Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Aside from the $2500 O8/Stud8, all of those listed in my post above are $1500 events. There's a reason for that. $1500 events tend to attract a lot of rec players and pros who lack skill in that variant.
$1500 events also attract bigger fields, where you can still cash without winning a ton of hands. In smaller fields, you have to do more winning and less surviving. I'm not saying that I will be going for min cashes, but it does give me another way to still cash if I'm not running all that great. (Look at how far I made it in this year's Main when I only had one half-day hot streak the entire event.)
I will be getting more practice in these games before May 2020, to where I feel I'm ready to play these events. Anything I don't think I'm ready to play at $1500 WSOP level competition, I won't play them.
There's also a scheduling issue. Since I have a kid, I can't just take off for 7 weeks straight for the entire WSOP. This year I was there 4.5 of the 7 weeks, but a week of that was the long Main Event. Usually what I do now is take one trip early in the series, and one later in the series, and skip the middle of June. So the events I listed will need to fall in the right spot, and they'll need to not interfere with other events I want to play more.
For sure I'm not missing the $1500 O8, $1500 PLO8, $1500 Mixed Omaha, or the $1500 Limit Holdem.