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Hi,

I got a mailing from the Cherokee Casino in Tulsa OK, talking about a bunch of tournies ($100-$1000) going on from Oct 30th until Nov 12th. From the website it appears to have a 36 table poker room.

I live in Austin and did a mapquest and it appears to be about a 8 hour drive. I also looked up flights and there are some reasonably priced ones for the 3rd-6th. I did call looking at prices for hotels and the resort is 99/99/69 for the 3 nights. Staying at the Inn would only be 42/42/42.

So is anyone planning on playing this, or has anyone ever played at this Casino? I figured I would give the poker room a call and find out the tourney structures to see if it is going to be a crapshoot and what they expect for # of players.

Ken

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First of all if you use the promotional code Kath1006, you can get rooms at the resort itself for 42 a night if you do it soon... I play there almost every weekend so i'll try and answer all your questions.

I will be playing quite a few of these events... They held a very similar series of events during June and had a pretty nice turnout... (I wasn't 21 at the time and couldn't play in tournies cuz they ID, but did play cash games) I would say for the 330 NL events on the weekend, I'd expect 200-400 entrants, If you're playing the main event, I would say something like 200-300... The smaller events I think probably have 30 min. structures, so not a total crapshoot.... the play in these tends to vary from weak-tight to loose passive... Pretty much terrible tourney players all around.

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Do they ever get any middle limit hold em games going up there anymore?

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Never... U might be able to get a 10-20 game going during this tourney series, but that would even be tough... Other than that only 4-8 all the time.

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What kind of games (and limits) do they run normally outside of tournies?

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As I said for limit games, u might get 10-20 but prob not, As far as NL, there is 1-2 100/200 min max... 2/5 200 min, no cap which plays very deep on occasion, great game during tourneys... 5/10 500 min no cap, which tends to be pretty nitty... also during the last time, we got 10/20 going a couple times, I've also seen 10/25 before, these tend to be fantastic loose games...

Also, as far as PLO, they have 1/2, 2/5, 5/10, and 5-10-25 no cap that goes during tournies... Fantastic games... Best games to play to make money if you have the stomach...

Oops i guess u meant at other times... well usually 1/2nl and 4/8 most of the time w/ 2/5nl going at night and 5/10 PLO on the weekends...

They also have a separate area for sats which are ongoing throughout the whole thing, and probably softer than anything else, just not really worth my time...

Hope I was helpful...