News / Chris Edwards / 09 June 2008 / Leave a comment

After confusing everyone with his metagame thinking, durrr unearthed a flaw in the structure of the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event. A new event for this year, it consists of 8 games which rotate every eight hands.

The games are:

Triple Draw Deuce to Seven Lowball (2-7 TD)
Limit Hold'em
Omaha 8 or better
Razz
Seven Card Stud
Stud 8 or better
No Limit Hold'em
Pot Limit Omaha

So for players such as durrr who's best game is arguably NLHE, followed closely by PLO, they will be itching to get all the other games out of the way. Which is why durrr kicked up a fuss after the bubble when there was a table redraw. Every time a table is redrawn, the game starts back at 2-7 TD, giving certain players a huge edge and certain players a big disadvantage.

Durrr and a group of other players took this up with the tournament director. The decision was then made that after a redraw happens, a random position from the list would be selected to start from. This is going to please Phil 'OMGCLAYAIKEN' Galfond who was also having the same problems as durrr, saying that 'All in all, I played almost 3x as many triple draw hands as NLHE/PLO (which I played 16 hands each of)'.

I do like the way the WSOP is constantly trying new things. They throw ideas right in at the deep end to work out the problems and see if they are viable. If this event does not work then they will just drop it from next years WSOP. It will of just cost each player $10k to find this out.