My thoughts exactly.

I thought someone wrote that the Isle wasn't going to be a tournament room in another thread.

If you've got three, there should be enough others to have the game.

Best,
Matt

John, if you're referring to me, I said that we weren't going to be a "tournament house" which was to put to rest many rumors started by others here that we were going to run a ton of tournaments and that was going to be the strategy of our new room. I never said that we wouldn't offer any tournaments. I did say that we wouldn't be offering them right away, which has been the case.

Starting in June we'll do two a week on Fridays and Saturdays. I will submit changes to gaming today and we'll run those with 30 minute limits, the 1500/3000 limit added, and more chips (I'm not sure how many...let me do the math first. 40K in chips with 80 players means 3.2M in play. We'd need to get to 25k/50k blinds to touch that and that's level 24 in my structure, so almost 13 hours with the breaks included, making this last between 13 and 15 hours. Maybe a few less chips than 40K). I don't have time with gaming to change the structure on the May 21st event which is $10K guaranteed and will start with at least 8 players (which is the bottom of our submitted payout structure). However, I do have time to change the other one. I'll let you all know as soon as it's submitted. Those Saturday Noon $10K tournaments that start in June will be $480 buyin with only $10 entry fee and optional $10 Dealer Special add-on.

Best,
Matt

They had aces cracked and splash pot yesterday at isle but only 2 tables running. I prefer Omaha and Golden Gates had 3 tables of it running

40k in chips is way too much. I think any more than 10-20k is too much with blinds starting that low.

I personally don't want it to be more than ~8 hours. For one it's going to be more appealing to casual players, and for 2 it's on Saturdays and there is 30/60 LHE game calling my name.

Ok, here's the revised structure for the Saturday $10K tournaments that begin on June 4th.

Buy-In = $480
Entry Fee = $10
Optional Dealer's Special Add-On = $10

Start with 12,000 chips and get additional 8,000 for Dealer's Special (20K total)

Tournament Blind Structure

LIMITS WILL INCREASE EVERY 30 MINUTES

BLINDS ANTE
25-50 0
50-100 0
75-150 0
100-200 0
BREAK – 10 Minutes
100-200 25
150-300 25
200-400 50
300-600 50
BREAK – 10 Minutes
>>>Remove All $25 Chips <<<
400-800 100
500-1,000 100
600-1,200 200
800-1,600 200
DINNER BREAK – 40 Minutes
1,000-2,000 300
1,500-3,000 300
2,000-4,000 400
3,000-6,000 400
BREAK – 10 Minutes
>>>Remove All $100 Chips <<<
4,000-8,000 500
5,000-10,000 500
6,000-12,000 500
8,000-16,000 500
BREAK – 10 Minutes
>>>Remove All $500 Chips <<<
10,000-20,000 1,000
15,000-30,000 1,000
20,000-40,000 2,000
25,000-50,000 3,000
BREAK – 10 Minutes
Blinds are capped at 25,000/50,000
The ante will remain at $3,000

This has been resubmitted and is what we'll go with. The one we will do on May 21st will be in the prior format. The Fridays (beginning June 3rd) will be the same structure with buy-in $80 Entry Fee $10 Dealer's Special $10 and start with 7000 chips and get 3000 more for the optional dealer's special.

Best,
Matt

Just as a quick note...

We've changed the minimum buy-in for 2-100 from $100 to $60 at the Isle and also, players may add-on to their stack at any time as long as they have chips in front of them.

Best,
Matt

Well that is good news!

Looks like a great structure Matt ColoAce.

Hoping the WPT comes together and I can finally meet you Mr. Savage.

+1

me, too! that would be great!

another +1, thanks for going to 30 minute levels, should make that a very nice little tourney.

Ok thanks. Make sure you constantly keep us updated on every little minor thing your room does. What did you have for lunch?

Yesterday 3rd BBJ hit at Isle 10000. Two tables running with all kind off promotions. I hit Aces cracked...
Golden Gates had nice 5-100 Omaha hi/lo running

so goofy, kid had A4 and hit quads and his kicker still played lol.

WTF is this?


Seriously, the guy is busting his butt trying to get his room off the ground and is, far and away, the most active room manager I've seen on 2+2. **** like this isn't going to encourage him to keep listening to us here and being active on the forums. Go away, troll.

Completely agree

+1 I wish more poker room managers like Matt took time to post here, he's very welcome.

Matt,
That wasn't meant to be a slam on you - it was directed at all of the tournament questions for a mainly cash game poker room manager. My sarcasm was lost in translation I guess.

Cheers,
JP

No worries...but I have equal love for cash games and tournaments, personally. We just wanted to start out without the tournaments so that we could make sure everything in the room was functioning well before adding in tournaments.

Best,
Matt

Can some one thats in blackhawk and/ or playing the colorado championship answer these questions for me?

1. How many people played in event #1 yesterday?
2. How many played/ projected to play in event 2 day 1a and all of event 2.
3. With the sit and go satelites to the ME do you recieve cash or tournament chips for winning a seat?
4. same with friday before the ME do you recieve cash?
5. If you do recieve tournament chips are they easy to sell? or transferable?

Thanks,

I'll be playing in Event #2 Day1C tonight at 7pm. I'll do what I can to answer:

1. Sorry, no idea

2. According to the graveyard manager (he self admittedly could be wrong) but he thought ~60 runners for Day 1A. I assume more on the weekends.

3. The SNG satellites for the Main Event pay cash. 10 handed, $60 BI. 1st and 2nd get $230, 3rd gets $60. There'll be a lot of chopping

4. I'm not 100% but I think it's the same

5. Sorry, not sure. But if it's like when the Heartland is here, the T$ aren't transferable

Anyways, good luck if you play in it. If you see me, feel free to say "hi". It's nice to meet fellow 2p2ers. I'm not hard to spot, I have dark hair/beard with white streaks (natural, not dyed). My name's Braden

Just over 100 for event 1, 63 for heat 1 of event 2, 43 for heat 2, not sure about heat 3. The collusion/soft play between regs and the general incompetence down here kinda sucks tho.

I really liked the isle room, but there were def issues with the latter points there too, get your dealers to speak up about the rules and enforce them Matt, especially once you are running tourneys.

Has there been any LHE going at the Isle yet on Saturdays? Anyone planning on playing today? I'll go to the Isle if there's a legit $8/16 or $10/20 LHE going, but I'll probably be at Ameristar otherwise.