Big Buy In But Bigger Return
For this event, 409 players each spent $5,000 to get a seat at the table. The prize winnings were close to $2 million with the first place finisher taking home over $480,000. There were 44 winners, with the bottom six winning over $9,000 – almost doubling their initial investment.Planned and Well Organized
This was another brand new event for 2012 with the World Series of Poker. Each round lasted 60 minutes and players were given breaks after every two rounds. Each player started with 15,000 chips and this event lasted for four days. Try your luck on 888Poker room.Pool Play and Brackets
This event was more like a sporting tournament, with the opening days being like a pool play, where each player needs to get to the final 32 seats. Once those 32 seats were filled, the players were ranked according to how many chips that had left and then put into brackets – like the college basketball tournaments. The lowest stack played against the highest stack and so on, until the game dwindled to the final two players.European Dominance
They battled it out for a short amount of time, but eventually, only one player could win. The winner of event #6 was a man from France named Aubin Cazals. In fact, of the top six finishers, only one was from the United States. Those five players hailed from France, Australia, Germany, and Monoco. There were two players from France in the top six.With the spread of poker around the world and the ease of starting a quick game with friends, it seems like the number entering the World Series of Poker events is smaller than in the past. Did poker get too big, too soon? Were there too many instant celebrities clogging the television screen? Who knows. Poker is a fun game that actually takes skill and luck, but it appears to be losing some steam.
Mixed Hands
The reason that this version of Hold’em is called Mixed Match is because each round cuts the number of players at each table. The numbers move from nine hands to six hands to fewer and fewer. This game was absolutely amazing because of the actual time that was spentRecord Breaking Game Times
When the game got down to the final four, one of the pairs in head to head play had to play for over nine hours – in a semi-final match. The old record of a seven hour game was smashed by this one. The final game was about five hours long, but it had to go into a fifth day, which was unplanned.This record breaking game reminds the world why it loves poker so much. The game is unpredictable and fun to watch – even if it takes half a day to watch two games!
