Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2009 World Series of Poker

06-28-2009 07:16 UTC-12

Who's Here?

[user75032]

We weren't sure what sort of a turnout we'd get for this event. Turns out it's an excellent one. Notables we've spotted so far:

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Dennis Phillips
Tony Cousineau
Jason Mercier
Mike Sexton
Jonathan Little
Al Barbieri
Scott Bohlman
Jordan Morgan
Humberto Brenes
Antonio Esfandiari
Beth Shak
Marc Convey
Kathy Liebert
Gavin Griffin
J.C. Alvarado
Erick Lindgren
Eli Elezra

Tags: Elky Grospellier

Level: 1

Blinds: 25/50

Ante: 0

06-28-2009 07:03 UTC-12

Shuffle Up and Deal!

[user75032]

Cards are in the air.

06-28-2009 06:49 UTC-12

Triple Your Chips, Triple Your Chance

[user75032]

We've seen it before in pot-limit omaha tournaments, now it's come to no-limit hold'em. It's the triple chance format, where players are given one-third of their stack straight away and two "buttons" that that they can redeem for additional chips at any time in the first few levels of a tournament. Some players will redeem those buttons right away; some will use them as a save to overcome bad beats; and some will wait until the end of the redemption period to acquire their extra chips.

There are no additional fees for these rebuy chips. One buy-in gets you all the chips whenever you want them. Players will start redeeming them at noon local time, in ten minutes. We'll see you then.