Key Takeaways
- Is tournament deal making entertainment?
- Jonas Odman, the former President of Bodog Poker, applies his recreational player focus to daily fantasy sports.
- Defending the use of HUDs.
Great Deal of Fun in WCOOP Finale
Deal making can be just as exciting to rail as the action itself. Poker journalist Martin Harris looks at a recent example at the the WCOOP main event final table:
Once the deal was made both Coenaldinho7 and beertjes79 (also from Belgium) willingly gave up money to ensure the chop would happen. In fact, beertjes79—then the short stack among the four—volunteered to give up over $50K (taking $800K). Coenaldinho7 meanwhile readily gave up about $27K to ensure a guaranteed payout of $1.1 million. Watching that made it easy to root for both of them.
The World Series of Poker doesn’t permit deal making because it believes it is not what spectators want to see. Harris makes a strong case that this policy should be reconsidered.
