You can't reserve over the phone. They scan you player's card and that is how you register.

Thanks for the response. By 9pm, I was hoping that they would already have lots of 2/5 tables.... I just have no idea how busy it is up there at 9pm on Saturday night. You think I'd have to bank on 2hours though. Pretty frustrating.

Thanks for responding!

Cheers

Tons of action the last two weeks.

Wednesday night, I played a PLO8 game with Steven Loube, 2012 PLO8 bracelet winner, Kyle Cartwright, five-time circuit ring winner, and currently third in chips after day one of the Cherokee main event, and Tripp Kirk, two-time circuit ring winner. He is also still alive after day one of the main event. Steamin' Beamin was also at the table.

They were all nice guys. It was a wild and fun table.

Played 8 hours at 1/2 he; Poker pro tables; fairly good game; the place was packed; maybe management will be more serious about poker now..gl

GL to the remaining players in the WSOP Circuit ME. I just saw that the winner also gets a 2013 seat to the WSOP ME. This is a special that Cherokee is just doing. Just another reason that Harrah's Cherokee is showing that they appreciate the turnout the past 2 weeks.

Any word on if they plan to expand their poker room or add more live dealer tables after the circuit event is over?

Yes, the winner of the main event, plus a random drawing for another ME seat in Vegas from all "Ring Event" tourneys. If you played one, you have one name in the hat, if you played two, two names in the hat, etc. One does not have to be present to win. They will draw name at final table.

I'm sure they will add live card tournaments and more live card tables eventually because the WSOPC attendance was too big for them to ignore...would be a bad business decision.

ReedMoney's heart is in the right place but he must realize that poker is a low revenue/high space taker upper for most casinos. In many places it has been good for business to get rid of poker rooms as evident in Vegas. I'm grateful for what poker Cherokee does have and can only really hope for modest improvements over time, which we all must agree has exceeded expectations since the early days of the poker room.

Had a great time for my first trip to the poker room. Crazy busy but still busy weekend of poker is better than no poker in Atlanta. Won a few SNG's (lots of fun) and also cashed 29th in the $250 turbo (337 runnners) and again last night's nightly at 40th (498 runners). Had a blast ..little nittier than most but ok with that. Thanks to the folks who were running the poker room -

Again I just want to give a +1 to all the Harrah's staff that stepped up and did the best they could dealing the tournament and cash games with little to no poker dealing training. Thanks Harrahs Cherokee for a great 2 weeks.

Because poker players have wives, kids, friends and other family members that come with them for the weekend. They play the real money making games downstairs. They also shop, need to eat, etc... At the casino. Why did these people come to the casino? Because of the live dealers. I met a bunch of people from 5 different states that were driving an extra hour or two to Mississippi, West Virginia, Florida etc... because of live dealers. Now they will bring their business to Cherokee. The question is does the Cherokee Management understand how to take advantage of this fact.

PTLou-

Posted this in the PokerTek forum as well, but it looks like that forum hasn't had a lot of activity lately.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...l#post38058474

If you're still looking for player feedback, I offer the following:

(note: I understand that some of these may be up to the locale, but mention them here so that you can evaluate whether or not to offer them the option)

1. List management from your seat. My experience is at Cherokee where they have a single list management station/kiosk. This is great for the initial (put me on these three lists) check in, but isn't very efficient once called into a game. If a player could, when signing into the first table to which he is called, choose from his seat's screen whether to remain on the other lists that would be great. Further, if he chooses to remain on other lists, he could be prompted (on his screen) when that seat is ready (and possibly further; choose to lock it up, or pass it up... or even roll back to the bottom of the list)

2. Seat/Table Change requests. In the live dealer world, you toss a chip to the empty seat (or request of the dealer that you'd like a seat change). In PokerProLand, I have to leave the table, find a floor person, and wait for him to finish his current task to request that seat change. Too often that task was putting someone in the seat I wanted... and always I miss hands.

3. Call Floor. How about Call Waitress/Massage/etc...? or even create a module for casinos that would let them integrate a menu into the system so that food/drinks can be ordered right from the table (and paid for by cash OR poker account funds). Poker rooms often get afterthought service with regard to waitstaff as it is... allowing the orders to be placed without interacting with the waitress cuts her trips to the often-remote poker room in half.

