Just booked my flight to Vegas for July 6th, hopefully for the Main Event - if not I will still be there to play some tournaments/cash game. With that said, going to sell some tourney action for those interested.
Here is a link to OPR for my online stats - alot of these are from online turbo tourneys, so I feel like my game will adapt very well to play the live end game.
http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/wesleyw/poker/results/4312C9725EAD4117BB63F53830A8CECC.html?t=2
This is going to be a different kind of package - I won't have a definitive set of tournaments I will play. I am just going to have a "tournament fund" pool where I will sell a % of that to play any tournaments of my choosing. With so many tournaments available, I will have the flexibility to pick and choose which ones I play, and sit out should I feel burn out/not playing my A game. (got this idea from Ontario__Tory from 2p2 -
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/163/staking-selling-shares-online/ots-turbo-mtt-sng-package-part-iv-1018648/)
With that said, there are several "target tournaments" that I plan to play, which I will list below
I am budgeting $4000 for this trip -
chances are it will be less as I plan to win/go deep in a tournament or two, so you will get some money back from unplayed funds and winnings. I am tentatively there from July 6th in the evening until July 11th. Only booked 1 way flight to Vegas planning on playing the ME, but should I not play the Main Event, I will finish up my trip with the $340 at Venetian on Sunday and fly out Monday evening.
I will be playing a couple of the mega-satellites at the Rio (regardless whether I have a seat yet or not) since the field is SO soft. I plan to also spend a significant amount of time inside the Rio satellite room grinding some of the single table tournaments which pays out lamers (and I have had no issue selling them for 100% of face value in the past). Here is a link to a document that outlines the payouts for the STT at the Rio last year. I will participate in last longest at the STT but they will come out of my personal funds and will remain separated from the BAP
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZhmWJY3rs91ZGZjMzduNmZfNzJjajI2cTdnNg&hl=en
I haven't heard/read that they will deviate too much from this, so I will assume this will be the structure until otherwise noted.
All satellite wins will be treated as cash - so for a mega-satellite win, it will be treated as a tourney cash of $10200 and paid out accordingly.
I will keep track of every tournament I play, and will tweet when I enter a tournament and when I win/bust-out (especially the STT since they happen so fast). I know from experience players there are very bad with ICM, or even negotiating a chop when it gets short, so I feel like I have an advantage in that aspect as well.
I will settle all money after I return from Vegas. The only tournament I see I may play that I will get hit with the 30% withholding fee is possibly the July 8 $550 Venetian Deep Stack, or the July 10 Venetian Deep Stack. Other than that the other tournament winnings will be tax free AFAIK. Should I win a tournament get hit with the withholding tax, I will pay out winnings minus tax, and any tax that I can claim back will be paid back when tax return is received in the future.
These are my tentative/almost-for-sure tournaments that I will play on the first couple of days I'm there.
July 7 - 1pm Rio $1060 Mega Satellite
July 8 - 12pm $550 Venetian Deepstack
July 9 - 10am Rio $550 Mega Satellite (will skip if I'm still alive at Deepstack)
Other than these ones, chances are I will play either Rio Daily Deepstack ($235 at 2pm, $185 at 6pm, $135 at 10pm), the Venetian nightly 7pm $120, or the Rio STT (any of the buy-in levels up to $325 - I will not play the $525 or the $1030)
Selling up to 40% of myself with no markup.
1% = $40 USD
5% = $200 USD
10% = $400 USD
Payment is preferred for Stars, but I will accept EMT as well. I'm going to use the current PokerStars exchange rate and lock that in for payouts. Right now the rate is $1 CAD = $1.025 USD, so $1 USD is worth $0.975 CAD. So if you prefer to EMT, here is the breakdown below
1% = $39 CAD
5% = $195 CAD
10% = $390 CAD
I WILL still play as normal should I not sell out. Should I win an online ME satellite between now and departure, I will definitely make an admendment to this BAP, and we can discuss either refund/transfer of % from this to ME if/when that happens.
Questions?
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http://www.twitter.com/westside8poker
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