Arizona State Poker Championship - Satellites are running - Page 2

Howard Beale · #1 07-18-2007, 05:29 AM

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I wonder if I know who you guys are. I go to CAZ fairly regularly, used to be more often. I play mainly 5/150, but occasionally 8/16, 20/40, 10/150 or 6/12 Omaha. I sometimes play the tournaments there also.

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PM me before your next visit if you want to say hi. I'll let you know if I'll be there when you're going.

pig4bill · #2 07-18-2007, 10:08 AM

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Seriously, on my way out the door I decided that I didn't want to take mom to Denny's yet and got into a Sat at once. $110 down the drain, I figured. First hand I get 2 black Aces in the SB, get all in v. A-Jo and double up. Except for one huge suck-out card wise (though of small import chip wise) the thing was moderately easy even though I made a few smooth plays if I do say so myself.

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Getting aces on the first hand and doubling up tends to make a tournament seem moderately easy. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Howard Beale · #3 07-18-2007, 12:36 PM

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Seriously, on my way out the door I decided that I didn't want to take mom to Denny's yet and got into a Sat at once. $110 down the drain, I figured. First hand I get 2 black Aces in the SB, get all in v. A-Jo and double up. Except for one huge suck-out card wise (though of small import chip wise) the thing was moderately easy even though I made a few smooth plays if I do say so myself.

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Getting aces on the first hand and doubling up tends to make a tournament seem moderately easy. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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So right. LP raises, I see the Aces, re-raise 3x his bet, he calls, flop comes all spades, I bet, he pushes (he had the J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]), I call and he goes 'Oh, no, there's no way I can win', when he sees my hand. The others comfort him by saying that 'if you're not going to win, you might as well get it over with quickly.' [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Ocho · #4 07-19-2007, 05:22 PM

Do extra seats have to be sold directly to players? Or can we sell them back at the cage (i.e., return the seat for a refund)?

Thanks

that_pope · #5 07-19-2007, 05:30 PM

I'll buy an extra seat off of you for $250.

Howard Beale · #6 07-22-2007, 12:23 PM

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!

Phntm · #7 07-22-2007, 01:10 PM

How is the structure? What are starting chips? Is it too late to satellite (i know they have been going non stop and it is a capped number of runners)?

Nate. · #8 07-22-2007, 01:17 PM

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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

that_pope · #9 07-22-2007, 01:38 PM

But outside of their ads in magazines, this tourney is getting no hype from the poker magazines. It isn't even listed in pokerplayer newspaper in their tourney section, which lists little $200 tourney series...

I need to get in, because $250,000 would look good in my cloth bags with dollar signs on them.

CrazyLond · #10 07-22-2007, 02:21 PM

It seems like a pretty good deal. The only problem is that it starts at 9am. No idea how I'm going to pull that one off.

They've got this one and the ladies championship. I think it would be cool if they added maybe an O8 tournament and a mix game tournament or something next year.