Arizona State Poker Championship - Satellites are running

[DesertCat]

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What are peoples' thoughts on the toughness of this upcoming tournament? If it was a straight buy-in only then I would think it would be a pretty tough tourney as not many fish are going to pony up a grand to play. But with all of these sat's, my god, the play at my sat table was atrocious - and some of them have to win sat's just by accident. I'm thinking that at least 1/3 of the people shouldn't be in such a big tournament.

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First prize is a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS! The fish tank will be full and there are many more fish than sharks...


Edit: The one solid player in my Sats was selling seats to high limit players who couldn't be bothered to play a sat. I.e. mostly fish. The rest of the Sat players were pretty sad. My guess is that most of the Sat winners are fish, and that every doctor, dentist, lawyer, mortgage broker, and realtor etc. in Scottsdale is going to ante up a grand for their chance to play in a "big buyin tournament" and win it like those amateurs always do on the WPT.

Edit 2: forgot the Realtors and mortgage brokers. Despite the bad market I still see these guys spending money like it's 2005...