The 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is right around the corner! The Main Event begins on July 2nd and runs through July 14th.
ESPN and PokerGo will have live coverage from the Main Event with ESPN’s coverage beginning on July 2nd.
Side events from the WSOP have been streamed on PokerCenteral’s Twitch channel (Mainly just final tables.)
I’ve created this thread to talk about the 2018 Main Event and hope everyone enjoys it! Who are you looking forward to see play in the Main Event? I’m a huge Daniel Negreanu fan and hope he makes a deep run.
So far the hands haven’t been going Antonio Esfandiari’s way. He’s been getting dealt some good, playable hands but his opponents have been getting dealt better hands. Antonio is down to about 30k in chips as of this post.
Players now on break in the Main Event. Pretty good first session with a few interesting hands. Just wish the card graphics and equity percentages were a little bigger on the broadcast.
I wonder if they’ve ever thought of using a shot clock in the Main Event. It would help the pace of play for TV and players would get to play more hands.
So good to watch solid poker being played. Early stages, small pots and feeling each other out. Can’t wait to get back to it and play my next live event. Every time I watch one of these I find myself looking at the calendar to see what could be coming up that I could get into.
Did you see the hand with Gordley and White? Q8 vs QJ - Flop Q8J so top2 pair vs top and bottom pair. Turn a brick and the river an 8 to give 1 the full house. Played nice and smooth all the way by both players. Really good hand to study, noticing how neither went nuts and overvalued their respective hands. Odd river call by the FH but I guess he figured no raise could be called so he check-called and got value that way.
I’ll have to go back and watch that hand. Currently at a 4th of July party waiting for a fireworks show to start which is why I haven’t been posting tonight. The hand sounds very interesting. Looking forward to watching it.
Some really great stuff so far. I won’t post any spoilers so you can see it all fresh. Enjoy the party.
Make sure you look for a hand between Power and Maria Ho - they will break it down on the break with Phil Helmuth so don’t fast-forward over that part.