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Bad News for the WSOP

10th-Apr-2007 09:43 pm

Full Tilt has notified winners of their satellites to the WSOP main event that they will be putting $10,000 into their accounts "so that they can complete the registration processes." PokerStars, at last report, will still be using some sort of third party to buy-in their satellite winners.

Forget 8,000 entrants. We're at 7,000 and sinking, as many, many of those who won seats at Full Tilt will never play in the main event. I suspect 5,000 is much more realistic, but we'll see...

Comments

11th-Apr-2007 09:05 am (UTC)

jellymillion

...so that they can complete the registration processes...

If the winners are US residents, aren't they going to have a problem getting hold of the cash? And isn't the $10K supposed to be subject to tax anyway?

I wonder if FTP will raise their maximum withdrawal limit, which I seem to recall was $6K.

For a site that ostensibly tries so hard to be like Stars, they fall so short sometimes.

11th-Apr-2007 09:28 am (UTC)

walterzuey

Good. Let's keep that $ in the online economy. Taking a few million out and xferring to the WSOP isn't so good an idea anyhow.

11th-Apr-2007 12:47 pm (UTC)

oscarmc

I agree, in fact I was kind of surprised the online rooms are still promoting the WSOP, I guess the marketing buzz is greater than the hit on the collective bankroll.

11th-Apr-2007 01:59 pm (UTC)

pb9617

Hell yeah it's a good thing for the online community. I suspect that the WCOOP will be record-breaking this year.

11th-Apr-2007 12:45 pm (UTC)

oscarmc

I will take over 6000 for a dinner?

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