Hard Rock fires first salvo: A $2,200 tourney

> Posted by Nick Sortal on June 28, 2010 03:27 PM

Maybe they're counting on players coming after the World Series of Poker ends: The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino announced its Summer Open Poker Tournament July 25 – Aug. 3.

The $2,200 event has Day 1A on July 31, Day 1B on Aug. 1, Day 2 on Aug. 2 and the final day Aug. 3. The Hard Rock guarantees $250,000 in prize money.

It's one of seven events in the series, which lasts about two weeks.

Event #1 – No Limit Hold 'em
(Day 1A) Sunday, July 25 at 11 a.m. with a $75,000 guaranteed prize pool; $560 buy-in
(Day 1B) Monday, July 26 at 11 a.m. with a $75,000 guaranteed prize pool; $560 buy-in
(Final Day) Tuesday, July 27 at 11 a.m. with a $75,000 guaranteed prize pool; $560 buy-in


Event #2 – Texas Hold 'em (Deep Stack Turbo)
Tuesday, July 27 at 11 a.m. with a $230 buy-in

Event #3 - No Limit Hold 'em
Wednesday, July 28 at 11 a.m. with a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool; $350 buy-in

Event #4 – Omaha Hi Lo
Thursday, July 29 at 11 a.m. with a $350 buy-in

Event #5 - No Limit Hold 'em (2 Re-Entry)
Friday, July 30 at 11 a.m. with a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool; $200 buy-in

Event #6 - No Limit Hold 'em
(Day 1A) Saturday, July 31 at 11 a.m. with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool; $2,200 buy-in
(Day 1B) Sunday, August 1 at 11 a.m. with a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool; $2,200 buy-in
(Day 2) Monday, August 2 at 11 a.m.; Day 2 Play for the Summer Open Championship Event
(Final Day) Tuesday, August 3 at 11 a.m.; Day 3 Play for the Summer Open Championship Event

Event #7 - No Limit Hold 'em
Monday, August 2 at 11 a.m. with a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool; $230 buy-in


Event #8 - No Limit Hold 'em (6 Handed)
Tuesday, August 3 at 11 a.m. with a $440 buy-in


New NL games start July 1st. No more $100 cap.
http://www.seminolehardrockhollywood...ker_limits.php

any info on the structure ?

Nope, just announced today.

absurd was going to head down sometime in july for just the cash ga,mes being 20 and now this snap in

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bump4structure?

Structures and rules on the website now.

$560 Deep Stack structure

$230 Deep Stack Turbo structure

$350 NL Structure

$350 Omaha 8 structure

$200 NL, 30k guarantee structure

$2200 NL structure

$230 NL holdem structure

$440 NL 6-max structure

Will they be running satellites to any of the events?*** Nevermind, sorry they have satellites listed on the website

Bump for those interested.

Any Idea about the cash games that are likely to surround these tournaments?

w/ thx to parisron:

Link to FL cash games, buyins, etc.

Event#1 $560 buy in $75K guarantee kicked off today with 139 entries for Day 1A. Tomorrow (Monday 11am) is Day 1B. Expecting over 100 runners tomorrow.

Event#1 $560 Buy in had 150 entries for Day 1B.
Total entries for Event#1 was 289. $144,500 Prize Pool.

Event#2 on Tuesday @ 11am $230 Deep Stack Turbo
25,000 chips 15 min Levels

how are the rooms at hard rock? any kind of poker rate for playing the 2k?

The rooms are very nice. Expensive tho. There is a nice Best Western like 3 miles away for around $60 right next to 95.

I can't believe no one has said how horrible this structure is for any tournament, but especially for a buy in this big.

Can anyone clarify if the prize pool is guaranteed? I remember Hard Rock Tampa ran a similar thing a year or so ago that was misleading about the guaranteedness.

Probably going to play the 2k, ty for the Best Western tip, $300 a night is a tad absurd, anyone know if they give poker rates?

They dont give poker rates.....during the week you should get a lot better than $300, but weekends are real pricey.

The new structure is super dumb (they historically have had good structures). You start with way too many chips, then they skip a bunch of levels and don't start antes until way too late.

Still the $2200 should get a good turnout and will be worth playing.

Yeah their daily/nightly structures were MUCH better than this.

I won't be there, I'm not playing a $2200 crapshoot.

I just ran the patience factor formula on it.
The patience factor is 70 for the main event. That is hardly a crapshoot.
PF of 10 or higher is the min. (the higher the better) for a decent tourney,and this is 70.
You could not play a hand and it would take 8.5 hours to blind off.

I final tabled the 70k guar and it end up being around a 150k prize pool due to re-entry and multi day1, so yes the prize pools are guaranteed. Not in love with the structure, especially when u go deep its horrible as they skip levels. U can get great rates on priceline.com of nice hotels near the HR if u dont have brand preference. If you dont mind a lil commute(20 mins), the Marriott off Andrews/Cyress creek in Ft. Laud is like $99 and another player got it for $49 on priceline. glgl

The structure of the ME indeed looks pretty bad, missing quite a few levels

yeah, I was thinking after I posted it that crapshoot was probably a little strong, but I'd like to see the play LATER in the tournament. There's more to a good structure than a HUGE starting chip stack. I'd rather have a more GRADUAL structure and a smaller starting stack.

Event#5 $200 buy in w/re entry had 196 entries. $33K prize pool.

Event#6 $2,200 buy in starts tomorrow with Day 1A (1 hour levels and 30K in chips and a $250K guarantee)

Structure has been adjusted to mirror the monthly Big Slick tournament. Day 1 will last 8 levels.

Expecting 200 runners for this event