It's interesting to look at how the qualifiers for the WBCOOP have developed.
There are/were 6 qualifiers - each guaranteeing 72 seats in the final. The final, therefore, is to be made up of 432 qualifiers.
However, if a players qualifies more than once, he wins only one seat (obviously) and the extra seat is not given to the next-highest placee in the qualifiers (contrasting with the method we adopted in the Gutshot forum league where there was a single final table).
It would have been interesting if pokerstars had given extra chips in the final to multi-qualifiers ! What they did instead was to give out prizes in each qualifier which were fairly substantial, so there was ample incentive to play >1 qualifier.
Another viable method would have been simpy to offer no incentive to win more than one seat.
In any case, the system in use means that lots of players have played several heats - I have played 3 and qualified from 2.
I guessed ther might be 400 eventual qualifiers (so I was speculating that there would be 32 overlapping qualifications).
In fact, the maximum possible has already shrunk to 383 and I would imagine it will be nearer to 350/360.
The sequence has been 72-141-203-260-311 so the actual number of unique qualifiers each day has been 72-69-62-57-51-??
With 100 places paying, that's approaching a 1 in 3 chance of cashing just for blogging. Not bad EV.
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