Matt i was going over the pre-lim schedule for Legends and wanted to know your thoughts on the Starting Chip stack for pre-lims.. Also, is there a need to have $10 bonus chips? could you just add that into the buy-in some how..

Sorry, I actually not have anything to do with the preliminary events at the Bike so you would need to contact Mo at (562) 806-4646.

Boylepoker have a london sat on 14th august

Matt;

Is there any plan to bring back the WPT at Niagra, or run a Canadian event anywhere else?

Matt,

There is a WPT room here in southwest Michigan @ Fourwinds, but they dont have sat to any WPT events how come? Plus it a Video Poker Room, u play on a screen seating at a felt table.

WPT Detroit, one time?

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Bellagio's Five Diamond ME is Dec. 3-8, not the 13-19 listed over at CardPlayer, correct?

Yes, the 3-8th

I will double check though to make sure there is not a mistake.

WPT heading to Florida in April

(thanks to parisron for the link)

Thanks Parison and Kevmath

Very good news regarding Florida. I can't figure out where next year's event is going to be from the article, though -- Hollywood or Tampa?

wpt south beach ainec(sobe is like 20 min from the hardrock if that)

first uncapped poker then lebron now this....great time to live in sofla

Is this thread still live for comments and suggestions?

I'm curious if the WPT still has a "no chop" policy and if Matt could comment on that.

Also, is it correct that Savage is trying to create a universal structure for all WPT events? Will this be applied to scheduling the events too (like how many levels play on day 1, dinner breaks, etc.)?

Matt the payout schedule should be std. Bellagio pays 100 of 400+, bike pays 45 then fudges the payouts to make it $750k for first. The remaining payouts suffer dramatically.

hi matt.

could you please tell me what your best estimate for dinner break to be for day 1a/b of wpt london

Hi Matt,

Assuming you're not the TD for the preliminary events at the WPT stops, do you know who will be running the new event in S Florida?

Epic thread.

Good Question, I would like to be

Hi Matt,

I won a package from party for WPT events and was looking forward to using part of it towards the WPT Marrakech in November. However, even though it is being advertised on many sites on the internet it is not on the WPT website and Party just keeps referring me there. Do you have info?

Thanks.

I will find out but I am pretty sure it is in November

any comments about this post on Blonde saying the money withheld for the dealers wasn't given to them at London? Also tikay's post re organisation and juice?

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=49621.0

This looks terrible from so many angles...

1. A hidden £200 vig, which was not made clear to the players.

2. This extra vig was supposed to be "for the dealers". But apparently the dealers did not get any of it... it all went to some guys that were flown in from the US (I think to help organise the event but this is not clear). Clearly it is pretty bad to take an extra vig without being totally transparent about it from the outset. But many players might still (grudgingly) accept this if they know it is going to the guys who dealt to them for the duration. And of course then they can decide not to tip if they cash without feeling bad about it. But when it turns out that this hidden and enforced vig did not actually go to the dealers at all... well it is just really, really bad.

3. The card room manager from the Palm Beach has posted in the thread trying to defend the situation. But his post is really bad, and actually makes the situation look even worse in some ways! He's obviously not great with words, and some of what he says does not fully make sense. But it appears like he is arguing that it was ok to impose a hidden extra vig and then give it all to the guys from the US, because these guys were responsible for getting some of the US 'stars' like Ivey to fly out and play the event. I find it hard to believe that this really is what he means, but it does appear that way - "Hey guys you should all be happy to pay that extra £200 to these American colleagues of mine. After all, they managed to persuade PHIL IVEY(!!!) to come and play with you!".

The whole thing looks awful imho.

WPT Marrakech
Casino de Marrakech
Marrakech, Africa Nov.
27 – 30, 2010

Looking into it now

Thanks.

Do you have any idea when it will be confirmed on the WPT website with full details? The people I am dealing with for booking my package just keep saying it isn't confirmed until it is on the website.