Of
course there are plusses and minuses to each course,
but I have decided that I would play as many events
as possible instead of the main event. The main
event does offer by far the largest prize pool,
but it also has the most entrants, which make short-term
luck just as important as skill. By entering more
events that each has fewer entrants, your playing
abilities are more likely to award you and luck
will be much less of a factor. Possibly the biggest
reason is from a purely mathematical standpoint.
Even the very best poker players in the world only
win a percentage, often a small one, of the tournaments
that they enter. By entering more tournaments, you
give yourself the best opportunity to place in the
money in at least one, hopefully more.
All of this leads me to question why the online
poker rooms don't offer satellite tournaments to
many of the lower buy-in events. They would be able
to award many more seats to WSOP events. For example,
they could award five times as many seats with the
same number of entrants to a $2,000 buy-in event,
giving online players a much higher chance of winning
seats. That would interest me much more than a $10
buy-in satellite that only awards one seat per thousand
entrants.
Whatever your goals are concerning the WSOP; I hope
you achieve them and are able to play in the upcoming
events. There are hundreds of satellites running
now, so find the best one for you, and good luck
at the tables.
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