Ceasar's Competes with WSOP

Looks like Ceasars is ready to tackle the WSOP headsup! By offering lower buyin tournaments and larger stacks.

"The largest poker room in Las Vegas is inside Caesars Palace, and this summer, the poker room is running its first-ever Mega Stack Series, running June 1-July 9.

Competing against the draw of World Series of Poker events, the Mega Stack Series is looking to attract players who want smaller buy-in events with a major tournament feel. All 38 preliminary events have buy-ins that range from $200 to $500 and feature deep starting stacks.

“Players are going to get more value for the dollar than they will find at any of our competitors’ rooms,” said Poker Room Manager Jim Pedulla. “They are going to get huge starting stacks and a great structure that gives them more time to play. Also, our poker room has the ability to host 600 players plus alternates all in the same room, so no one will have to feel segregated from the tournament.”

Registration begins at 10 a.m., and the events begin at noon. All preliminaries feature 50-minute blind levels. Most events are open no-limit hold’em tournaments, but the series also includes an Omaha eight-or-better event, a pot-limit Omaha event, a limit hold’em event, and a seniors event."

Sounds like a great alternative to the larger game, but I'm not sure how they can hope to compete as an equal. Going to be uphill for them to come close, but I think they hit a market base with this one, and at prime time as far as number of players that are going without playing, or bust our early.

Comments

  • Didn't Binion try to do something similar last year?
  • Yes, but Caesars is relevant.. unlike binions.

    Edit: If they're smart, they'll hold their higher limit tournaments on the days where the WSOP plays a non-NLHE game and eat the WSOPs own lunch.
  • Wow theres now like 5 different series going on at the same time, awesome.
  • I analyzed the structures of the Caesars Palace Mega Stack Series several days ago but haven't had the time to post here. While there has only been one casino tournament in Ontario this year that had a Patience Factor (PF) of at least 10 (Skill Level 6), there will be an all-time record of over 200 special tournaments going on at Las Vegas in June - July, mostly with a PF of 10-34! "cheers: Luckily for me, I will be going when it will be the best time ever for a poker player to be in Las Vegas.

    It will be like a kid in a candy store everyday, trying to choose between the WSOP's 55 events with PF of 11-158, Caesars Palace's 45 events with PF of 23-34, Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza's 45 events with PF of 15+, WPT Bellagio Cup IV's 8 events, Binion's 2nd Annual Poker Classic's 43 events, and Golden Nugget's 30 events. I was thinking of playing in the WSOP turbo satellites, but I now plan to play instead in the Mega Stack Series every day I'm free. If anybody is interested, I can try to post my analysis of the various tournaments.
    STR82ACE wrote: »
    “Players are going to get more value for the dollar than they will find at any of our competitors’ rooms,” said Poker Room Manager Jim Pedulla. “They are going to get huge starting stacks and a great structure that gives them more time to play.
  • In addition to the previously mentioned six series of tournaments in Las Vegas this summer, there is a seventh called the 2008 Orleans Open. The Orleans Casino is having 16 tournaments from July 5-20, including a 5,000-chip Casino Employee Event. In case 13CARDS, jpajamas or any other licensed dealers are interested, there are at least five Casino Employee tournaments, ranging from $100-$500 between May 28 - July 16.
    WSOP's 55 events with PF of 11-158, Caesars Palace's 45 events with PF of 23-34, Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza's 45 events with PF of 15+, WPT Bellagio Cup IV's 8 events, Binion's 2nd Annual Poker Classic's 43 events, and Golden Nugget's 30 events with PF of 14-32.
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  • 13CARDS wrote: »
    The events aren't really like competion for the WSOP, just more like an additive.

    Fair enough...just a nice way of ensuring they capture the lower buyin market during the series. Still, I DO like the structures...just wish I could get away to play some of them.

    Good luck to any who head down.
  • damn this makes me want to head down to vegas so badly this summer. alas, i will be flying out to alberta to attend a friend's wedding, and that will probably be my only 'vacation' this year. at least i'll make an attempt to hit some casinos out there though.
  • The last posted results of the Caesars Palace Mega Stack Series show a record number of 622 players. Canadian Robert Cheung won first place. He was the bracelet winner of the WSOP $1500 Event #38 last year, winning almost $700,000, so I'm suprised he wanted to play in an event with such a relatively small buy-in.

    I read WSOP reporters wondering why he didn't even play to defend his championship in this year's $1500 Event (#39). The current streak is now 43 straight non-cashes for defending champions in their respective events. Robert had a good excuse - he was busy in the WSOP Pot Limit Hold'em Event #38 and won 6th place!
  • BlondeFish wrote: »
    The last posted results of the Caesars Palace Mega Stack Series show a record number of 622 players. Canadian Robert Cheung won first place. He was the bracelet winner of the WSOP $1500 Event #38 last year, winning almost $700,000, so I'm suprised he wanted to play in an event with such a relatively small buy-in.

    Maybe he was playing for practice for the ME? Just a guess.
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