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April 6, 2010
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Hard to believe it is almost here again!
Link dates and some details can be found here.
This is the thread for discussing your plans, sharing schedules, asking questions of those that have attended in the past, planning meetups, etc etc.
Come on May, GET HERE already!
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August 25, 2012
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Stoked for this! Didn’t get to play any events last year, hoping to play a fair few this year as well as a few Venetian Deepstacks. More TPE hangouts are a must, I think!
May 30, 2012
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Thank GOODNESS for big scores. lol. and any scores that help !!! That 3rd place finish at Harrahs’ Philly in Nov pretty much paid for my two weeks plus for the 2016 WSOP. I’m super excited again this year. You guys let me know what your doing. I’m IN !!!
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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Awesome!!
February 8, 2016
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What’s up guys!
I will be playing in the Colossus II event this year, I played in it last year as well.
I just wanted to put out some good info to save a bit of money. If you sign up for the Total Rewards card (which is required to play in WSOP anyway) you can get 5 days comped at pretty much every Caesars Entertainment hotels around the USA.
Last I looked the RIO had week days free for comps, but the weekend was brought down to 45$ a night. Or you can stay at Harrahs on the weekend for free.
Once you sign up for the TR card, goto the website, and click book room. Then search by flexible dates in the desired month (june or July.) Then it will show multiple rooms for the coming weeks, and what is the comps or rates.
I have done this multiple times, and have not used any reward points.
GL all, and hit me up if you are going to be in Vegas for the Colossus event!
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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look forward to seeing you out there!
February 20, 2015
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I’ve been playing the Total Rewards game (metaphorically the players club is a game) for more than 15 years. Your method will work well for at least a year or two, but if you don’t put enough play on your card while you’re there, the offers will dry up. But there are still ways around it.
For example, when they announce the full WSOP lineup, the room rates may seem unreasonable. Wait. They will announce special WSOP rates with such-and-such code. Wait. About 6 weeks before your trip, start looking. That is usually as cheap as it will get.
Other tips:
- The points on your card expire after 6 months if you don’t put action on your card. This doesn’t seem to have an effect on your offers, but it’s still nice to put action on to keep your points. Or get the Total Rewards credit card if it’s available to you. Just one charge every 6 months will keep your points from expiring.
- Try to concentrate any non-poker action and redeeming points onto the same day, especially a day in which you’re also playing poker. The biggest problem with requiring the card is it counts as a day you played, and it fucks up your numbers in their system.
- I kind of alluded to this, but zero play days don’t hurt you, even if you’re staying there. For example, if you check in July 1 for six nights and play tournaments on July 2 and 3, put all your non-poker action and point redemption (meals, etc.) activity on those same 2 days. Then, the other 5 days, play cash, gamble elsewhere or online, or sit by the pool. Your action will only be divided by 2 instead of 6, which will make your average daily numbers higher.
- There are lots of ways to look at room rates on the Total Rewards website. The best way is to get the calendar with all Las Vegas casinos, rather than try to use one of their promotions. They’re not trying to screw you over. The site just has really shitty technology from 2005.
- If you’re not getting good rates, consider the Gold Coast next door. It will also put you in proximity of the Thinking Poker meetup when it happens 🙂
This is kind of convoluted, so if you have more questions, just ask.
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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now that is some good advice!
May 30, 2012
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When’s the first BBQ at the TPE house.
SCHEDULE is out…….. LFG
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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let the planning begin!
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April 6, 2010
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looking like May 31st – July 15th for me! Now to put together a schedule of what I am going to play!
September 15, 2012
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See you guys out thurrr at the beginning of the schedule!
November 7, 2015
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So waiting is the best option for booking a hotel? I only use my TR card like twice a year and thats for poker tournaments which i doubt count for much. Any guess what kind of price I can get? Also if anyone is looking for a roommate for a week let me know!
February 20, 2015
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When was the last time you used your card? Your points expire after 6 months of inactivity. Points are separate from offers, though, so it may not make a difference.
They announced a poker rate based on whatever the code was in the press release. You can compare your rates when signed in vs. the poker rate and see whether they’re any cheaper. You can always cancel your reservation if you book directly through totalrewards.com, but I don’t know whether pending/canceled reservations affect your future rates. Conspiracy theories abound. There are whole Yahoo! Groups (remember those?) about them.
September 15, 2012
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Rbrzy89 said
So waiting is the best option for booking a hotel? I only use my TR card like twice a year and thats for poker tournaments which i doubt count for much. Any guess what kind of price I can get? Also if anyone is looking for a roommate for a week let me know!
