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I will sometimes play a satellite to a tournament because I am willing to invest $x and/or x amount of time to play in a tourney, but not the full amount of the buyin. I imagine that is the case for a fair number of cash game players who play these things.

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Ok, so... let's say you want to play in a $1K WCOOP event. You're willing to invest $x and y hours to satellite in.

You don't think you could win $1K at a cash game with a similar investment of $x and in less than y hours?

And what's the point of the idea of an investment of $x?

I personally think that satellites exist for two reasons, only one of which benefits the good players:

1) Generate more rake (not really helpful for good players)
2) Put a lot of low limit donkeys into big events (a HUGE boost that generates a ton of dead money and is one of the greatest things to ever happen to big $ MTTs)