Okay, the lazy b*stards posted it over in their news section over here (instead of creating a new tab on the main page for the 2007/2008 season announcing it there):

http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/ne...sp?newsID=1717

WSOP Circuit Event August 29, 2007 through September 13, 2007


AUGUST 3,2007 - 6:48:37 PM PST
by: WSOP Staff


Date Time Event Buy-In
Wednesday August 29 3 pm Mega Satellite $300+$30
Wednesday August 29 5pm Second Chance Tournament $175+$25
Wednesday August 29 7pm Mega Satellite $500+$50
Thursday August 30 12 noon Texas Hold’em No limit $300+$30
Friday August 31 12 noon Texas Hold’em No limit $500+$50
Saturday September 1 12 noon Texas Hold’em No limit $500+$50
Sunday September 2 12 noon Texas Hold’em Limit $300+$30
Sunday September 2 4pm Pot Limit Omaha $500+$50
Monday September 3 12 noon Texas Hold’em Limit $500+$50
Tuesday September 4 12 noon Texas Hold’em No limit $300+$30
Wednesday September 5 12 noon Texas Hold’em No limit $500+$50
Thursday September 6 12 noon Texas Hold’em No Limit $500+$50
Thursday September 6 4pm HORSE $1000+$60
Friday September 7 12 noon Texas Hold’em No Limit $500+$50
Saturday September 8 12 noon Texas Hold’em No limit $1000+$60
Sunday September 9 12 noon Ladies Event No Limit Hold’em $200+$30
Monday September 10 12 noon Mega Satellite $500+$50
Monday September 10 3pm Mega Satellite $300+$30
Monday September 10 6pm Mega Satellite $500+$50
Tuesday September 11 12 noon Main Event No Limit Hold’em $5000+$150
Wednesday September 12 12 noon Main Event Day Two
Thursday September 13 12 noon Final Table

Second Chance Tournaments are daily at 5pm beginning Wednesday August 29, 2007 through Thursday September 13, 2007

Mega Satellites daily $300+$30 at 3pm and $500+50 at 7pm daily beginning Wednesday August 29, 2007 through Monday September 10, 2007.

Ladies Event is a one day event

Registration hours of operation: 9am-8pm daily begins Wednesday August 29, 2007 through Thursday September 13, 2007.

For Room Reservations call: 1 800 39 GRAND GROUP CODE # CO9WORL

I just called the reservations number, and they tell me they can't give that rate, you have to call the casino and ask for the poker room.

Casino's phone number direct is: 800-946-4946, ask for the poker room.

I just booked my room and was told that rooms are going fast already.

Room rates during labor day weekend will be Sunday - Thur $65, and on the weekend, it will range from $105- $115 a night.

Only the poker room can book you at the special rates, and be sure to guard your confirmation number with your life I was told, because they are expecting on selling out at that special rate very quickly.

CincyLady,

Permit me one corrective comment.

The group code, second digit is a zero, not an oh.

And, reservations have to be made through Joe Mendoza in the poker room, as reservation agents are not able to access group code at this time.

Hope that helps.

I just copied and pasted it from the Press Release from the WSOP website (for the work based people since this website is accessable to most ppl from work, where as the WSOP webstite gets blocked). It's good information to have however, in case Joe isn't around when you call in.

FYI, in my 2nd post in the thread, I mentioned how I had to call the poker room direct.

That's who booked it for me too, and I warned him he was about to get slammed since this (information) was just released).

Another word of warning if you are going to be arriving after 6pm, one thing Joe didn't ask me is what time I'll be there, and he used the default of a 6pm hold.

Best now that you have your confirmation number, if you're arriving after 6pm, to call the reservation number after you book your room with Joe, and make sure they notate your late arrival status, and what time you'll be there.

Otherwise you might show up to find your reservation canceled and no other rooms open.

One other option is to make sure you tell Joe or whomever in the poker room books it for you, what time you'll be in there, so he can use the drop down box to indicate that and put it in the notes when he books it in their systems.

Interesting, about the group code, perhaps that was why the agents can't access it (because it was misprinted in the press release)?

Corrected code: CO9WORL (second one is a zero - think like this Co9WORL)

Next person to book a room, might try to call the reservation number, try with that corrected group code, and report back if the agents were able to book it that way or not.

I just called and booked a room from 8/29 thru 9/8 (sort of) via the central harrah's confirmation center out of Texas. I was quoted a room rate for Single King or Double Queen of
Mon - Thur $49
Fri $85
Sat - Sun $112

I also had them send me an email confirmation - BUT.....
they messed up and had me checking out on Saturday so they only booked me for 10 nights and NOT the Sat 9/8 and the total from the confirmation which should have been $688 + 10% tax or roughly $757 was show as $910 on the email confirmation.

I called again and while this person was ALSO very courteous and friendly could NOT explain the confirmed charge but DID confirm the nightly rates I posted.

I was given the 1-800-946-4946 (Grand Tunica) and the name of Karen Kaegin (poker room) to contact to try and straighten it out.

Next problem is that the SATURDAY 9/8 is NOT available at least through the Central Harrah's reservations so there does seem to already be some initial problems.

Best of luck to all and I hope this info helps.

Geez: Classic Harrah's Karen K was the OLD poker room Mgr and has been gone for over a month.

Try asking for Robert Mcgevern (?) the current Mgr. - He does not work Monday but the staff was very helpful without him.

