Re: Should I buy into a Main event?
 

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You live in Reno so Vegas is a 6-7 hour drive if my memory serves me right. If I was you I would go play a 2k event earlier during the WSOP I think theres one June 8 nl hold-em event (don't have my schedule in front of me).

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Hi everyone!!

Is there a reading comprehension problem here?

He is NOT trying to buy into the WSOP.

He is thinking of buying into the $5100 main-even tourney at his casino in Reno.


Yes, I know he said the magic words 'main event' in his subject line and that has probably confused some people....but from his posts it is pretty obvious that he is not currently debating whether to play the WSOP....he is just thinking about spending $5100 at the Peppermill.


He is talking about 'a' main event. Not 'the' main event.




FWIW - I don't think it's crucial to win your way in via a satellite.
If you have accumulated enough wins via lower buy-in tourneys that you can afford to buy in (whatever your definition of 'afford' is) then that is a viable alternative. Similar to a recent poster's 'strategy' of using his local tourneys as 'satellites' and just building his roll that way which he intends to use for a buy-in to the WSOP.


I have yet to play in a big tourney so I don't really know the differences in skill and experience involved (although am playing the $10k buy-in PPM cruise next week....but I didn't even win a satellite for that either....i won by playing 4 straight days of ring-games during a raked-hands marathon promotion).


My strategy for the WSOP (or some other big tourney perhaps) is to just play various tournaments on pokerstars and build by W$ roll.
Winning a $10k seat for only $10 in a 1000 player satellite is one way.
Winning $600 in W$ at a time playing $27-rebuys or $5-rebuys or whatever they are offering is another way.
In the end....if I have $10k in W$ I can purchase my seat and it's all pretty much the same.


If you play a bunch of $100 tourneys and have won $10k then that really isn't that different from winning an Act 1, 2 and 3.

Re: Should I buy into a Main event?
 

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In the end....if I have $10k in W$ I can purchase my seat

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No, you cannot. Read the FAQ:

"Q. Can I accumulate 11,000 W$ and enter the WSOP final event directly?
"A. No, the only way you can qualify for the WSOP event on PokerStars is by winning one of the final satellites."

Re: Should I buy into a Main event?
 

Whoops. You're right.


W$ can be used to purchase a seat directly into an EPT event however (I wrote to cust-support). Since you could do that I assumed I could use them to buy into the WSOP...bad assumption.


Well...I've got a decent stock of W$ right now.
Will try to get my seat the old-fashioned way.



The general point is the same though....if you want to buy in after winning $10k playing in various tournament then that isn't too terribly different from winning a back to back satellite events to get there.


Hell, if you want to play for the next 4 weeks exclusively at 5/10 6-max with the expressed intention of 'earning' $2.5k a week (13k hands at 2BB/100 = $2600) so that by the end you have 'won' enough to purchase a seat to the WSOP then that is fine and dandy also (although if I did that I would probably keep $7k of it and just blow $3k on a seat to a smaller event there and expenses).

Re: Should I buy into a Main event?
 

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Am I just on a lucky streak or can I really play this game? I entered the WPT main event at Foxwoods against a field of 674 players. I pulled down 2nd place. In 66 days and three tournaments I had two firsts and a second and 1.2 million added to my bankroll.

That's your pep talk. You can't win if you don't enter. Go for it.

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This is awesome. Congrats. Keep up the good play, and post more on the forum.

Re: Should I buy into a Main event?
 

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FWIW - I don't think it's crucial to win your way in via a satellite.

If you have accumulated enough wins via lower buy-in tourneys that you can afford to buy in (whatever your definition of 'afford' is) then that is a viable alternative. Similar to a recent poster's 'strategy' of using his local tourneys as 'satellites' and just building his roll that way which he intends to use for a buy-in to the WSOP.

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That's me. Speaking for myself, my reason for this 'strategy' as it were, is psychological. Getting real (as opposed to a live satellite) tourney format experience (especially final table) is important.

I also don't want to scurry down to Vegas and scramble in what I imagine to ultra lag frantic satellites. Only 1 or 2 players can win each satellite table. I don't want the psychological experience of multiple satellite buyins and worrying about making regular seats 'cheap'. And then possibly have to pay the full buyin anyway... (I see the concept of making regular tourny seats via cheap satellites the same way as cheap vegas meals--$3.99 lunch costing $38 after passing by a blackjack table or quarter slot area on the way to the coffee shop...).

I would rather win cash for the big tourny full buyins at home getting good tourny playing time. Then buy the air/hotelpackage and pay the full price for the seat. Go to Vegas (Foxwoods, Tunica or wherever) in style with no worries. Do some sightseeing while others are scrambling in their satellite fests.

Just my dos pesos.

I did buy in...
 

and after day 1 have over 82,000 chips and in the top ten out of 100 left.

Now all I need to do is ask Mr. Harrington for an advance copy of Volume 2....

long long way to go

Re: I did buy in...
 

Excellent work man, keep it up..but you still got a looong way to go.

GL with the rest of the tourney.

Re: I did buy in...
 

I'm in the money... play more tomorrow. Very tired.

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Re: I did buy in...
 

Looks like it was a good decision to play in the event!