pocket 9's in late stages of live WSOP satellite

[Tim H]

I played in this thing too and its absolutely brutal.
Only 100 players and 100,000 chips in play

$1k stacks 20 minute levels ... if I remember correctly
5/10
10/20
15/30
break
25/50
50/100
75/150
break
100/200 +25ante
150/300 +50ante
200/400 +100ante
break

I went out 20 spots before you with 88 to KK and flop of K82

[dcviperboy]

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Comment 2: Is it 2nd-11th get 1k and First is the package, and what was the buy in.


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Buy-in for the event was 220. There were 5 separate satellites played over 3 days to get into this final tournament for the seat. I had finished in the top 20 of the 5th tournament to get into this one. Chip stacks did not carry over, so we were starting with 1K, with a total of 100K in chips in play.

Prizes ranged like this:
1st - WSOP seat +20K cash
2nd - 15.5K cash
3rd - 12.5K
4th - 10K
and so on down to 1K for 11th

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This is a jacked up tourney...it could have easily awarded 6 seats or so. Whats the deal with 1st getting a seat and 20k?? Hopefully a hotel wont cost you 20k for a week of gambling in vegas.

[Mr_Beeker]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated. As you probably figured out already, it was Aces that I ran into. He caught his 3rd Ace on the turn, and I was gone. I needed to catch so many hands to stay ahead of the blinds, that it was maddening. I'm glad others have noticed the difficulty of the structure. I was having a lot of problems adjusting to it.