Posts Tagged ‘WSOP’

Question by Bob Smith: Is 4 years of poker experience enough for WSOP?
If I play online poker now until im 21 (4 years), with some real life tournaments too, will I be good enough to have a fair chance of a cash finish in WSOP?
By the way, I will be very dedicated in my practice of the 4 years, with many hours every day of practice. Appreciate any help/answers!

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Answer by pdq
You left out one little, tiny detail. I think it might be an important one.

Are you a WINNING poker player?!?!? I’m not talking about fake money games – they mean absolutely, positively NOTHING. I mean – have you been playing CASH tournaments and winning money from them? Are you UP more money than you’re down?

Even if you are winning, I would still have to predict, “no” – you do not have a “fair chance” of a cash finish. Especially if you’re talking about the Main Event. Thousands of people enter this tournament, and most of them are highly skilled players. Last year, 6,494 people entered. 648 of them were paid. So you have to do better than 90% of the field!

I imagine if you entered every possible event that there was, your chances would start going up. Somehow I believe you’re only talking about the main event.

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Question by hellensynclair: How can i start a home tournement to get to the WSOP? There’s a great system i heard about. anyone?
Home poker tourney information that will lead the winner to the WSOP with spending money. I heard about one through the grapevine.

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Answer by Puzzled?
There’s several ways you could do it, but I’d need more information to give you some ideas.

Like how much time do you have, how many tournaments are you going to run, and how many people are going to be showing up at your tournaments.

One way, you could run weekly tournaments for say 6 months. The entry fee, something like . goes to a prize pool for the tournament, and goes to a pool for the WSOP prize package.

So if you ran a tournament every week for 6 months, it would be around 24 tournaments. You would need 100 people for each tournament to get ,000, which would be for a ,000 entry fee, and ,000 for expenses.

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Question by SpeedySteel: In the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event how many players cash-in or make profit?
I was wondering how many players normally qualify for the WSOP Main Event. What is their buy-in, and how many of those players actually receive profit for their play?

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Answer by http://KingCobraPoker.com
666 this year and they all make a profit of varying amounts depending on how long you last after the cut.

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Question by donky.k0ng: Jerry Yang WSOP Poker Champion get to keep all of his winnings?
Does he get to keep all the cash or does some go to taxes?

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Answer by Mark F
When you win cash like that, it is immediately taxed under the capital gains provision of the tax law. I think they immediately withhold about 35%. Capital gains tax is near 35% – 40% but I am not sure.

Mark F.
-PokerGob.com

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