[GregP]

Noon is $200 everyday, 7pm is $330 mon-thurs, $540 fri-sun. All have the same structure, 4500 starting, 40min levels, but a few of the usual levels 'missing.'

25/50
50/100
100/200/25
200/400/50
400/800/100
600/1200/100
1k/2k/200
2k/4k/400
3k/6k/500
5k/10k/1k

(..and if you think this structure is too fast, realize that the tourists (IE dead money) still complain that it takes too long)

The 11pm is $120 every day, 2500 chips, 30min levels, and w/ a few added levels (100/200 and 300/600/75 at least). This all started the 3rd; after the wsop, the rebuys will still be gone, but the buyins will drop down some, and the old saturday 3:30pm $330 w/ the deep structure will return.

They're also running single table satelites for the 7pm all day everyday that pay two seats.

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They also have them do chip counts (where the dealers have to sign pieces of paper and stuff) DURING the tourney. Why can't they do that during hte break, I don't know.

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I have no idea what you're talking about; everywhere I've heard of, dealers sign a "down card" in tournaments so that they can receive an appropriate share of the tip pool. It's no different at Caesars. Maybe you had a dealer who signed his after sitting down, rather than while the previous dealer finished the last hand? While that's certainly poor form, it's not commonplace.