PokerStars slowly draining the FPP economy

[Army Eye]

How do you like these Round 1 WCOOP satellites?

There was one on Sunday (Round 1 satellite to Event #1, 90 FPP entry) that collected 47,970 FPP in entry fees and paid out.. 9,000! They pocketed over 38,000 FPPs in that one tourney.

To me this seems more like something PartyPoker would do. Why do they insist on only paying top 9?

[Synergistic Explosions]

Why don't they base it on the entrants instead?

[Army Eye]

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Why don't they base it on the entrants instead?

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Yeah exactly. I have no idea..

And actually I was wrong, those things only pay out 8,100 FPP, heh.

[ChewyMint]

That is nuts. It sounds like Full Tilt, where 900 people can put in 500 FTP, and get 1 entry to a $200 tournament.

ChewyMint

[augie00]

Why not just buy directly into the round 2 satellites? It's only 5,000 FPP.

[Bill Bixby]

because not everybody has 5,000 points.

[Army Eye]

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Why not just buy directly into the round 2 satellites? It's only 5,000 FPP.

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Personally I do buy directly into the Round 2s. It still doesn't seem right to me. The people who need to start at Round 1 and work their way up are getting raped.

[augie00]

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Why not just buy directly into the round 2 satellites? It's only 5,000 FPP.

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Personally I do buy directly into the Round 2s. It still doesn't seem right to me. The people who need to start at Round 1 and work their way up are getting raped.

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Well when you consider that 90fpps are completley worthless, monetarily speaking, then they are getting an incredible deal. That would be quite the parlay...about 90 cents into a 2500 WCOOP seat?

[Kablooie]

The 500 fpp satellites are much better value. Since it's possible to cash out the FPP value if you win, the correct strategy is to enter a bunch of these and build up an FPP stash. If you're a decent player your win rate should be much better than 1 in 10.

[KingMarc]

I e-mailed them about this..

"Hello Marc,

We have recently made some changes to our software which will allow us to
award seats from round 1 events based on the number of entrants as opposed
to awarding a fixed number of seats. This new capability will be
implemented for most, if not all, of our FPP satellites as we move forward.

We are currently running a few of these FPP satellites which award seats
to our Sunday 4:30pm event and this will be expanded to include the WCOOP
in the very near future.

Regards,

Henry
PokerStars Tournament Administrator"