Jena Delk’s Blog

I am disappointed with the WSOP and how they have financially segregated the tournaments between the Pavilion and Amazon rooms. A lot of players come to the WSOP to check out the guys they have been watching on TV and railing online. When you arrive, they point you in to the first Pavilion room which is basically where the noobs are grinding donkaments. There are very few pros in that section.

I realize that they need all the space they can get but seems they are purposely only running higher buy in events in the Amazon room. I have a friend here who has been playing cash and $200-$1000 tourneys for over a week here. He said ‘Gee, I thought there would be more pros here in the Amazon room’. He is a smart guy, but he was unaware that he’d been playing in the Pavilion and that there was even a second room. It’s not that obvious to a newbie. I then talked to a few other guys who didn’t know there were other events going on in the Amazon hall. I just think it would be good to put a big event in the Pavilion from time to time too. The $10k HU event yesterday could of easily fit. To top it all off, there is a guard and thug standing by the entry to the Amazon hall as if to say ‘thou shalt not pass!’

How about they throw up a sign that says “Come see how sick Durr is! Rail Phil Ivey. See how many times Scotty will say BABY. Come visit the Amazon room behind the main poker Pavilion!’

Maybe the ‘pros’ have expressed interested in not having a lot of rail birds? Just curious. Last year it was wonderful to have everyone mixing it up with the pros in one location.

I was going to make a blog post about this but then I remembered that I have no blog

Thoughts?

-written by Geoffrey Preston Lay