I hope not. The real reason is that you can charge rake on a re entry, not on a re buy

With unsegregated online poker not currently allowed in the USA, field sizes are already slightly declining so upping the buy-in would be a terrible idea, at the moment anyway.

Also changing to a re-entry is a big no-no for me, +1 to the guy who mentioned tradition.

10K certainly isn't affordable to everyone. But it's affordable as part of a long term plan, or if you're an upper middle class white collar worker, or if you've cashed a big pension after your retirement. It's also a great sweet spot for satellite tournaments, as you can do everything from long shot $60 entries, to midrange $200-$300 entries, to higher stakes 1K entries.

It's important to realize that for the majority of people who play in the main event, it's not a decision about +EV or -EV or "bankroll management." It's a 10K vacation, because they'd rather pay 10K to play in the WSOP main event than buy a speedboat or fly to thailand to pick up ladyboys or whatever else people do with 10K. They aren't saying, "well, I think this is the wisest way to spend $10,000, so here I go...." they're saying, "man, this is going to be ****ing cool."

Raising the price past a certain point would show a HUGE drop off in attendance. I'm not sure if that spot is 10K, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see ME attendance cut in half if the buyin was raised to, say, 25K.

If anything you could argue to lower the buyin, but it's totally unnecessary as the tournament is typically filled to capacity anyway (wasn't there some recent scandal about name pros getting turned away due to lack of space like... last year?).

Ideally you want the buyin set as high as you can set it while still selling the maximum number of seats. I doubt anyone in NVG has the poker tournament + business experience to put an exact number on that, but if you put a gun to my head and made me pick a number, I'd guess the 10K entry has it about right.

This is a load of nonsense really. The ME gets a load of amateurs playing it and thus makes it very +EV for the top players. There's a reason that the top players on 2+2 can sell Main Event action at like 1.3-1.4 markup.

it's gonna be tricky whenever they decide to raise the buy-in mainly because historically there are 10ks, 25ks, 50ks, 100ks, and a jump from 10k to 25k would be really huge, so would it be a 12k tournament? 15k? 20k?

it's an awesome tournament, and people love it. probably doesn't need to be fixed right now, but i think within the next 10 years or so, and especially if online poker is back and the economy turns around, a 20k tournament would probably be better.

hahahahahaha

Would be nice to see the field swell to its 2006 size again when Gold won $12m.

Yes put this way I agree with you. I see it totally different now, then I did when I posted that post. I guess If you are a doctor or lawyer, you could safely buy into the main event.

I guess I am the type, that would rather use the 10K on sometthing I deem more life sustainable. Again I am not making a wall street salary or lawyer/doctor salary.

Therefor I don't flirt with the notion of a "10K vacation

i thought they made some of the wpt tourneys and such to build the prize pools and make the casino more money. the wsop main event doesnt have that problem just yet. so why change it?

You think nobody is +ev in the main event?

I'm confused.

why not have 2 day re-entry bust 1st 2day come back the 2nd day but you only get 1 more re-entry.

Samdk77 my new favorite poster by a lot

if it's supposed to reflect how good people are in the slightest and not how rich, it's a terrible idea. otherwise it's fine.

I played the wsop $1k rebuy years ago and DN and a few other pro's at one point didn't even look at there cards and just auto rebuyed for tens of thousands like it was nothing. Having rebuy option in the WSOP ME will not work for the once in a lifers as mentioned that will not do a rebuy.

It's just a terrible terrible idea from every perspective. Here you have a 10k buy in that uniquely gets 6000 runners despite the closure of online poker in the USA and the economic downturn. Even harrahs are not stupid enough to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. They rake a fortune from this comp so no way will they change either the buy in or make it a re entry to put off many of the recreational players which make the tournament from entering. They want their one shot of glory. They want to play hellmuth on the feature table so they can be excited and show all their friends in their home game. They didn't turn up to prove they are the best players.

Those who complain that there isn't enough big names final tabling it are bonkers. In the last few years we've had mizrachi, Ivey and lamb on the final table.Additionally some of the players such as hachem and duhamel have become more established names after winning the main.