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Popped back in to mention:

Casino Arizona should get some props for running this tourney. It is going to cost them a lot of money and that makes it a very nice promotion. The entries are $1,050.00 limited to 450 w/ a prize pool of $500,000 so $50,000 is going to be added. That $50,000 is almost certainly coming out of the jackpot funded promotion money but CAZ is only getting $22,500 from the $50 fee. They 'make' $5/sat (110 each player. $1,050 ticket and $45 to the dealer). They are going to have to devote the entire poker room to the tourney. That means they've got to break all games by ~8am and won't be able to start live games until tables break. True, it's a Saturday morning but they're still losing all the rake/time charges from the games that would normally be going for quite a few hours (and pay the dealers and staff). Whatever that comes out to has got to be way more than the $22,500.

So, tyvm, CAZ!

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HB--

Although neither of us is naive enough to think that CAZ is doing this philanthropically, I agree with you. CAZ, better than most places, serves casual and serious, frequent and infrequent, and winning and losing players. One element of that is having a few tournaments a year they hype and promote and make sure get big.

--Nate