Pro No-Limit Half of Pokerati Game Tourney Satellite, Guaranteed!

I\’ll be playing in a satellite for Annie Duke\’s and Jeffrey Pollack\’s $20k pro-am event tonight, at the Palms, starting at 7pm. I hope you are busy and can\’t show up. Come by later for 1/2 NLH/PLO, sure … the Pokerati action @PalmsPokerRm has been bumpin\’ all summer … but at 7 is the Federated satellite, and I probably like my chances better without you there.

Official qualifier info here.

It\’s a $340 buy-in, with 20 percent of the field winning seats into a Federated 1500 later this month (or next?), with that event putting players into the Federated $20k Pro-Am. I think that\’s how it works … I dunno, you better stay away until I make sure.

Federated\’s first attempt for qualifiers didn\’t go so well, as our good friends at Wicked Chops pointed out — only three people showed! Not necessarily surprising for a still forming league; it\’s kinda hard to draw people to a qualifier for something that hasn\’t ever happened before — no matter how big the names are behind it. The WSOP ran for I think like 11 years before they started filling satellites.

But tonight, our other good friends at the Palms Poker Room are guaranteeing not only 1 seat for every 5 players, but also 1 minimum no matter how few buy-in. That, of course, is why I\’m playing tonight. By my math, if no one else is there tonight, I win!

The grand prize, of course is that $20k seat, where I\’ll be able to play against big-name pros and hardcore grinders for $10 million!!! a six-figure payout and/or a chance to tell many of them en masse once and for all to suck-it!

Ahh, getting ahead of myself here … it\’s supposed to be a professional league encouraging fair play, proper behavior, and golf etiquette … so have to wait for the right moment to make my made-for-TV scene.

First I gotta win tonight\’s event, where my best shot, frankly, comes by just showing up.