World Series 2009

opr

ESPN aired the first event of the WSOP 2009 last night and its available in the usual places.

Event Aired - $40k No Limit Hold'em Part 1 of 2 FT

Justin Bonomo
Ted Forrest
Issac Haxton
Vitaly Lunkin
Greg Raymer
Noah Schwartz
Dani Stern
Alec Torelli
Lex Veldhuis

Opr

tylerdurden94

Any cousinlinks?

Edit: found a quick torrent

tylerdurden94

I see some of the boardsie are included in the credits now, 1:51 into it.

meathman 007

Few observations:

• Massive crapshoot and nothing interesting really comes up - To be expected I suppose but still a little disappointing given the lineup
• Raymers 'stare down' is disturbing
• Raymer still thinks the Soviet Union is in existance!
• LOL at ESPN introducing the hidden cards feature - i.e Sweat with xxx that the EPT has had for years

opr

I also expected more of the 40k event in terms of play, it seemed like a complete crapshoot. I had forgotten how much other rubbish ESPN surrounds showing these final tables.

Opr

smurph

Do you think there is any real beef in that beef jerky stuff...

yuck

Whyno

smurph wrote: »

Do you think there is any real beef in that beef jerky stuff...

yuck

Beef jerky is d nuts smurf

BuChan

smurph wrote: »

Do you think there is any real beef in that beef jerky stuff...

yuck

only about 97/98%! it's ****ing great i wish they sold it here.
what's the story with crapshootyness!? i thought all the wsop events had monster stacks this year with bigger buyins meaning bigger stacks.

aodea

not great episode can only get better. One or two nice hands the feature quiz show thing was very annoying.

mdwexford

Liked Haxtons line with the Aces.

mdwexford

Actually episode 2 isnt on Pokertube, have you guys seen it somewhere else??

edit - Its on Pokertube now.

slyph

I thought it was a great second episode!

Ups and downs made for great tv for me.

I'd like to know how much that guy would of made (or has he ended up winning) on his prop bet about the braclet?

tylerdurden94

What site did those links come from on the cousinslink?

I thought it looked pretty well, the intro part i really liked, the game show part was very cheesy got back to doing the nuts thing. Cant remember who won this so looking forward to it.

Ted Forrest line was pretty strange, Haxton's AA was nice, Raymer raising with Q5 then Bonomo reraising with the K7 was sweet then reraised with the 99's Your man with the "one time" crap i dont normally mind hearing that but you spiked both times of the river you absolute luckbox.

tm2204

Yeah, thought 2nd episode as way better.

I'd say Reymer regrets his line with that 55 hand and getting his whole 50+BB stack in. He was gummimg for the 2nd bracelet and just had a bit of a brain fart.

Thought Haxtons HU play was atrocious (what edited parts we seen).

ozpoker

tm2204 wrote: »

Yeah, thought 2nd episode as way better.

I'd say Reymer regrets his line with that 55 hand and getting his whole 50+BB stack in. He was gummimg for the 2nd bracelet and just had a bit of a brain fart.

Thought Haxtons HU play was atrocious (what edited parts we seen).

Yeah, that fact that Lunkin was able to trap him so easily with big hands makes you think Haxton was overly aggressive in the hands we didn't see.

Lao Lao

Was Raymer always this annoying or did I just not notice it before?

Four of a kind

Did Bonomo win the prob bet does anyone know????

maloney333

Here is what Bonomo wrote:
Re: WSOP on ESPN: $40,000 NL Holdem - July 28 8-10pm ET

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Spoiler because it's going to be shown during main event coverage:

Spoiler:
Greg Mueller won the prop bet for me. I also crushed all my other prop bets (like drafting players

Seen this on 2+2

DrJFF

greg raymer = nicest guy in poker

isaac haxton= most impatient/aggro heads up tourney player in the world(watch his hu in the pca a few years ago vs ryan daut its gas how aggro he plays)

Vitaly Lunkin= weird bum bag/fanny pack, made some very well timed aggro plays

Dani Stern= was made look like a tourney donk

overall: espn butchered the coverage and gave no idea of real game flow and jus showed the big pots

also: hachem sounded like a douche on the rail

mdwexford

Hachem is a douche full stop, jackass of a man, awful ambassador for poker as a former world champion imo.

tylerdurden94

The chick dealing at the start of episode 1 dealt to me for a bit when i played in the Bellagio and went on this massive rant about how Harrah's was runining the WSOP.

