Is 2007 World Series of Poker like one full MLB Season?
The 2007 WSOP tournament stretches for seven weeks while the MLB baseball season has 168 games.
Yep, as the 2007 World Series of Poker tournament heats up before our very eyes, can the full seven-week poker frenzy be compared to the ups and downs of a full 168-game MLB baseball season?
Sure. Only shorter. I guess. And if MLB baseball enables you to deal with the excitement and disappointments of an entire season running in an outdoor park, the 2007 WSOP season only lets you do that to a more confined space like sitting on a chair. The rest is more of the same.
‘’The World Series of Poker, over the course of 48 days, is not much different from a sports season that runs eight to 10 months,'’ Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the World Series, said shortly before the opening ceremony of the world’s biggest and richest poker tournament, yep, it’s the 2007 World Series of Poker in case you didn’t get that.
‘’We have a beginning, a middle marked by a sort of all-star event and an end that captures the world’s attention. But we do it all in a very compressed time period, and in essentially one room,'’ Pollack adds.
The 38th offering of the World Series of Poker began at the Rio in Las Vegas, Nevada with a $5,000 buy in mixed Texas hold ‘em tourney. The 2007 WSOP tournament will conclude on July 17 with the final table of the $10,000 world championship no-limit Texas hold ‘em event.
There are STILL quite a few differences between a full year in MLB baseball and the 2007 WSOP season. Get hitting slumps in MLB baseball and you’ll basically get your ass screwed by the media. Do that in poker and the media won’t have the same opportunity. Hell, you’ll be out of the goddamn poker season then.
Of course, unlike in baseball, you can’t get traded from one poker table to the next in the 2007 World Series of Poker tournament.
Who will win the 2007 World Series of Poker? Bodog has the odds.
Joe Hachem 4/1
Chris Moneymaker 8/1
Doyle Brunson 5/1
Phil Helmuth 7/2
Chris Ferguson 5/1
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