Is there any way to confirm this whole thing isn't a ****ing scam?? Livid at how these ppl operate. It's been two months since I wired the $3500 and they are unable to give me any kind of confirmation # for the hotel booking and any proof that I am registered for the tournament. Ivonne Montealegre-Brath, the marketing director for the Punta Cana Poker Classic, has been going back and forth with me via email for over 3 months and has been incredibly unhelpful. I would love a response from fasola and an explanation as to why this whole thing is operating completely separate from the Hardrock hotel. This whole thing is incredibly shady and I would recommend anyone who is considering going to reconsider. If you have already won your package, GL, hopefully it works out for us.

I'm sure they are un-organized but you have to remember this is the second year this tournament has ever run. Imagine the WSOP in the 2nd year of it's existence. I'm not making excuses or anything but I can promise you this isn't a sham of a tournament. In fact I'll offer anyone 50:1 odds insurance on their package if it ends up being a sham. Seems like it would be worth it to pay the $60 or whatever to insure the 3k package. I went last year and I'll be going this year. I promise the unorganization will be worth it once you get there.

Note that I don't work for anyone involved in organizing this tournament.

It's legit...all these sites wouldn't have offered the qualifiers if it wasn't...

Appreciate the peace of mind..just a lil frustrated with these ppl

I was there last year, loved it. Loved the fact that the place was pretty much empty aswell except for the pokerplayers(hurricane roaming north of punta cana) last year caused a major hit to the hotel due to 1200 rooms being unbooked during my stay wont be like that this year sadly ! Loved being pampered as one the few guests on every cuisine !

Besides that, im sure its gonna rock this year aswell

What time is the tournament playing 12-8?

biiit late but looking to sell my Punta Cana package. PM plz

bumpaments

trying to reserve a room for monday

but Ivonne is answering 1 day outta of 3...

Can someone tell me what should i do

ivonne told me to just pay her in person and she'd take care of the room for sunday night

this

I was having the same issues. I found her to be more responsive on skype at ivonne.montealegre

Looking to buy a package for this last minute, if anyone has one for sale still pm me.

look up?

no luck looking up.

I'm looking to stake someone for the $1650 Main Event, if you will be there. Preferably someone who has viewable online stats.

Pm me if interested.

BUMP, anyone still looking to sell a package for this lmk

In SDQ with gadolparah and the driver doesn't have our names. We are the only two here it seems but he's expecting four others...

The ride from SDQ was not fun...thank god were going back out of Punta Cana

Had to wait 3 hours in the lobby before getting our room...

Flying to anything but puj airport seems downs ;/

can we see the result anywhere?

Brush up on your Spanish:

Punta Cana blog

http://www.puntacanapokerclassic.com/blog/

congrats to my boy Evan Maurer who finished 2nd off a $35 satty! nice little $82k for his efforts