Latest WSOP Circuit events results from Caesars

Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 Live Tournament Women

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Borgata Deep Stack Tourney on Wednesday

Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 Live Tournament Women

Borgata's ever-popular Deep Stack Tournament is on Wednesday, March 10.

It's a $1,500 Buy-In + $150 Entry with a $30,000 starting chip stack.

Qualifiers ranging from $330+$50 to $165+$35 start Sunday.

Check out the original post we did on the tourney.

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More competition for Atlantic City card rooms

Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 Live Tournament Women

Delaware Park is getting table games ready for this summer. The casino executives hope to get moving and have hired Susan Ciboldi as Director of Tables Games.

In the press release announcing the appointment, COO Andrew Gentile said:"Initially, we expect to feature approximately 40 table gamesand a 20-table poker room."

He said other things in the release, but this was the only part I focused on. With Philadelphia and Delaware competing for poker players, Atlantic City will have stiff competition. The summertime won't be terrible because I still feel this is an area people will want to enjoy during the peak months.

But what will happen to rooms like the Showboat and Bally's on a Monday in February?

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ATLARGE coming back to Atlantic City

Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 Live Tournament Women

The Atlantic City Annual Rec.Gambling Excursion is back in Atlantic City once again from March 12-14 at the Taj Mahal. By the way, that's ATLARGE to you.

ATLARGE originated between friends and Internet users who met on the newsgroup rec.gambling.poker since 1996. The first event was held at Resorts.

For more info on how you can be part of the event, or look at photos from past events, go to AtLargePoker.com

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WSOP Circuit at Caesars starting Wednesday

Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 Live Tournament Women

The World Series Poker Circuit tour will make a stop at Caesars Atlantic City starting Wednesday.

The tournament will feature 12 no-limit hold 'em events, including a deep stack, two turbo, a ladies-only and the main event.

Here's a link to the schedule.

There will be two satellites running nearly every day. Starting March 3, an 8-p.m Super Satellite ($560) will run through March 11. On March 8, a Super Satellite ($340) will begin at 4 p.m. until March 11.

Let us know how it goes and leave us any trip reports.

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Atlantic City Restuarant Week

Date: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 Live Tournament Women

Just a little promo of things going on in Atlantic City this week.

Atlantic City is hosting Restaurant Week starting today and running through March 6.

So, if you're in town to play some cards. You might get a chance to hit up some of the restaurants you haven't had a chance to check out before.

Here's a link with more info and participating restaurants.

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WSOP Satellite tournament today

Date: Sat, Feb 27, 2010 Live Tournament Women

Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City is hosting a satellite tournaments for the World Series of Poker today at 4:15 p.m

The $516+$44 satellite will have two guaranteed heading to the main event in Las Vegas this summer.

There will be other satellites coming up if you cannot make this one on March 27 and April 24.

Players can also qualify for the satellites with mini-satellites occuring daily. The cost of those tournarments is $58+$12 and go off at 4:15 p.m.

Check out Harrah's site for more information.

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Borgata announces Spring Poker Open

Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 Live Tournament Women

There are few details right now on Borgata's website about the Spring Poker Open. However, we have dates, so clear your calendar.

The Spring Poker Open will be from April 10-30 with the main event being another $3,000 + $200 entry fee. There is a $1 million guaranteed prize pool.

Currently, the Borgata's website is down. So, I can't get much more info.

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Karma is a bitch: Winning the bad beat jackpot and still losing

Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 Live Tournament Women

The bad beat jackpot was hit at the Tropicana early Wednesday morning for around 217K.

Quad Qs over Quad 7s.

The person who had the losing hand was described to be a pretty big jerk. On the river when the board was 778QQ and the player with pocket QQ best all, but $3, he asked the dealer for a count.

Three times.

He showboated and finally said, I'm all-in. Making the other person put in their final $3. Pocket QQs guys said, fine, I have a four queens. That's when the table erupted because the other guy had pocket 77s.

However, there is more to the story. Pocket 77s guy was a jerk all night. He threatened to beat up someone who beat him in a pot for about $200. Degraded and mocked people the entire time. He also enjoyed telling everyone how tough he was and lucky he was. He was annoying to say the least.

