***Official Venetian DSE + NAPT thread***

[gobbo]

All info and discussion about the new series which will begin the demise of the WPT. Gogogogogogo.

[dcarp]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry this information came so late...just as I was about done with being sick, I broke my foot. Eh, what can you do?

Anyway, here it is, all the info regarding the upcoming Venetian DSE/NAPT Event.

First, here are some quick links to the new DSE schedule...

http://www.napt.com/tournaments/venetian/

...and structure...

http://www.napt.com/tournaments/structure/



So, you'll notice that the ME will be $5,000 instead of $2,500 and will be on the 20th instead of 23rd. It will be a 5-day event. The final table will be televised on a major network, with the 1st four days having floating cameras catching some of the earlier action.

There will only be ONE day 1 and the starting stack is 30,000.

There are freeroll satellites for this event, see Pokerstars.net for further details.

At the Venetian, we will be running 1 and 2 table satellites starting on January 28th. Specifically, we are scheduling a 2-table satellite every night at 8pm and whenever we get a list of enough interested.

Feb 19th are supersatellites: 12:00pm $220 plus $200 rebuys for first 3 levels
4:00pm $220 plus $200 rebuys for first 3 levels
8:00pm $540 no rebuys


Starting chips for the $200's will be 3,000 with 2,000 chips/rebuy.
Starting chips for the $500 will be 5,000.

Poker rates are still available. You need to reference group code CP02L1 (that's a zero before the 2) when you book your room. This will qualify you for a rate of $119 wkdy and $159 wknd as long as you play, at least, one event (or average of 6 hours/day of cash games). A $15 resort fee will be added to all reservations. The resort fee entitles you to free internet access, newspaper, local and 800 phone calls, and access to the gym.

We will still be doing our 'Best Overall Player' award. Half of one percent will be held out of the prize pools for this award, with the top 4 players receiving 40, 30, 20, and 10% of the money collected.

We will continue our normal 7pm $120 tournament throughout this event, with the exception of February 19th.

And, now that I am out of work for a bit, I'll have time to respond to any questions...quickly.

dcarp

[slicknastyAK]

excited for this, hopefully i make it out...

[CardsNbooze]

Just won a STEP 6 for this baby! I guess the brag would be that I started on Step 1 for 500 fpp

Tourney looks great too. Hope the LAPC doesnt conflict too much

[Dantes]

Just emailed to see if I can get $T instead of hotel.

[NHFunkii]

sorry didn't read the other thread too carefully, but are the stars satellites must-play or are they like wsop sats?

[jiacstrap]

Originally Posted by Dantes

Just emailed to see if I can get $T instead of hotel.

Plz post their response

[bugstud]

just one foot?

[cortex101]

napt livestream of the ft?

[PokerThun]

Originally Posted by NHFunkii

sorry didn't read the other thread too carefully, but are the stars satellites must-play or are they like wsop sats?

Must play unfortunately

[JoeC]

Originally Posted by Dantes

Just emailed to see if I can get $T instead of hotel.

Will definitely play sats if I can do this.

[amak316]

I really want to support this as the WPT needs some competition and I would love for this to become a hugely successful tour but Its gonna be hard to skip the LAPC 10k headsup tournament (one of my favs of the year) that is in my backyard for this =(.

What media outlet is covering this series? ESPN one time?

[NHFunkii]

just realized I've got travel plans feb 18-21 so I guess now I don't have to make a decision

[Kevmath]

Originally Posted by amak316

What media outlet is covering this series? ESPN one time?

Maybe. An announcement is supposed to be made soon.

[sketchy1]

the same crew who films for ESPN for the WSOP was definitely filming in the bahamas but yeah, i haven't heard anything official yet.