Play the WSOP ME or take the 10K in cash? hrmmm..

[People_Mover]

Was fortunate to win a seat to the big dance. It's only the seat though, no accomodations or anything.

Would you play or take the 10K?

[lozen]

Play To say you played in the ME If you don't youll regret it

[sykotic]

Dude, play and win 1st place. 10 million > 10 thousand

[_TKO_]

Personally, I'd take the cash and go to Vegas to profit from the side games. Then again, I'm not a great MTT player.

[PartyGirlUK]

If you had instead won $10k by some other means, what would you do with it?

[MicroBob]

was this on an online site?

Do you know that they are giving you the option to exchange it for $10k in cash? I don't know many (any?) sites that do that.

If this is what they are doing...then basically they have just given you $10k in cash (and if you want to blow it all on a seat to the main-event then it's up to you).

[People_Mover]

This is our correspondence...

Here's my e-mail to AP.
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc XXXX [mailto:XXXXXXXX@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:20 PM
To: Jen Tidwell
Cc: gian@absolutepoker.com; prm@absolutepoker.com
Subject: WSOP win on Absolute Poker!

Hi Jen, Gian and Richard,

I was wondering if the preliminary registration for the WSOP ME entrants has
been completed yet?
I'm trying to book my hotel, but the Harrah's properties will not grant the
poker rate without
showing the entrant as registered. I still find it disheartening and a
little disappointing that
I have to pay for my way to get to Las Vegas as well as accomodations. The
plane and hotel will
cost me well over $1000.00, a fee that is off set by a WSOP package
including spending money in
addition to the 10K seat by most if not all online poker sites including
yours. As a young
aspiring poker player who has made Absolute Poker his home, these
hotel/plane/food costs will be
very difficult to endure. I have spoken with some of the other winners of
WSOP seats on your site
and they included 1K for expenses. I am simply requesting to be treated the
same as the other
winners and requesting the 1K as part of the WSOP ME seat to help offset
expenses I will incur
representing Absolute Poker. As a multi-million dollar corporation in a
multi-billion dollar
industry whom I will be representing with the best of my ability at the
WSOP, I do not find this
unreasonable. I thank you for the opportunity to play for Absolute Poker in
the WSOP ME and look
forward to meeting all of you on July 27th.

Thank you for your consideration to my request.

Marc XXXX
People_Mover

Hi Marc,

Thank you for your email. Jen will be in touch with you shortly to answer
questions about hotel accommodations. I have been informed that players who
book their rooms can show their proof of registration at a later date to
obtain the poker rate, but Jen will confirm this with you.

As far as the additional money for expenses, unfortunately that is something
we cannot provide in this case. Our WSOP Main Event Satellites do provide
an $11,000 WSOP package, which includes the $10,000 buy-in plus $1,000 in
expenses, but our WSOP AR MADNESS tournaments have a first place prize which
only includes the WSOP Main Event entry, which has a value of $10,000. In
both cases this information is clearly displayed in the tournament lobby as
soon as registration opens, and the information is also confirmed in the
prize pool information displayed throughout the tournament. While I can
understand that this may be a disappointment to you, we vary the packages in
our WSOP events based on several factors, including the buy-in compared to
the value of the prize.

It is definitely not our intention to create any hardship to you by having
you incur expenses to this event if it is something that might be difficult
for you, so if you would prefer to receive the cash value of your WSOP
entry, I can arrange for that to be paid into your player account in lieu of
your WSOP entry. Let me know if that is your preference, although we would
certainly love to have you as part of our contingent of players at this
year's WSOP.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me
and I will be happy to assist you. Congratulations once again on your win,
and good luck at the tables!

Richard Frost
Poker Room Manager
Absolute Poker

[Mik1w]

[ QUOTE ]
If you had instead won $10k by some other means, what would you do with it?

[/ QUOTE ]

[MicroBob]

1. I think it's silly that you are complaining about not getting spending-money when you win a player-points tourney in which they already stated that they would not give you money.

2. You got a really nice offer from them to just take the money. I would do this. But playing in the main-event might not be quite as big a deal for me as it is for others. Depends on how badly you want to do this I guess compared with your financial situation.

If you are the type where just getting to and staying in Vegas in the first place is some sort of 'hardship' then I can't imagine why you would take a $10k cash award and then blow it all on a seat at the main-event.
Yes, you only live once and this is the main-event.
But it's also pretty irresponsible to just spend $10k in cash on a main-event seat. So now that you have this offer your choice should be obvious imo.


But back to this whole bit about how this started in the first place.
Where are you flying in from that makes this such a hard-ship?

Round-trip flight within U.S. probably $300-$400 or so I am guessing.
Hotel-room for 3 or 4 nights at Gold Coast or some other cheap place is probably $300 to $400 or so.

Adjust things out if you last longer in the tourney.

It shouldn't be THAT much of a hardship.


I'm guessing that those who win the seats in the AP cash-events are just winning cash that is coming out of the prize-pool in the first place.
AP isn't just giving an extra $1k in cash are they?

Thus, it makes sense for AP to not 'give' this extra money for the player-points tourneys winners.

[AncientPC]

Put it this way, if you had $10k cash would you enter the WSOP ME?