Sounds like a cool idea. What range would the buy in be?

EDIT: I would love to draw Barber in round 1. My concern is I won't get to face him if it's not in rnd 1.

Jcardshark top 10 in WPT earnings and can possibly tie for 2nd all time in WPT cashes with one more.

TwoPair Poker Tour Coming to Sac quite soon.

Thursday 4/17 - Sunday 4/27
Buy ins range from $150 to $365 for the $50k guaranteed main event

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/65...-27-a-1419316/

^^^ And if they catch you cheating, no problem! They'll just let you right back in.

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Cliffs: daily tourny grinder was allowed to return after a short suspension after being allegedly found sneaking stolen chips back into play. TD quit in protest, others stopped playing in support. happened about a year ago and daily tournaments have suffered dearly

IMO more because of losing a designated TD than because of the perpetrator. Some have chose to sensationalize it to the point of exhaustion, I choose to except it and move on, guess I'm going to hell, but luckily I don't believe in god.

"Allegedly" was added for dramatic effect

Side Note: the player in question has since been permanently 86'd, but the damage has already been done. <I've always wanted to say that last part :-)

Oh. Kiki made it sound like it was in a 2-pair event.

Love the wsop seat given out for winner of opening weekend multi day event!!!!

Going to be a great series for sactown and unlike the last main event 2pair hosted I won't have to sleep in my car after bagging chips at 2am.

8-16 Limit Omaha Hi Lo (with 1/2 kill) at Capitol now starts on Monday MORNINGS before 9am (instead of 3pm). The game now runs all night into Tuesday.

Let's see how many WPT regulars will complain about the "Top Notch" brand cards that Thunder Valley uses (instead of the industry standard KEM cards.)

The "Top Notch" cards:

- jams the SHFL machines regularly

- picks up dirt quickly

- are marked easily with fingernails

300 (+/- 30) players would be about right for an UNTELEVISED WPT event at Thunder Valley.

i was given a couple of decks of these, they were turned down at flb b/c the colors are a little weird, cards are too light and the red doesn't look great imo

And the optical card reading capabilities for automatic shufflers to manipulate action as needed. If you think this doesn't happen at brick and mortars then you're just another player in denial. Good luck and fair play! Not!

Say wot m8?

Will you play in my home game?

Playing hand shuffled decks vs auto shufflers. I've played at casinos in Vegas that mostly hand shuffle and feel action is true. Come back to Sac at our local Casinos and feel the action not true due to auto shufflers. Just keep an open mind. These dealers have been working at these places a long time. They know the tricks. All about keeping new action coming in and leveling. Same with online play. I noticed chip dumping on some low stakes sit n go's on bet online the other day. With technology good and bad occur. It's competitive advantage at its best.

What's your name, SACWMAGIC?

I once saw a guy open fold AA from the big blind vs a $15 utg raise in a 2/5 game at Thunder Valley because the dealer hand shuffled the deck after a misdeal and the guy was convinced that the dealer was trying to set him up.

It was the most mind-boggling thing I had ever seen at that point in my poker career. It now makes more sense.

It must have been SACWMAGIC.

Thunder is doing well if the only thing we are complaining about is the cards now. Lol. I just spent a week in Florida and played both cash and tournament games in the "busiest" poker room in the Miami area. I took notes of how awful it was. Thunder is now like heaven compared to some other places, especially when it comes to running a tournament correctly. I saw some of the silliest things.

Thunder valley WPT isn't televised? Who said?

It's not a $1,500 regional stop. Are you saying they don't televise all the main events?

Not all WPT main events are televised. Besides Thunder Valley, Venice and Jacksonville won't be televised either.

WPT Thunder Valley will be streamed live, but will not be post-produced for TV.

Full WPT Season XII TV schedule:

http://www.worldpokertour.com/Television/Landing.aspx

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As for the crappy "Top Notch" cards used at Thunder Valley: Thunder Valley management (read: Ben Erwin) simply refuses to acknowledge the problems with the cards. Because Top Notch is based in Elk Grove, I would NOT be surprised if "grease" were applied to key "palms".

Going to check out Capitol's 8/16 O8 today for the first time in awhile. Feel free to say "hi" to the guy in the Sharks hat if any of you are there.

Yes, Thunder actually has come quite a long way. I have started coming in through the hotel to try to avoid some of the smoke (probably a minimal impact at best) and they now allow black chips even at 2/5 so I am almost out of complaints

Welllll more like 5/5, and really only when they run out of greens.

But yeah I'm really happy with the progress Thunder has made.