POKERPLAYER: Was the field stronger or weaker this year?

GREENSTEIN: The field gets stronger each year. The first year [2006] it was the weakest, because outside of the people I normally play with – Doyle [Brunson], Chip [Reese] and Phil [Ivey] – the field was very weak in the Stud games. In the second year they’d practised more and were better, and this year they were better still.

PP: What did you think of the young online players who entered the event?

BG: They didn’t do that well, but I think a lot of the good young no-limit Hold’em and pot-limit Omaha players decided to invest the k partly as an education.