WCOOP Satellites 5 card draw
 

Anyone understand why POkerstars is running all of the satellites to this event in a different format than the tourneys on the site daily?

What are your thoughts?

I want to try and satellite in and should be a good challenge.

Look forward to hearing some thoughts on this event as in total prizepool.

JC

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fwiw the 5cd sats are the same formats as events #1 and #3. I've never played 5cd but i do have a lot of satellite experience and in the couple i played tonight i felt i had an edge over most players. I would think anybody with actually 5cd tourney experience could do very well in these, win multiple seats and sell the $W.

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I think that's the best i dea i've heard in awhile

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I played one today and qualified quite comfortably in the end. Seems that a lot of the players had little to no experience, and some were very obviously holdem only players, that were knocking themselves out with AKxxx predraw etc. Could easily use these sats to fund a seat to other events like jgunnip said.

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Must.. get money..on stars...before it unfishes itself... so little time... so few deposit options... so tired of grinding at 1/2 ahh.

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It's nice satellites and i agree with Oi Frango. I played 8+0,8 satellite 07/15/07 and qualified from first time. Every 215$ gives 1 ticket to Event №3. There were 92 players and i afraid about 3 or 4 tikets. At the end there were 11 tickets and 4 places in money(nearly 25$) [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] I spend 24,80$. Not bad, as for me [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Admittedly, I squeaked my way to the seat in the $8 2-7 sats, but I agree, the competition was pretty weak, overall. I'm definitely going to play these again to get more WCOOP seats. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I won the $215 buy-in on a $36+ 3 satelite, and it was just strange to see how weak the play was, fro a 30+ buy-in. People were limping, short stacks folding all the way down to 1 BB at the bubble, people calling of smallish (less then half the pot) bets Post-draw with weak hands.
I'm no 5cd expert, and even I found the game soft.

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The play is so weak but I've gotten screwed. First time KK66 beat AATT when it hit a FH, then when I was short i went all in with 9's up and Kings improved, then the same guy who called an all in with A high had QQQ when I had JJJ. Cest la vie I guess. I might just forget this and buy into the tournament anyway.

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Seems like I do well early, get sucked out once, then go card dead. With the fast blinds and the loose play, it's almost impossible to bluff.

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Lol me too. I've played enough draw tournies to know I have an edge, I've won 'em with better players and bigger fields so why not these stupid things?

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I played in both a $2 +$0.20 with Rebuys and a $39 direct qualifier. The $2.20 was a total crapshoot. Players went all in with anything (yes, Ace high, pair of threes and so on) and rebought when they didn't succeed.

I doubled up in my very first hand I played because I caught another 7 to make quads. But the game continued like that and in the end I didn't make it.

The $39 was a 'standard' tournament. Poor players and good players. In the end I finished 7th (5 tickets for the WCOOP tournament). I think it's beatable for a decent player, however like the daily $11 tourney you can't make it to the money (or tickets) every time.

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Second hand in 8+0,8 WCOOP Satellites 5 card draw: I'm on BB with 888xx. 2 limpers and SB raise. I reraise him and one of UTG reraise me! UTG+1 - call!! SB - call!!! I think:"WTF?!" but call too [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img].
Draw: SB changes 2, me - 2 and don't improve, UTG - stands pat, UTG+1 - changes 1 card.
Showdown: SB - QQQxx, me - 888xx, UTG - straight King high, UTG+1 - AA22x.
Nice hand?

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Finally won. that was hard.

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congrats. What did you win to make it in?

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Congrats Murukawa,

I Also won. For me it was an 8.80 rebuy that I purchased 2 single rebuys and the add on. THis was done with W$31 and the rest my cash.

Total to win this ticket was about $70 in sats I lost another 8.80R turbo by just a few places. Oh and the $5.50 5cd tourney at 7:30pm was supposed to be my warmup, but I busted out of that in less than an hour!

I am really so excited that I qualified. I thought I was going to be in a real grind.

Good luck Murukawa, now to try for more seats!

JC

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i played in a $10 5cd draw tournament and I was just astounded by the level of play. People were just so bad. It was pot limit and people would raise and call 3-bets with KK. They would then take their pair of kings, unimproved, to the felt post-draw. I chipped up massively in the early rounds playing almost every drawing hand I could get, even gutshots from the SB, since I know I'd get paid off by AT least one person.

I'm definitely playing those every chance I get.

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Hey sorry about the kk66 hand [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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were you playing with me? I had KKK66 and you had AAA33? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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no gregg the kk66 hand was played with murakawa

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ok ladies,

Consider Mr Big Limpin as having thrown his hat into the ring. I havent played at Stars in ages, but fully expect myself to be deemed the 2007 SCOOP 5draw champiooooon. Will update on qualification costs, ect.
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