Anyone Think They Can't Win a WSOP Seat? Yes you Can!

darkseed wrote: Just read a post about a friend, Jonatan Westerberg and had to laugh! My street address is in Las Vegas, but my backyard is in Henderson. I play at some of the Henderson casinos, but I have never played at Henderson's Club Fortune. I have a friend who is a supervisor in the poker room. Tonight, I was bored and went to see if she was working. She wasn't...and I decided I'd sit at the tables. This very small casino has a beautiful poker room, but it's empty most of the time. They will spread any game the players want, but they can only ever get a $2-4 game going. And usually only 1 table is active at any time, except for mabye the weekends.

I figured that since today is the first day of the WSOP ME, I'd ask the night supervisor about their WSOP ME challenge. I had no idea who won and wondered if it might be someone I play against on a regular basis. The supervisor gave me the framework for the poker room's WSOP challenge. For every 1 hour a person played in the room, they would get 1 drawing ticket. A name would be drawn each week and at the end of the promotion, each of the week's winners would face off in a Texas Hold 'em tournament. "So," I asked, "Who won?" The gal said that a man who had logged in only 1 HOUR and had ONLY 1 TICKET got his mane drawn to compete in the face off with the other people whose names were randomly picked. People had as many as 70 tickets (for 70 hours in a single week), each week. Seriously. People really wanted the opportunity to play in the WSOP for the cost of playing in their daily $2-4 game. This is a limit game and in order to be a successful limit player, one has to be very patient and disciplined. What are the odds, that this mystery man, whom few people know in that casino, would be the day's chipleader, Dwyen Ringbauer, LOL. This man, with a single hour of play, beat the odds against him in the drawing (for the one week he went in there). Then, he beat the odds again by winning the Club Fortune challenge. Now, I read on a site, this guy is actually in contentionfor the WSOP.

NinjaSkija wrote: First of all from where you copy-paste this ? And the second thing the WSOP is almost over...On Octomber I think will be just the final table of the main event.

darkseed wrote: Did not copy paste it. i heard about it and i post it to people can see how lucky was that guy

decker wrote: Chris Moneymaker is the best example of how anyone can win a main event seat. He parlayed it into a WSOP victory. A large number of the WSOP field win their seats on the internet with small buy-ins. Poker is unique in that the average Joe has a chance to compete and beat the best players in the world.

NinjaSkija wrote: Chris Moneymaker is the best example of how anyone can win a main event seat. He parlayed it into a WSOP victory. A large number of the WSOP field win their seats on the internet with small buy-ins. Poker is unique in that the average Joe has a chance to compete and beat the best players in the world.
Yeah you are right ! But after he won the main event Chris can't be considered a good example.

tatonkkaa wrote: It is a very difficult run for these sat. seat winners, but many do parlay their seat into a ME cashing. At absolute pokker this year only 2 players out of all their qualifiers for a ME seat actually made it to the money. I made it as far as step 6 in their 10 step system for a ME seat on absolute pokker which is a $30+$2.35 buy-in from 1pt tournament for 15 step 1 WSOP ME tickkets(which is $0.11)beating out 200 people for my step 1 tickket then going too step 5 in one day then I played my steps 5 and 6 at a later date only too lose it all going out in 8th in my step 6 game. I am playing the step program quite a bit on absolute pokker, I too believe it possible to makke it there for cheap. But my plan is too sell my seat and use my bankkroll to conquer more satelites. A great way to parlay your way too a good bankkroll, but you need to use a different strategy then mtt's. Your playing for a seat not money, where the levels of money change and it matters what place you finish in. You have to be willing to fold KK when 4 people are going allin and theres only 3 till you get a seat, even the AA fold is one you have to makke sometime in satelites if you have enough chips too makke your seat. No sense in takking riskks you don't need too takke.