I’m playing in a World Series of Poker satellite this afternoon. At least 150 people from this event are going to the real deal in Las Vegas next week. (If it was just the $10,000 entry fee, then I’d probably not be playing, but they’re throwing in $1,000 “spending money”, which should just barely get me there, eating a few days, and flying back.)
I don’t play satellites, and I don’t play MTTs, and I don’t play in anything this large, but I’m looking at it as a long shot to a long shot, and just having fun. The experience should be worth it. (And if I make the WSOP, then same philosophy: zero expectation, and just play as well as you can.)
Christie points out that the audience of THIS blog might not know that an MTT is a multi-table tournament. It’s a whole different strategy than a single table tournament, and different again from a typical cash game. I don’t have a lot of experience here because I tend not to have eight-hour blocks of time I can devote to a single game. If I did, I think the format appeals to me.
I survived three hours, but that was about three hours short of what I needed to do. I’m happy with the way I played it, but I know good MTT players find ways to accumulate chips even if they aren’t getting cards. I found a way to stay breakeven until the blinds got too big, but it just wasn’t my day.