Predictions:
World Series of Poker:
The Main Event will break a record for most Day 1D players. The World Series will not turn away any players this year but find themselves having to play 11 handed in some areas. Phil Hellmuth's entourage will be bigger.
No player will match Jeffrey Lisandro's three bracelet's in one series. In fact, only one player will win two. Phil Ivey will suffer a similar hangover as player of the year from two years ago Eric Lindgren did this year.
Doyle Brunson will not make a final table or a day two.
A woman will win a bracelet and make it to the Main Event final table.
An internet pro will go from waking up to play poker online, to waking up as the best online poker player in the world AND the best live player in the world by virtue of winning the main event. He will be young, cocky, and a tad geeky. Joe Cada won't have to worry about sharing the endorsement dollars. The young gun will be well more well known than Cada by the Pocket Fives crew but unknown to the rest of the world and Norman Chad.
Bax and Sheets will back another final table player.
Chris Moneymaker will make a final table and contend for a bracelet.
Johnny Chan will also go deep in a NL Hold 'Em Event but not win another bracelet.
Phil wins! Phil wins! Phil Hellmuth will win another bracelet and add to his impressive ITM finishes.
One of the many 1k stimulus tournaments (the first one in all likelihood) will set a record for participants if they decide not to cap the total.
A name pro will make the Main Event final table. The entire poker world will be behind him and he'll go out softly just like Phil Ivey this year.
POKER WORLD IN GENERAL
U.I.E.G.A. will be repealed, overturned, nullified, and rendered moot. Hey, no reason not be optimistic.
After the repeal a major European poker site will become a major player in the United States market. Players will time their sleeping patterns to play online poker in the softest games from around the world.
Middling players will continue to flock to Asia to play in softer games and cheaper living expenses.
Rounders2 will get off the ground. It will focus on online poker and Mike McD will have become a Phil Ivey type character that is well rounded in all games, live and online.
Two major poker magazines will merge.
A player will win two major Sunday tournaments at the same time on one Sunday. The Internet will crack in half.
Another major cheating scandal will be uncovered. Rather than online superusers it will be a team of live players who have started to play together after the economy hurt their bottom line. It will also involve floor and dealers as periphery assistants.
Major poker rooms in Las Vegas will close.
Somebody will consider a round the clock poker channel.
An upstart will win the NBC heads up championship. It won't be Tom Dwan but it will be a youngster like Jonathan Little.
More and more young players will give up the game.
Poker training sites will merge.
Greg Raymer will contemplate running for office. His Pokerstars job will keep him playing poker.
Daniel Negreanu and Eric Lindgren will win their team prop bet this year as both have successful World Series.
Phil Ivey will lose an unheard of amount of money playing craps. It will make the national news.
A current major sports star, a Michael Phelps sized star, maybe Phelps himself will go deep in a major tournament.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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