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Originally Posted by akashenk
Folks aren’t even going to Vegas to specifically play these satellite series. They are going for the WSOP and use the other series as fillers.
No, that’s wrong. For many people, the peripheral events are the primary attraction and the WSOP series is merely the catalyst that causes them to come into existence. For my own part, whilst I will usually play one or two WSOP events such as the Super Seniors and the Colossus, the big draw is the opportunity to come to LV and play tournaments poker at places like Orleans and GN in non-holdem variants such as HiLo, 2-7, Triple Stud etc with very affordable entry costs of just a few hundred dollars. This is something that’s almost impossible to source at any other time, especially outside of USA. I don’t think at all that I am all that unusual in this respect, I think that a lot of people are happy to feast on the alternative schedules and appreciate the WSOP as the enabling mechanism rather than the central objective.
By the same token, I’ll be back in December for the winter series, but I doubt I’ll step foot in the Wynn where the WPT is held, I’ll be scratching around in the rival low roller events held elsewhere….