Caesar\'s Palace Classic (LV) - 10/12-10/25
 

Caesar's LV is running the Caesar's Palace Classic for the first time starting on 10/12 with the $10K buy-in ME starting on 10/22. The ME has a guaranteed first prize of $1 million, so I'm sure plenty of people will show up for that. Here are the structures, which are better than the Bellagio in terms of starting chips and blinds:

https://www.harrahs.com/images/non_i...lindlevels.pdf

What do people think the crowds will be like for the prelims? The only other thing going on at that time is the WPT event in Barcelona, which I'm assuming will be rather poorly attended by the American pros, as the WPT Paris event was in the past.

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BTW it says the $10k event has 10k in chips and then below says 15k...wonder which is correct..?? I would guess 15k based on the other events....

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I think there will be a decent showing for the prelims. I'm planning on playing the first two as I'll be in Vegas that weekend.

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Did you notice the fine print that part of 1st place in the prelims is a seat in the $10k main event later? The way it is writen it sounds like they take $10k of your winnings and make it a non-refundable, non-transferable seat. Like it or not.

I was also planning on playing in the 1st event until I saw this.

Is this standard? Sucks I think.

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10k comes out before the prize pool is calculated which makes 1st place really top heavy

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Just tried making a room reservation at Caesar's for this thing. Spent 1/2 hour on the phone, got transferred all over the place, finally determined that the poker rate is only available if the standard room rate is $399 or below, which it is not for most of the nights, so the poker rate is therefore not available. But there is no one person with all of this information, you have to piece it together by talking to multiple people. Totally ridiculous.

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Just tried making a room reservation at Caesar's for this thing. Spent 1/2 hour on the phone, got transferred all over the place, finally determined that the poker rate is only available if the standard room rate is $399 or below, which it is not for most of the nights, so the poker rate is therefore not available. But there is no one person with all of this information, you have to piece it together by talking to multiple people. Totally ridiculous.

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I had no problem and even got comped on their current 3 night promotion. Final 4 days I will be staying at the Bellagio, but also booked Ballys (where I got the room comped to get the $400 cash they are also giving) That will pretty much make my week stay FREE!!! Damn, ya gotta love the Total rewards program. Now, I just need to win one of the prelims or the ME!

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Just tried making a room reservation at Caesar's for this thing. Spent 1/2 hour on the phone, got transferred all over the place, finally determined that the poker rate is only available if the standard room rate is $399 or below, which it is not for most of the nights, so the poker rate is therefore not available. But there is no one person with all of this information, you have to piece it together by talking to multiple people. Totally ridiculous.

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stay at the bellagio 150 WD 220 WE and thank me later

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How is he going to make 6 hours a day at Bellagio if he's playing the Caesars tournament?

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if you have rate there before you don't need to do the hours otherwise just bribe a floorman 10$ to put down a 18 hr session

Who is planning on attending this

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Im in all events.

Devo

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Here are the structures, which are better than the Bellagio in terms of starting chips and blinds:


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Actually it's not better than the Bellagio for the main event. They have 20k starting chips and 90 minute levels. This has 10k starting chips (according to the byline at the top of the page) and 75 minute levels. The addition of a 25-50 level probably helps some, but I think 2x the chips and 15 minutes extra each level is better.

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1m gtd first prize? SRSLY?

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Caesars gave away 33 seats in freerolls and high hand promotions, and they are really pushing sats and tournys where 1st includes a seat. Plus theres no other big tourneys going on at the time.

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yes but you saw how that went in the turks, that being said this is the first 10k in vegas since the bellagio cup 3 ended and the city has been poker dead since.

that being said caesars probably already has about 20-40 satelite qualifiers with maybe 30 more before ME. They get a lot of local pros to come out, i'd say they get ~190, so it looks very top heavy but it's not a wpt/wsop circuit so you can make open deals

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yes but you saw how that went in the turks, that being said this is the first 10k in vegas since the bellagio cup 3 ended and the city has been poker dead since.

that being said caesars probably already has about 20-40 satelite qualifiers with maybe 30 more before ME. They get a lot of local pros to come out, i'd say they get ~190, so it looks very top heavy but it's not a wpt/wsop circuit so you can make open deals

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At least in the states it will be much easier to bring legal action if they try to pull one over like what happened in Turks.

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i would bet that they can get at least 200 into this tournament. the wynn drew nearly 180 or so IIRC in the feb wynn classic. they prob had less satellites for that, and i don't think 1st in those prelims included a 10k seat. w/ that being said, i doubt it gets a whole lot more than that just because there's no tv coverage.

and yeah i will prob play all of these.

