PS $2 Million turbo takedown

Anyone seen this? 12k entrants, 4k get paid. Bottom prize is $180. Top prize is $200k. It costs 10k FPPs to buy in though. I have about 11k FPPs, trying to decide whether to do this. There are also cheaper satellites, but they're all still a significant amount of FPPs. 1/3 of the pool moneying is big and $180 is a lot, especially with a shot to win more. Top 1999 win $300. What do other people think of this? Anyone else think they'll give this a shot?

Im spewing FPPs trying to get into this. Prob should have just bought into it.

when is it? how much for the sats?

the first question is - how do you do in 12k entrants tourney?
I've playeg that many every day. Ive got to 98 once. usually 4-500
spot. that many fpp's u can get some cool swag. there are many smaller fpp sat. to bigger money.

It's this Sunday, 2:30 EST. I don't much like any of the satellite structures but the one I'd be most likely to play is the 750 FPP 2-table with 16 players. 1st gets a ticket, 2nd-3rd just get their FPPs back and 4th gets 500 of the 750 back. You can check the other ones out on stars, just look under the FPP satellites. To tenbob, how tough are the satellites? Is it just the structure making it mostly luck, are you just getting sucked out on, or are there actually really quality players?

yeah id go with the two tabled one....try it out play tight and try to atleast not lose your points....yeah thats my pick

Me personally? I don't do many MTTs at all, which is why I'm reluctant. I would simply play extremely tight aggressive. I'm thinking folding AQ to a 3-bet or even JJ. Just play absolute premiums. This is not a strategy with which I can win the tourney, but $180 is a lot of money (I could buy $100 worth of bonuses with the 10k FPPs) and if I pick up a few hands I could easily come in the top thousand, which gets me at least $450. Nothing's guaranteed though, and I was planning on using those FPPs to get a monitor in the summer. If I do decent in this tournament though I'll have enough money to get the monitor and then some. The other thing is since that 10k FPPs can literally be translated into $100, playing in a $100 tourney is way above my roll, so I'm not sure I want to risk playing in a tourney where the buy-in is $100 for the bonuses and probably worth more if I were to get the monitor.

If you want a monitor get a job.

Play in this damn tourney and take it down.

i think you def play this to win
the difference between $180 and $200k is just unreal

Oh I have enough money to buy the monitor, and hopefully I'll be continuing my generally upward graph multi-tabling cash games. It's just that, $100 is a lot. I'll probably end up playing it just because of the simple fact that $180 is probably at least half the monitor, and unless this tourney is filled with amazing players (10k FPPs isn't nothing though, so you'd think there'd be a lot less total fish in it), I've got a pretty good shot at the $180. I think I've definitely got a positive ev for this tourney from the looks of it, but I'm considering it for the same reason I probably wouldn't play in a $5/$10 cash game with horrible players. If I have a KK run into AA, or a set over a set, I'm out something I could have turned into $100.

I'm hoping a lot of people think this, and thus we have a lot of all-ins and a lot of people go out early, letting me essentially check-fold (not that I'm going to do that, but I'm just saying it's possible people will be loose enough such that sit-outs get paid when 1/3 get paid) my way into the money. The problem is my odds of winning $200k are extremely extremely small. I know there are hundreds in this tournament who are a lot better than me, since I rarely do MTTs. If I play this my first goal will be to money, then jump up the ladder, etc. If I end up with a big stack though, I'll definitely be playing to build and finish high up. Also to those that haven't seen yet, this has an interesting structure. It starts as a turbo with 10 minute blind levels (although it has 3k starting chip stacks) and after 18 levels it goes slower (same time for blind levels, but blinds go up a lot less than usual).

I wish I could play in this, I do really good in turbo tourneys, but nowhere near the amount of fpp's needed to do anything with, I never thought they could be for anything this useful

If you play. You play to win.. not play to just cash. Don't even think about the buy in. Just think about poker. Play solid. Make people make mistakes and accumulate chips. Make a thread when you play so we all can rail you. I have a good feeling about this for you. Also pray you run hot.

I'm glad someone reminded me of this. Need to get working on those satty's!

Glad you posted this Zach... had to try the 25FPP 5 table turbo...

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For those of you concerned about your FPPs because you are saving up to get some PS gear... why don't you just go to eBay? Keep your FPPs and get it cheap.

Yep, sucks when you get close but don't make it. Played a 100FPP double shootout... 1st got 10,000 FPPs, I took 2nd which got nothing

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wow best part is structure's set. If we only get 10k players, 4k still cash and get the exact same amount of money.

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Looks good. Er, can anyone spot me around 9900 FPP's?

I bet if people could transfer FPP's this would be the type of thing they would be more willing to do it for. Hard to beat a 1 - 3 chance of cashing and there were just 7500 people entered earlier. That would be a 1 - 2 chance of cashing.

I'm in the same boat as the earlier commenter, I just started really on PS so I only have about 200 FPP's. Maybe by the next time they have one of these I'll be able to gather enough points.

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zachvac beat RainKhan!

i hope they make more of theese kind of tournaments, the pay out structure is so pretty good, every third gets 180$ for 10k fpps.
last time i couldnt participate but i hope it will come an other one so that i can play with.

So how did Zach finish up?!?!

http://www.cardschat.com/f42/2-milli...-stars-105522/ (http://www.cardschat.com/f42/2-million-turbo-takedown-stars-105522/)

Basically I doubled up with AA vs. AJ on an AJx board, got ITM, then lost AK vs. QJ all-in preflop to bust but still taking home $180.