I'm playing the 4:00 satellite on Sat the 19th. Anyone else playing any of the satellites?

2-winner $75-100 satellites is how I get into the $350-450 HPT qualifiers. I'll be there next week.

Any cheap but decent motels out there?

The thought of staying in a cheap motel in Gary makes my skin crawl.

I will be playing in Saturday's 9am satellite.

If I remember correctly from TV, doesn't the Casino itself have a hotel?

Yep ... check checked here:

http://www.heartlandpokertour.com/venue.php?vid=139

and they have the Majestic Star listed, along with other hotels in the area.

Link to the Casino:

http://www.majesticstarcasino.com/majestic_star/

BTW, I wonder if Majestic star is like Ceasars Indiana ... were you can call ahead in and book your tourney seat using a credit card.

I looked at the Hpt website and was wondering if anyone knew of cheaper ones.

I don't like to waste money on rooms. I'll do a search myself. Thanks for nothing ms hpt

I've decided to play in tomorrow's satellite (Friday) -- anyone going?

poker rate was around $50 a night. you can call the poker room to find out. resorts has much nicer rooms going for double.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if you can sell multiple seats into the satellites and also the main event. I may be looking to drive up to the one in MI in beginning of May. I'm a few hours away and don't have much to do so was thinking about just grinding out the qualifiers and would sell extra seats?!? If I in fact could run good for once.

Yes you can. Some guys play 2 winner sng's all week just for that reason. You can also save up 5 of those tickets and go directly to the main event.

Will be there a bunch next week.

MJ is a dump of a casino, and their hotel is even worse. But they gave me a 2 night free stay, and $75 slot cash, so how can I refuse??

I'm playing the 4/19 4:00 satellite, final 16 make it, there are 23/24 players left. I'm the 2nd lowest stack at the table, about 17,000 in chips. Blinds $1,000/2000 w/$200 ante. All of which is to say, I can't fold my way through the last 7/8 players. Loose guy in middle position w/ lots of chips reraises UTG+1's standard raise. I have KK in SB and call all-in. Initial raiser folds. Chump turns over A9 clubs. Flop comes...you guessed it, all clubs. I know, I know, wah wah, bad beat, etc. But December in HPT sat. I got sucked out on the river two from the bubble. I just thought I'd mention I hate NL Holdem tourneys. Just hate them.

i ended up playing in today's satellite at 1pm -- top 16 got to advance. when we were down to 20, i was in 20th.....somehow managed to squeak in. Anyone else playing in the main event next weekend?

Don't think I can stick around for the weekend, but might try some cash games on Weds-Fri of this week while passing through. I was just about to dig though the old MJ threads and see what the consensus is for cash games when HPT is there.....

How long are the levels for the HPT events?

40 mins

Just won my seat a few hours ago. They ran a satellite that started at Midnight. only 22 people started, top 4 got seats. Nice structure, very weak field.

HPT has this weird situation with overflow from the satellites. Like in this case, there is one seat for every five entrants. We had two extra people, and 5th place got nothing. Instead that money gets put into the prize pool for the main event. If however we had 23 people instead of 22, then they would've given away 5 seats because they "round up." I have no idea how this works with balancing the final prize pool, but whatever. It was strange.

I'm playing the Saturday AM flight. Who else is in this flight?

I am also playing in the Saturday AM flight. Looking forward to it. The structure for the main event is even better.

I'm Traveling there tomorrow am with a buddy to play the 10:00 am the 5:00 pm and the Friday 10:00 AM sats. Hopefully this works out but I guess you never know.

Can you choose your flight for the main or is it random?

I was kind of shocked to see cardrunners partner with hpt. They have an excellent display up for their site.

We were allowed to choose our flight, but I won my seat early. I suspect that in the later sats you may not get a choice.

Hello guys, I use to post here a long time ago. I was browsing through these looking for a specific post about a question and saw this thread. I will be posting the Main Event day one results shortly with chip counts as flight C ends. Sorry I did not see this tread earlier to answer questions any of you might have had. Good luck to any of you who made day two.

If any of you played day one you saw me.....

- Jeremy
Majestic Star Casino
Poker Room Pit Manager

What was the size of the turnout for Saturday? I was unuable to play this time but at the previous tournament I noticed that the numbers were down from the prior event.

Does anyone think that running HPT events three times a year at the MS has an effect on the volume of players that attend?

We ended up with 311 players. First place is $180,000 paying top 31 players.

