Ughh

[Zybomb]

Made it to the final step of a WSOP qualifier, winner gets a seat. 298 in the tourny. Got AWFUL cards.......best hands I saw were a 77 (when i was up against 99 and lost a pot) k10s, 10,9s, and A2s yea....no joke those were my 4 best hands.....so i was a bit under the average and get dealt a K7 of hearts in the BB... No raise so I see a flop for free. Flop lands 2,6,7. Small blind leads out with 4x BB (pot sized bet), I push all in being fairly short stacked (about a raise of 4x the original bet) The UTG calls, the SB folds. I flip my K7 he flips a duece 5 off (yes he called UTG with duece five.) The funniest thing is a friend who was watchin me said u want a call here....im like no i dont...hes like what if he has a duece.....im like i still dont want a call....he flips over the duece and we laugh.....no duece no 5 no duece no 5........turn is a 5......finish in 98th place....i didnt play great the whole tourny...but being knocked out when a 5 2 was played UTG........im sorry that pisses me off. And i dont think i could of done anything else this hand....Ill be back around for another qualfiier.......

[ChipFish]

If you are serious about trying to qualify for the WSOP, there are MUCH better ways of doing it,and still cheaply.
1 in 298 is an awful structure. Was this a FPP tourney or something?
I wouldn't even bother with that many.

[Talking Poker]

This brings up an interesting question............ what do you think is the best way to qualify - for a reasonable buy-in, of course?

[Zybomb]

Yea FPP, i won a smaller tourny to get into this larger one... and obviously there are much better ways to qualify......i was more playing this tourny for fun and the possibility of what if.... i decided to go out to the bars afterwards and grumbled about my loss, came come a bit drunk and decided to write about it lol (hence my wrong placement of the topic)

[Zybomb]

Yea Im interested in hearin what people have to say on this also....

[Tony Cheval]

That's one thing I don't like about Full Tilt, too many of their 'points' tourneys are winner-take-all. Though I did score in one of their 'top 9 get a satellite token' ones.

[ChipFish]

I'm glad you asked.

PokerStars.
Small cash satellites.
$2 Rebuys to the $33 satelite. and $5 rebuys to the Doubleshootout.
Immediately unregister when you gain win a seat.
Start stacking your W$ until you are ready to take 5 shots at the $640.


Or buy in to the
$80 satellite to the $640 main event.

There is another site out there (might even be FullTilt, can't remember that is guaranteeing 30 seats.... That will be a good tournament.


In my opinion it is silly to play in a WSOP Sat where only 1 seat is given away.
E.g. the $100+9 you will find on most sites...
I think UB does a $300+20 or something like that, which may be worth entering though. (And you CAN use 3 Entry chips, just e-mail support)

[Talking Poker]

Interesting Chip.... very interesting.

Full Tilt is the one running the 30 seat guarantee. I think I'm going to have to take a crack at that one.

Are you doing any of this? Are you going to take 5 shots at the $640, for example? Or is this just your advice for others?

[kkirk1329]

on RGP they set up a tourney where you send 30$ to these 2 guys and you had 11$ for the buy in, and since there was 50 people a 1500$ event could be given away so once you won, you won the 11$ buy ins and a event of your choice that they registered for you. Not bad, 40$

[omahilo]

Chip and TP... or anyone really.

Are you guys going to play any of the FTP sats for the $1500 events? I was wondering how those are.

[ChipFish]

Nope, No WSOP for Chippy Fish,
I can;t get the time off work....
Interestingly enough (and kind of like a kick in the face.), I am off as of July 18th for 3 weeks. If they could only have moved the shutdown "back" 3 weeks.

[Talking Poker]

I actually haven't looked into it AT ALL yet, but I probably will... sure.

[ChipFish]

Hmmmmm.
Maybe I should look into that for a weekend event.
Fly in, play in a Weekender, Fly home...
Not as much fun as I'd like, but, hmmmmmmm.