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Originally Posted by steelchef
Yeah, wish Biloxi was still on the schedule too, but numbers were not that good (although it seemed to be getting better). Biloxi can draw the players as the Beau has proven, but no good Caesar's property in Biloxi anymore (and none with a poker room). IP didn't do much for advertisement or maybe the location would've done better.
I can remember when the Ip was running well attended daily tourneys, and always drew pretty good numbers for their series. over the last few years, they moved the poker room twice, stopped advertising tourneys, and have stopped running daily tourneys. The circuit stops were drawing smaller number than some of the daily tourneys running at the Beau.
I would ask regular players at the Beau if they were going to play the Ip series, and most said no. So with most of the locals not even supporting the circuit stops whether WPT or WSOP, I'm not surprised this event is off the schedule. Probably the casino saw the numbers and chose not to pay the $150K to host the event.
On another note, the Ip or who ever they contracted with to run the events couldn't even get the schedules correct on their own web site. I'm local, and showed up on time for an event only to find it already started. Go back the next year, same thing happened. Two years in a row either the WPT or WSOP stops had wrong times on the IP web site for some events.
Trying to support the tourneys, I show up about an hour early for a Saturday non circuit tourney, the poker manager tells me they probably won't have a enough players for a tourney. I sit at a cash table, while waiting, and see 3 or 4 players also turned away who came to play the tourney.
Wasn't long after that the Ip just stopped running daily tourneys. Several years ago they would get 7 or 8 tables for a Saturday tourney.
They stopped advertising, didn't offer a GT, and the Beau did both and consolidated the player pool by running a better room.