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Bounty events the weekend of Nov 13-16

Saturday Nov 15
No Limit Hold'Em
Black Chip Bounty
11:00 AM
$300 buy-in + $100 Bounty
$30,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
*30,000 starting chips

DeepStack Extravaganza finalizing soon in this first two weeks of January 2015

Davey

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10-21-2014 , 02:08 PM

#5577

daveygravy

Poker Room Rep

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 356

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Originally Posted by PASANDSMAN

Davey,

When there are interest lists for games like 10/20 lhe and PLO why do they wipe the names off when it gets to around 5 players so often? I understand if game is called and not enough show but lately it does appear they just take the list down. What harm is it to leave up? I knew almost everyone on the 5/10 O8 list last night and they are pretty bent that list was wiped.

Thanks in advance for explanation.

That's no good. I will address. My preferred method is update the list from time by roll call. Thanks for the feedback.

Davey

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10-21-2014 , 02:15 PM

#5578

daveygravy

Poker Room Rep

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 356

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Originally Posted by Playbig2000

I heard the BBJ is changing (forgot the exact date). the qualifier will go up (I think quad 66?) and there will be a GBJ (good beat jackpot if no one calls you)

Davey Gravey,

Can you confirm this?

thanks,
AK

Some changes coming but will be awhile. Likely going back to one BBJ that will be lower that 8's. The exact hand is not written in stone as of yet. Feedback from the forum certainly welcome if you would like.

Davey

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10-21-2014 , 03:29 PM

#5579

Playbig2000

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 11,332

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Originally Posted by daveygravy

I was never really a fan of the split bbj and of all the player comments at the table, the consensus is everyone prefers a single jackpot. I also hope the qualifier stays the same since I will probably be the one who loses with quad 2's right after the qualifier gets raised (that would really be a bad beat).

However, it got as high as 600K in June 2012 with one jackpot and a quad dueces qualifier. I would like to see it go back to how it was with hot seats rather than a high hand promos because I think the hot seat brought in a lot more players than the high hand did.

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10-21-2014 , 04:43 PM

#5580

PASANDSMAN

adept

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 716

I agree with promo logic of Playbig. Hot seat is 10x better a promo than high hand will ever be. I don't think anyone even cares about high hand anymore. I would come play nlhe if the hot seat was going and that says a bunch about that promo given that's the only way I would play nlhe.

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10-21-2014 , 05:27 PM

#5581

ngrund

adept

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,058

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Originally Posted by daveygravy

I just read that some renovations/expansion is in the works-any chance of a separate poker room?

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10-21-2014 , 11:50 PM

#5582

Themaestrony

banned

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,165

How many players for the stud tourney on Sunday and what does first usually pay?

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10-22-2014 , 08:05 AM

#5583

chucksim

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,685

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Originally Posted by Themaestrony

How many players for the stud tourney on Sunday and what does first usually pay?

If i remember correctly there were 78 last time with about a $1700 top prize.

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10-22-2014 , 01:16 PM

#5584

dmgoldie

newbie

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 36

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Originally Posted by daveygravy

I also prefer returning to a single bad beat with quad 2s as the qualifier.

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10-23-2014 , 12:02 AM

#5585

badboynyc

newbie

Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 44

I would also like to echo the single BBJ statement, everyone I know that plays at Sands feels the same.

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10-23-2014 , 12:05 AM

#5586

badboynyc

newbie

Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 44

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Originally Posted by Playbig2000

when u walk in from the parking garage (the entrance near the bus station) and you turn right, you are right in the smoking area. If it's busy there is always smoke there. the other half of the casino (and the poker room) is non smoking. I try not to walk through the smoking areas if I dont have to. I also hate smoke and the only times I have to walk through it is when I cash out.

Yea I probably just noticed it more recently. I really wish there was a way to minimize the smoke in the non-smoking area because even if I quickly walk from elevators to poker room and stay there for my entire trip and go directly back to elevators, I come home with itchy eyes, congested nose/throat and my clothes stinking like smoke.

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10-23-2014 , 01:38 AM

#5587

Mike_The_Mad

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,867

Must be Pennsylvania fall allergies aside from the clothes smelling like smoke part. Dont know if theres any way to better keep smoke smell out of non smoking areas in casinos. Is Sands worse than others?

