Dedication/ReDedication
OK, I was thinking about the "Divorced Poker Players" thread from earlier and about what I want (personally) out of the game. Also, what I don't want.
ESPN has signed the World Series to a deal until 2010. That means that we will have guarnateed coverage until then. That means that ESPN has faith in the poker boom for at least a total of three years. This will make the poker boom a 9 year event if it stays popular until then.
In the process we will have developed a whole new flock of players. 9 years of players from 21 and up. That's hundredsd of thousands of players. All focused on one thing...the big payday at the end of the tournament rainbow.
I would like to go next year to the $10,000 Main Event. There is a 1 in 10,000 chance that I will win, but there is a much better chance that I will place in the money. I would say probably more along the lines of 1 in 500. I would say the same for quite a few of these people that are with us.
My thought is that there are three ways to get there: buy in, satellite, or super satellite in. I think that if we start now, we could get 2 or 3 people into the ME for next year, but we would need to start working now. Looking at Tom's ME experiment it's only a matter of time before he a) Has 4 final table finishes to make the 10k if he wants. or b) wins one big one and takes just enough to buy in.
I think that if a group of us were to make this our central focus for the next year, we could improve our multi-table game enough to make some of these tables ourselves. With 2 or three wins we could either afford the whole thing, or buy in for cheaper than we originally planned to.
I know on tilt had talked about this for a while using a tournament to earn our best player a buy in to the ME. I like the idea, but I want a crew of multiple people to go, I feel that as a collective we are much better players than as a singular individual, simply by the presence of the other players. I know I play more "correctly" when Tom or Jim is watching because I like to ask and learn about hands.
While I don't think that any one of us could really take it all, maybe we could. Jamie Gold's run was based as much on poker ability (playing big stack poker), but many times it was also based on the fact that he got more of his fair share of huge cards in key hands. I don't see him as a player that is that much higher than our skill level at this point. The difference that seperates any of us at this point makes his edge almost nothing (and I noticed this of a lot of players this year, they are not donkey's by any means).
So what do you think, am I overestimating my own abilities (and the abilities of the others on this board)? Is that too big a task for people to think about? If we make a thousand a month, we would be ready for next years event just in time. I guess I am more asking if anyone would be interested in making it a joint venture where we focused on MTTs singularly, and worked our way up in skill in these events.
Or maybe I'm just cracked... |
