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Penny-ante tournies
Jun. 20th, 2006 08:31 amAnd so the WSOP approaches. But, as with the degradation of silver coins in centuries gone by, so the allure of a WSOP "event" that is just like the event that went before it yesterday (currently on day 2) or the day before that (currently at the final table) tends to pall. Ironically, a bracelet is harder to win now than it was back in the days of three weeks of tournaments, some of which had fewer than 30 entrants. As recently as 2003 there was a single-day Ace-to-Five triple draw tournament with about 45 entries (Men The Master won it). But the same-after-same nature of these tournaments, plus the sheer number of them, seems to make the winning of a bracelet les of an "event".
Except in one case this year. I've said that nothing attracts me less than the prospect of an eight-day tournament in Las Vegas's high summer, fighting 8,000 other players and Harrah's corporate mindfuck in an attempt to win enough money to tell the world to piss off.
However, I am mildly tempted to play my own cash spin-up with $1,000 (say, starting at $30-$60 and working up to $300-$600) in an attempt to get the $50,000 needed to enter the HORSE tournament. Why? Well, because this is the real "big one". It will also get some excellent TV coverage, mainly because all the big names will be in there, and it will have fewer entrants (although those who are there are likely to be good). TV coverage is both good and bad. Fame is not something devoutly to be desired, but in metagaming terms it has a lot of plusses.
And it would also be fun, which this year's $10,000 madhouse most definitely won't be.
I hope that the $50K HORSE event becomes recognized as the "big one". This could be the only year that satellites are not offered for it left, right and centre. It could be my one big chance to play in a proper tournament at a high level with proper opponents, and to have a laugh at the same time. Although the $25K NLHE events are similar in nature, the good thing about the HORSE event is that most of those players whom I would cross the street to avoid will likely be absent, since they never learnt to play anyting but Hold Em.
Hell, I can't play 7-Stud high-low to save my life, but at least I have played it (as well as Razz, which I seem to have a good record at).
Sod these cowboy satellite-stuffed events. I think it has to be $50K minimums from now on. :-)
PJ
Except in one case this year. I've said that nothing attracts me less than the prospect of an eight-day tournament in Las Vegas's high summer, fighting 8,000 other players and Harrah's corporate mindfuck in an attempt to win enough money to tell the world to piss off.
However, I am mildly tempted to play my own cash spin-up with $1,000 (say, starting at $30-$60 and working up to $300-$600) in an attempt to get the $50,000 needed to enter the HORSE tournament. Why? Well, because this is the real "big one". It will also get some excellent TV coverage, mainly because all the big names will be in there, and it will have fewer entrants (although those who are there are likely to be good). TV coverage is both good and bad. Fame is not something devoutly to be desired, but in metagaming terms it has a lot of plusses.
And it would also be fun, which this year's $10,000 madhouse most definitely won't be.
I hope that the $50K HORSE event becomes recognized as the "big one". This could be the only year that satellites are not offered for it left, right and centre. It could be my one big chance to play in a proper tournament at a high level with proper opponents, and to have a laugh at the same time. Although the $25K NLHE events are similar in nature, the good thing about the HORSE event is that most of those players whom I would cross the street to avoid will likely be absent, since they never learnt to play anyting but Hold Em.
Hell, I can't play 7-Stud high-low to save my life, but at least I have played it (as well as Razz, which I seem to have a good record at).
Sod these cowboy satellite-stuffed events. I think it has to be $50K minimums from now on. :-)
PJ
