Start Planning for WSOP 2006

To my home game pals: We need to start thinking about the World Series of Poker this summer. It's from June 25 to August 10. There are events and satellites for those events almost every day.

You can see the schedule here: WSOP 2006 Schedule

My plan is to go at a time when the cheapest events are being played. The cheapest events are $1000 or $1500. Single-table satellites for those events are $125 or $175 - 10 players sit down and play a single table satellite to basically win entry into those events. You would probably play in the satellites one day to get into an event the next day.

It would be cool to play in the super satellites, which are multi-table tournaments for getting into the main event. They cost $230 and pay out an entry into the Main Event for every 50 players in the tournament. But if you were to actually win (doubtful), you would need to stick around for the Main Event. I don't have that much time to spare.

The first couple of days are not a good time to go because it's a madhouse. I would like to go for 3 nights, so I would arrive the day before an event I want to play in. Based on that and wanting the cheapest events, the best time to go is to play in these events:

22-Jul-06 Saturday 2:00 PM 33 Seven Card Razz (2 day event) $1,500.00

23-Jul-06 Sunday 12 noon 34 No-Limit Hold'em w/re-buys (3 day event) $1,000.00

24-Jul-06 Monday 12 noon 35 Seven Card Hi Low Split (2 day event) $1,000.00

24-Jul-06 Monday 2:00 PM 36 Limit Hold'em Shootout (3 day event) $1,500.00

25-Jul-06 Tuesday 12 noon 37 No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event) $1,500.00

or

5-Aug-06 Saturday 10:00 AM 41 No-Limit Hold'em (2 day event) $1,500.00

6-Aug-06 Sunday 10:00 AM 42 No-Limit Hold'em (2 day event) $1,500.00

7-Aug-06 Monday 10:00 AM 43 No-Limit Hold'em (2 day event) $1,500.00

8-Aug-06 Tuesday 10:00 AM 44 No-Limit Hold'em (2 day event) $1,500.00

9-Aug-06 Wednesday 10:00 AM 45 No-Limit Hold'em (1 day event) $1,500.00

The first set of dates is better if you wanted to play some games other than hold'em. The second set is better if you want to be there to watch the Main Event. Two problems with the first set of dates are that we never play razz, and a re-buy event probably isn't a good idea on a limited budget. So my vote would be for the second set of dates.

For details on the fun, see the July 2005 entries in my poker blog.

I'm not 100% sure I'll be going, since I'm moving this summer. But I hope the worst case is that I only go for 2 nights.

- schneid