Buying a seat at the Fallsview Tourney no so easy
My buddy heads down to fallsview to grab us a couple vouchers for the 1k tourney.
He sits down at the only open game, 10-20NL. EP raise to $70 MP raises to $170 my buddy folds his 9,10. Everyone else folds back to EP who pushes and MP finally calls with KQ.
Flop 7,8,J rainbow. Brink, brick and EP wins with his 33.
I digress..
My buddy has to ask 3 different people working the floor but all of them tell him that he cannot buy in to any of the tourneys and that the only way in is via the satellites. He tries to explain to them that it doesn't sound right or make sense but they insist. The dealer checks it out on her break and tells him he can buy in at the cage, which he does.
Not so hard but not so so E-Z..
He sits down at the only open game, 10-20NL. EP raise to $70 MP raises to $170 my buddy folds his 9,10. Everyone else folds back to EP who pushes and MP finally calls with KQ.
Flop 7,8,J rainbow. Brink, brick and EP wins with his 33.
I digress..
My buddy has to ask 3 different people working the floor but all of them tell him that he cannot buy in to any of the tourneys and that the only way in is via the satellites. He tries to explain to them that it doesn't sound right or make sense but they insist. The dealer checks it out on her break and tells him he can buy in at the cage, which he does.
Not so hard but not so so E-Z..
Comments
The turnout for this event is going to be really bad imo. Perhaps the $1k will sell out as more recreational players will buyin, but for the $5k everyone is in Bahamas and Austrailia at that time. That's way too much around the world and back travel.
They'll need to do some kind of super sats in order to fill up the $2.5 and $5k events.
They are even worse than the WPT. I was there yesterday (Saturday) and well 3 of us headed down to play the satellites (looking to play the 350s). We get there and there are 4 interest lists (basically a list for each satellite). There was also no specific way they were going to be run so for the most part we never knew what satellite they were going to open up until they did some rock paper sissor competition between the floor (well at least that is what i thought
Anyways they ran about 3-4 MAX from 2-8 when I was there which is absolutely obsurd. Not too mention they decided just to run the 120.00s
On a lighter note I did get on the 5/5 table rather quick to play and wanted to play 5/10 and 10/20 and enjoyed getting called for 5/10 3x where 2x they said there was a seat and as I started to pick up my chips there was no seat. 1st time, innocent mistake. 2nd time in 1/2 hour....I let the floor know that maybe they should actually go check first the next time before they call me. 3rd time, I checked then let them know there was actually a seat and I would take it.
Anyways, karma struck and I got stacked QQ vs AA...no 2 outer for me. I almost wanted to fold...which brings me to my dilemma...I posted it in the strategy section.
I just bought my ticket today for the $ 2500 event. Got voucher # 44. The cage lady told me the $1000 event was only at voucher # 108 as of today.
Very easy to get the ticket at the main cage. Did have to show I.D. and a players card.
I'm feeling a little psychic, so I am going to say 108 have been sold for the 1,000 event
That was a week ago just for the 1,000 event. Was wondering if anyone had an update for all three events. And was interested if sales/satelittes were running any better?
me= dumbass
Speaking of luckboxes, I won the first $120 crapshoot I played so I now have a seat to the $1,000 event. I still have a $350 and $1,050 voucher to play so
if it looks like I don't have a good chance of defending being #1 in an online Tournament Leader Board by Saturday, I might carpool to Fallsview instead.