[benza13]

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Some of the players pm-ing me have suggested that I should better define "high volume".

Using the 75% credit of rake towards a WSOP/WPT trip and assuming the value of the package is 12k and the site only allows 4 months to qualify for it, a person would need to generate 4k a month in rake for the site. If the site allows up to 6 months, a person would need a little less than 3K a month in rake.

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O Doyle, to bring up the STT and MTT issue again, based on these numbers it would be fairly easy for a player at the $55 level or higher to qualify in the allotted time, at least for STT play. To generate $4k in rake at the $50+5 tourneys, one would need to play 800 tournaments. This is not that large of a number if players can multitable. Of course, this also assumes a big enough player base that the $55s would run regularly enough to multitable. Playing $100+9s would make this an even easier number to achieve. Dropping below the $55s, however, might make it difficult as one would need to play over 1300/month at the $30+3 level. This is still attainable, assuming 8-tabling which you said earlier would be possible, but would be a much more difficult number to achieve on a regular basis. If we drop the requirement to $3K/month then this drops down to 1000 $33s, a more attainable number. This would allow even middle limit STT players to qualify for a high-volume of play.

I believe that the site would enjoy a variety of players that would include STT and MTT specialists, and certainly many of these players are going to be interested in major tournament seats. This all depends on whether the site will include tournament fees as rake in this program, but I don't see why they wouldn't. MTT players would probably need to play other games as well, as MTTs alone would not generate a high level of rake, but combining STT and MTT play makes this a very attainable goal.