Here's when the fun starts.

When it was time to get to the cage and collect, pocket 77s walked through the Trop casino floor yelling and screaming: That's right! I won! I told you! God, wants me to be rich. God, wants me to be famous.

He gets to the cashier while two of his friends were with him. A few minutes go by while he is in the credit room and here comes five security guards walking over. They take him out of the credit room without any money. Take him to the poker room to collect his belongings and drop him off at gaming enforcement.

Apparently, pocket 77s guy was in violation of his parole by being in the casino that night. He was not allowed to be there.

His money was seized (all 87K) and he was left with nothing.

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Sand Casino in Pa., applies for 89 table games, including 12 poker

Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 Live Tournament Women

The Allentown Morning Call had a breaking news story last night on their website. Sand Casino in Pennsylvania - which is directly competing with Atlantic City's customers- applied for 89 tables games (link).

Almost half of those table games were for blackjack.

Just four tables were for "Texas Hold'em poker tables."

The good news: With just four tables in a casino, customers will deal withlong wait lists. Regulars will camp on these games for a while. Anyone who isn't playing poker will want to come to Atlantic City because there are more options, especially on a weekend.

The bad news: Weekday games in Atlantic City will be hurt by these new tables. Four full tables is still 40 people. That's 40 people being taken away from places such as Showboat, Bally's and Harrah's. People who will enjoy this room aren'tprobably the types that play in big poker rooms. This could certianly hurt some of the smaller rooms in Atlantic City.

Update: After re-reading the article after the first comment left, I think I may be wrong. There is a request for 12 poker tables and I assumed that lumped 3-card, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud and games like that under one umbrella. However, 3-card poker is specifically mentioned.

So, it seems Sands would have a 12-table room, which is actually pretty good. Not the biggest room, but the only rooms in Atlantic City that regularly run 12 or more games are the Borgata and Taj Mahal.

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Rumor: Bally's changing Bad Beat Jackpot rules

Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 Live Tournament Women

I've heard a couple of rumors that once the current bad beat jackpot is hit at Bally's (which sits around 220K right now), the casino is changing the requirements.

According to this thread on the Two Plus Two forums, the BBJ will become quad Queens or better to be beat. Then, go down hand-by-hand.

By this account, it seems Bally's is trying to cash in on the craziness that was Caesars a few weeks back. Caesars filled the entire room with NL games and had people waiting on lists for, literally, hours. The BBJ got publicity in the local newspaper and gave some exposure to Caesars.

A high BBJ will draw in a crowd, but with such high requirements, who will be play there?

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Need to know now what's happening at the Borgata?

Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 Live Tournament Women

Have you been sitting at home thinking to yourself, I wonder what the Borgata poker room looks like right now?

I often wonder about this for many of the poker rooms and since I am not really a phone person, I don't really care to call up any of the casinos just to ask them how many games they have going. I always feel so weird whenever I ask this question like if the guy at the Showboat gives me bad news then I am going to let him down when he hears the disappointment in my voice.

Borgata has a way to let people know just how their room is doing and the number of going on. They created the digital live game report (link), which is updated throughout the day. Sometimes it take awhile for the latest update to come through, but you get an idea just what you're headed into by the report.

My favorite time is to check it on the weekend. I love looking at the big games.

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World Poker Tour Boot Camp hitting the Trop

Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 Live Tournament Women

The Tropicana will host a World Poker Tour Boot Camp on April 9-10 (link)

The boot camp costs $1,895 and pros include Kathy Liebert, Nick Brancato, Rick Fuller and Nick Binger.

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WSOP Satellte Tournaments at Harrah's

Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Live Tournament Women

Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City is hosting a satellite tournaments for the World Series of Poker. Harrah's is sending 30 players to Las Vegas for the event.

The first $516+$44 satellite is Feb. 27 at 4:15 p.m., with two guaranteed heading to the main event.

Players can also qualify for the satellites with mini-satellites occuring daily. The cost of those tournarments is $58+$12 and go off at 4:15 p.m.

Main satellite will also be held March 27 and April 24.

Check out Harrah's site for more information.

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