What can the Bellagio do to get their tourney players back?

[doublejoker]

The Bellagio is in the midst of its premiere event the WPT Championship series.

Event number one the $1500 buyin nl event drew just over 100 people. In past years this event had a line stretching as far as you could see at the buyin window, had overflow tables in the main poker room, and had a list of alternates waiting to get in.

Todays 5K nl event drew a whopping 27 players a total of 3 tables were in play in the entire Fontana room.

Right now, the only tourney competition is coming from the Venetian, yet the Caesars Palace circuit event starts in a few days as well...

What can the Bellagio do to get its players back?

Mike matusow said that people are simply sick of nl tourneys and that Bellagio should go back to its old format of offering tourneys in all the games.

I wouldnt mind that idea or possibly having a 5 pm tourney every day like the wsop does with an alternative game.

Other ideas include scaling back the buyins to accomodate more players in this bad economic situation, giving more chips to compete with the deep stack events at venetian and caesars, or adding more levels.

Any thoughts, suggestions, comments?

[augie_]

give all the retired folks in vegas the 50k+ that each of them lost in the last year?

[demon102]

More like how can 2+2 get this Chainsaw guy to stop making new threads.

[mikeinyonkers]

I think the recession might have something to do with this. It does have far reaching tentacles.

[misfitscollector]

Originally Posted by demon102

More like how can 2+2 get this Chainsaw guy to stop making new threads.

but this is actually a good thread

[LiveActionPro]

I hate the B, to damn TRENDY!,

[Clayton]

stop having whats-his-name run the tournaments with his retarded rules and structures?

[LonghornsNo1]

The Bellagio should hire Greenspan and try to figure out this economic crisis. Or perhaps create a stimulus/bailout package for all the busto pros. Or make online poker illegal to play in the 50 states. Just a few ideas.

[highlandfox]

Offer 10 time as many chips and start the blinds at 300-600 and they'll come back. In all seriousness, offering other games, better hotel rates for tourney players. I like the buy-in levels instead of all these other tourneys that only have a few events of 1K or greater. Kinda of a bitch to be spending $200 plus a day on food and lodging to play a bunch of $300-500 events. If they have a badugi/TD mix event it will draw at least a few of the higher limit pros that play in the upper section. I guarantee I'll be there for it. I actually appreciate the smaller starting stacks at Bellagio as if you win a signifigant pot during the first level or too it actually matter and affect you tournament equity positively unlike these event that start you with 1000 BB's when you can win a hug pot and it hardly matter. They only add to add in about 3 more levels to make the tourneys signifigantly better 500-1000 being the most vital. 150-300 second. I mean they could add only those two and it would be a major improvement in the smoothness of the level jumps. Free massages would be nice too. They offered that at the WSOP Circuit at Harrah's AC for chrissake's. A ****in' C has it. I mean isn;t Bellagio supposed to be the epitome of luxury, then give us some free massages

[sketchy1]

stop raping the players. they've taken millions out of the poker economy. they charge an arm and a leg for a bottle of water in the gift shop. rooms overpriced. no real comps to speak of. etc. etc. so much better value for the money in tournament fields too, a venetian $500 is so much more +EV than a 27-player $3k at bellagio. lower your buyins jack, it's ridiculous to think that you're lowest buyin is $1500. this isn't the WSOP where you can wave $1500 buyins in the air and attract 4,000 players. it's just the bellagio. maybe if they had a schedule of tournaments with other games, various buyin amounts, and scheduled their events to not directly conflict with everything else (you're no longer the center of the poker world!) then they'd draw bigger fields again.

and quit having a $15k+ buyin every 4 months

[doublejoker]

Originally Posted by sketchy1

stop raping the players. they've taken millions out of the poker economy. they charge an arm and a leg for a bottle of water in the gift shop. rooms overpriced. no real comps to speak of. etc. etc. so much better value for the money in tournament fields too, a venetian $500 is so much more +EV than a 27-player $3k at bellagio. lower your buyins jack, it's ridiculous to think that you're lowest buyin is $1500. this isn't the WSOP where you can wave $1500 buyins in the air and attract 4,000 players. it's just the bellagio. maybe if they had a schedule of tournaments with other games, various buyin amounts, and scheduled their events to not directly conflict with everything else (you're no longer the center of the poker world!) then they'd draw bigger fields again.

and quit having a $15k+ buyin every 4 months

Finally sketchy and I agree on something!

+1 for Sketchy

[sketchy1]

Originally Posted by doublejoker

Finally sketchy and I agree on something!

+1 for Sketchy

plz don't cut me chainsaw. and yeah, it seems pretty obv the recession isn't helping, but bellagio is just shooting themselves in the foot with all that crap i mentioned.

[EvilDruidNE]

spread something other than NLHE , lower buyins, better structures... duh

[AGame18]

pay Stars so they don't have their spring tourney series coincide with bellagio tourney series?

[IWEARGOGGLES]

I dunno I think all of these series are too long and there is no reason for anyone to actually travel to these places to play.

They should also try slapping guarantees on main events.

Just do what Borgata does, they seem to be the only one getting it right.