Schedule came out a few days ago...not loving the super high rake, but still going to play since it's in my backyard...

Damn why is Caesars so shady with the rake?

I don't know what you mean by "shady," but the rake is pretty similar to other rooms and tournament series.

During their special tournament series, for a $300 contribution to the prize pool, Caesars charges a $50 rake, which includes a mandatory $10 staff add-on. Venetian charges a $40 rake and offers an optional $10 staff add-on, although I would imagine virtually all players take it rather than start out with less chips than the other players. Of the $300 that goes to the prize pool, Caesars withholds 3% for the staff, Venetian withholds 3.5%. Venetian tournaments are two-day events and most Caesars play out in one day, so the structures are slightly different, but the rake is pretty much the same.

In terms of smaller buy-ins, the Caesars lowest buy-in is $100+$30, which again includes the mandatory $10 staff add-on. Aria runs a daily tournament at 1pm and 7pm that has been growing in popularity and has a $100+$25 buy-in. In both cases the prize pool has 3% withheld. In this case, the Caesars rake is $5 more, but the structure will usually last at least 12-14 hours, as opposed to the Aria's 9-10 hour structure.

If anything is "shady," it's that some of the rooms make no reference to the rake in their advertising, and just publish the total buy-ins.

This is such an epic fail...
No 6max event over $130?
Who the hells gonna grind out a $194+$46?
Wheres the $350 PLO/6MAX tournies?

These tournaments are such awful structures, and yet, I'll still come play some of them.

Premier, what don't you like about the Classic structures? I like the $130 structure other than the 3 hour register/re-entry

The structure kind of fits the size of the starting stacks.

Has anyone played any of these? Field sizes?

According to the poker room manager I talked to on Tuesday morning, Monday's 12 noon event brought in nearly 200 players and lasted until 10:30 pm.

Where can I get structure of $560 main... how late can you reg?

nvm found it

Played the 2/21 $130 event and it had 178 entries.
Played the 2/22 $240 event and it had 109 entries.