Do Canadians consider CPT a "big dog" or just a recreational League?

jontmjontm
in General Poker Chat
I started talking about Heads Up Entertainment, the company that owns the Canadian Poker Tour in the buy and sell section and it turned into what I thought was an intresting conversation.

So as Canadian players, what do you think?

Will the partnership with World Poker Showdown help CPT establish an international image?

Do you play CPT events and do you find value and a good time in them?

Here in Calgary, we have a larger prize pool CPT event on a regular basis, and we are almost always playing for seats in nightly freezouts, so I think of it as "the game" to take a shot at.

Regina sells out the events regularly and the casino makes a huge deal of their Classic events.

Edmonton an Red Deer also host some big turn outs. I haven't played in BC yet, no idea how big they get there.

In the east? Is CPT a presence?

Throw them thoughts in here?

Comments

  • JohnnieHJohnnieH
    Wait....

    There's a Canadian Poker Tour?! Never hear much about it in Ontario. Of course the OLG is pretty biased against big poker tournaments.

    Next you'll claim there's a Canadian Football League. (Also something we rarely hear about in Ontario :D )
  • MiloMilo
    Yeah, Johnnie, my thoughts are of a similar nature. I look at the CPT as a regional tour that is trying, to varying degrees of success, to break across the MB/ON border. Until they do, I do not think you can consider it a national series. It IS a damn shame that the OLG is so narrow in it's focus, though . . .


    Having said all this, the CPT's cash spends just as well as my own, so good luck to them.
  • trigstrigs
    when i first found out about the CPT (a while ago) i was very excited to try and play in it. then i quickly realize that out west it was available all over and in ontario...not really. very disappointing.

    OLG...*shakes fist*
  • BlondeFishBlondeFish
    There are only a few forumers I recognize who bother to play the many CPT tournaments available in Ontario, but most of these tournaments in Great Blue Heron, Brantford and Point Edward have been sell-outs. The four forumers who regularly play the GBH tournaments are near the top of that casino's points leaderboard.

    What needs to happen is that casinos in Rama and Niagara Falls be pressured to register their future tournaments with the CPT, so that there will be more big tournaments available. With no tournaments bigger than 110 players in Ontario, most of the CPT Top 50 are from the west and there are only a couple of players in Ontario who have a good shot at winning the $5,000 poker trip package.
    jontm wrote: »
    In the east? Is CPT a presence?
  • jontmjontm
    There is a good chance Fallsview will be a CPT event soon and this wil be the biggest Event nationwide as far as buy in is concerned. I will keep you posted as things develop. I will also work on listing the key Ontario events in the right area.

    You answered the questions I just asked them about the east, the events that people know are selling out and they are working on bigger and better.

    Really, Kelly only aquired the CPT just over a year ago. Under the old regieme, 70 events where held nationwide.

    This year we see 350 CPT sanctioned events, with "premium events" countinuing to be added.

    Hope to hear more thoughts in this thread, thanks to those posting.
  • JohnnieHJohnnieH
    No offence, but we'll believe when we see it.
  • jontmjontm
    I'm with ya, no offense taken. I would like to see this become big in the East. All western pride aside, your population controls alot when in comes to the poker industry.

    Redhot Poker Tour is a clear example of how the East help something get big fast.
  • GTA PokerGTA Poker
    In Calgary it's just another mid buy-in tourny, no big deal
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