2007 Orleans Open Poker Tournament, July 14-29

CincyLady · #1 07-04-2007, 12:15 PM

Is anyone else from here planning on attending this one?

Seems reasonable in price, but I've never played before at this Casino. They are offering a special room rate for out of towners needing to stay there.

Details here:

http://www.orleanscasino.com/gaming/...-schedule.html

po-Jay-to · #2 07-04-2007, 01:02 PM

I'll be in town during this time and plan to play a couple of events. I am a fan of The Orleans tournaments, good buy-in amounts and decent structures.
They also attrack a good number of players however, this year, the competition for players is much bigger with The Venentian, Caesers, etc.

chao22mien · #3 07-04-2007, 02:57 PM

i played last night in their tourney...$40 buy in for 1K in chips, (1) Rebuy at $40 for 2K in chips and a $5 dealer bonus for 250

so $85 for 3,250 in chips.

177 players played....they draw more players on friday and saturdays.

competition is average and the blind progression is pretty decent the value. i like it better than the sahara personally.

Photoc · #4 07-04-2007, 11:41 PM

Placed 11th in the Stud 8 event last year. I plan on bettering this finish and maybe playing another event or two.

pig4bill · #5 07-05-2007, 12:31 AM

Looks like small chip stacks - T2000 for a $225 buy-in. The normal Venetian tournaments look better than that.

Photoc · #6 07-05-2007, 12:42 AM

They use $5 chips in the stud events. So the 2k includes something like 50 in red as well.

FatalError · #7 07-05-2007, 01:26 AM

10-20 15-30 20-40 blinds first 3 levels of NL events, these events are sicko deep for a long time

100$ rebuy event is gonna be so much fun

Photoc · #8 07-05-2007, 01:49 AM

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10-20 15-30 20-40 blinds first 3 levels of NL events, these events are sicko deep for a long time

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Nope:

http://www.orleanscasino.com/gaming/...tructures.html
TIME ANTE SMALL BLIND BIG BLIND
12:00 - 1:00 0 25 25
1:00 - 2:00 0 25 50
2:00 - 2:15 FIFTEEN MINUTE BREAK
2:15 - 3:15 0 50 100
3:15 - 4:15 0 75 150

CincyLady · #9 07-05-2007, 03:32 AM

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Looks like small chip stacks - T2000 for a $225 buy-in. The normal Venetian tournaments look better than that.

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Perhaps so, but I know I for one can't afford the Venetian prices, and I don't think the Venetian's blind structure is the same (blinds raising only once every hour) either.

BigAlK · #10 07-05-2007, 11:02 AM

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i played last night in their tourney...$40 buy in for 1K in chips, (1) Rebuy at $40 for 2K in chips and a $5 dealer bonus for 250

so $85 for 3,250 in chips.

177 players played....they draw more players on friday and saturdays.

competition is average and the blind progression is pretty decent the value. i like it better than the sahara personally.

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This is their regular tournament, not the New Orleans Open tournaments, although I agree that as lower buy-in tournaments go this is one of the best values in Vegas. It does become a bit of a crapshoot at the end, but then what doesn't. (I chopped this 5 ways a couple weeks ago - average stack at the time was 7.4bbs.)

The NO Open tournaments are slower structures. I did a comparison of those events using Snyder's patience factor and found that these were much slower structures than the Venetian Deepstacks or WSOP prelim events. I wish I could be in Vegas for some of these.