Getting the Best of It in WSoP Side Action

[shipitfish]

No, I'm not talking about cash games at the Rio. I am going for prop bets on statistics regarding the 2006 WSoP .

My only standing action is that W.D. bet me nearly $200 at even money on the registrant count for the main event. I have the over on 8,000, and I think that I have way the best of it. W.D. argues that since the schedule says there are four day one's where 2,000 people play down to 800, that the registration is capped at 8,000. I don't think so; I think it's going to be tight at the end, and they're going to squeeze in an extra table or two on a few of the Day 1's.

If anyone is interested, I am willing to offer that action to others. I'm also willing to bet that Hellmuth won't get his tenth bracelet this year, although I probably wouldn't have taken that bet last night. :)

Anyway, I am generally a prop-bet nut, so I'm willing to talk odds on just about anything if people want.

BTW, total jeers to the World Series of Poker official website (which I won't link to lest I give them more Google page rank then they already have) for requiring Flash just to begin using the site. Let alone that it's tough to make Flash work on Open Source and Free Software computers, but more importantly, Flash makes the web completely inaccessible to the visually impaired. Their site was much better before the overhaul this week.

Comments

[shunny.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you'll win the # of entries prop bet. There were actually less players than the 6000 max they had last year. Poker may have peaked even more in popularity since then but I don't know how much more dead money will want to win a seat or pony up $10k.

[shipitfish.livejournal.com]

It's more a gut feeling on my part. There are so many more ways to get a seat and so much more incentive for people to try and get there (like the online sites matching programs for endorsement deals). Seats are being given away at such a rapid rate, I just feel that it'll push just over the edge.

[patty-bush.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing

[patty-bush.livejournal.com]

not that it's peaked, but Harrah's did a good job of making sure there was more than enough room last year, I expect the same this year.