Great Blue Herons December Tournament of Champions
Due to a lack of interest in the December Tournament of Champions event being a three day event, the Management of the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino has decided to modify the December tournament to a one day event. This tournament will be held on Wednesday December 10, 2008. The buy-in for the tournament will still be $2000 + $100 administration Fee. We will be allowing a maximum of 110 players to enter. Any Patron that has already purchased a ticket for Tuesday December 9, 2008 will be given the opportunity to transfer their ticket to December 10,2008 or have their full buy-in reimbursed (Buy-in plus Administration Fee). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Players will be starting with 10,000 in chips and playing right through with what they have. We will not be restarting the final table with 20,000 in chips since we are not going to be balancing two days worth of play. The initial reason for the restart in the chip stack was to make it fair to all of the players that made it through to day three if days one and two had unequal amounts of players.
As for the Satellites we have been offering them for the last 7 weeks with next to no interest. So we will be closing them as of Wednesday December 3, 2008 as originally offered.
Good Luck to all
+1. If there is enough interest on the forum, can anyone organize a home satellite for next Tuesday? (9th)
Their 1 table satallite system can be improved upon slightly, but their super satallites are amazing and almost always sold out.
Tournament directors and poker room managers here in ontario - Please give Daryl McCullaugh a call and learn from one of the best. I just heard he`s recently been promoted to GM of the River Rock Casino.
I`ve played all over the world and can honestly say the big tournaments run at the River Rock can rival the best around.
Got word from Daryl that the next tournament series will be in May 2009 - around Mother's Day (week before or maybe after). No formal announcement made at this time.
I think the majority of poker rooms in Ontario casinos need:
1. competent dealers
2. consistent rules
3. actually be considerate of their players
Before we start asking them to run a decent tourney....
Its almost worth it for me to drive the extra 2-3 hours to Turning Stone to play there.
1. Poker room there makes Ontario rooms look like basement apartments
2. The staff there are quick and courteous
3. The dealers deal incredibly fast
4. They know how to run a tournament (trip report to come....)
The bottom line is the OLG needs to decide whether or not they want to have poker in their casinos. Unfortunately running half ass'd rooms isn't going to cut it for much longer. Either shape up or remove the rooms all together.