This is a pretty good blind structure, lots of play for the money. This is actually a different structure than what they use on a regular basis. When I was there last Friday level 1 was 100/200, starting at 25/50 adds two levels, using this structure completely changes my earlier statement. I believe the daily tourney structure is 100/200, 200/400, 300/600, 500/1000, 600/1200 100ante with 4000 starting stack. Oh yeah, and I still say there wont be 150 or more players, unless theyve run ridiculous satellites, I know they cancelled most tourneys last weekend to run satellites, so they may get to 150 if its a bunch of cheap seats.

I was told that Sammy Farha was playing in the hi-limit lounge up stairs at the meadows Saturday didn't believe it so I went to have a look for myself and there he was. I wonder if he's going to play in the labor day classic that would be pretty cool.

Can we hold you to this and will you please do it at the meadows poker room so we all can watch?

Does anyone know how many they got for the 1k?

They had 71 players. Great structure, tons of play. They have set the standard for high limit
Tournaments in pa. Great job by all the staff at meadows poker room. I got knocked out
Early but can't wait til next event.

Yea, the structure seemed pretty good. Unfortunately, a bunch of people were bitching about how long it was taking so I doubt we see a structure that good again.

Maybe if they wouldn't have taken a 15 minute break after every 30 minute level from 9pm on, it wouldnt have been that bad.

Has anyone played in any of the morning tournaments? I'm thinking about going up there sometime next week to check it out, but dont wanna waste my time if there's only a handful of people playing.

Wont be eating my laptop today LOL! Tried to tell you that it wasnt gonna happen. You wont find that kind of interest in this area for a tournament that expensive. There were less than 80 runners WITH satellite entries. I dont understand why people would bitch about the structure, for that kind of money I would expect to be there all day. Wouldnt be suprised if the final table was played on the following day. Its a $100,000 tournament! I would expect it to take a while, Id say 20-25 grand to the winner is worth a full days work. 15 min. break every half hour is kinda excessive though. People who were bitching were either amateurs with too much money, or satellite winners, any player who has put in any time knows that tournaments can last a long time, especially expensive ones. How much did the winner get? Anyone here have WSOP or WPT experience? Ive played WSOP in AC a couple times.

hey WVU i completely agree with you the structure was great and i know the one that was complaining about it last night was a $190 satellite winner he parlayed it into $3000. the top 3 chopped 18000 for the chip leader and 15000 for the other 2. I played the WSOP main event in 2005 I admit winning the seat from poker stars but it was a great time and would love to do it again I love to play in Tunica so maybe i'll play their WSOP event.

Oh cool, Ive played the WSOP circuit at Caesars Atlantic City twice, and Harrahs once. Ive been to Vegas but never played an official WSOP event. There is actually a WPT event at the Borgata this coming week, but I have to work and cant make it. Im thinking about going when they go to Harrahs AC in December. I will also be in Vegas for the WSOP circuit at Caesars in March. How did you do in the main event? Had a buddy play there last year and said the play was super super tight, mostly raise-fold, he played tight and still ended up busting on day 1.

I was a victim of day one also turned a straight flush and i was one outed on the river for the higher SF, but i would do it again in a second.

I wonder if these guys take into consideration the tax factor when chopping like this. The casino will 1099 anyone winning more than $5000 in a poker tournament($10,000 elsewhere in the casino). And they 1099 for the posted payout amount, not the agreed chop amounts. It seems to me that the 2nd and 3rd place finishers are the real winners in this deal. I know, I know,....we should report our actual winnings, and maybe these guys will, but that sure does require a lot of trust on behalf of the winner that the other two will be honest.

Is it possible for the winner to 1099 the other two players for the amounts he gave them in the chop? The last thing anyone should do is raise a red flag that would encourage an IRS audit. Been there...done that...and once is enough!!!

Women's tourney Thursday, Omaha 8 or better tourney Friday, deep stack on Saturday and Stud tourney on Sunday. that's my schedule, all but the women's tourney just wanted to promote it a bit

What's the details on the O/8 tourney?

What is everyone's opinion of how the tournaments are effecting the cash games?

I haven't been out there much but the one Saturday night I was there the midnight tourney KILLED the cash game action at about 11:50.

I then bounced between 3 1/2 Nl tables in the next 30 minutes till I left.

Is the Ladies Tourney this Thursday? I don't see it on the website. My wife wants to check out the Meadows and the ladies tourney would be a good way to keep her off of the slots.

My perception was the opposite (from Sat nine days ago). When midnight came around, the cash games began to thin out as they normally do, but this time there seemed to be a lot more players in the room due to the tournament. So I thought it was a slight improvement overall.

Daveddd, perhaps you haven't played enough Sat nights to recognize that the midnight breakdown is a recurring pattern? This has been the case long before the midnight tourneys started.

Of course, across town at the Rivers, the games are going strong all night; they were still lively at 4 AM when I left Sat two days ago.

Yes I only had 1 night experience at the Meadows.

If I get the chance I am at Rivers

Its nice having the players that busted out of the tournaments come back to the cash games on tilt!!

New Promotions at the Meadows:

Early Birds $70 for $50 Mon/Tue 10am-12pm (3 hrs of play required)
Grave Lucky Seat Mon-Fri 3am-6am $50 hourly drawing
4 of a Kind or Better Mon-Thur 10am-12am pick a prize (must use both cards)
Straight Flush Bonus Fri-Sun pick a prize (must use both cards)
Full House Frenzy Fri 5pm, 9pm, 11pm, 1am any full house from 12pm
Money Machine Sat 9pm, 11pm, 1am
Player Appreciation Sun 7am, 12pm, 4pm, 8pm, 12am $400 drawings
Steelers Touch Down Drawings two $100 drawings for every TD during regular season home games

How many players do they get for the Midnight madness and Omaha events??

does this place have any more traffic at all lately? rivers seemed to be kinda slow last time i was up there (still miles above mountaineer, not sayin much), i was wondering about here though.

since they can run tournaments and rivers cant, i dont know why they havent tried to run a series of decent tournaments, like mountaineer did with their winter and fall classic. just the same **** over and over it looks.

they ran a labor day classic that was great the blind structure insured good play and time to make moves and recover if you got caught. it was a 1k buy in honestly i would love a monthly $500 buy in and a quarterly 1k event with similar blinds or slightly modified. and I will suggest this to them also but i would like a little feed back on the 1k events winner gets a watch engraved with the date and meadows 1k winner or something like that, i really like this give me some feed back.

i know about the labor day event, didnt seem like a lot of play for a 1000 dollar event to be honest. also, they had it sunday, the biggest day of online poker.