Most sites, even the ones servicing American customers like PStars and Full Tilt, are still offering tons and tons of satellites into the Main Event of this WSOP. However, unlike the past years in the online era, the sites are not directly entering the players into the Main Event. Harrah's has stated they are not taking any entries from third parties. Rather, the sites are simply giving the players who win a "seat" in the satellites $11k or $12k into their money accounts. The number of online "qualifiers" will be the same as last year most likely. However, because people have to actually pay the $10k that they received, many will choose to just keep the money. With that in mind, the field should be around the figures of Hachem's 2005 tourney. The satellite system at The Rio is going to be so much better than it was last year when I was there, so the prelim tourneys might actually have more players.
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