Monday, May 26, 2008

AOL Qualifier for WSOP Main Event

Just letting anyone who is interested, I played in a (freeroll) qualifier (for June 1st WSOP Main Event Buy-in tourney, including air fare and hotel) today, in reference to my previous post.

Didn't finish as well as I would have liked. There were 4800 people that signed up and I finished around 800th.

You get 1500 in chips and blinds start out at 25 each, every ten minutes they double, (first increase is 50/100), so another words, blinds go up fast!

Within 50 minutes of the tournament I was eliminated, so the 5k players decreases extremely rapidly, I was eliminated on my big blind of 800 and pushed all in with big slick pre-flop.

I liked the pace of the tourney, but I got the impression you have too take some early risks to have a stack big enough for the fast blind increases!

They run them all day long leading up to June 1st and top 100 of each qualifier makes the tourney!

You can play/sign up at Games.com, and it is owned by AOL.

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