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10-23-2014 , 07:03 AM

#5588

PASANDSMAN

adept

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 716

Nice to see some hot seat promos coming up on bravo. The aces cracked is a fun promo but 50 bux is too little. Should be 100 since u will lose more than 50 playing aces like a jackass. Also glad to see the bounty events coming up.

Please tell me which of the bounty events will be downstairs? I also agree Bbj should be one and think smoke is bad at certain parts of room.

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10-23-2014 , 08:16 AM

#5589

njguy

journeyman

Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 266

Hi Davey,

Thanks for putting the structures of the daily tournaments on the sands website. But, the Saturday tournament still refers to the old $200 buy-in. Is the structure for the new $150 and $300 tournaments the same as the old $200 tournament? If not, can you have someone update it on the site?

thanks in advance.

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10-23-2014 , 06:05 PM

#5590

jriiikk

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 373

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Originally Posted by daveygravy

Once again you overprice a tournament. The $1500 Deepstax is another classic example of this where you were lucky to break to even. $400 buy in for a 30k guarantee. wow. not exciting. yes i know $100 is for a bounty which should attract casual players except $400 is too much for most casual players.

Why wouldn't you want what they have going in Bensalem or all the other great tournaments on the east coast? its a pretty simple formula. $330 for 150k guarantee. THAT gets people to get excited and take off work, that gets people to drive 3 hours to come and play.

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10-23-2014 , 09:37 PM

#5591

Carl_LaFong

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 632

I say yes to a single bbj

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10-24-2014 , 01:26 AM

#5592

Bremen

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 15,799

I say use the BBJ money to get rid of the paneling under the tables so we have leg room.

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10-24-2014 , 06:31 AM

#5593

daveygravy

Poker Room Rep

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 356

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Originally Posted by ngrund

I just read that some renovations/expansion is in the works-any chance of a separate poker room?

Not at this time but I wouldn't say never. the topic does come up

Davey

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10-24-2014 , 06:34 AM

#5594

daveygravy

Poker Room Rep

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 356

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Originally Posted by PASANDSMAN

Saturday Nov 15 is downstairs. The remainder are upstairs.

Davey

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10-24-2014 , 07:25 AM

#5595

daveygravy

Poker Room Rep

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 356

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Originally Posted by njguy

I will get that updated. Structure is same. $150 buy-in chip count is 20k versus 25k for the $300 buy-in.

davey

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10-24-2014 , 10:12 AM

#5596

Playbig2000

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 11,332

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Originally Posted by daveygravy

Not at this time but I wouldn't say never. the topic does come up

Davey

obviously the casino would love to put it elsewhere and put slots or table games in, that is their bread and butter. However, the way it is not is very unique.
I have spent hours upon hours in other rooms staring at 4 walls but I prefer the energy this room has over a separate room and I would hate to see it go.
They're building another hotel tower soon so there is always the possibility they will relocate it then.

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10-24-2014 , 11:48 AM

#5597

JackHallow64

enthusiast

Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 57

any chance of seeing structures for the saturday and sunday tournaments during the bounty series?

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10-26-2014 , 11:03 AM

#5598

PASANDSMAN

adept

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 716

Excited for the stud Hilo tourney today at 2pm. Great tourney and time last time. Think structure is good and field was large.

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10-27-2014 , 12:01 PM

#5599

PASANDSMAN

adept

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 716

Good stud 8 tourney yesterday. Had several lists for bigo PLO and oe going. Floor did go out of their way to try to get one started but unfortunately people on list were just not all there. I do give floor credit though for doing their best and just a nice group of friendly people imo were on staff last night.

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10-27-2014 , 01:38 PM

#5600

Carl_LaFong

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 632

Visited last 2 weekends after many months away and noticed an improvement in how my dealers were running the 2-5 NL game. Two examples are (1) as soon as a bet was called that created a side pot, the chips were split appropriately on the table and the correct numbers were announced to the table and (2) If An all in bet was called, the caller would be required to slide chips over the line before the the next action occurred.

These actions seemed to be the exception in the past but they happened often enough over the course of 12 hours worth of dealers over 2 sessions this month to make me believe continuing training is occurring.

Good work !

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