Live tourney Buy Question

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Hey all I've been wanting to play a live tourney for sometime..Yet truth be told there was never decent ones in my area..

I mean they hold the $65 buy-in games (which is ok if your content with winning like 1k)...Yet the thing is, that don't really entice me to play, for several reasons.....

So finally tonight, I was just looking up the local casino games+schedule and there was this one game that really caught my attention..

For starters it would be the most expensive game I've ever bought into, yet the question that came to my mind was that the casino does hold Satellites to this game, and because of that I was wondering if this makes it less worth it, or not? Let me rephrase the question, the tourney buy-in is$1k, Now assuming that some players satty into the event it's a 2 step process, yet they run for as little as $125 (Would this really have an effect of the over all tourney or not)?

It's a 200k GTD event runs for 2 days (Still a long ways to go until the event actually starts), max entrants in the event is 200, and 16k starting chips+30 minute levels...


Here's more info on it (On the website it states $850, but when I called the casino I was told 1k straight)

http://www.caesarswindsor.com/EventsDetail.do?detailName=nothing-to-hide-detail&locationCode=WCL


1) So to all live tourney players here, what preparations should I do to have a decent shot in this (Assuming I play), which more than likely I will?

2) To all those that play those Vegas wsop circuit event (Does the buy-in really reflect the game play)? Obviously a 10k event is still 10k yet a 1k event is still 1k, so does that make any difference in playing styles or no?

Anything else you may think, I left out and you'd be kind enough to through in there for me (I really wouldn't mind)..

Oh 1 more thing, I haven't played live in like over a year ago, and than I only played 2 tourneys (Both $65 buy-in), ended up winning 1 and ended up splitting 2nd place money in the other
 
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you seem to be confident in your game and those of us who satt in sometimes play a little to tight to compete. my dad often told me to loosen up when i sat in but im still a little intimidated.if you are really all that then take advantage of us chickens evreryone else does
 
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You will have probably 10%-15% of the players getting in on a satellite. These will be mixed between grinders and your average to bad player. This tournament will weed out the casual player but will then attract the higher $$$ gamblers. So overall it will play a little bit better than a $65 tournament but not much better.

That structure is pretty fast for that size of a tournament. I suspect you will be in shove/fold mode a lot sooner than you anticipate. Also I didn't see an advertised guarentee and the $200K prize pool was calculated on a 260 player event which would be the $850 buyin not a $1000 buyin. So go there and actually talk to a floor man and point out the discrepancy between what is posted online and what you were told.

Your best preparation would be to play 2-3 of their Friday night tournaments as these will somewhat approximate what you'll be up against.

This tournament will play about as long as WSOP event as those have smaller starting stacks but longer blinds, ie a WSOP $1500 event starts with T$4500 but 60 minute blinds.
 
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You will have probably 10%-15% of the players getting in on a satellite. These will be mixed between grinders and your average to bad player. This tournament will weed out the casual player but will then attract the higher $$$ gamblers. So overall it will play a little bit better than a $65 tournament but not much better.

That structure is pretty fast for that size of a tournament. I suspect you will be in shove/fold mode a lot sooner than you anticipate. Also I didn't see an advertised guarentee and the $200K prize pool was calculated on a 260 player event which would be the $850 buyin not a $1000 buyin. So go there and actually talk to a floor man and point out the discrepancy between what is posted online and what you were told.

Your best preparation would be to play 2-3 of their Friday night tournaments as these will somewhat approximate what you'll be up against.

This tournament will play about as long as WSOP event as those have smaller starting stacks but longer blinds, ie a WSOP $1500 event starts with T$4500 but 60 minute blinds.


Thanks for the tip on playing in Friday night games, I'll be doing that for sure in the future...I'll also check with the floor manager about the actual game in person
 
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sattelites generally mean a weaker range of players in tournaments and a worse standard of player in a tournament, so i would definitely consider it a good thing, good luck with it!
 
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I think the satellite issue, is a nonissue. They don't really matter, there will be good players, and bad players try to get in cheap. As far as giving advice, it looks like you don't need any. You came in first, and then you came in second.I wouldn't worry about anything, just play your game.
 
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Satellites for large and even mid level tourneys are always a good warmup for LIVE play if one hasn't been in a brick and mortar casino in a while. And of course like you proved, you can win and save money at the same time!! I was surprised that a lot of FULL TIME PROS also play satellites, so you are in great company!!
 
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