Rio Single Table Satellites

[trying2learn]

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Does anybody know if they are running the el cheapo sats for us low limit dudes? I'm talking about the $50 or $65 sattelites.

Thanks in advance.

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the $65's were only for the first three days. they're gone. the $125's are the cheapest, but the $175's are the lowest limit that seems to be constantly running. (this because the winner pulls 1500 in chips which is equal to quite a few event prices.)

i've played three $175's and cut deals in all three so far. if i had a bigger sack i'd move up - but i'm a puss.

[AtlasRaised]

Completely agree.

I have had moderately better luck at these same limits, although I also play $125's and $175's which seem to zip along much faster. I've cashed in about 5 out of 12 total, with one big return in a no chop win. I've ran pretty well...but the cards are almost a necessity....as the lightning rounds and short stacks take a ton of maneuvering out of the games.

[MicroBob]

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Does anybody know if they are running the el cheapo sats for us low limit dudes? I'm talking about the $50 or $65 sattelites.

Thanks in advance.

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It might depend on demand as well.

A few days before the ME last year I'm pretty sure they were running the $50's and $65's.
Pretty sure I played in one of the $65's.

If you tell them that you are interested in this level they might try to start one up for you.

That's pretty much how it works a lot of the time.
And it seemed to continue at the WSOP-circuit (many of the same people) when they came to Tunica. Couple would ask about STT's. And they would say, "What buy-in do you guys want?"


You probably won't be the only one looking to slum it down in the $50's.
But beware of the format. I think the stacks are even smaller in the $50's (only $800 start-chips instead of $1k in the $125's perhaps??).

[bugstud]

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are they getting alot of $1k SNGs or is it all <500? do these 1k SNGs start up all the time every day or does it take a long while?

ill be flying out to vaygus wednesday btw

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the frequency seems roughly 125, 525, 1030, 175, then the rest. 1030s ran a ton whenever I was there. lineups were not easy though.

[pig4bill]

Will they still be running these things next week after the ME is well under way? I assume you can still use these lammers for the $1500 buy-ins that are scheduled for next week.

[flatiron88]

anyone out there in Vegas able to answer this one for us?. I am going out for Sat's event 41 (1500 nl) that i won my local group's satellite into from my home game, but my wing man wants to try and get into it by sitting in on a satellite and i'd like a little vegas table nerve breaker too so i would like to play one. We hit town Fri (tomorrow, cool) and would love to know what the current situation is

[PanRains]

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anyone out there in Vegas able to answer this one for us?. I am going out for Sat's event 41 (1500 nl) that i won my local group's satellite into from my home game, but my wing man wants to try and get into it by sitting in on a satellite and i'd like a little vegas table nerve breaker too so i would like to play one. We hit town Fri (tomorrow, cool) and would love to know what the current situation is

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I can only speak for yesterday (Wednesday). They were running $175 SNGs in the satellite area. For most of the afternoon, you simply walked up to the next table to go, picked up a card to get your seat assignment, and paid your $175.

Later in the evening, they did start a list. There didn't seem to be a long wait though, as they had quite a few going.

$175 to get in, winner takes 3 $500 tournament chips (not redeemable for cash, only for entries into WSOP tourneys) plus $120 cash.

For this money, you receive 1K in tournament chips. Levels are 15 minutes long, although once there was a dealer push when we were supposed to have a level increase, and none of us volunteered to the dealer that we should raise the blinds.

Blinds are:

25/25
25/50
50/100
100/200
150/300
200/400

I never made it more than 2 hands into 200/400.

It is winner take all, but chops were plentiful.

Play is bad, but again, it becomes a lottery pretty quickly.

There may be other single table tourneys, but on Wednesday they only had the $175. Considering the rest of the events (IIRC) are 1500 or 1000 I would imagine there'd be no reason to run more expensive tourneys.

Hope this helps.

[flatiron88]

thanks. Pan, you are the man, and thanks for the quick reply. Hope to see you out there

Flat