May 28 - June 5
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I'm gonna play this crazy event if I can still register for it. I won't even try to register until something like 3am Saturday. If I can't register or get knocked out Day 1, I'm entering the Goliath Opening Event at Planet Hollywood for Sunday.
https://www.caesars.com/content/dam...lywood Resort & Casino-Property-Banquet-1.pdf
Officials Elaborate on 2015 WSOP Colossus Event; Warn Players to Preregister
The 2015 World Series of Poker is right around the corner, and no event is garnering more interest than Event #5: $565 "The Colossus" No-Limit Hold'em. This event will kick off the opening weekend on Friday, May 29, and it is highly expected to produce a massive turnout.
The five-day tournament features a guaranteed prize pool of $5 million, and there's no doubt it's going to be a jam-packed affair with conservative estimates putting the field between 10,000-15,000 entrants, while optimists say it could even surpass 20,000.
"It's all over the map internally, so I'm not sure if there is a real WSOP consensus number," Seth Palansky, Vice President of Corporate Communications, tells PokerNews in regards to field-size estimations. "I believe I'm the most optimistic of everyone, and when I say optimistic I have something like 24,600 as my projected number, but I'm getting laughed out of the building."
It's certainly a very large number, but Palansky's projection is based off several factors including early preregistration, feedback from various contact points, and most importantly, numbers from last year's Monster Stack and Millionaire Maker.
"The reality is 75-80 percent of all the people eligible to reenter [the Millionaire Maker] did," Palansky says. "So those are the sort of things I'm using when trying to judge this one. Maybe it's taking the extremes of our most successful events, but I think the Colossus has the potential to fall in that range."
To accommodate the massive turnout, the WSOP has arranged for four starting flights, each with two "Late Waves," which will seat players with the 5,000-chip starting stack but entering at the current level and blinds.
"It's going to be a biggie, but it is a big operational challenge," says Palansky. "I still have nightmares over Monster Stack last year, so at least we learned a bunch of lessons and now we're going to try to implement them."
Players will be assigned seats on a first-come, first-serve basis. Once the flight's initial capacity has been reached, registration for that starting flight closes. Seats will then be sold to "Late Wave Flight 1" (approx. 750 seats) and once all those seats have been sold, seats will be sold to "Late Wave Flight 2" (approx. 1,000 seats).
Players may not reenter the same flight, but reentries are allowed for the following flights. Players may forfeit their current chip stack at the end of the flight prior to bagging if they choose for the opportunity to reenter another flight. Players may not enter another flight once they have survived a flight with chips and haven't forfeited them.
Each Day 1 flight will play 10, 40-minute levels (7 hours, 45 minutes of play time) with no dinner break. The 10 a.m. flights are estimated to end at 5:45 p.m., and the 6 p.m. flights will end around 1:45 a.m. All times are local Las Vegas times.
The surviving players will then return on Sunday, May 31 for Day 2. The restart time is to be determined, but likely will be 1 p.m. at the earliest. Then, on Monday, June 1, the remaining players will play Day 3 in the Amazon Room, which is where all subsequent days will be played.
You gotta be shittin me boss.....I leave for NH on the 27th and get back the 5th.....I could use that luck of your as the machines have been KILLING me....
That one is wife, stepdaughter and her fiance family type trip where we can meet in many different ways. :0008
Good luck! Maybe you'll run into The Trooper. I might have to try one of those 190 octanes.
I'm going with the wife and two other couples so tournaments just won't work this time. I will be hitting the cash games at the WSOP.
I am looking forward to the updates.
I'm going with the wife and two other couples so tournaments just won't work this time. I will be hitting the cash games at the WSOP.
I am looking forward to the updates.
Let's try to catch up although it might be hard with us both starting different days. Where you staying, Jim?
Same cell number?
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sounds good, staying at Gold Coast 4 days then Golden Nugget downtown for 2 days. Yes same number.
