{"id":14118,"date":"2011-07-07T02:46:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:08:11","slug":"making-money-wsop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/making-money-wsop.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not easy making money at the WSOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14119 size-full\" title=\"Mike Sexton WSOP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mike-sexton-wsop.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Sexton\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" \/>To a professional poker player, winning the $50k buy-in Players Championship at the WSOP is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You play multiple games (8) against a very strong lineup (Who puts up $50k to play a poker tourney that isn&#8217;t an excellent player?) and winning this tournament is very prestigious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As of this writing, the final table of eight was just assembled, and Phil Hellmuth and Ben Lamb &#8211; the guys running 1-2 in the WSOP Player of the Year race &#8211; are there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Although I like him, but don&#8217;t like his antics at times, I really respect Phil&#8217;s game and would like to see him capture his 12th WSOP bracelet (as he brings a lot of attention to the poker world).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Personally, I had a pretty good WSOP. So far, I&#8217;ve played in seven events (including the $50k Players Championship &#8211; where I bombed out at the end of Day 2), and have had two cashes (for $160k), including a second place finish in a $1500 buy-in Stud 8 or Better tourney (606 entries).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Everyone wants to win a bracelet, but the truth is, when you cash for over $100k at the WSOP, you should be happy and have no right to bitch. Trust me, it&#8217;s not easy making money at the WSOP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Next up for me is the main event, which I&#8217;m looking forward to. I don&#8217;t play until Day 1D, so lots of people will bust out before I do :) My over\/under for the main event is 5200 players. Best of luck to all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/index\">PartyPoker qualifiers<\/a> in making it to the final table!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a professional poker player, winning the $50k buy-in Players Championship at the WSOP is as good as it gets. You play multiple games (8) against a very strong lineup (Who puts up $50k to play a poker tourney that isn&#8217;t an excellent player?) and winning this tournament is very prestigious. As of this writing,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/making-money-wsop.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77105,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions\/77105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}