Twitter Reacts to WSOP November Nine Day 1
Sunday night marked the resumption of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event after a 120-day break. The November nine reconvened at the Rio in Las Vegas and, as you can read from our team of reporters, PocketFiver Joseph dude904 McKeehen dominated Day 1.
Sunday’s play stretched for about six hours and dealt 72 hands, or a 12 hand per hour rate. Consequently, Twitter was ablaze with calls for a shot clock. Here’s a sampling of what we found:
Wow. I hope we can make some adjustments in the future to speed up play. That is bad for everyone. https://t.co/s0DYxG0DFt
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) November 9, 2015
This is absolutely excruciating to watch and I love watching poker. I've never been more pro shot-clock than I am right now 🙁
— Dylan Hortin (@DylanHortin) November 9, 2015
I think we should use a chess clock just for the final table where each player is given an equal amount of time. I have an idea…
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) November 9, 2015
Chess clock starts after 10 seconds. If you run out of time during FT you are on a 30 sec clock for all decisions.
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) November 9, 2015
There's totally going to be a shot clock at next year's Main Event final table.
— Adam Levy (@Roothlus) November 9, 2015
We need to change rules of poker, slow play should be warned, then penalized. One of players at @WSOP table on @ESPN was issued warning
— phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) November 9, 2015
I hate to say it but the "calling the clock" system is flawed at best. Impossible to call the clock preflop and is often viewed as rude.
— Matt Savage (@SavagePoker) November 9, 2015
@SavagePoker We don’t need shot clocks, we need a change of poker culture that doesn’t view calling the clock on one another to be rude.
— _tizzle (@_tizzle) November 9, 2015
Despite being a slow player I'm very much in agreement that something needs to be done to speed up the game deep in tournaments. (1/5)
— Mike McDonald (@MikeMcDonald89) November 9, 2015
There was plenty of love for Pierre Neuville, who was the oldest player at the table at age 72 and busted out in seventh place, the last elimination of Sunday’s coverage. Neuville was especially memorable in his post-game interview, as several people on Twitter have reported:
Takeaway from @pierre_neuville’s exit interview, paraphrasing: “Even if you’re older, live in the present. That’s what keeps you young.”
— Remko Rinkema (@RemkoMedia) November 9, 2015
"My motivation is life. I don't want to remember old days, I want to live every day." – 72-yr-old @pierre_neuville pic.twitter.com/iMp8gcdxRQ
— PokerListings (@PokerListings) November 9, 2015
The action resumes at 8:00pm ET on Monday night on ESPN2, going head-to-head with the Chicago Bears versus San Diego Chargers Monday Night Football game. The action is tentatively scheduled to play down to three.
McKeehen, who has a sizable chip lead, told WSOP officials to close out Day 1, “It went very well. There’s still a lot of poker left to play. But I have to be very happy with how things went at the table tonight. My goal is to continue playing my style. But this was a good day, that’s for sure.”
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