Should I buy into a Main event?

[MicroBob]

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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.