Even an Anti-Climax Is an Ending
2007-05-21 12:05:39
By: Gene Bromberg
Last week's $200,000 Guaranteed Tournament saw an epic heads-up battle that lasted over ninety minutes. This week's event saw nearly as many heads-up hands...but that's because the final two (simoneb73 and dougr2) decided to chop the first-place money and it took some time to arrange. The players had nearly equivalent stacks and decided that discretion was the better part of valor.
Even though there were 164 more poker players in this week's record-setting field, the tournament took a lot less time than last week's event. I can't help but think there's something interesting and profound to say about that...but apparently I'm not the one to say it. Because I'm drawing a blank. Trying to figure out why certain events fly by and others turn into death marches is probably a question for the statisticians. And I don't qualify as one. The only reason I got a good grade in my B-school stat class is because a woman in my study group was, as they say, smokin' hot.
But I know enough about statistics to know that, despite a slight anomaly last week called "Mother's Day", the size of our starting fields has been tracking upwards. Can we break the record next week as well? The World Series of Poker starts in less than two weeks--what better way to prepare than by playing some big-field poker tournaments? Do me proud, people. And maybe you'll end up at a final table too:
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