Anybody have any news about a WPT stop in Colorado in October?? Saw a tweet from Savage on Poker News, but it didn't have any info/details.

http://www.pokernews.com/twitter/SavagePoker/

apparently it'll likely be a regional event so possibly a $3500 buyin? This + the HPT make colorado appealing this fall.

Yeah, I'm psyched HPT in April at Golden Gates was great. Hopefully Fall will also get 400+ runners for ME

http://www.hptpoker.com/eventinfo.php?yid=2011&eid=15

I'm wondering if WPT will be at Ameristar.

It wouldn't surprise me ... but the max for the buyin would need to be 10k or lower, or they'd need to run it like the HPT used to do prior to the July 1st, 2009 law change in Colorado, when the max bet was $5 a bet, and the max buy in was $500 for a tourney.

With the law change a few years back, they increased the max per bet to $100 and at the same time, made the max for a tourney buy in, to $10k.

What the HPT used to do prior to the law change, was they'd run qualifiers for $360, and you HAD to win the qualifier in order to make it into the ME. The Seats however, once won, were fully transferable, and while the Casino couldn't say sell a seat for more then the $500 limit set by law back then, the individual players who had won their seats via the qualifiers could ... which made for a hot market for those who won multiple seats. I remember the first time that the HPT came to Blackhawk and ran it this way. A seat that normally would go for $1600 into a HPT event elsewhere if a person bought in directly, in some cases went for 2500 or even 3k or more.

I'd heard of rumors about the WPT coming to Colorado, but it was more them going to Cripple Creek, instead of Blackhawk, CO.

Also, when I was living in Denver, there were always rumors that the WPT was coming, but the only Casino who has a room (or area like a convention center) that is truly big enough to handle them in Blackhawk, is indeed the Ameristar.

However, most of the staff in the Ameristar Poker room would always discount the rumor saying that while they'd love to have them there, they could never get management to get on board with it.

If true however, it figures this would happen after I moved away from Denver ... to Fort Wayne, Indiana ... where you have to drive a bunch to play any real big time poker tourneys ...

WPT Regional Event will be at The Isle Casino Hotel as the final 3-day event of the WPT Colorado Deep Stacks series October 5-16, 2011. Event details will be available on The Isle's website and in the poker room by mid-August.

Best,
Matt

Wow, I didn't even know that in the past 12 months, that the Isle of Capri (itself) added a poker room to it's property.

I do know that at least up until I moved away last year, that their Sister property, the old Colorado Station, which is now called the Lady Luck Casino had a great poker room.

Any locals that live in the Denver area, can anyway say when the Isle of Capri added a poker room, and what you think of the room?

Check out this thread for the brick and mortar discussion:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...scene-1010561/

Again huge thanks to coloradoace for
takin my n fellow 2+2ers advice on
bringin the wpt to coloradoace is the isle
of capris poker room manager. Btw way guys
they have the.best.rake in town n start bookin
ur hotel early the isle will fill up fast and I expect
Entry numbers will be huge. Any non colorado
resident that has any questions about the local
scene feel free to pm me

pretty sure the lady luck has shut down their poker room or will soon. Isle has been open for a few months, its a really nice room set apart from normal casino noise, good rake structure.

they will only have 31 tables for the WPT, so its going to be interesting to see what the draw is like.

[QUOTE=benza13;27747380]pretty sure the lady luck has shut down their poker room or will soon. Isle has been open for a few months, its a really nice room set apart from normal casino noise, good rake structure.

they will only have 31 tables for the WPT, so its going to be interesting to see what the draw is like.[/QUOTED]

I'd assume they will have different flights like the hpt has,

I also wonder why they just dont move them slot machines down stairs out for a lil bit or use lady luck poker room to help out

[QUOTE=lilman2636;27748287] That's what we're doing. There will be 20 tables there.

Best,
Matt

[QUOTE=ColoradoAce;27751288] Thanks Matt, when can we expect schedule & buy-ins??

Also, when will satellites begin?

Looking forward to this addition to the Black Hawk offerings.

[QUOTE=DuckU;27754039] Schedule should be out mid-August. Satellites will begin September 1st. There will be two types of single-table satellites offered daily in September and multi-table satellites on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays through October 4th. Single table satellites will have buy-ins of $40 or $220 and the multi-table satellites will have buy-ins of $45 and $175.

Best,
Matt

The rake at the Isle recently was INCREASED to $5 just like everyone else in Black Hawk. Personally I see no reason to go there unless you're a "tournament only" player.

Yea I didnt realize it was a promo thing

ATTN Blackhawk Poker-Room Managers:

a)Self-respecting players prefer cash games without added rake from bad-beat jackpots.
b)Legitimate tournaments require that players pay blinds AND antes.

You are right on both A & B!

I have been saying to Joey and Staff at the Gates for a long time that Antes need to be part of their tournament structures. Especially when they do deep stack structures with longer levels.

Is the main going to be re-entry?

No re-entry on Day 1B in the main event. Also, the remaining players from each of Day 1A and Day 1B will start Day 2 with the chip stack that they finished their first day with (no leveling). The contract with WPT is finalized, so we will be moving forward with the planning of the event and getting the tournament schedule published ASAP. The schedule is done, we are just doing the work to get it out there.

Best,
Matt

This seems really awful. So if you play day 1A and don't bust there is zero reason to enter day 1B, unless you are planning on chip dumping? Surely this can be done better. At the very least every single entry into day 1B should be given this piece of information at the cashier (maybe in the form of a flier?), otherwise when they find out at the table hours later from a dealer/player you will get people selling their stacks to others at the table (chip dumping). This is a horrible rule if its true.

If you play Day 1A and don't bust, then you are still in for Day 2. Chip stacks from Day 1A and Day 1B carry over to Day 2. It's all one tournament, just split into three days.

Not sure why anyone would be chip dumping on Day 1B. If they gave away all of their chips and were out of the tournament, what benefit would that be?

Players that bust out on Day 1A will be allowed to enter Day 1B, but obviously Day 1B is it. It will be on the fliers that this is the case. I could see a guy dumping his last $650 in chips and going all in at the end of Day 1A because he intended to re-enter on Day 1B and try to build a better stack, but I don't see anyone dumping chips at the end of Day 1B.

Satellite tournament winners will be given the option of their ticket being for Day 1A or 1B.

Best,
Matt

Yes, I see how this reads. I meant for those who are still in after 1A, there would be no re-entry on 1B. If you're knocked out on 1A, you can play on 1B. Sorry for the confusion.

Best,
Matt

Matt - I hope you and your poker room management staff are working hard to
improve the quality of your dealers. I know you are aware the WPT is a very big deal for Blackhawk poker as is the HPT at the Gate. I have played in your room
twice and both times found the quality of the dealers to be at the very bottom of all Blackhawk poker rooms. It is good you are using the Luck poker room and dealers as they are very competent.

Not sure when the last time you played with us was, but our "new" dealers have gotten quite a lot better and our experienced dealers continue to do well. We may borrow a few LL dealers for the WPT events, but we are not currently using any of them in the room. We will have a hiring event on Sept 14th for dealers interested in dealing WPT Oct 5-16. We are also now hiring extra-board dealers to help out with September satellites and cash games too.

Best,
Matt

Matt, when will the schedule be released?

Also, can you post it here if you have prelim schedule. Any chance there will be PLO event(s)??