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WSOP 2016 Thread, brought to you by Staker
pokerpops:
Really like the concept and anything that gets Tighty back onboard is obv a good thing.
Struggling with a strategy for identifying horses, can"t stick a pin in a non-existent list :)
Anyone got any hints and tips?
TightEnd:
So the WSOP is underway
731 players in event 1 the casino employees, this compares to 688 last year
23 players remain and it was a pleasant surprise to see a Union Jack in the list of chip counts
Kerryjane Craigie, who is the Manager of the London Hippodrome card-room, sitting 2nd overnight and in the hunt for the $75,000 first prize. Nothing like starting the series with a bang, hopefully
For Staker, our action gets underway today with ColossusII with six starting flights and in some quarters expectations of up to 30,000 players
Of course for an event of this size, a staking strategy is a bit different to many other events.
Looking at the leaderboard, players have so far chosen 70 players. Haystack, meet needle.
http://www.staker.co.uk/leaderboard.asp?t=&e=10
In terms of hints and tips it will be a bit easier for the weekend stud event, with 100-150 runners tops at $10,000 buy in and a pretty defined player pool. I"ll run through some of the possible runners and riders tomorrow
It"s GUKPT Walsall this week too and there is a leaderboard running there. Whilst not as straightforward as a $10k stud to work out who is playing, we can at least go to past GUKPT results, rule out those we know are in vegas, and choose accordingly. A GUKPT will have a fairly constant pool of players supplemented by local qualifiers.
Des:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on June 01, 2016, 23:42:30 PM ---
Not clear about the Facebook bit.
Why does it want to access my friend list?
Is it going to generate posts on my FB or send messages to my FB friends?
Can I take part without giving permission to access my friend list?
--- End quote ---
Standard Facebook login app, John. We don"t want it to be invasive at all - so it should not be automatically sharing anything with your friends. If it is please shout. We do not receive any information on your friends - just your name and email address. You have the option within the game to share stuff with your friends, which is probably where the friends list comes in. But that is completely optional for us all.
TightEnd:
A reminder that for the first of the WSOP Staker events, which starts tonight (Event 2 Colossus II ) your stakes need to be placed before 9pm UK time tonight.
After that you can stake for future events on the list, but not Colossus
Des:
--- Quote from: pokerpops on June 02, 2016, 07:28:09 AM ---
Really like the concept and anything that gets Tighty back onboard is obv a good thing.
Struggling with a strategy for identifying horses, can"t stick a pin in a non-existent list :)
Anyone got any hints and tips?
--- End quote ---
I"m favouring the methodical approach, David.
So, for event #3 $10,000 Stud Championship.
I"m using the "Study the Stats" link on the Staker homepage to go to the Hendon Mob rankings page.
Scrolling down brings me to all of the WSOP stats that I could ever hope to see.
I"m immediately going to do a search on the WSOP Stud rankings to see who has shown form over the years. I might pick 3 or 4 of those guys - lowering the percentage for older players, maybe increasing it for newer players (perhaps more likely to be there as their achievements are more likely to have been recent - definitely not a science though!).
Then I"ll click through to the WSOP 2015 results and search for Stud.
I"ll go through the 2015 $10k Stud Championship result in detail. I"ll probably pick 3 or 4 of those guys and take a decent percentage of each.
I might then go through the results of the 2 or 3 other Stud events that happened in that series at lower buy ins.
I"m generally looking for names I"m vaguely familar with, suggesting they are regulars and stud players and more likely to be back.
Ultimately, none of these guys are guaranteed to show. Hell they might walk into the venue with $10k in their pocket and be accosted by someone they owe money to, or just go off and play something differerent. That"s one of the very human things about poker - you just can"t predict what will happen!
When one of your guys turns up on a live update or as an end of day chipleader - it"s quite a buzz though!
Best of luck with the series.
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