If you arrive between about 9AM and 3PM so you don't get caught in morning rush hour, evening rush hour, or construction traffic. Starting around 4PM traffic really starts to pick up. If you can arrive in that window, then either Dallas Forth Worth (D/FW) International or Dallas Love Field work.

Both are about 1.5 hr (or about 15 min less) from the casino.

However, with DFW you are highway driving the entire time. With Love Field, there is a bit of city driving (not too much) to get out to the highway.

Also, there is a tone of highway construction around here these days. There is slightly less consutrction around DFW going to I35 than there is to drive up through Dallas on I35 from Love Field. So, it is kind of a crap shoot on if the drive takes less time for one vs the other these days.

However, if you get in during evening rush hour(s), you could easily add an extra 30-50 minutes to the drive. So, I think flight time is really more important than airport.

As to transportation, a rental car is probably your best bet. Taxi's are about $100 one way.

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How was last Sunday's Mega? I am planning to come to the first one in August.

Last Sunday, 365 runners, 73 people walked with 2100 in River Lammers. 40 of those walked with $500 cash as well.

Next Mega is Sunday, July 22.

Thanks for keeping us posted Dealer Guy. Wish I could come this Sunday but taking care of wife after surgery. Will be there August 5

DUe

Can't miss this one.

Love Field is about 10 minutes further than DFW. Rush hour traffic is going to be bad from either one as both share much of the same route, but I suspect rush hour will be a bit worse from Love Field. Note: Rush Hour on I-35 is generally 4PM - 6:30PM, except on Friday when it is more like 3:00pm until 7:00pm (barring no major accidents).

The 5k looks awesome (27th), but what is going on between it's day 1 and the ME (30th)?

Is the 5k scheduled to be a 3 day event? Will there be Megas on the 28th and 29th? I don't see an event on the schedule.

Maybe I'm overlooking something.

29th is a mega

http://winstarworldcasino.com/events...0#.UAgJgrShR4r

No idea what is on the 28th...I'd assume they just added that day in there to ensure no one would be forced to skip day 1a of main if the 5k FT overlapped to the 28th?

Booked my flight for this, excited. Going to be staying in Dallas, hopefully the driving isn't too brutal

Dallas isn't a bad drive in the morning but driving the 75 minutes at 1-2am after playing all day kinda sucks. Also depends heavily on where in Dallas you are staying. Lewisville isn't a bad drive at all. If you are staying with a friend who lives 15-20min off the highway you will hate it on late nights.

Stay in Denton or Gainesville IMO.

Denton has many more restaurants/things to do and is a college town so has decent night life (although it is summer).... Denton is about 35 minutes from winstar.

Gainesville is my 2nd best option for the area, it is much smaller, but has plenty of restaurants and hotels and is only 10 minutes of interstate driving from winstar.


Very nice poker room at the winstar... a lot of cash games running especially on the weekends. Its not abnormal for the 1/2 list to be a hour+ wait on weekend evenings/nights. They have about 50 cash tables full at that time with 1/2-5/10 NLHE. Im not sure about stakes but they always have a PLO H/L around these time too I think it's somewhere around 2/4-5/10. I'm guessing they might have larger games running than 5/10 with all the extra River series traffic.

Source: I lived in Denton for a year and made almost daily trips up to winstar.

Hope that info is useful for somebody

not sure if this has been answered, but on all the re entrys, are you only allow to have one entry each day?

Please don't hold me to this, as I'm not 100% sure. Having said that, I'm pretty sure you can only re-enter once per starting day, and cannot re-enter the same day if you've busted (or even if you haven't busted, for the sticklers out there).

Thanks, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)

For those looking for cheap hotels, I booked a Super 8 in Gainesville for $50/night for the whole series.

Last year, I was late to the party and cheapest I could get was a La Quinta in Lewisville for 70/n.

I figure if you plan on playing the whole series, its easier to drive the 10 minutes to Winstar every day and the longer drive to Dallas when you want to have more options of things to do on the offday.

staying with family and it looks like they live about a mile from 635/Lyndon Johnson Fwy. On that for 5 miles until 35N. Says its like 80 minutes which isnt that bad. Hopefully I only have to play 1 starting day!

yeah that location isn't too bad. avoid it during like 7-10AM and 330-630PM. all highway to Winstar, and yeah 75 minutes is about right.

GLGL in the event!

Hey Greg Im drew. We played 2-7 and PLO5CD at the rio

You think you can talk to winstar to see if we can play them this series? I highly doubt they will cause indian laws or something. But we have a better chance if you talk rather than me

Winstar can spread any limit of Hold'em or Omaha and they will if they have a table, a dealer and enough players. But they may not spread not any draw game, any stud game or any non standard PLO game.

However, since nothing in life is certain, I will check on this tomorrow just in case there has been some last minute change I was not aware of.

It would be a miracle however if there is any change that has been made since I left work today.

This is accurate. Players are limited to one re entry per day per tournament. The tournaments are re entry, not re buy events.

I verified with the room manager today that the room will be spreading only the games we currently spread. That includes any limit of NLHE, LHE, Omaha, 08, or PLO/PLO08.

Get a spot on Lake Texoma!

Hey DG, how are the lists for STS lookin right now?