The Poker Voice

www.bluesqpoker.co.uk - As any player who follows the event knows, the main event has been rather different this year in the fact that the final table was delayed for many weeks, but there have been other more gradual changes too. In it’s earlier days, this tournament saw some of the best players in the world gather together to pit their skills against each other, and provided a stage for the finest names in the game to shine on. As the years have passed however, what was a fairly small tournament has turned into a marathon of thousands of people.

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If I am being honest, I do not think this provides a true test of the best, because of the sheer overload of players. If the most skilled player at the tournament plays for almost a week constantly, the odds are, they will get very unlucky once or twice against a bigger stack than them. If that happens, it’s likely to be game over for them, no matter how well they’ve played. If the organisers of the event were to have STT’s running throughout the weeks of the WSOP, and each person who has paid their entrance fee were to have three chances at these STT’s to qualify, it would surely cut the entrants down. As well as this, it would mean the quality of players would be higher.

Any professional who is skilled, would surely qualify with, for instance, three attempts at a top two finish, in a qualifying 9 seat STT. Added to this, players who play many other events at the WSOP would be able to plan which qualifiers they will enter depending on their schedule. I’m not saying it’s the perfect answer, but I feel some of the old magic of the main event needs to come back. No offence to recent final table players and winners, but there is a sense that these people are those who just happened to never get seriously unlucky against the wrong person over a week of playing.

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