4. Encourage locations to have the funds for SnG's removed (or escrowed) from accounts when a player requests to be put on the SnG list. Far too often I saw the room managers waiting until they had 12-13 on a list for a SNG before calling the game because "so many won't show" If they were encouraged not to put their name on a list until they were willing to commit the $$, getting them to show is no longer a problem. See also above about being notified at your current seat that you are up on another game/table.

5. SMS texting. Instead of relying on the poker room to hand out pagers when a player wants to wait outside, how about offering the player the choice to enter a cell# where he can receive a text when his seat is ready (optional feature: a return text to either REMOVE or lock up the seat). The selling point to the card room is that players could be down on the casino floor (where the pagers are iffy) while they wait instead of leaning against the wall in the poker room.

6. Remote list management. iPhone or Android apps that allow a player to see what games/lists exist (like BRAVO), but with the added feature of placing yourself on a list (could require in person confirmation at the check-in kiosk before actually being placed at a table, otherwise you roll to the bottom... 2 or 3 rolls and you're removed)

Just some ideas for larger installations like Cherokee.

I believe they are installing five more live tables this week. A little late for the series but a good sign. A lot of the dealers were also hopeful by the summer they would only deal poker and not rotate between poker and pit games.

Yes, I like this! I just made my 1st trip to. Cherokee and I actually enjoyed the etables. Even though I still prefer playing with actual cards and chips, I will admit that I have enjoyed playing on those tables and I do like the advantage of the hands/hr ratio is AWESOME!! But one problem I see is the poker room seems to be run by people that have no knowledge of poker. Basically they are like hosts/hostesses calling people to a tbl when they become available. But if they actually had to settle a dispute or make a ruling, SMH. They are in no way qualified to run a live poker room. I am not trying to put them down but, I just think they were put in a situation where they have no knowledge. But they did a great job of keeping the seats filled. I will definitely be back to play the machines. And hopefully they will get some good seasoned live dealers, and hopefully enough of them to run some of their own poker tournaments not run on the etables.

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Thanks to all the local and WSOP staff for this event. I really think this is great for the pokerworld in this area. It put us on the map.

Thanks again.

great event and turnout. Staff did a great job under the circumstances....opening live games under the gun with a huge turnout. the big suits made the mistake of not having the live poker/dealer operation tuned up before the event.

but I had a great time.....played some PLO (Fossilman played and is a pleasant guy unlike other pro's I've played with).

I hope the PLO "action continues....wow, even 5 5 10 was unbelievable...

Dealers and floors.

If they don't expand live cards then IMO it'll be be a poor business decision. People didn't come to play on e-tables. They came because it was the first real tournament series at Cherokee. Local businesses flourished during what is typically a slow tourism time of the year for the Smokies.

Next year's event will be even larger as a lot traveling regs didn't come because they were unsure of the attendance.

I'd prefer to drive less than 2 hrs for live tournaments then 4-8hrs.

There is a good live stream of cherokee ME final table. Bernard Lee doing a good job describing the action ... only 133 viewers. They're 3-handed, back soon after dinner break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=lgV-ZKs-q4M

dang, the live steam failed just as they got down to heads-up.

Damn. Stream just died.

As far as the PLO action, it was great. I never seen so many bad players. I mostly sat 2/5 and every one of those morphed into 5/5/10. I was expecting to see some bigger games but never did. Did any NLH above 2/5 go? Never saw it, but with the action at Omaha I never played a single hand of holdem. I booked a five fiqure win Thursday-Sunday, but gave a good chunk back in the pits. Hard to wait hours on end for a seat and not play BlackJack.

Overall, Cherokee did a great job and will get better as time goes on. I hope the higher-ups see the money a good poker series can bring into the casino. A lot of the poker players also play in the pits as do their significant others. Too bad illness forced me to leave, I had reservations for the entire time but had to leave Monday.

First night $500 buy-in 2/5 PLO. I was fortunate to get some really good tables. I flopped the nuts on the button. $130 in pot pre-flop. SB pots, 6 callers. I re-pot and get 2 callers and hold up.

Me too.....walked away with 5,200 after all expenses. Played mega, got sickn4 hours into it. Came back and played PLO all weekend. I probably played with you.

The final table action is on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=lgV-ZKs-q4M

it's 7 hours and 28 minutes long. LOL

The last 15 to 30 minutes seem to be missing, it quits just before it gets to heads-up.