I would suggest you call the Grand Casino (at the number I posted earlier for them) and ask for Joe Mendoza in the Poker room as he was the fellow who helped me out.

Also, one reason why your pricing might be higher, is if you are staying Labor day weekend.

I was told by Joe that the weekend rate applied for all 3 days for that weekend (Friday, Sat, Sun), since it was a holiday weekend.

TY - I contacted them earlier today spoke with Wendy she confirmed all the pricing and faxed me the actual daily rates. The only Sat/Sun upcharge is Labor day weekend at the $112.74. 8/31 Friday is definitely $85.46 which is the normal weekend rate and the rate charged for Fri/Sat 9/7 and 9/8 which she was able to add.

The poker room is also providing food comps in addition to the room rates shown. Food comps Buffet etc have always been quite liberal in Tunica (whether the Horseshoe, Goldstrike or Grand) and they this is just an extention of that basic policy.

Poker room staff is a bit haggard and semi frustrated at the moment because of the poor communications within Harrah's (bad code, wrong information provided, no details as to structure, ETC) but as has always been my experience are basically good "southern" folks and if you are patient and decent with them they will do everything they can for you.

Been to Tunica often and for multiweeks at a time for the early WPO days and regardless of who is running the various poker rooms they do their best to treat you well.

To that I can attest firmly to myself. When I was living in Cincinnati, I found on ever trip I took down to Tunica, that I was treated first rate by all the casino poker rooms that I visited.

I forgot about the food comps being included in the rate as well (a free buffet at the very least, each day), and I seem to remember now, all you had to do is walk up to the desk of any poker room there, and they'd write you up a comp for at least the buffett there.

Too bad about how Harrahs is giving the staff such short notice there.

Bad for them, but good for us, because not many knew about the special rates until now, so the rate is still open for the time being for the Labor day weekend.

I got a $49 room for 8\29 and 8\30, but they quoted me a $200+ room rate for the Friday and Saturday on Labor Day weekend. So going off site for those days. I booked my room about 3 weeks ago.

Do anyone know if they award a ring for the $300 event? I want one of those. lol

Are they still going to give 1099Gs for barley getting in the money? Really iratated me last year when I cashed $700 on a $330 buy in as was taxed on $700.

Also, they do not seem to be advertising it near as much as last year. Hope the turn out is as good.

They don't withhold money for taxes, do they? Don't they just give you a form stating how much you won? No matter what the form says, you are only legally responsible for your actual winnings (in this case $370). You might want to save your entry receipt as evidence of the buy-in amount if the 1099 doesn't say so.

Yes, they withheld some for MS income tax (which I could have gotten back if I tried since I don't live in MS) which was only about $20 or so, but then of course I lost my tournement recipt so winding up paying taxes on the whole whopping $721. Good thing I s&^k a poker and didn't make any other taxable cashes.

I left MS in 2005 so they mighit have changed it, but the MS tax is nonrefundable. It used to be 5% and you could get it back and they changed it to a 3% "fee" (non-refundable).

Humm, I suspect you are correct since it was 3%.....good thing I didn't waste my time trying to get it back. I had the impression I could, maybe he wanted me to think that since he could tell I was P0'd about the "fee", the 1099G, and the bad beat I had just taken .

Wow, they (Tunica casinos)tax you for state taxes? They used to do that in Indiana, until some players filed a lawsuit against the casinos. Now they don't take any taxes out.

The 3% you are talking about is Mississippi State Tax. The way you do it is you can write it off against your home states income tax when you compute your refund in your home state. My home state was Alabama, which had a section on the back of the form 10-40 to apply tax paid to other states toward what you owed Alabama. Other states may differ on how they handle it. Of course it isn't really a refund of the money, just an offset. Every little bit helps though.

Makes sense, maybe I can use that info next time , I just know that I had to pay that last year at the WSOP $330 game with a $720 win at the Grand in 2006. A few months after that at the Gold Strike a $800 win on a $100 entry fee and I paid nothing. Hope someone will explain.

The difference is the interpretation of tax code. MGM/Mirage legal has a different interpretation of tax code than Harrah's corporate legal.

I think what you are saying is that Harrah's interpets it as any $600 or more win regardless of amount wagered and MGM/Mirage interpets it as ($600 * bet amount) as the threshold for reporting/collecting taxes?

If so, no wonder everyone on this list seems down on Harrah's managment. That would seem to put the WSOP at a disadvantage to WPT when the events are held in the same area at the same time. (like in January in Tunica?)

No, The interpretation by MGM is that winnings are not taxed unless the player wins $5,000 over the initial buy-in. At that point, the 3% MS tax comes into effect. the 300-1 rule applies as well...

Actually the 3% applies across the board to everything. I hit a $50,000 bad beat jackpot and got hit with the 3%. Not sure the 3% is dependant in any way to the size of a tourney buyin. You win money, you get taxed. My win was at the Grand

The 3% does not apply to poker prize pool monies, unless the net winnings are $5,000.

Does Johnny's use of this term amuse anyone else?

Actually, I've been guilty of using that myself. Must be a generational thing. I wonder if Johnny is in his late 40's like I am?

FYI, Link to the special rate in Tunica for the upcoming WSOP event there:

https://www.harrahs.com/MakeReservation.do?propCode=GTU&packageCode=WS OP7