Just curious if anyone has heard anthing about the main event this year in regards to when entries will begin to be taken. There is a cap of 6,600 players, and with satillites being run all over the country in live and online games, the seats are going to fill up fast. I would not be surprised at all if the satillites at the Rio were cut short again this year or eliminated during the WSOP because of all the seats already being filled. I can't imagine they would add anymore days to the tournament to allow 8,800 or 11,000 players to enter. Nine days is already long enough.

I just wish they would make the buy in $25K or higher.

raising the buyin wont do anything. It will just mean an extra level of satellites for those qualifying online, 1 less side game for the semi pros, an extra number to hit on the ATM for the super rich flounders, and more money in the pockets of pros when they win.

I agree. The buy in needs to be much higher. $10,000 has been the buy in for how long? 30 years? $50,000 would be appropriate and bring us back to a respectable field size.

Blaze you really don't think raising the buy in would help? So if it were cut in half to only $5000 do you think more people would play? I tend to believe that if the buy in amount were increased, less people would be able to play. You would have to risk more of your own money in the satellites or play in ones that had twice as many people, either way it would limit your opportunities.

part of the allure is that someone can walk in and slap down 10k and play with the pros....its just wrong to try to make it out of their reach. thats what the WPT does with their championship... they dont want a table of unknowns.

you would think so, but most people who can come up with 10k to blow on a tourney will come up with 25k. The majority of these people dont care about the money, they are looking for prestige or want to be able to say "one time me and jonny chan were playing at the world series...". as for the satellite winners, they will still buy in for 11$ and just have to beat a few more people or play one more sat. It wont discourage anyone. They are going to sell out this year, and i suspect for many years to come regardless of the buyin.

There are plenty of other stages for the pros to play on where the feilds are smaller due to a larger buy in. The WSOP is every players tourney and the buy in should stay the same.

I think someone else brought up a reason for the buy-in remaing the way it is due to a tax law. I believe anything paid in over $10K has to be accompanied by and IRS form (way too much hassle as they would all need to be checked for accuracy). I may be wrong, I just remember someone posting an article about this.

Besides, I think the numbers will start to subside in the near future. I'm not sure if they'll hit the numbers they think they will this year either, but you never know. I'm basing this off a large group of people I know that were all about playing, watching and wanting to get to the WSOP and over the last year it has turned to "can't play today, have to mow the lawn" or "Vegas would be cool, but I'd rather party and not have to worry about playing the next day". I'm really hoping it does drop off because as of now it leaves me playing the smaller tournaments at the WSOP to avoid the crapshoot. Just my $.02