What was Todd Brunson talking about on cardplayer when he mentioned something about him leaving for a sixty million dollar, winner take all tourney?

Could it be something to do with this perhaps:

http://www.onlinecasinonews.com/ocnv2_1/ar...cle.asp?id=9282

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You know whats the funniest part about that article??

"Ever-patriotic Australians are hopeful that Melbourne-born poker champion, Joe Hachem – who won AUD$10 million in Las Vegas earlier this year – will be in the elite field of six to join such huge poker names as Phil Ivey."


Like c'mon......

Yeah, lol, like he's going to risk his whole bankroll in a winner-take-all tourney against Ivey, Brunson(s?), Harman, etc.

Someone already said this in another part of the forum:

They most likely will make some sort of deal to split the money up differently(IE only play for 10 Million of the 60 or something), but obviously FOX will call it "The 60 Million Dollar Winner Take All Poker Event".

cardplayer posted this:

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/detai...291efb7645faa01

I wonder if any poker sites will be having sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub sub satellites?

one of the three or four articles Ive seen on this now mentioned something about a internet qualifier so perhaps one seat will be saved for whatever they have planned. that'll be a fricken really long series of qualifiers to say the least.



*EDIT* I still dont see how they will be able to not have 2-4 of players working together.

It may be hard with so many watching your every move and knowing all the hole cards.

PartyPoker is starting a step tourney with 25 steps....(sw)

This idea is a huge jopke. I don't think any of these pros can afford to loose 10 mil.

maybe think about it this way- would you rather have 250 dollars flat out or a coinflip for 500 where you can win 1000? the +EV answer is obvious.

i agree with a previous poster that they'll probably only put up about a mil or so in actual danger. the rest is just for show.

it'd be great to see some billionare like andy beal buy in with no regard for the money whatsoever.

sorry...been up for 28 hours now

i wouldnt be surprised if Andy bought in, he has played against these guys before and been sucessful.

Why would they make some sort of deal if there all buying in for 10 million. why wouldn't they just buy in for 2 million if they only wanted to play for 10 million this makes no sense unless the only reason there doing its is for tv purposes. However a 10 million dollar single table tournament still sounds pretty good.

He might buy in, but he said it before that he doesn't like tournaments. If the buyin is 1 mil, I don't think he'd do it. If its ten mil, I wouldn't be shocked, but I wouldn't expect it wholly.

I would be completely shocked if Beal buys in. He has the money, but when he has played before, it was only limit hold 'em and only HU. I don't think he could play shorthanded NL. He would be just giving away 10 mil, which is not what he was doing in the LHE matches.

The TV thing is the whole point.
Obviously its for publicity/marketing purposes too. But mostly to get as many viewers as possible.

10 million is way too much for ay poker pro to afford. Makes it interesting though

true

Yeah, Todd Brunson said in poker superstars that "he's won the most money than any other poker player, $20 million".

Now he's probably taken that out of context and refering to the time the corporation backed him against beal...or who knows he might have had a 20 million top line and that is the most. Assuming that statement is anywhere true (not likely though) then he has the most money and his playable bankroll isn't anywhere near 20 million, especially since he doesn't get any snazzy endorsments like his dad and others.

So in other words, Todd claims he made the most money, he claims its been 20 million...thats just making it, not living off it. Obviously this may/may not be true but I'm just using this as an general feel.

Something to me isn't adding up here because they're all jumping on this and willing to leave the middle of a tournament to sign the papers, but I don't see if they are so pumped to do a 10 mil buy in freeze out, then why haven't they done this before? They're so giddy about this one for a reason.

I bet they don't even have to put up half of the money....which I think is very -ev for FSN....a 60 million dollar TV show?? Seinfeld got a mil per episode, around 22 episodes making it a 22mil min. I really don't see this show being a cash cow like Seinfeld, especially considering it would cost 3x's as much to produce.

Um, yeah....apparently they only have 15 seconds to decide when it's their action too...

Okay, I have a ton of info on this, the who's the whats the wheres and the whys....since this was a joint effort over a lot of forums, I'm writting up everything in my blog and will link it...(no i have no affiliate links or anything, I'm just going need a easy way to link this everywhere)

15 seconds? I wouldn't buy in for a hundred dollars

Everybody keeps saying how the players can't afford the $10 million buy-in, which is true. But I doubt that any of them would actually be using their own money to play in it. They would all be staked by some rich bastard, or a group of rich bastards.

not in a no-limit tournament format...

Im suprised people think they know that 'they cant afford it' at best you know how much money they have from tournament wins alone. Im not trying to say they do or dont but the fact they are signing up does say the money will not be an issue.

Obviously most of them CAN afford the buy in....when everyboyd is saying "they can't afford it" they're saying it'd be something like 1/2 their net worth which isn't what a top level poker player would be willing to gamble with.

I found out everything I could, including dates, who is backing them and all about the poker dome...yes I said Poker Dome.

http://starknakedpoker.blogspot.com

Yeah, in my opinion i wouldn't think it would be hard for Phil Ivey or the other top players to get some sort of staking deal, maybe even making it a freeroll for some players?