Running 2006 World Series Of Poker Thread

I don't think Zeke was suggesting that poker is going to turn our ghettos into safe neighborhoods or make kids who can't tie their shoes into the next Donald Trump, but was merely suggesting that poker certainly isn't contributing to the dumbing down of America and is, if anything, a far more intellectual pursuit than, say, football.

As for no bad beats ... watched the circuit event on ESPN tonight. Hachem's KK all in against J-10 offsuit. Flop comes with two jacks. That's a bad beat ...

 

That was just sick. It's almost like Pham just lost his mind making that play with J-10. Hate to see when plays like that get rewarded.

 

Thought Hachem was going to throw up. Anytime you lose when your opponent needs to catch more than one card it's awfully tough to take.

 

Hachem's the kind of guy I'd like to grab a beer with, though I'd like to summarily take a dump on the Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! guys.

 

Fortunately for Joe, he's got 7 million reasons not to feel to bad about it.

 

Day 2A update:

Among the big names who busted out: Scotty Nguyen, David Williams, Andrew Black, John Juanda, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Mike Sexton, Jeff Madsen, Devil Fish Ulliot, Kido Pham and Mickey Appleman.

Phil Ivey's on life support with just 20,000 in chips. Layne Flack has 25,000. Chris Ferguson has 60,000.
George Lopez still hanging in there at 106,000. The best of the big names is Allen Cunningham, who has 172,000. Chip leader is Jon Lane at 405,000.

 

Hachem seems like a decent enough guy, but the Main Event dealers hate him.

Was playing at Caesars a few months ago and my dealer was the second-last dealer at the ME last year. (He dealt for much of the final table, but he didn't deal the last few hands; I've since watched it again on TV and the guy wasn't lying.)

Anyway, Hachem tipped a grand total of $100 to be split among the final table dealers.

Now, I'm not a believer in giant tips for dealers. No point killing your roll with kindness.

But when you win $7-million, you could probably spring for more than a C-note.

 

That is pretty weak -- especially considering how the dealer flopped him a freaking straight on the final hand.

How much would be appropriate to tip?  I'm thinking I'd give $1,000 to each of the dealers.

 

Maybe he didn't have much cash on him at the time?

Shit, if I just won $7.5 million, I'd have a thousand things on my mind other than the correct amount to tip the dealers.

 

Are Moneymaker and Raymer still alive in the Main Event?

 

I thought I read somewhere that the standard tip that is encouraged by the casino personnel arranging the payout for the cashing players is in the 2-4% range, and that is split amongst all the dealers who worked the event.

Now that works out to be $150-300K in Hachem's case, which seems outrageous on its own, but if that's a standard custom for these events, then it becomes sort of a cost of doing business.  And if you break that down, at 300 dealers, that's $1000 per, not out of line for a week's work.

Which if all of this is true would definitely make Hachem a public enemy with the dealers.