W00t! Just won a seat in the Jan. 30th Turbo Takedown. I think it cost me something like 900 FPP in total playing those 75+R satellites. Should be fun to play...I imagine it will be hugely reg infested though
For anyone who has like 1200-1500 fpps and wants to try the takedown I highly recommend the aforementioned satellite. You play loose/crazy during the rebuy period and TAG-y after. Treat the end tables more like a SNG with major ICM implications come final table time. Here's the wonderful part, many people are buying into the tournament with only 200-500 FPPs in their account, so if they bust in the rebuy period they can't afford to rebuy. Today's tournament had
73 entrants and only
38-40 people were left when rebuys were over, yesterday it was
100 entrants with 44 left post-rebuy. Top 5 got seats and 6th was 900 fpp today, yesterday was top 6 and 2100 to 7th.
So...during the rebuy period just get a big stack early then relax/sit-out (~10-14k chips is a good time to really tighten up) and just know you'll have a 3-5 table SnG to money in when the first hour is up
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edit: I should mention the Turbo Takedown is a
pokerstars thing.