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February 20, 2006
Saturday, July 8th - Caesars Palace - BE THERE
I can now cross off the most important item off my list, as the tournament host for the Summer event has been decided. If you're one of the many who has been wanting to check out the new Caesars poker room and the tournament poker room, mark your calender for 10 am, Saturday July 8th.
There is a lot of buzz about not only how nice the tournament room is, but also how great the tourney structures are. Their rebuy tourneys start out with 4K in chips, and freezeouts with 1,500 - both with 40 minute levels. Our tourney will be a $65+$15 (that equals $80 y'all) freezeout, with the $65 going to the prize pool and the $15 split between the house and the dealers. Everyone starts off with T4000, and blinds begin at 25/50, then double every 40 minutes. You can find an example of the structure here.
The tournament room has table-side dining, with offerings in the $7-$10 range. This should nicely balance out the cocktail service, because man can not survive on SoCo alone, unless you're Al, and that covers only one of you. [Note to self: have poker room manager alert bar staff about SoCo requirement]
Next on my list is securing a group rate for us somewhere, but let me go ahead and preface that with the reminder that
a) we're going on a weekend
b) in the middle of tourist season, and
c) during the WSOP.
In short, no place is really dying to give rooms away. There is a reason we all stayed at the Plaza last summer, and even they are charging around $70 for those dates, last I checked. At this point I have spoken to every hotel on the strip (minus Hooters; sorry Drizz) and the leading candidate is The Orleans. We'll see if that remains at the end of Round Two.
Begin RSVPing/tourney sign-up.......now. [E-mail me] First 100 in for sure, may bump that up depending on how many wanna play.
Posted by April at February 20, 2006 12:29 PM
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Count me in... Good job on securing the location.
As for accomodations, since the tourney's at Caesar's, we should probably try to stay relatively close by. Though with that desert heat, even staying across the street might merit a taxi ride over.
Posted by: StudioGlyphic at February 20, 2006 01:02 PM
One plus for the Orleans is that they have a shuttle to the strip. Plus, they have bowling, which makes Alan happy.
As for the heat, come on Glyphic - it may be 120, but it's a dry heat.
Posted by: April at February 20, 2006 02:24 PM
Orleans has a) a poker room b) shuttles to barbary coast (across from caesars) c) shuttles to gold coast (across from the rio) d) bowling e) cheap craps f) movies
:D
Posted by: Maigrey at February 20, 2006 03:02 PM
God. You guys weren't there in July. It was bad. Real bad.
Posted by: StudioGlyphic at February 20, 2006 03:35 PM
Yes I was! And I made many a walk across the convention center parking lot to get to the monorail station. I only know of Joanne who agrees with me in this, but give me 100+ over 28 any day. I don't deny it's hot as hell, but personally I <3 it. (Although I still reserve the right to occasionally bitch).
Posted by: April at February 20, 2006 03:44 PM
Kat and I are in. Yeah buddy!
Posted by: gustavo at February 20, 2006 04:30 PM
Well, I'll be out there the first weekend in August, in any of you plan on being there, drop me a line.
Posted by: CJ at February 20, 2006 05:27 PM
I'm in, email sent.
Posted by: DuggleBogey at February 20, 2006 06:36 PM
Begging Asking for permission tonight...
Posted by: donkeypuncher at February 20, 2006 09:52 PM
Can we stay at Hooters??? *looks at post*
Sigh.
I'm about 5% for going (which is better then 0%!!), poker bankroll and week long family vacation being only 2 weeks prior to this are major issues.
Posted by: Drizztdj at February 21, 2006 12:12 PM
Ooh, looks good. I think that date neatly dodges my weekend work and sporting commitments, and I'd love to attend one of these things. Once I'm 100% I will email for sure.
Posted by: Garthmeister J. at February 21, 2006 01:15 PM
Absolutely in.
Posted by: Falstaff at February 23, 2006 12:50 PM
Awesome. The poker room in AC is really nice with tons of room....oh, nice chairs, too!!! I'm sure the vegas one is a bit better. Excited!
Posted by: Joaquin Ochoa at February 24, 2006 12:06 PM