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WSOPE Satellites next year? Please
Doudeau
Member Posts: 37
A few weeks ago I asked if SKYPOKER would run qualifers for WSOP Europe - in particular the 6-handed tourney which would be good for all of us on sky who are always playing 6-handed MTT's. By chance it clashed with the Tour final in DTD so not a good idea this year.
With a £2500 buy-in and no need to add transalantic flights into the package it may be possible for more people to qualify (than WSOP main event) and we could go en masse. I'm not saying instead but in addition to annual WSOP (US) qualifiers.
In order to encourage you to support my idea I'd like to quickly give you a taste of my experience yesterday. Locally we held live satellites into the £1000 event3 and I managed to get one of the two places.
I won't bore you with details but I spent about 3 hours sitting at a table with Tom Dwan on my immediate left (I thought drawing Dave Marley (DAVEYZZZ) at DTD was bad luck last week!). I avoided getting into too many hands with him but what an experience playing poker with such a legend and seeing somebody of his ability at work!
After our table was broken up I joined a table with Vanessa Rousso (I wasn't complaining - she had great cuticles BTW Tikay) and got to play with her for another couple of hours ! There was no fairy tale ending but what an experience.
I also spotted the following people during the breaks (who were on other tables)... Barry Greenstein, Huck Seed, Liv Boree, and the Phil's..... Ivey and Hellmuth.
I'd like to go back next year - does anyone else fancy it?
With a £2500 buy-in and no need to add transalantic flights into the package it may be possible for more people to qualify (than WSOP main event) and we could go en masse. I'm not saying instead but in addition to annual WSOP (US) qualifiers.
In order to encourage you to support my idea I'd like to quickly give you a taste of my experience yesterday. Locally we held live satellites into the £1000 event3 and I managed to get one of the two places.
I won't bore you with details but I spent about 3 hours sitting at a table with Tom Dwan on my immediate left (I thought drawing Dave Marley (DAVEYZZZ) at DTD was bad luck last week!). I avoided getting into too many hands with him but what an experience playing poker with such a legend and seeing somebody of his ability at work!
After our table was broken up I joined a table with Vanessa Rousso (I wasn't complaining - she had great cuticles BTW Tikay) and got to play with her for another couple of hours ! There was no fairy tale ending but what an experience.
I also spotted the following people during the breaks (who were on other tables)... Barry Greenstein, Huck Seed, Liv Boree, and the Phil's..... Ivey and Hellmuth.
I'd like to go back next year - does anyone else fancy it?
Comments
Nice idea in principle Doudeau, i really wish sky could get a team for this, but it may be the case that the main sponsor would not allow this. I dont know.
With regard to having Duuuuuurrrrr on your left! WOW, and i dont believe you didnt try a cheeky blind steal once:)
I quite like this idea also would be nice to try satalite into this event.
What do mean greg that the main sponsor wouldnt allow it?
Greghogg - before I went to the event I said the player I would most like to see at my table was Tom so to have him sitting next to me was fantastic - although as far as EV is concerned it wasn't the best result! I did manage to win a pot I was in with him with a c-bet and there was even one raise I made which he didn't call or re-raise! One call he made against another player was inspired and I was grateful to have witnessed it.
Also, I don't think we'd need an official team - just a group of people who satellite in as per Vegas WSOP.
BTW, durrr was very friendly, chatty and with no ego - as was Vanessa Rousso.
I gave the Official Photographer £10 to get a memento of the day (BTW, that's Liv Boree on the table behind).......
Who approves a photo?
Me.
Slip me a five spot and i will sort it out.
Bit rubbish that though, would be nice to try sat from here.