Chip counts after day one are as follows with 73 players:

Player Name Chip Count
Nathan Richmond $186,100
Joel Casper $152,100
Michael Hudson $141,900
Anastas Mukoski $136,200
Jack Torcolese $131,900
Edmond Mekertichian $121,500
Nicholas Woolworth $117,600
Richard Idrovo $112,800
Andy Seth $112,600
Kurt Jewell $111,500
Nate Buttrey $105,800
Scott Rokita $100,600
George Vazanellis $91,900
David Baldwin $91,600
Jim Decastris $89,700
Joe Russo $88,300
Geremi Wicinski $86,200
Juan Medina $85,500
Peter Wallin $81,200
Christopher Grazadziel $78,000
Greg Baird $76,600
Mike Hirschensohn $74,300
Mary Jo Belcore-Zogman $74,300
Puplik Duro $73,500
Adalbert Wojewnik $73,300
Jason McDermott $72,900
Jason Trezak $72,100
Michael Farah $71,400
Nick Zoretic $66,800
Njazi Nysenaj $66,300
James Mutcher $65,700
Terry Tillotson $65,300
Frank Berrettoni $64,200
Richard Burke $63,600
Frank Rusnak $62,300
Alexander Mandayo $59,800
John Gravagna $57,800
Cary Bone $56,000
Samer Salem $54,700
Joshua Shmeri $51,400
Frederick Pavlich $51,200
Mark Owens $51,100
Michael Mallardi $51,000
Thomas Gliva $50,700
Thao Tran $49,200
Thanh Huynh $48,400
Ashor Ochana $44,300
Paul Fisher $43,800
Brian McKain $43,500
Jeff Boehm $43,300
Vu Ta $42,500
Travis Remmert $42,200
Nicholas Brehmer $42,200
Steve Poblocki $40,900
Robert Wiacek $37,400
Will Steinberg $36,900
Jurate Bilar $36,000
Victor Skrobacz $34,400
Robert Lipkin $32,600
Jeff Doane $30,000
Rodger Johnson $29,700
Nino Papava $28,000
Kevin Wilson $27,900
Brian Midtling $27,500
Frank Swierczynski $27,300
David Karlin $27,200
Steven Sneed $26,900
Blaise D'Sylva $25,200
Kevin Buck $23,300
Harvey Bundy $22,500
Christopher Clark $20,400
Chris Gentile $19,100
Steve Ziemba $15,900

jeremy, update plz.

Below is the updated prize winners for the Majestic Star Casino April 2008 Heartland Poker Tour.


1. JAMES MUTCHLER BRIGHTON CO $180,030.00
2. JUDY BILAR HOMER GLEN IL $90,015.00
3. NICHOLAS WOOLWORTH PLAINFIELD IL $54,009.00
4. JEFFREY BOEHM BLOOMINGTON IL $42,007.00
5. SCOTT ROKITA DIAMOND IL $36,006.00
6. FRANCIS RUSNAK CHICAGO IL $30,005.00
7. DAVID BALDWIN CRYSTAL LAKE IL $21,004.00
8. FREDERICK PAVLICH ANTIOCH IL $18,003.00
9. KURT JEWELL FRANKFORT KY $13,502.00
10. ANASTAS MUKOSKI CROWN POINT IN $11,402.00
11. MICHAEL HIRSCHENSOHN SANTA MONICA CA $9,902.00
12. NICHOLAS ZORETIC SAINT CHARLES IL $9,002.00
13. RICHARD IDROVO TINLEY PARK IL $7,801.00
14. NATHAN RICHMOND MANITOWOC WI $6,601.00
15. EDMOND MEKERTICHIAN WINNETKA IL $6,001.00
16. NATHAN BUTTREY NILES IL $5,041.00
17. MICHAEL FARAH GRAND RAPIDS MI $5,041.00
18. ADALBERT WOJEWNIK PARK RIDGE IL $5,041.00
19. JASON TREZAK VALPARAISO IN $5,041.00
20. PUPLIK DURO MORTON GROVE IL $5,041.00
21. MARK OWENS CHICAGO IL $3,961.00
22. GEREMI WICINSKI ANTIOCH IL $3,961.00
23. MICHAEL HUDSON LAKE IN THE HILLS IL $3,961.00
24. ROBERT WIACEK CHICAGO IL $3,961.00
25. NJAZI HYSENAJ GLENVIEW IL $3,961.00
26. JOHN GRAVAGNA CHICAGO IL $3,301.00
27. FRANK BERRETONI S CHICAGO HEIGHTS IL $3,301.00
28. JUAN MEDINA WAUKEGAN IL $3,301.00
29. KEVIN WILSON DES PLAINES IL $3,301.00
30. JOSHUA SHMERL WAUEONDA IL $3,301.00
31. ANIRUDH SETH URBANA IL $3,301.00