If you're coming strictly for the tournament and nothing else, I can't see how. You're talking about 3 to 4 hours in driving time and at least $25 in gas for a standard $100 or $200 daily tournament you can find in most local casinos or card rooms. I'm sure they're nice tournaments and the main event seat is cool and all but I just don't see the value there. On the other hand, if you're looking for an excuse to take a road trip and want to check out a new place and maybe play some cash if you bust out early, then sure, come check it out.

I predicted this would happen and I'll tell you exactly why it did. Sunday morning, some guy woke up and thought to himself "Hey! I have a great idea. This is the first week for tournaments at the Horseshoe. Everybody will be over there playing, but Hollywood still has a 10k guarantee! I'll go there instead and cash in on what's sure to be a massive overlay. Brilliant!"

The problem is that 100 other people had the exact same brilliant idea so there was no overlay and they easily hit the guarantee and then some. The same thing happened every time it snowed on either of the 10k guarantee days at Hollywood. Everyone assumed everyone else would stay home and the tournaments would actually get more players than usual despite the bad weather.

What the Horseshoe needs to do is slap a 15k guarantee on their Sunday tourney. I don't think the buy-in is the issue here at all; most people who can afford the $150 can scrape together an extra $60 I would imagine.

I'd say the skill level was so-so. I had sicem55 (I think) at my first table. There were a few others who had a clue. The biggest weakness for most of the players is their short stack play. And this tourney is basically short stack play at about 1.5 hr point on.

The structure plays like the TurboSNG-multis on Stars. Only problem is you can only play one/day instead of 100. I miss Stars

Yup, with 81 players yesterday you are adding roughly $20/player to the prize pool. The rake is 30 so you are playing a 100+10 tourney which is not bad.

I have a few questions:

1. Have they released an event schedule for the WSOPC events in September?
2. Any idea when satellites will start for the WSOPC?
3. For the Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday tourneys, do they use a 10% payout structure?

They have not released a schedule for September yet but you can look at past schedules most of them are pretty similar

They payout roughly 10% in all their tournaments

This is exactly correct. Most people have no clue how to play short stacked in these, which I believe is on of my biggest strengths.

You shoulda said what's up I started at table 16 yesterday in the 6 seat

Tom you are on the money as usual, but with no guarantee at Horseshoe, might as well save $60, structures are about the same at both venues. The prize pools were very similar for each tournament on Sunday, not counting counting the added seat.

Ok, I was seat 4. I may play a couple tourneys a week for the next 2 months. Probably Thursday for my next one.

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thanks for the update! eXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR...

sorry about the all caps! hit the wrong key. truely meant thanks for the update

Any 2+2ers going to play the Thursday nightly tonight?

anybody know when they are going to release the schedule for the WSOPC event? idk if the casino has anything to do with it but i need to know which days i wanna take off work so i can put in my request ASAP

I'm here, Hoosier. Seems like there Is going to be a big crowd tonight. Thursday will most likely be the popular day

how many did tonights tournament end up getting?

89

Some people were asking if this was worth traveling for:

There were 89 players yesterday, which is good for a weekday tournament. However, the levels are brutal. After a couple hours into the tournament the average chip stack was less than 15 BB. At about the 1k-2k blind level everyone started busting rather quickly, but there was no poker to be played; it was all-in or fold based on stack sizes. I busted in 13th and I didn't see anyone playing 'real' poker past the 1k-2k level.

If you are wanting to drive down I may recommend the $210 tournaments as you have more starting chips and longer levels. It's hard to use skill to your advantage late in these tournaments unless you have a large chip stack or you know the proper time to push all-in on a short stack.

Good luck!

Small buy in, quick levels, short stacks, are the same just about everywhere. Just the nature of these kind of tournaments. About the only differences are in the ambiance of the room and the quality of the dealers, floor and TDs! I believe Horseshoes has these elements covered very well!

Is there a dealer add-on for these daily tournies? Specifically the 210 tomorrow.. would love to see 70+ there tomorrow!

No

Was this Sundays tournament bigger than last weeks?

No, this week had 58, last Sunday had 69.

When they run these daily tournies where is the final table usually?

by the cage