Jesus them swings were crazy!

meathman 007

Yea +1 about Hachem... complete douchebag

Wombatman

Tilt inducing coverage. Far too much fluff and not enough hands. The quiz almost made me turn it off.

ocallagh

Lao Lao wrote: »

Was Raymer always this annoying or did I just not notice it before?

lol I was thinking the same thing. I can barely watch this because of him

karpov33

Have to agree Hachem is a whining pain. Always moaning about luck, won the main event when his pocket sevens held up when he was low stack now thats fkn luck

karpov33

Raymers stupid specs are so 2005

aidankk

Four of a kind wrote: »

Did Bonomo win the prob bet does anyone know????

Greg FBT Muller won 2 bracelets and he won the bet for him....

Four of a kind

aidankk wrote: »

Greg FBT Muller won 2 bracelets and he won the bet for him....

How much was the prop bet?

Tony_Montana

mdwexford wrote: »

Hachem is a douche full stop, jackass of a man, awful ambassador for poker as a former world champion imo.

+ a luck box and a winge bag

bigslick

Four of a kind wrote: »

How much was the prop bet?

He laid 7/1 on 100k. So he won 100k.

tylerdurden94

Nice car for the winner.

mdwexford

Mortensen limp calls TT.
Doyle folds AK.
Mortensen check min raises the Tens for info ldo and then folds em.

Top class play.

Jesus Wept

don't forget md, AK is just a drawing hand at the end of the day

Jesus Wept

also there was no a or k on that flop so it utrns out it was the correct desizion.

mdwexford

The-Rigger wrote: »

also there was no a or k on that flop so it utrns out it was the correct desizion.

Bah stoopid beginner results based thinking fish.

Jesus Wept

stats don't lie

The_Chopper

Tom M was so terrible. He reminded me off a fitz player - I have JJ "I'm all in". I have AK in a 19 bet pot "I'm all in", LOL

Flushdraw

That really was horrible stuff to watch. I thought McEvoy was really bad, and he didnt seem to think any situation through...couldn't see further than his own 2 cards.

tylerdurden94

New episode is the ante up for africa tournament.

Rocky Balboa 2

any news as to when this will be shown on t.v here in ireland? What would it be on, bravo?

corkie123

Rocky Balboa 2 wrote: »

any news as to when this will be shown on t.v here in ireland? What would it be on, bravo?

u can watch it on www.pokertube.com now why wait :D

oleras

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

New episode is the ante up for africa tournament.

Thats 80 mins i aint getting back in a hurry.

tylerdurden94

oleras wrote: »

Thats 80 mins i aint getting back in a hurry.

I know its a charity event but they are playing for serious $$$ and it looks like the biggest crapshoot ever!

Brad Garrett is a fcuking arsehole how do people find him funny? Tiffany Michele was looking pretty hot was it just me or did it look like it took Matt Damon forever to turn his cards over like he was slowrolling them? Ben Affleck's exit was pretty rough.

tm2204

+1,000,000 on Brad Garrett. He's an arsehole plain & simple.

Have been hugely dissapointed with ESPN's WSOP coverage of the 2009 WSOP so far. Both last weeks (seniors) show & this weeks (charity) show were pretty poor and the €40,000 1st event wasn't that good either.

Plan now is to show a whole lot of the main event and nothing else :eek:

I will enjoy the main event for sure but question why they decided on this schedule and ignored most of the tournaments completely.

Juan Pablo

That structure looked like a joke. Am i right in thinking that by the time it got heads up the average stack was just over 1BB?

j10spades

Juan Pablo wrote: »

That structure looked like a joke. Am i right in thinking that by the time it got heads up the average stack was just over 1BB?

better structure in a super turbo on ppp..coverage is really poor this year..main event cant be any worse,anyone know how many episodes it going to be?

.. norman chad would put you on life tilt

tm2204

j10spades wrote: »

better structure in a super turbo on ppp..coverage is really poor this year..main event cant be any worse,anyone know how many episodes it going to be?

.. norman chad would put you on life tilt

Not sure how many episodes but thers's gonna be a lot as they are showing it right up till the final table on Nov 9

thenutpeddler

I wonder how the ultimate bet guy knew that the 7 was coming.

mdwexford

Upload Main Event ffs.

oleras

mdwexford wrote: »

Upload Main Event ffs.

Its on the tube now.

tylerdurden94

oleras wrote: »

Its on the tube now.

Cheers for the cousinslinks.