Anyone know if they will be running the tournament series after thanksgiving again this year? Didn't see anything on the website

Hello wrap, the Super Stacks series is a go. The information is now posted to our website. Hope to see you here!

FYI the Bad Beat is now over $490k, still at AAAKK qualifier.

I'm a fixed limit fan 15-30 to 40-80. I live in Ottawa, Canada (about 3.75 hours north of Turning Stone). I used to visit occasionally on weekends with the hope of sitting at a game, but it was spotty a few years ago. I use the Bravo Poker app to see what's running, and I'm seeing fixed limit 20-40+ more and more. They seem to have a 20/40 "scheduled" to run Wed/Fri. At first I was shocked to see three tables (2 x 20/40 and 1 x 50/100) the last couple of weeks. Now I see they had a 20/40 running on Sunday that got kicked up to a 30/60 just now. What is going on? Where are these players coming from? I'm going to start making the trip down to get in on some of this action. It's closer for me than Brantford Casion, which is just west of Hamilton, ON, and an exclusive fixed limit room.

Is it still a session fee or do they rake now?

Thank you!

curious if the bad beat has had a bad impact on the games. i noticed a difference when i played when it was at like 150k. people not really paying attention, folding almost every hand just sitting there trying to hit the bad beat

Gotta be more to it. Friday night they kicked it up to 75/150 and it was running at 7am when I last checked. So clearly there are some serious fixed limit players coming in from somewhere...

20/40 has been a regular game for a while now, at least a year or so. Tournament series this weekend, so you'll probably get some more action that normal.

You're usually guaranteed to get 20/40 on Mondays (when it is advertised) and Fridays (also advertised along with 5/10 Stud8/O8 mix with kill)

You see that more at 2/4 with the older gentlemen.

sorry i should have mentioned i was specifically talking about 1/2 no limit. that's good that it is bringing in some better games in the limit realm, i just wondered if it could possibly have a counter impact on the low stakes no limit games. obviously me working off of a one time sample size isn't good but that was just my experience/thought

Hello B,
no longer a session fee, just the rake plus 1 promo dollar for BBJ eligible hands! As far as the limit games, they have been playing very well but we always had a history of higher limit play. With more poker exposure in the area, there are more players venturing out in search of larger games. Our guests have established these games here and they are now well known around the area. Hope to see you soon!

The bbj just got hit https://twitter.com/TSPoker/status/9...520952320?s=17

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LHE should not be eligible for the same BBJ as NLHE.

Hopefully this helps tournament turnout.

Why not? It contributes the same amount of money to it.

I'm curious how many people don't play tourneys due to multiple entry. I know that is the #1 reason I do not play any of the $100k/$250k.

I stopped playing them because of the multiday re entry tournaments that have taken over for the one day guarantee tournaments. Reentry isn't necessarily a bad thing but when they drag over three days and you can still enter on the final day, it's not a very enticing tournament. Plus the guarantees seem pretty small compared to other tournament series with similar structures.

What possible justification can there be for that statement? Drop is the same.

Kind of the same for me. I'm just a casual player, and I'm only bringing 1 bullet. I feel like I'm disadvantaged against those who bring multiples.

True, I usually only buy in once or twice myself. To me I think the bigger problem is the length of these tournaments now. You basically have to commit three days and for a casual player that's tough. If it was a day one and day 2 the following day that would be better. My favorite tournament to play every year was the turbo they ran on black Friday. It would be over in one day and usually generated pretty big fields. Doesn't look like they will ever go back to that

How are you at a disadvantage? Play your one bullet and see how it goes. Only reason this is bad is the fact good players can play more than one flight but it’s still a soft live tourney that almost any online reg is +ev in.

So Frankie, can you guys put guarantees on one day events? I love how you guys get solid guarantees however I’m not a fan of multiple day events that aren’t high buy ins. I had to travel from Albany 2 times as I’m not going to pay to stay at the casino. Made day 2 and busted within an hour which isn’t a pleasant experience. I think you guys are doing a great job with solid guarantees but I would like to see some single day mtts. I’d be a bigger fan of 3 single day mtts with say a player pool of 200-300 runners. I played the 175 on Sunday which would be nice to get a guarantee pegged on it.

I’m sure if you guys put a 5k gtn on it, would easily hit 50+ runners and not 36 lol. I miss the days when turning stone would have 3-4 $230s in a row for this series that would get 100-200 runners. Finally, if I’m going to get a hotel
Room and stay somewhere, I’m going to ac to play. I would never stay at turning stone as I’m somewhat local. I still feel turning stone should try to mirror what borgata does on a smaller scale with their deep stack series. Also adding a poker blog would be cool as it seems to really be liked by many players. Just my 2 cents.

But they have to finish even better to recoup their investment.. It really doesn't effect you?

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Literally all of their 50k+ guarantee tournaments are 2 days? If you're firing so many bullets that you are playing multiple day one flights then that is on you. Otherwise just show up on Saturday and hope you make it to day 2 the very next day.

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I know the math behind how it doesn't affect a player and so on. Its more mental than anything. Had a handful of bad experiences a few years back in rebuy/reentry tournaments, so I pretty much just decided not to play them anymore.

I've been considering playing one of the $250s at some point again, just to figure out it anything has changed.

Thing is, i'm not blasting off buy in after buy in in the hopes of getting lucky and running up a big stack. I am usually entering in once and if I bust really early, I will reenter. I just personally miss the days of a one day tourney that would still grab 100-200 players without a guarantee. The 50k guaranteed tournaments I guess are nice if you are local but it's not really worth playing otherwise. With two day ones and entries on day 2, that isn't much of a guarantee and not much incentive to drive there.

Hello to all!!!, a couple of community points I'd like to address from the previous posts. We have been looking to start a blog thru our website but I have to wait until the It guys can get that up and runnin.

The other main point I'd like to address/explain are the 2 day events. While yes the 2 day events help push the guarantee the main reason behind multiple flights is scheduling. I ran a few 3 day flights recently just as an experiment to prove to myself that a 3 day is irrelevant here. No one is coming here on Thursday to qualify for a main event on Sunday. The biggest reasons why our events are 2 day flights is because A) many of our guests can't get here on one of those days so that shuts them out if the events were one day and B) scheduling. We had over 600 guests for our last $100K Guarantee over 4 flights. To do that type of event in one day would be a scheduling nightmare as there is simply not enough staff to handle an event that size in one day. To have a full room(32 tables) and another 600 guests in the ballroom (60 tables) would require well over 100 dealers round the clock for the day. You can not carry that large a staff year round to accommodate a few events a year. Without the 2 day breakdown for flights, properties would not be able to hold or sustain larger events. That's just the nature of the beast. Another issue is licensing, when I was in NJ and held an event you could hire dealers from other casinos to cover your tournament tables for a day or two. In NY, as in many states, licensing is property specific and does not allow cross hiring. All that aside, thanks to all your posts, thoughts and suggestions. Thank you for playing in our events and for patronizing TS. We enjoy having you here and hope to see you again soon! Regards...Frankie

Frankie are the results of SS series posted anywhere?

Thank you Frank, for the explanation and it totally makes sense.