I have voted for option 3: Play the tours in the UK and Ireland
My thinking is to take one step at a time. It is a natural progression from Apat Tournaments to play GUKPT, GPS etc.
I have had a taste of these events recently and found the standard of play surprisingly quite mediocre for the most part. Any thinking player who is willing to study the game can go deep in these Tournaments, and then using this learning curve can progress again to the Majors like EPT , WPT.
I wouldn"t feel comfortable jumping straight into EPT or WPT or Aussie Millions without playing the bigger home based tournaments first.
I wouldn"t want to enter a mega tourney full of top professional players just to say I"ve played it, I want to enter every tournament feeling confident that I can reach the final table without feeling overawed (is that a word?
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