i don't live in vegas, so can't take advantage of that adjustment y'all (pokerstars) made. but i'm impressed and happy to see that you did that. obviously a lot of people were unhappy before, and it did seem a little inefficient to require the residents to use those funds on something they don't really need. i'm liking pokerstars more and more as i see them do the right thing like this.

Bryan, or anyone else associated with Stars:

Will there be live streaming of the last two days, like the EPT?

thanks Bryan

plz plz plz

Well done, Byran...Highly commendable.

dcarp

if this thing gets 1000 players... where is venetian going to put all of them?

afaik they don't have 112 tables

will the tournament go 8 handed at some point?

Bryan

I don't want to be a pain but what happens if I bust out the first day (God forbid) and choose to leave Las Vegas on Sunday morning. My assumption is that, based upon the email I got from Miguel, the rooms are prepaid and that I will end up paying $445 per night because I will not have the opportunity to get a refund on the additional 4 nights I did not stay. Who keeps those funds? The Venetian? I think the package would have been better if it was treated like you do the WSOP with the option for rooms or cash.

I had emailed Miguel earlier to ask if my wife and I could come in on Thursday instead of Friday and have our rooms paid through Tuesday evening instead of Wednesday and he replied back that this could not be done because these were prereserved and prepaid. I feel this is pretty inflexable when my assumption is that Pokerstars is not contributing anything to the purchase of the rooms and the the $890 from the prize package if covering everything.


By the way thank you for all you do in keeping up with these forums. Pokerstars really is the best!

an option for money instead of having 6 nights would have been great, but...

it's the first year/event, i'd be a little lenient in expecting stars to cover everything the first time through...

as the host hotel, the venetian loses out a lot if stars starts letting a bunch of people choose to take the money and stay elsewhere, with so many cheap hotel offers in vegas these days, i can see 70-80% of the people taking the money and booking somewhere else for cheap. if people want this thing to succeed this might be something all online qualifiers have to deal with...

personally, i'm fine with them making the hotel mandatory, except to those in LV...

thanks, Bryan :]

[ ] i can wait patiently for this event to begin

Just noticed PS added a $55 turbo to the $700 at 18:01.

Thanks!

are there many amateurs in this tour especialy events #2 and #4? or is this generally a tough field?

This is the first ever NAPT so it's hard to say. That said, Poker Stars is running sats all the time and has 182 people already qualified with a month til the event. Seems like the field will be relatively soft.

ok and the other way. are there many pros expected to play?

Tons of pros will be in the main event. A few pros will be in the pre lims. The events you speak of are 300 and 500$ buyin live tournaments. They will be very soft, pretty much by default. The majority of the "pros" will be in LA during the prelim events.

this is good news.

+1

when's the last day for online pre-registration. i need to know when to start begging my sugar daddies to let me play if i dont qualify

Would also like to know this. Also could rooms at venetian possibly sell out if I don't end up winning a seat through ps? Would really hate having to stay somewhere else in vegas and having to walk/taxi to venetian every day.

Venetian + Palazzo are huge, and they ordinarily take on a bunch of conferences with way more people than this poker tournament so I think your relatively safe.

http://thevenetian.com/uploadedFiles...yStructure.pdf

Cliffs: Starts 10-handed on day 1, 9-handed the rest of the way.

The Venetian has put up a page with information on pre-registration for the NAPT and other stuff at http://thevenetian.com/Pages.aspx?id=4843

Cliffs: Pre-registration by cashiers check is Feb. 6, while pre-registration by wire transfer is Feb. 14.

ugh, 10 handed. I just hope they don't have any of the smaller stud tables around anymore.

They still have the two stud tables in the salon, per usual.

Just got in yesterday, staying with aguskb, gonna be playing most of the prelims including todays $340, anyone gonna be down there today?


Also just put up a marketplace thread selling shares to the Main Event!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/16...-event-697846/

oh wow prelims are already starting? sawweeet

ill be there getty...ill also be at agus' tonight if the tourney goes as unplanned.......