What is my best option here? SHooting star qualifying

[PITTM]

I found out that paradise is offering satilites for the bay 101 shooting star. since bay 101 is only like 30 minutes away and i have recently improved my poker skills quite measurably, ive decided to take a shot at qualifying. Would it be a better idea to go down the 25 dollar r&a tourney path or play in a few of the 100 WPT satilites or even to just play the 10 dollar qualifiers for the 100 dollar satilites? At this point i am leaning mostly towards the 25 dollar r&as since there seem to be a lot more dead money in tourneys like these. any tournament junkies have any advice? also, how much money should i set aside for this goal? about 300 bucks? thanks for any advice.

rj

[DVC Calif]

I was checking the $25 R/A out last night. The plays I watched weren't that great, even after the maniac rebuy period. Some very weak players might make this very easy to get to the 2nd break with a big stack.

Last night there were 174 entries. With the rebuys and add-ons, that pushed the prize pool over $12k. However, only 1st place was worth playing for as that gave the winner the $10k buy-in to the WPT and $1500 cash for expenses.

Funny thing last night, when it got down to HU, the big stack (T579k) and the "short" stack (T250k) tried to make a deal. Big stack would win the ticket to WPT, short stack to get $3500 ($1500 cash prize plus another $2000 from big stack's account).

However, Paradise's TD said big stack's account couldn't cover the transfer and his credit card was declined for making additional deposits.

They ended up making a "private deal" with short stack throwing the tourney, trusting big stack to transfer the funds the next day! Hope that works out for him as 2nd only cashed $70 by tourney prize pool.

Tonight's the $100 freezeout for another entry. I'll check that out to see if the play is tighter and if they'll be any overlay by paradise if they're arent 115 enties.

Steve

[KingMedicine]

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I was checking the $25 R/A out last night. The plays I watched weren't that great, even after the maniac rebuy period. Some very weak players might make this very easy to get to the 2nd break with a big stack.

Last night there were 174 entries. With the rebuys and add-ons, that pushed the prize pool over $12k. However, only 1st place was worth playing for as that gave the winner the $10k buy-in to the WPT and $1500 cash for expenses.

Funny thing last night, when it got down to HU, the big stack (T579k) and the "short" stack (T250k) tried to make a deal. Big stack would win the ticket to WPT, short stack to get $3500 ($1500 cash prize plus another $2000 from big stack's account).

However, Paradise's TD said big stack's account couldn't cover the transfer and his credit card was declined for making additional deposits.

They ended up making a "private deal" with short stack throwing the tourney, trusting big stack to transfer the funds the next day! Hope that works out for him as 2nd only cashed $70 by tourney prize pool.

Tonight's the $100 freezeout for another entry. I'll check that out to see if the play is tighter and if they'll be any overlay by paradise if they're arent 115 enties.

Steve

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please do update what you find out - i am very interested in winning a spot into this WPT event. i did play one of the 25$ r&a's. i tried the traditional push on anything a few times and was the chipleader for a while just to bust out later. if you can get ANY decent cards that first round you can make an absolute killing and get a monster stack together for the "after the break" calmdown.