How have these been this year? What are the buy ins again and how many lammers are issued? How often do they launch?

And how about main event sattys? If I can extend my trip I will be very happy. I land June 28th and am scheduled to leave Friday morning. Any decent sattys for the main while I am there assuming I don't luckbox the 1k or little one and can direct buy in?

$125, $175, $275, $525 and $1030(5k and 10k lammers plus cash for 525 and 1030 idk smaller ones). Going off all the time from noon till midnight, slower during off hours. Binions has a $550 ME satellite at 2pm on 7/2. Day before main is listed as "satellite day" on the Rio schedule that shows all the bracelet events no idea what that entails. Gl

$125 you get 2 lammers plus $120 cash
$175 you get 3 lammers plus $120
$275 you get 5 lammers plus $120
$525 you get 10 lammers plus $120

Starting stack/length of levels go up a bit with the higher buyins.

Morning/early afternoon of a big field tournament day (such as yesterday's Seniors) there may not be enough tables available until they are able to break that section.

Megas vary quite a bit in buyin, game type, and size of field depending on what bracelet event is happening the next day. They are all listed at the bottom of the main schedule. Right before (and during 1a/1b I think) the main event there will be megas galore. Small megas into big megas, turbos, super turbos, you name it.

All sts/megas award lammers so you don't have to enter one specifically for the main event. You just might have to win multiple smaller sats to build up your lammer collection.

Lammers are $500 a piece right? Does second get anything ?

Yes $500. STS are winner takes all but it is quite common for the last two players to agree a chop. In that case, the Rio make one player sign for the win and sort the chop out themselves but I don't think that is ever a problem HU in those things.

Great thanks again. Wasn't 100% positive anymore.

Good info, is the structure of these posted anywhere?

They are not. I haven't played any this year but I'm sure someone who has played them can post from memory.

Are they still asking the player to pay first and then calling a table on a first come first serve basis ?

Yes. The players seem to have adapted to it, much less confusion and bitching than there was in the first week. For the more common buyins (currently 125,175,275 NLH) they pretty much always have a table open waiting for players. They start much faster than they did last year where 2 players would always get lost on their way to buy in. For non-NLH or higher buyins when there are a limited number of players I could see it being a hassle.

Not that I've seen, but they have handouts at the desk and the dealers have cheat sheets that show the structure, number of chips and length of levels for each buyin. Go to any table that has not been filled yet and ask the dealer to see it.

They start at 25/25, go to 25/50 and pretty much double from there. No antes, and seldom get past the 6th level.

I don't know why WSOP refuses to post the STS structures online (people have asked them to), but here is the structure for standard 10-handed NLH STS's. In theory they run them in other games and 6- or 8-handed, but they rarely run. The 10-handed NLH tables are the ones going off regularly.

25-25
25-50
50-100
100-200
150-300
200-400
300-600
400-800
600-1200
1000-2000

You start with 1000 chips and 15 minute levels for $125, $175, and $225 sattys. You start with 1500 chips and 20 minute levels for $275 and $325 sattys. You start with 2000 chips and 20 minute levels for $525 sattys. And it's 5000 chips and 20 minute levels for a $1030 STS.

I like the job they are doing for the most part. They should add more 6 max sng games, or at least check if people are interested in playing them If someone asks for an interest list instead of giving this "they only run late" statement they give when asked.
With regards to turbos, They should advertise them as a 10 min turbo so the odd 1,2 people won't hop in unknowing and complain/ try and change the structure

Besides that. They are run well imo

they run a $375 also for certain 3k non Holdem events like $3k plo and plo/8. Winner gets 3k in lammmers.

They had a 6 max $290 for the 1500 plo/8 the night before the event.

It was 325$ plo8 actually, and paid 3k in lammers and 120 cash, so it worked out to 12 rake per player, like the other ones

The 290 ones I saw were for 6max games like dealers choice

thanks for the correction.

I was a bit confused by this way of operating it, at first, but I agree it seems to work well in practice.