WSOP on Tribecca

mewso

I see tribecca has begun it's wsop qualifiers. There is a $198 +$19.80 freezout on Jan 28th with $3 rebuy qualifiers running at 9 p.m. every evening (as far as I can tell). just thought you might like to know. I'm going to try the cheapo rebuy this evening.

Dub13

Maybe the tribecca skins are going to try and match Stars this year...how many did Pokerstars have at last years WSOP I believe it was something like 2000.Maybe Oscar will know.

Amaru

I was going to start a thread about this, but maybe somebody can tell me in here: How do so many complete donkeys qualify for the world series every year? Is it strength in numbers, the difference in times zones with when the satellites start, or something else? I'm genuinely intrigued by this. Why is it that Ireland has so many apparently good players who don't qualify, while America has scores of people who aren't that do?

cardshark202

Its definately strength in numbers i'd say.

bohsman

stars sent 1200 or so, there were no terrible players at the tables I played at - there were players that werent quite up to the grade but they werent donkeys. 5pin5 was one of the Irish donkeys to qualify though.

Vegas is a long way to go for a tournament and I think a lot of the people werent too interested in pumping a lot of money into qualifying, a lot of Irish players did go over and players like KP qualified over there and others like ocallagh played some of the other events - it comes down to numbers with the sattelites, I would say 80% of the players are american and probably about the same % played the main event

Amaru

If you win a ticket online, does it include flights and hotel?

bohsman

Amaru wrote:

If you win a ticket online, does it include flights and hotel?

Mine did, check the prize structures of the different websites but the majority do.

PPP-Pit Boss

Amaru wrote:

If you win a ticket online, does it include flights and hotel?

Package includes expenses for flight and hotel. Usually we leave it up to the players to book themselves due to work commitments / timings, preference of accommodation.

Here is the info for the qualifiers we are running:

The World Series of Poker – Prize Package $12,500
Win a seat in the World Series of Poker championship event to be held at the Rio Suites, Las Vegas, 28th July to 10th August 2006. The $12,500 prize package consists of $10,200 buy-in + $2,300 expenses.

The WSOP Freezeout Super Satellite will be held on Saturday, 28th January, at 9pm

Three ways to enter the Super Satellite:

1. Buy in directly for $198 + $19.80
2. Win a Single Table Tournament, Buy in $24.20 + $2.42
3. Win a seat in a daily multi-table tournament @ 21:00; buy-in $3 + 15c

The WSOP Rebuy Super Satellites will be held on Saturdays from 14th January, at 11pm

Three ways to enter the Super Satellite:

1. Buy in directly for $198 + $9.90
2. Win a Single Table Tournament, Buy in $23.10 + $2.31
3. Win a seat in a daily multi-table tournament @ 23:00; buy-in $3 + 15c

Amaru

How many rebuy satellites are you running? And is this tribeca, or just PPP?

Also, how come the buyin is 10,200?

PPP-Pit Boss

Amaru wrote:

How many rebuy satellites are you running? And is this tribeca, or just PPP?

Also, how come the buyin is 10,200?

Hi Amaru.. Well spotted - typo there buyin $10k expenses $2.5k

There will be one rebuy satellite per week starting 14th Jan
and a freezeout GF every month. These tournaemnt will run on the entire network, we may decide to do one ourselves although I am not sure it is necessary as I think Tribeca have it covered.

Waylander

Is there no reg fee in the WSOP?

Shortstack

Waylander wrote:

Is there no reg fee in the WSOP?

They take a percentage of the prizepool plus another 3% for the dealers.

Dub13

Shortstack wrote:

They take a percentage of the prizepool plus another 3% for the dealers.

So do the top finishers tip....?

Amaru

Yeah, everybody who monies in the tournament is expected to tip. There's a couple of paragraphs in "positively fifth street" where he talks about this.

Shortstack

Dub13 wrote:

So do the top finishers tip....?

I don't tip when a tip has already been forced upon me.