 2500 places. I understand that what has left some of these rejected poker players both bewildered and angry is why, out of a total field of 6,400 players, were 2500 places left to the Monday, meaning that the Saturday and Sunday sessions needed only around 2000 places? So, the question they’d like answering is why hasn’t the WSOP gone for what could potentially quite easily have been a field of 7500 for the Main Event?
After 5 days play at the WSOP.
WSOP Main Event player Johnny Chan - not too happy to be out on just day 5
Five days into the tournament and the winning prize money is now known this year to be $8.55 million, slightly down on last year – but hey we are in a recession! The total number of potential money winners this year is 648, not that Johnny Chan the 10 times gold bracelet winner will be amongst them – he busted out on day 5. Also out on day 5 went Jennifer Tilley and her boyfriend Phil Laak. Jennifer didn’t last at all long on day 5 and probably didn’t help Phil with his game when, on the way out, she said to him “Shall I wait”? Hot tip for a winner so far would be Jason Alexander, who started this day with 90,000 chips.