Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship Day 1 | 2019 World Series of Poker

06-13-2019 10:11 UTC-7

TJ Cloutier Kicks Off Seniors Event

Djinn

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Jack Effel announced to the field, "This year, the WSOP turns 50, so even the WSOP can participate!"

He continued, "Without a doubt this is my favourite event because all of you are here for one reason - to play poker and have a great time, win or lose. You guys are the role models for all poker players."

He then introduced a special guest to announce the start of play: TJ Cloutier.

"Tied ninth place on the all-time WSOP bracelet list with six bracelets, $4.7 million in lifetime earnings, he pretty much wrote the strategy on tournament poker," Effel reminded the assembled players. Cloutier himself then took the mic.

"It's a real honour to be here. I have one question for you: when you play back home are you probably the oldest player in the game? Not here! Play hard; shuffle up and deal!"

Tags: TJ Cloutier

06-13-2019 10:04 UTC-7

Shuffle Up and Deal!

GeoffFisk

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

The cards are in the air and Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship has begun!

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/100

Ante: 0

06-13-2019 08:50 UTC-7

Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship: Day 1 Begins at 10.00am

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The four-day Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship begins today at 10 a.m.

Every year, thousands of players convene in Las Vegas for this over-50’s event, with attendance growing steadily over the last few Series. This year, field size predictions from Seniors players themselves tend into the upper 6,000's; we’ll know by the end of late registration (Level 8, around 8:15 p.m.) what kind of odds the 2019 WSOP Seniors champion will have to overcome to win a bracelet this year.

To reach Day 2, today’s competitors will play through 10 one-hour levels, with a 75-minute dinner break scheduled after Level 6 (around 4:40 p.m.). The slow structure has players start out with 20,000 in chips, blinds starting at 100/100, with one re-entry available.

Last year’s winner Matthew Davis saw off international competition from a 5,918-strong field to take the Seniors’ bracelet and $662,676. Bill Stabler, who finished second, had made a Senior Event final table in 2012; this event attracts returning players year on year. Entrants take on the largest Senior field available as part of a larger WSOP tournament schedule, combined with Event #39 ($1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em) or as a standalone event.

As George Bernard Shaw - and Doyle Brunson - famously said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing,” and no one can accuse Senior runners of the latter.

Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship

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