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Did you miss the part about having to have $75 in earned rakeback the previous week in order to be eligible for the $5000 added tournaments for the current week?

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This is an interesting point. WPEX says the "inaugural" events will be open to all customers. Unless I missed it, it does not define "inaugural." Since "events" is plural, I'm guessing the three this week? Not my point, though....

The first of these tourneys had (I believe) 207 entrants. A lower number than there might have been since it's date/time was not available until sometime that day. I know I'd have played in it if I'd paid a little more attention and saw it was there.

So, once only the $75 rakeback VIPs are the only players able to play this, what do you think the average nuber of entrants will be? It could easily be 75-150 and I'm thinking probably a bit narrower range than that. This tourney may not be that much deeper than the nightly $10/$1,000 guarantee. That makes this tournament(even if it kept 200 runners) a great way for active WPEX players to get a nice kickback. This isn't the FPP usage that was asked for earlier in this thread, but it's close.

Tuesday's tourney, IIRC, paid $1,944 to first. Players' contributions to the prize pool was $2,070. That's pretty sweet.