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Originally Posted by EastCoastBalla
I think you guys could challenge the Venetian for the best poker series during the summer months. I know a few of my buddies wished you would have higher guarantees, especially the 1 million and up variety. Also maybe have a couple of 'superstacks" events like the Venetian had. Start those with like 40,000 in chips and hour levels and I'm sure you would be packed. Obv if the guarantee is good. I know the Venetian had a 1.5 million guarantee for those and they beat that.
Looking at your schedule there were just way too many small 100k events with 30 min levels and nobody wants to keep playing those over and over. Have more 1k's and 1600 events with 1 million guarantees and higher. Only having 2 total seemed disappointing according to a few of my friends that were out in Vegas for a month.
Time for you guys to step it up to the next level because from what I have heard from lots of people, you guys run a top notch tournament and people like playing there.
I'd probably be hesitant about playing a tourney with 40K starting chips and hour long levels unless it had a really big guarantee and I could register day 2or something. The WSOP monster stack only has 15K and 60 minute levels and that thing lasts 4 days. Your suggested format would likely last at least 5 unless the structure were somehow degraded. Not really appealing for a run-of-the-mill 1100 or 1600 event, at least not as part of a lengthy month-long schedule. If it were a one off thing and one of the only tourneys I would play I might feel differently.
And your claims abut the 100K daily tourneys and who wants to play them are fallacious. Those types of events were a big hit at both the Venetian and Wynn this summer. I didn't play in any of them, but given their success, I would suspect you will see more, not less of them.
And when it comes to stepping up their game, it all comes down to the availability of space. It seems like they may have some additional space available where the temporary sports book was this year. But unless they have something completely different up there sleeve, I'm guessing the increases might be fairly marginal... maybe 10-15 more tables. That should still make for a better series.