Sorry for the delay, it's not posted anywhere online, but they have flyers for it at the room. The blind structures are as follows:

30 minutes blinds for all levels.

Level Blinds Ante
1 25-50 -
2 50-100 -
3 75-150 -
4 100-200 25
BREAK 10 minutes
5 200-400 50
6 300-600 75
7 400-800 100
8 500-1000 100
BREAK 10 minutes/color up 25 unit chips
9 600-1200 100
10 800-1600 200
11 1000-2000 300
12 1500-3000 400
BREAK 10 minutes/color up 100 unit chips
13 2000-4000 500
14 3000-6000 500
15 4000-8000 1000
16 5000-10,000 1000
BREAK 10 minutes/color up 500 unit chips

More blinds structures are available if needed.

If your getting 15k in chips with that structure, patience factor is 18.28 which is excellent for a $120 tourney. only thing is how much of the $120 is going to the prize pool? if $20 for dealers and $20 for house then thats 33.33% take out.

Just a heads up, I called the room and spoke to a manager and they said that to play a mixed game we just have to walk in there and request one as a group to get a table going. Sounded weird but thats what they said. We can play a H.O.S.E cause we cant play razz for some reason. If anyone is interested we should get this going somehow, it would be nice to break the live NL holdem monotony

I was told that out of the original $100, they are taking $5 out for rake and $5 out for the badbeat jackpot-it's badbeat eligible.

There is main and a mini jackpot-mini is 10% of the main. Main qualifier is quads or better beaten(must have pocket pair for 4-of-a-kind). Mini qualifier is Aces full of Jacks or better beaten(must have the Ace in your hand).

They have 2 licenses at Mardi' Gras', why I don't know but for some reason they need 2 and that is what allowed them to run 24/7 They run 1 12 and the other 12

You are so right in the dealers and floor, I always ask if they are players and so many always say they never played before, that is why they make so many easy mistakes reading pots and on betting limits, so many can not even tell you what the min. raise is in a NL game so they just double the last bet, and then argue that they are right.

You are going to see a tidle wave of new dealers and fllor when the state goes from 12 hr a day to 18 or 24. It is going to be a swarm of green dealers for a while but then it will settle down again. You also are going to see a lot of dealers from CA, NV,NJ, CT moving to Florida when they remove the caps and allow extended hour. It is a no income tax state, cost of living is much cheaper then CA, NJ, CT and about the same as NV. Plus the sun and beaches are by far the best in the country.

Correct. It is by state law. I want to say they bought Biscayne Park's old license when they went defunct.

I'd love to know where you got this info from.

why would someone go here now when hard rock has 10x the action.

Miami/Ft Lauderdale: Cheaper than CA but more expensive than Vegas, New London, CT, or Atlantic City. Cliffs: He is wrong

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Cause the Seminoles run their poker rooms like crap....

Curious to see how studz is gonna hold up with the so.fla racing action getting ready to shift scenes to gulfstream and Hialeah if Hialeah makes this return from the dead and regains it's old glamour it's can be trouble for a lot of the rooms....

I've never been there but I heard hialeah is the most breath taking gaming venue in history...I no it's run down now but can I get verification on how nice that place was in it's day...palm trees club house and of course the famous flamingos

Hialeah is amazing. Can't wait till they start running thoroughbreds again. I used to go there in the early 80's as a kid with my grandmother and aunt, it's the reason I'm such a racing fan now.

As for the poker/gaming they will have... I'm not expecting it to be great to be honest.

So I am playing the 1/2 game at Studz tonight as the 2/5 broke pretty early to find out that on top of the 10k guarantees they are running, they are doing a raffle type promo as well.

If you have any type of Full House Starting on the 14th, not sure what time, you get an entry into the raffle. If there is a FH on board, everyone is entered into the raffle at the table. They are calling it 9 Days of Fun.

The Raffles begin on the 16th at 11am-7pm, you have to be there. $100 every hour.
The 17th they start raffles again 12pm-8pm and they are running the promo till the 22nd, with the raffle being pushed back and hour each day. So the 18th 1-9 and so on.
They should have fliers around.

Hopefully this actually gets people in the room, cause all I hear people talk about at other rooms is studz is cool, but its dead. I am sick of the rock!

Just got a call from a friend of mine, 280 for the $100 tourney and over 7k to first.

Ya.. I was there today.. they have a 29 table room .. and they had 280 people to start and got 10 alternates in by the first hour for 290 total.. the line to register crossed the entire room, and they probably turned away at least 100 people. it was packed there today.

When I left around 6pm they had 10 cash games running and about 90 people left in the tournement. Other than it being difficult to get a drink, (it seemed they weren't expecting as big a turn out..) the tournment got off about 20 minutes late but there didn't seem to be any complaints from the players. Everyone loved the room. They even paid out a Royal Flush in the tournment for $250.

Can't say I did well myself.. but I did get a 10 minute free massage for hitting quads ... I'll be there tomorrow to try it again..

Parking was terrible!
Only one computer to check people into the tournament was stupid!
Having the line running directly through the middle of the playing section was not well thought out!

I never had a problem getting a drink and the food was decent.

The tournament structure was great and it was very well run and organized. Very impressed for a first effort. 33% taken out of the pool is pretty ******ed tho.d It seems that there is no market for cash games at this location. Hopefully they will focus on tournaments like this.

yes.. the parking was bad.. but with all the construction going on for the new slots casino, I would have to think the parking problems are temporary. That line was crazy, you would have thought they would have run it outside the room, but I don't think they were really expecting to have about 400 poeple there for a tournment.

also about the "33%" .. they said they were only raking $5 out of the $100 for the house. They were taking $5 for the bad beat jackpot, and $90 of of the $100 buy-in went towards the jackpot. Then there was the $20 dealer add-on.. but that didn't goto the house. $30 out of $120 is 25% and that isn't to bad...

I really don't think you can find a better tournment around this area for $120. 15k in units and 30 minutes levels was really nice. It will be interesting to see if they make any adjustments for tomorrows, and next Saturdays 10k guarnteed tournys ..

I got mixed answers on how much was going to the house. No one seemed to really know. This is 1 thing I find terribly annoying in Florida. I very rarely see sheets with details. I saw Samurai ask for a sheet with blind structures at least 5 times without getting something to see. I was under the impression that it was 80/100 and then 20 for the add on. While this $20 goes to the dealers I still consider it "the house".

I definitely agree that this is the best tournament around.

I had a great time, great poker room and by far the best tournament I've played in for $120, too bad I got set over set and got out in the 10th level. Anyone here make the money or know how long did the tourney last for? I heard it was going to be at least 10 hrs.

Tourney ended about 1:30 am, chopped 3 ways for about $5k a piece. About 7 to 10 cash games ran through the evening. Sundays had 154 players start.

I heard they were so unprepared for this tournament, that they didn't have enough chips, and actually had different types of chips for the same denomination. Is this true?

Yes and no to this question. The chips were a little different in color, but nothing were it was confusing. The original 100 unit chips in play were black with a little bit of green, while the ones brought in after they had reached 220 players were black with a little bit of red. The original 25 unit chips were green with a little white, while the later ones were green with a little bit of blue. No one expected 290 players so they had to do it on the fly. Still a great experience and an amazing room!

so sounds like the saturday tourney will be worth going to ?

if its anything like last sat yea...great structure big field big money.