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Organizers have released the schedule for the 40th annual World Series of toto hk  (WSOP), which will start on Wednesday, May 27 with the first of 57 gold bracelet events, followed the next day with a special $40,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament to commemorate the WSOP’s 40th anniversary.  The famed Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas will once again will serve as the center of the poker universe this summer, using the same blueprint as last year.

The 40th annual WSOP will conclude with the $10,000 buy-in World Championship No-Limit Hold‘em Main Event which begins play Friday, July 3, 2009 and reaches its final table (nine players) on July 15, 2009, at which time play will be halted.  Final table play will be held from November 7-10, 2009.  The 4-month break, which was initiated last year to allow ESPN to televise the tournament without viewers knowing the winner, boosted ratings for the same day broadcast of the final table by 50 per cent last year, according to officials.

Among the highlights of the 2009 schedule:

• 57 gold bracelet events over 50 days.
• A “stimulus special” $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament on the opening weekend, May 30-31, 2009, which is anticipated to draw the largest-ever live tournament field outside the Main Event and offer a prize pool approaching $5,000,000.
• 10 “World Championship” $10,000 buy-in events (“World Championship” refers to tournaments with a buy-in of $10,000 in each of the various disciplines of poker).
• The third annual $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tournament, with an enhanced gold bracelet and the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy awarded to the winner.
• A one-time commemorative gold bracelet event, a $40,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament to help mark the 40th annual WSOP on Thursday, May 28, 2009.
• Seven open $1500

When you play blackjack your final hand can only be one of these possibilities – a blackjack, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16 or less, or you could bust.

When you bust, you know you automatically lose and when you get a blackjack hand the worse you can do is tie and the best get paid a bonus of 1.5 times your bet. But what are your chances of wining when you stand on your 17 – 21? You would hope they are good but that’s not always the case.

Let’s take the example of standing on 17 in a six-deck game where the dealer stands on soft 17. Most players are happy to have a 17 and thankfully stand. However, you will lose more money then win when the dealer shows any face card but a 6. You will lose the most money when the dealer shows a 9 and the least when he shows a 4 or 5. It’s only when the dealer has a 6 showing that you stand a fighting chance of winning some money in the long run.

So what’s a player to do? Actually, there is nothing you can do. Hitting a hard 17 would result in even greater losses so the lesser of two evils is to stand. Now don’t get me wrong. Often times you will stand on 17 and win a hand but over time you will end up losing more then you win except against the dealer’s 6. Standing on 17 is definitely not utopia.

Because 17 is not a good hand this is the reason you should never stand on soft 17 (you should hit or double down). Also in a game where the dealer hits soft 17, a player faces an additional disadvantage.

Suppose we end up with …

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