News: Seiver buys in 43 times to Flip & Go event

One of essentially the most controversial bracelet occasions final yr was the Flip & Go event. With it is early playing nature it caught a whole lot of derision for devaluing WSOP bracelets. 

That sentiment isn’t going to go away any time quickly as this yr’s event featured a staggering feat of adverse EV playing.

Scott Seiver entered the flip stage a whopping 43 times and didn’t progress to the cash stage as soon as. Something that seems nearly mathematically not possible..

@GGPoker GG 😭 pic.twitter.com/jPdNt2cRKw

— Antonio Lievano (@AntonioJLievano) June 12, 2022

The event attracted 1,329 entries in whole and was received by Christopher Chatman for $187,770. The actually fascinating stat, nevertheless, was that Seiver would have wanted fifth place to flip a revenue, had his last bullet progressed:

Flip n Go Payouts @scott_seiver pic.twitter.com/8G9849Rxsy

— Ryan Leng (@RyanLeng9) June 13, 2022

Clearly, although, he can afford it as he has simply confirmed as Phil Hellmuth’s subsequent opponent for a $1.6 million rematch in the High Stakes Duel:

Here we go for $1,600,000. High Stakes Duel replace: @scott_seiver has exercised his choice to play me in a heads match for $800,000 apiece ($1.6M). The match shall be in August, we’re understanding dates proper now. Match is ONLY on @PokerGo App, and shall be proven in it’s entirety

— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) June 14, 2022

In 2006 Daniel Negreanu famously rebought 48 times in the $1,000 rebuy event, which is the closest comparability to Seiver’s antics. Whether Seiver has some form of bracelet/POY guess going or was simply playing stays to be seen, however it’s clear that the Flip & Go bracelet event goes to be a controversial one yearly it occurs.

A sneak preview of the @WSOP Flip ‘n Go’ Bracelet. pic.twitter.com/p4MpFcUpb6

— Barny Boatman (@barnyboatman) June 12, 2022

The @WSOP is essentially the most prestigious poker collection on Earth.

Yet in the Flip & Go bracelet event, you get a 1-in-8 likelihood to win a ‘flip’ with nearly no ability concerned, and that places you in the cash.

And this yr, @scott_seiver entered FORTY-THREE times.

This a mockery of poker.

— Norman Chad (@NormanChad) June 13, 2022

Imagine enjoying a full rake flip and go so to get a meaningless WSOP money 🐑 🐑 is lastly an applicable time period.

— Ari Engel (@AriEngelPoker) June 12, 2022

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Barry Carter

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy & the brand new guide Endgame Poker Strategy