most poker players have a fantasy of eventually one day winning the WSOP. For the vast vast majority this dream obviously cannot come true. I have spoken to players on
pokerstars before who try to multi table 6 handed fix limit tables hoping to get enough VVPs to attain supernova and be bought into the comp. Those doing sit and goes hoping to one day be playing high enough stake sit and goes to get those points. At one point in time I was one of them till I realized supernova elite is to time consuming and not attainable unless I sacrifice nearly everything else and I do not want to live just for
online poker. point is though raise the stakes to unattainable levels and those dreamers will disappear. In theory I could play in the next world series if i enter a $215 satellite which i can afford to do and will do, and happen to win a seat. I would need to be in the top 2% in a tournament but done this enough times its possible and realistically possible just not likely.
if i win a seat and get the right luck and mix of players which again is luck I could go in real deep maybe even win the event. Ok its not likely its a dream but its possible and that possibility is a big motivation to continue playing and trying to improve. If you make the buyin of the WSOP to high I think it won't just have a negative effect on the WSOP it will seriously damage the entire poker industry.
some people remember the bad beats they took from idiots and like to think if they played against good players this wouldn't happen and they would make money.
Wrong first of if your playing only good players its a lot harder to gain chips gain money as they can get reads on you, you need to move around a lot more and you need to read them well, to survive I have played tables with idiots and tables with no idiots. Trust me you need the idiots there. I know it doesn't feel like it when they give you the bad beat, but you forget all the times they called your ak off for there chips with A7 off suit obviously without the 7 been on the board. That seriously adds up.
you think top professionals wouldn't inflict bad beats? Go watch High stakes poker I think every episode is available on youtube shouldn't be but is.
You will see re raises with 10 4 off suit pre flop one guy calls a raise against someone holding aj when he has 10 4 and the guy with aj misses the guy with 104 only catches a four and calls very heavy bets all the way takes down huge pot when kq on the board.
Pros can and do play more hands can read you well and may play junk against you too and destroy you the only difference is they know where they are in the hand unlike the idiot. So you still get the bad beats only you won't get masses of chips in when you do have the stronger ace.
There are players in tournaments who play strictly ABC poker, they won't ever play junk against you, You think this good players? No there easy to play position against and
bluff, there easy to get away from when they do have hands. They survive because of the sheer volume of idiots out there. Without the idiots the ABC's wouldn't survive. If you lose the idiots and the ABCs all your left with is people who are very very difficult to beat. you would not fare well in that tournament unless you yourself were a big name pro, and even then your not getting huge
equity. I don't know if you have noticed but on high stakes poker they usually get one or two none pros there like Billionaires or very wealthy business men etc. it makes the game winnable for the pros it makes pros want to show up more.
raising the buyin of the WSOP would still not eliminate bad play make it only accessible to big name pros or very wealthy people, and just make the tournament not worth while. In short the last anyone who cares about poker wants is the WSOP to be inaccessible.
