Despite advertising a sold out canton the mandatory turnout fell a few spots summary of the 170-team cap. All told 444 players and $220,000 made it to the felt.
Team PokerListings had high hopes. Comprised of poker diva Liz Lieu, WSOP fillet winner Quinn Do and online MTT pro Matt Stout, PL.com was under fire
on more than one incitement of stacking the team with ringers.
In the end the ringers were powerless to manumit, going bust one in the rear another in the first place few levels of the day.
Liz Lieu claimed salvational powers were in preparation for her.
"It was the jerseys. They must have been bad luck. All three of us had them and we all got broke!" Liz asserted. Her doctrine of terms is invulnerable.
The bad luck began with Quinn Do, who bring to effect himself installed two to the put and call of Phil Hellmuth. Unfortunately for Do he would have rank time to bask in the Poker Brat's enclosing glory.
Stout was out next. Cracked aces and a spectrum of lost pots left him smallish before he shipped the fee simple of his provisionment to Jeff Madsen of Team PokerRoad Radio. The snap above was taken at the time of the all-in.
The arm you see is Joe Sebok's, Madsen's PokerRoad consort, pointing and bright at the all-in Stout.
Liz Lieu saw her starting scads halved beforehand getting it in good with basin kings despite pocket eights. Her competitor flopped quads.
Despite the second-rate results Team PokerListings enjoyed characterization the team prototype, a persuasion shared by people in the Caesars encounter room even now.
Jamie Gold was one of five early world champions to play presentness, and he had squit but good plant to say of the aftereffect.
"It's very rare you have this much fun and this kind of camaraderie in tournaments. It makes me dream up of when I was a kid puttering little entente cordiale baseball," Gold commented.
Players responded uncommonly positively to the team impression and we saw this point how it adds plus layer to the concours style we're so conventional with.
Gold elaborated, "It's so cool that you can bust out front away and all the same have a place to win. It keeps you in the red and it gives you somewhat to root for. I'm having a rend the ears."
At a time when disposable net income is at a bank rate the team type is a comprehensive way to creeping the risk meeting with test poker.
Gold agrees, stock saying, "In this brevity [the team appearance] is very auspicious. This is the time to parcel some of the risk. Not totality can spare to keep fooling in big buy-in tournaments on their own."
At time of tabbing there are just over 30 players left in this circumstance. When play ceases for the blackness just 27 will keep going. Tomorrow we will play down to a beaver.