Re: Why aren\'t there online qualifiers for non-main-event WSOP?
There are about 20 tournaments a day on party poker to qualify for these events. i.e., most 20/30/50/100 MTT pay more than enough in the top 3-5 spots to pay for a $1500 buy in and travel. Granted, you have to beat a much larger field, but a $1500-$3000 buy-in should not be too hard to scrape up if you are playing quality poker (Thus, also why they don't have any sub-event qualifiers at the WSOP itself - apart from side games [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ). On the other hand, not too many of these events pay enough even to the top spots to qualify for a 10K buy-in, thus they have satellites.
My $.02 anyway...
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