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I SEE DEAD PRESIDENTS 80 MILLION DEAD PRESIDENTS


Can you really conceive it? Do you grasp how much money that is? $80 million in chips up for grabs in one single event. We are talking about 80 million double cheeseburgers off of the value menu at McDonalds. That my friends is a lot of fake beef. That my friends is a lot of fake beef. For anyone that hasnt caught on to what I am talking about, that is the estimated total prize pool for the 2006 WSOP Main Event. Harrahs, the sponsor of the WSOP, has capped the main event with only 8000 seats. Ok, look at that too. They have capped it. That means that they are restricting it to 8000 seats. With the boom in poker, there could easily be more players that simply do not get in because the seats are all filled. And then the œonly 8000 seats œ, 8000 players in the main event is pretty amazing if we go back 10 years. I know in a few smaller land based tournaments and a lot of on line freerolls you see that number of entries and more but we are talking about a $10 thousand buy in.

It is so unbelievable that last night Nikolaus Sheppard was giving me a preview of what TCG-Global has planed for the WSOP this year. They are not only announcing a poker pool in which you can buy a number of a seat and if that player wins you win the pool but they are laying odds on the top players in the world to not even make the final table let alone win. 50 to 1 odds that no top 25 player wins the main event and even on one specific player they are laying 50 to 1 he doesnt make the final table and 100 to 1 he doesnt win the main event if he did. They are not only announcing a poker pool in which you can buy a number of a seat and if that player wins you win the pool but they are laying odds on the top players in the world to not even make the final table let alone win. 50 to 1 odds that no top 25 player wins the main event and even on one specific player they are laying 50 to 1 he doesnt make the final table and 100 to 1 he doesnt win the main event if he did. I wont bore you with the details of the largest prizes in history or the most players in a tourney like this but you have to understand something, each player is in a seat that is valued at $10 thousand. That there are going to be 8000 of them and more than likely over a thousand that will be holding entry fees but can not get in. It is going to be a big show, bigger than ever and I am waiting to see which non network puts it on television live. Im personally think I need to know someone in the pay per view arena because I want in on this. So, hey out there, if you know anything about putting on a pay per view event, call me and lets do the entire main event this year live as it happens. It may sound like I am rambling and being silly but let me tell you, I have been around this event and poker for more years than half the players in the event have been alive and I have been in it religiously not as a week end arm chair œ I play a little œ kind of around. If I had said that there would be 2000 players wanting in let alone 8000 and the entry stayed at 10 grand , a few years ago I would have been told to go home and sleep it off. I am now beginning to wonder if poker isnt going to become a shooting star and burn its self out by moving to big too fast in too many directions. This is going to be an interesting summer in poker so lets all stay tuned and see if blind ambition can really pull you through.