Not gonna be much of a showing regardless. During natty series is choctaw $500k, $1k prelim, $2k, and the wpt main.

Curious, have you ever been to Cherokee?

The Locals make up the majority of the field. There is a reason why it's one of the biggest stops. This Casino is the Closest for Nashville, Knoxville, Charlotte and Atlanta.

I'm sure they will Market this Series accordingly, but would like to see it changed on 2+2.

I would be willing to bet the <$1k tournaments will have huge fields even without Guarantee's. I know you think WSOP and their team are huge morons, but there are reasons why this Venue was chosen. Grinders cried for years that there were too many Direct BI's and now they put a Venue where you can play soft Side Events and have about 25~ 10k BI's and you all complain more.

GL at Choctaw

I have played there and liked it. However being 3 hours away from a big airport, being in the mountains, and during the wpt choctaw will lead to a smaller field. Notice no guarantees on the prelims?

Yes, but I just don't think that is the majority of people going. It's always been piles of locals and before this upcoming series starting Next week, there has NEVER been any guarantees and it's always exceeded people's expectations

Most grinders will choose to go to Choctaw, but I would be very surprised if most people that made the Natl Champ. decided to skip the prelims in Cherokee to play the prelims in Choctaw.

Fields will be big in this series regardless what's going on elsewhere. The Atlanta, Charlotte, South Carolina & East TN markets will come. Sure there won't be as many $10k direct buy-ins but I don't see that as a big deal. People complain either way it seems. Knoxville and Asheville airports are sufficient to get into from any area.

Just looked up flights from Chicago and Las Vegas to Asheville. Chicago has $277 RT and $323 non stop. Las Vegas is $298 One Way

Asheville Airport is about 1hr outside of Cherokee

Will be decent turnout, but as I was saying by far the lowest turnout of any series they have had. You would be surprised how the effect of not being ring events will have.

December '13 they had a non-WSOP, non-ring & very low marketed $1125 main event that had $105k 1st place. I'm sure the turnout will be very good because of the poker starved area plus being summer time I see people being able to take off work easier. I know I'll be coming and likely brining my family since it is summer. They can explore the area's beauty while I play.

Ty for the title Change.

in charlotte area, there is no legal poker for atleast 3 hours cherokee, 4 hours to wv and 6 hours to bestbet... they will be plenfy of people going

Being from SC am please with the decision :-). I do travel to play the circuit, Tunica yearly and have made trips to New Orleans and Atlantic City Now that Cherokee has 2 stops a year and the natty I'll get a lot more seat time and maybe improve my game some more. I had a final table in Tunica and hoping to carry that momentum in this week.

Greenville/Spartanburg airport 2 1/2 hours.

Any reason why the 1k is technically a Postlim? Think it would get #s if you put it as a 5pm event on one of the weekends

Look into hotels early as this is a busy time up there.

Will they award rings to the winners of the side events ?

I have three questions I can't find an answer for (1) anybody seen any structure sheets? (2) are rings given for any of these events? (3) are the $10K seats for the winners of Events 3 & 4 taken out of the prize pool?

There are lots of good looking non-typical WSOPC events so I have no idea what the structures will look like and that makes a difference in which events I want to play.

Just over three weeks and counting! Heading up Wednesday night 6/22, playing the 9AM satty and the noon on Thursday 6/23 and going from there through the Senior's on Sunday 6/27.

Yep! will be there after the main. Interested to see field sizes

Have any qualifiers been contacted by harrahs yet?

Jaffe said he was on twitter.

T minus two weeks and counting. Who else is teeing it up in the 9am satty on Thursday 7/23?

Getting in on the 22nd and staying til the 6 max unless I luckboxxed a 10k seat in the mega or win the re entry the turnout should be similar to the December circuit but still large enough for great prizepools...I think some are underestimating how the central location makes this venue show some good numbers...can't wait to play and see my buddies at the same time...

I still don't see an answer to the above question!!!

[QUOTE=Sameerald;47493647]I still don't see an answer to the above

A simple Google search will show you...no rings for the sides, braclet for the winner of the Main...the Internet is hard

do you get any special hotel rates for playing the National Championship?

Free plus $500 for travel.