Halifax Fall Classic Poker Tournament

NurseHolidayNurseHoliday
in Brick & Mortar Casino Talk
FYI...Halifax is having a tournament (tournaments?) on Sept. 25th and 26th...not sure of many details...its a $100 buyin and is limited to 80 participants . This leads me to believe it is one tourney over 2 days (4 tables X 10 players =40 ... so 2 days would give you 80. This is pure speculation on my part. I'm looking into more details.

Also, it appears to be a freezeout - they say "play for your share of $8,000" based on a full tournament of 80 players.

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  • Wr3ck3dWr3ck3d
    oops.
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  • 0xDeadBeef0xDeadBeef
    NurseHoliday wrote:
    FYI...Halifax is having a tournament (tournaments?) on Sept. 25th and 26th...not sure of many details...its a $100 buyin and is limited to 80 participants . This leads me to believe it is one tourney over 2 days (4 tables X 10 players =40 ... so 2 days would give you 80. This is pure speculation on my part. I'm looking into more details.
    Nurse - did you play in this tournament? If so, how did it go? I was in Halifax for Thanskgiving weekend, so I missed it by two weeks ;) However, I did get a chance to stop by and see the poker room at the casino.

    very interesting place :tongue:

    You might think that the casino would put two and two together and realize that the tiny poker area in the back does not necessarily meet the customer demands - haha - there was a HUGE waiting list to play at the only 5 or so total tables.

    ~:spade:
  • UnknownUnknown
    Interesting... things must have really taken off since I was there last (end of June). There were 4 tables, but the waiting lists were short, or nonexistant. Maybe that was because it was Canada Day weekend, and everyone was out of town? Not sure, but it seemed to me at the time that their poker area was the right size for the demand...

    Cheers,
    all_aces
  • NurseHolidayNurseHoliday
    0xDeadBeef wrote:
    Nurse - did you play in this tournament?
    I did not play in this tournament, for 3 basic reasons - 1) all_aces had posted info a while ago indicating that the tournament format was somewhat less than ideal, and a phone call on my part to the casino confirmed this. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't think they know what they are doing here yet. I called to ask about the format - to see if my 2-day, 40 player per day assumption had been correct and was told that yes, they would have 40 start saturday and whittle this down to 10. They would then have a different 40 start sunday and whittle this down to 10. Then the 2 "final" groups of 10 would come together (sunday late afternoon or evening...the timng was uncertain as they obviously didn't know when the sunday 40 would be the sunday 10 :banghead: ) and play for all the marbles. I asked how long he thought it would take to go from 40 to 10 and he said 3 - 4 hours. My response was something like "oh, so the blinds go up gradually and you get a fair amount of play"; the response was " Yes, sir, every 10 hands we raise the limits". :frown: . Reason 2 for me not playing was that the tourney was already full (apparently it filled within hours of registrations opening, which took place supposedly one month before the actual event, but it was real fuzzy....nothing I had seen would tip you off as to when registration was going to open and indeed buddy warned me that for the next one I should just keep calling back throughout October and hope I hit that 3-hour window just after they started taking names????) How convenient. Apparently things are loosey goosey on the organization front. So I was out of look even if I had wanted to play. Reason 3 for my absence was the fact that my wife was due on the Tuesday but we suspected JUNIOR might arrive a little early...HOW WOULD THAT BE FOR A BAD BEAT - surviving the other players and the weird structure only to have to leave the tourney at a critical juncture to take the wife to the hospital :D:D So I opted out thinking I might sign up for the November tourney. I have re-considered and decided that my poker dollars can be put to better use elsewhere. I'd love to play a tourney here, but I will wait until they improve. It is far more likely that I play a tourney in Ontario or Calgary before I ever play here.

    As for the place being busy, I haven't ventured down to the Poker Room in a long time - hoping you are right, I'd love to see it grow here.

    NH
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