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[chrisjp]

From pokernews...

how many chips you'd lose if you never showed up for Day 1 and were blinded and anted off the whole day. We assumed 40 hands per hour, which is probably on the high end.

Level 1, 2 hours, 50-100: 1,200
Level 2, 2 hours, 100-200: 2,400
Level 3, 2 hours, 150-300: 3,600
Level 4, 2 hours, 150-300-25: 5,600
Level 5, 1 hour, 200-400-50: 4,400

Total chips blinded and anted off: 17,200
Chips returning for Day 2, blinds 200-400-50: 12,800

So if you never showed up for Day 1, you'd return on Day 2 with an M of about 12 and 32 big blinds in your stack. That's certainly not cozy, but it's workable. The biggest downside, probably, is that the worst players in the field would already be busted before you even play your first hand.

Maybe, but for certain you finished ahead of all of these cautious players:


Nikolay Evdakov
David Steicke
Kirill Gerasimov
Isaac Haxton
Andy Black
James Calderero
Michael Keiner
Ray Romano
Mike Caro
Jameson Painter
William Jensen
Jimmy Fricke
David Robinson
Al Barbieri
Victor Ramdin
Keith Ferrera
Chino Rheem
Nick Schulman
Greg Raymer

[chrisjp]

I'm not saying it's necessarily wrong to bust Day 1. But Raymer pushing 23K into a small pot with top pair King kicker and flush draw? Who's going to call you? A set, like happened. Now you have to get lucky. My goodness you start with 300BBs. And Busto_Soon 4-betting all in (well the other guy was all in but the pot was ~50K in chips) with 5h4h with a wheel draw on a board with two spades? I mean he got called by a guy with just a spade draw.

Guys and girls, you can't win this until November.