wpt weekly $165 +$15

[Prowler]

well i started this thread thinking this was a great deal and to say i was well worth entering then checked again to make sure i'd got it right....lo and behold i'd read it wrong and found out its probably the most expensive satt to a wpt event i'd ever seen!! Considering another site offers a choice of 4 different wpt or wsop events to the winner of a $200+$16 tournament!!

Granted the prize of the latter is $12000 towards buyin plus accomodation and spends, surely it would make more sense for poker.co.uk to make the main prize lower and the actual buyin more reachable for regular players? i mean $1650 + to win entry to a poker tourney in vegas compared to 200 is ridiculous, i'm sure the prices have been worked out so that it pays for itself (or we pay for it all) and amount of buyins has an effect, but surely a lower prize + lower buy in means more entries and less satts needed for the regular guy with a few quid in his pocket and a vegas dream!

[FirePhil]

The poker.co.uk sats are to the WPT championship, a $25k buyin, the others are to $10k events.

It really depends on which suits your style of play more, in the poker.co.uk sats you just need to go deep and there will be a decent number of seats up for grabs (1 for every 10 in the $165 then 1 for every 20 in the $1650 gets a seat), other sites will have $200 sats direct to the big event but for the $30k package would only have 1 seat per 150 players.

The number of seats given out is always as many as the prizepool allows so they should represent the same value. I personally prefer the way poker.co.uk does it, the other way where there is only 1 seat for the winner it seems very little different to a standard tournament with a very top heavy payout IMO.

[Prowler]

The number of seats given out is always as many as the prizepool allows so they should represent the same value.

that is correct....all sites run tourneys the same way, the more that enter, the more seats available, my point is that i can win a seat in a wpt event for $200 or i can win a seat for 1650, i allowed the fact that the poker.co.uk event is a far better prize, in fact almost triple the value, but the buy in is almost 8 times as much

the last 2 $200 events have had 148 and 157 runners which gives 2 seats in a wpt/wsop event each plus 5 cash prizes, which is attainable in my eyes and represents good value and fair chance for a player like me to get lucky and possible steal a seat

i dont have any information on the last $1500 +150 event so cant make a comparison and will have to wait till 5th of feb or if someone could find out and let me know it would be great

surely it would be in poker uk's interest to run a more accessible event to the average player? i'm more likely to pay $200 to win what for most is gonna be a short holiday in america with a game of poker thrown in, than 1650 for almost the same thing! maybe they could do both?

[FirePhil]

Although it's 8 times the buyin in theory you should have ~8 times the chance of winning a seat.

Offering both formats would be a very good idea. I personally think that I've got a better chance by playing the $165+15 into the $1500+150 to win a seat rather than a straight $200+16, but other players may feel the other way completely so catering for everyone by offering a good variation of satellite structures would be good.