Every day passing
Is one more day to the cusp. Today will mark the half way point of potential preloading the big game buy in price. What I mean is this
so far (6 days) 12 games(8.25$avg) = 99$ for those playing all games and not winning. So todays play will break the 50% point of the 215$ target
This considers playing the 5.50 and the 11$ games, fgk posted he only played the 5.50 games.
What reaching the cusp means is this. If you are to play the big game you have doubled the entry fee to 430$ by preloading it with satellites at about 13 days of play.
Of course you can make the very simple EV argument paying 430$ is a great idea because you could win 10K$. Even if you played every satellite game and bought in for 215$ your total would be just over 600$, I think I made an error on this before, and to pay in 600$ for a less than a .01 chance of raw probability to win 10K$ also is a good EV too, to some people.
Just plain facts.