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if say you have a 100 buyin BR for $250 MTTs, you should NOT be playing $250 sats for $2500 buyin events. unless you're just playing them to sell the $2500. Variance will INCREASE.

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But according to Erik Lindgren: Even if online poker is not my thing, there are innumerable ways for the small time player (me!) to enter big-time tournaments without paying the full entry fee, which will often be $10,000 or more (gasp!). (How Erik?) Believe it or not, it's easy to get the the World Poker Tour. He'll show me not just how to get there, but how to win there.

So take that you 500 buy-in ninnies. I have a book, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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Yeah. I read Lindgrens book. There was some very good stuff in it, but I didn't like how he tried a little to hard to convince the reader that "they too" could make the big time on the WPT. I mean sure, anyone who can play tournies, and sats well has A CHANCE. but he never quantified just how small that chance is. I just thought it was weird that he spent time to talk about how you need 500 BBs to play LHE, or 10,000 bb's to play NLHE cahs games. but then told the reader that playing sats is a good idea even if the event you're trying to qualify for is more than your current BR.

Sure its great if you get very, very lucky in your first or 2nd big event. but that's so unlikely that most people can find better, more effective ways to take shots, if you really want to hit it big.