Weird doesn’t do it justice
I just played a $1.10 super turbo satellite. OMG!!!
Well, it started off as your standard donkfest. It wasn't a rebuy but the late registration option made it one. It was a sat to the Big-Little this weekend. It paid like 10 seats at the start and ended up with 48 paying.
The good news is that I got a ticket. The bad news is it was a very painful process. A few levels in the game shifted to letting things time out. People with modest stacks began playing the waiting and waiting game.
The first to do it was a Russian with 480 chips. You only got 300 chips at the start. I saw him play one hand in the whole period. Interestingly, he was the bubble boy. I sure loved that.
My last table was one I played for a long time. Bubblin' Ruskie was two to my left. Sadly, my right held one of the chip leaders. He played table captain well and busted a bunch with his marginal calling standards.
I played just one hand poorly. It was against a decent player and he bet the flop and had it. I picked up second high pair on the turn and raised him back. I ended that one in trouble but managed to double up against the table captain on the next hand. Crippled I called his raise from the SB with K7 against his AK and saw a 7 on the flop that held.
I guess if one is willing to invest an hour of their time – that is all it lasted – you can pick up a ticket with modest effort. If you can build it to a few grand – I never got out of triple digits, you can shut off the table and probably get the ticket.
That'd make more sense than the way I played it – watching 3-5 people use all their time on every hand.
OMG, it was a 1.10 for a 5.50 ticket and they played like it was a seat for the WSOP final table. You would have a hard time justifying normal play in said satellite. It doesn't even pay minimum wage.
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Well, then, good luck this weekend.