2010 World Series of Poker

Event #31: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 1
Event Info

2010 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
22277
Prize
$256,820
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$1,117,800
Entries
827
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
0

Logistics, Logistics

There's been a lot of confusion and calls for floors in the early levels of this tournament -- from problems with antes, to tables spread across multiple rooms, to even problems with chip counters.

The chip counters are what dealers use so that they know when to switch games. At the WSOP, the game switches every eight hands. Dealers have eight purple chips in their racks that they move from one side of the rack to the other every hand. When all eight chips have been moved from the left side of the rack to the right side of the rack, the game switches.

At Brandon Cantu's table, the dealer put the chip counters out into each stack. Nobody at the table knew why they had the extra purple chip until a floor was summoned to set matters straight.

At a table in Blue, a player was overheard to ask the dealer, "Do they have antes in the hold'em rounds later in the tournament?" Someone at the table replied that H.O.R.S.E. tournaments never have antes for hold'em.

The player who asked the question, perhaps in an effort to appear less ignorant, replied, "Well I've never posted a blind in a stud tournament before," referring to the early confusion over the button ante in the stud games for Level 1.