[Howard Beale]

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Their normal daily tourney is $45+$20. I think the nightly tourney is $100+$30.

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can someone explain to me why anyone plays in these?

or am I just retarded and that sick vig is normal for live poker?

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I've been asking that for years. For a long while $1,500 was added to the prize pool. I'm guessing that that money came out of the jackpot funded promotion pool but at least it was there. Then they started selling 20 alternate seats and not adding $300 more to the pool. I pointed that out and got shrugs. Now they've stopped adding in anything and some players justify it by pointing to the points playoff and the trips and seats that get awarded, etc, etc. A good friend of mine says he doesn't give a damn what they charge because he's winning in the tourneys every year. In the meantime these tourneys used to sell out by 5:00pm and now you can get a seat almost up until the 7:00pm start. I don't blame CAZ for getting what they can but it seems like things are going to slow down.