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[Colchester Kev]

lol.

The WSOP is for mugs, i would rather buy 10,000 lottery tickets!

Still gl to all playing!

Isn't that a bit like an athlete saying he doesnt want to go to the Olympic games because he will need a bit of luck on the day to win ??


Surely the WSOP is the "Olympic games" of poker, and I would have thought that it is every poker players dream to play it ...   Any thoughts ??

[Royal Flush]

lol.

The WSOP is for mugs, i would rather buy 10,000 lottery tickets!

Still gl to all playing!

Isn't that a bit like an athlete saying he doesnt want to go to the Olympic games because he will need a bit of luck on the day to win ??


Surely the WSOP is the "Olympic games" of poker, and I would have thought that it is every poker players dream to play it ...   Any thoughts ??

The Olympic games is a very small field of the top athletes of the world.

The WSOP is the largest poker field EVER and has the weakest field of an event with that buyin

[Colchester Kev]

not neccessarily, the olympic games has athletes from countries that have no chance of even finishing as high as 2nd last in the 1st qualifying heat ...  and yes the majority of the field are weak in the wsop ... BUT the BEST players in the world are always there. 

I understand that you think you are not getting positive value for your entry fee, but if like many others you qualified on line this is surely negated.


or is that you just aint ready for the WSOP ??

[thetank]

Flushy is talking nonsense.

The WSOP main event is 0% luck and 100% skill.

Over the course of 100,000 main events, the best players will end up with the money.

It's a pity we humans generally live for less than a hundred.

Ok, Flushy may have a point.

WSOP main event is for tourists. I'll probably still play the odd satellite though, because after all, I am a flippin tourist.

[thetank]

not neccessarily, the olympic games has athletes from countries that have no chance of even finishing as high as 2nd last in the 1st qualifying heat 

Put a swimmer from a land-locked African desert country in the Olympic 100m Freestyle swimming heat and they're dead money.

Put someone who learned NLHE 10 minutes ago in the WSOP main event, and they're dangerous.

[b4matt]

They are... there just dangerous dead money...

[Royal Flush]

Like the dead money that finished 2nd in the wsop last year....

not neccessarily, the olympic games has athletes from countries that have no chance of even finishing as high as 2nd last in the 1st qualifying heat ...  and yes the majority of the field are weak in the wsop ... BUT the BEST players in the world are always there. 

I understand that you think you are not getting positive value for your entry fee, but if like many others you qualified on line this is surely negated.


or is that you just aint ready for the WSOP ??

Yes its true all the top players in the world play it, much like the WPT championship, which is clearly a much better event to decide the world champ.

I am sure it is +EV but as tank said i just wont live long enough to see that. Given that i play for a living i will never enter a situation where i cant overcome the variance. Unless its insane +EV

Finally, i have always been ready

Hope to be out there anyway for a holiday at the same time and will concentrate on having a laugh rather than playing the most important comp of my year!