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How are the fields for non-televised 10K events like this one? I don't know if there will tend to be more good players (because they'll be in the know about the fact that the tournament even exists) or less (because there is no TV and thus little to no sponsorship opportunities).

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Wow I didn't know that all the prelims had a seat taken out. I will be playing in the ME not sure about any of the prelims. It will be interesting to see what the turnout will be. The Wynn had 197. I thought there wouldn't be a whole lot of known pros and a lot more lesser names since Bay 101 shooting star was almost overlapping this one. Boy was I wrong. Just about everyone you can think of showed up. There was only a handful of known pros that didn't play. Since there's not a whole lot going on during Caesar's ME I wouldn't be surprised if there's a similar turnout.

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a ton of pros will be in town for the us poker bowl at ballys on the 20th or w/e

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They boosted the starting chips to 15k everything else is as it says.

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I cant believe they put the poker bowl during the caesars ME. Stuff like this pisses me off to no end.

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a ton of pros will be in town for the us poker bowl at ballys on the 20th or w/e

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I cant believe they put the poker bowl during the caesars ME. Stuff like this pisses me off to no end.

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I can't make heads or tails of the Poker Bowl format from the website. Will most of the Poker Bowl field be eliminated by 10/22 when the Caesar's ME starts?



Also, it's a good thing that poker players all believe they are the best or it might look like the O.C. Outlaws have assembled a rather strong team: JC Tran, Nam Le, Michael Mizrachi, Robert Mizrachi, Tuan Le, Tim Phan.

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most of the players aren't even from their geographical location, some of these donk teams have no chance

anyways i'm pretty sure that 80% of the pokerbowl is going to be busto by the 22nd if not already done filming

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The .pdf in the OP says "3% of the total prize pool is witheld from all events for tournament staff". Is that in addition to the "+x" in the buyin listing? So for a 500+50, only 485 gets paid back to those who cash? I've never played a live tournament so I am dumb about this stuff.

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How is he going to make 6 hours a day at Bellagio if he's playing the Caesars tournament?

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if you have rate there before you don't need to do the hours otherwise just bribe a floorman 10$ to put down a 18 hr session

Who is planning on attending this

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Right. Bellagio staffs are very friendly and always give you the poker rate if there are rooms avaiable.

LV housing market sucks, $70K - $100K will get you a nice apartment near the stripe... that is $15K down and less than $800/month comparing to $200/night.

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How is he going to make 6 hours a day at Bellagio if he's playing the Caesars tournament?

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if you have rate there before you don't need to do the hours otherwise just bribe a floorman 10$ to put down a 18 hr session

Who is planning on attending this

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Right. Bellagio staffs are very friendly and always give you the poker rate if there are rooms avaiable.


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Now I KNOW I'm being levelled.

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Prelims start today. Could someone who's there post the number of entrants? Thanks.

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There were 499 entries for the first $550 event today. If I remember correctly 1st place is $69k plus the 10k seat.

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sattelite situation sucks couldnt even get 125's going a couple of hours ago.... at bellagio, the fire em off two or three at a time

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cash games were ok, 3 5-10s and a 10-20 went today, with 18 left it appears brandi hawbakers ex fiance (2p2er) is chip leader

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5/10 is uncapped at Caesar's right?

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Does that narrow it down much?

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How many runners did today's (Saturday) 1K event get?

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273 or something around there

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5/10 is uncapped at Caesar's right?

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Yes. Last I knew at least.

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2/5 and above has no cap at Caesars, those games sometimes run pretty damn deep. (A handful of times, I've seen over 50k on a 2/5 table there)

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During today's event, Caesar's repeatedly announced the following:

The ME has a $1 million guaranteed first prize. Whatever the prize pool is based on the number of entrants, they will calculate the money to be paid using their traditional formula. If that formula results in a 1st place under $1 million, Caesar's will be adding the money to 1st place to bring it up to $1 million. So if say 200 people show up, they will be adding $400K or so to 1st place, without taking it away from the rest of the money finishers. I would imagine that word of this will result in a big field if they weren't already getting one, but the possibility of a significant overlay exists.

So get on a plane and come if you're not already here. It starts on Monday, 10/22.

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Wow, how sick will it be if 1st is a mill amd 2md is like 200k...

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Wow, how sick will it be if 1st is a mill amd 2md is like 200k...

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did you not read the post before yours?