Im also looking for a place for about a week early June. I usually get great rates at the Holiday Inn not far away… Its clean, quiet, no casino, and strip club (for the after bink parties) around the corner. LOL
May 30, 2014
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November 7, 2015
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joelshitshow said
When was the last time you used your card? Your points expire after 6 months of inactivity. Points are separate from offers, though, so it may not make a difference.They announced a poker rate based on whatever the code was in the press release. You can compare your rates when signed in vs. the poker rate and see whether they’re any cheaper. You can always cancel your reservation if you book directly through totalrewards.com, but I don’t know whether pending/canceled reservations affect your future rates. Conspiracy theories abound. There are whole Yahoo! Groups (remember those?) about them.
Awesome thanks for the advice, Hopefully can meet some TPE’ers while im out there!
May 30, 2012
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I know I’m going for the Main, just not sure how early. I’m thinking maybe July 2nd to I will the Main
Wheeeeeeeee
December 18, 2015
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I will probably be there June/July and play in some of the smaller daily events. I don’t have ya’lls bankrolls … yet. 🙂
January 16, 2016
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Do any pros or TPE members ever get a TPE house for the WSOP? Or would that be something people would be interested in?
May 30, 2012
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Yes, a bunch of the Pros get a house. I believe the house is kinda full, lol.
February 14, 2013
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I’ll be out here since I live 20 mins away; Just an fyi to you guys, they do run some shitty satellites on wsop.com; they run for most of the smaller events and I believe they are paid out in those tournament lammers so they’re good for any event. They also have one pretty dope 200$ direct sat to the main with 25 seats gtd. gl boys.
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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nice jonmon101…make sure and come to the meet up!!
which I need to figure out when to do pretty soon.
March 13, 2015
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I will be out there for the 888 and some dailies.
June 28- July 5
Oh and my poker playing will be severely cramped by a wedding I am going to. But apparently when you are the groom you ‘have to’ go.
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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I suppose it is about time to start figuring out when the TPE Meetup will be! This is always the hardest part of the summer! lol
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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well that was easy. Looks like June 11th is really the only option for us because of owners schedules of being in Vegas.
SO…
2016 TPE Meetup
June 11th
PTs Pub 4825 W. Flamingo (across the street from The Rio)
8 PM – ???
Drinks and Food on TPE!
BE THERE!
December 30, 2015
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So…my wife is taking our daughter for a visit home to her home in Indonesia for a month around the end of May. I’m sort of thinking this is destiny. I accidentally ended up in Vegas for the 2007 WSoP but I was playing $1/$2 cash back then. Wandering the halls and seeing the pros was super cool and I’ve been planning to come back ever since.
I’ve only played the fast and small live tourneys at my local casino here in Vancouver ($80-$100 rebuys with 20min levels. Played 5: won 1, FT 1, final two twice, middle finished the last on a couple coolers.) but I’m playing a lot online and studying something most days. I’ve played live low stakes cash for much longer than I’ve played online so I’m actually more confidant live.
So…
Can I get some advice on the best time to come to take advantage of TPE plans and what I might play and how long I should stretch time off to maximize the experience?
Sounds like I should be anchoring my time around Saturday, June 11th at least!
I was listening to some of the podcasts recently that gave me some ideas about what I might approach. My bankroll is just what I fund form my day job. I’m not a rich man but I do ok and with some planning I think I can (without fear) play a couple casino ~$300 deep-stacks, or maybe a ~$500 but toying with the idea of playing a WSoP event.
For a WSoP events around this time, I think the colossus is too early, but might be possible. It looks like the Millionaire Maker $1500 on the 10th/11th and a $1k on the 12th may be my only real options. The structures look similar with with 7500 starting in the MM and 5000 in the $1k. I’m not sure what the field sizes and payout % is?
What are the satellites really like in structure, buy-in and field size?
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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Def try and come for the meetup if you can! Millionaire Maker will be a good event, and compared to those daily turbos you are used to you will feel like you have all the time in the world! You could also check on the Planet Hollywood schedule as those are really good tourneys. And for some great value (although not with the best structures) the Rio Deepstacks that they run every day are a GREAT value!! And you can play a ton of those in a short time as they run like 3 or 4 a day!
December 30, 2015
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If I can convince work to let me work remotely for a few days I might be able to span the time between events at the start, so… What do you think of the Colossus II? Do you think planning 1-2 bullets for this plus some deep-stack casino tourneys would be better value for me than a single shot at the Millionaire Maker?
The Colossus day 1 flights are only 30-minute levels (60min for day 2+) but…
This year, the Colossus will use a new payout system which will see each starting flight play into the money. For each flight, a separate payout table will be produced based on the number of entries in that flight. (Example: 1,000 players enter Flight B, thus 150 players will reach the money).
…so starting with just 5k chips, day one ends with level 18 which is 3,000/6,000 (500 antees): ….._14902.pdf
…that seems kind of hyper, no?
The Millionaire Maker looks like the same structure but 60min/level from the beginning and 7,500 starting stack.
August 20, 2015
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You could also check on the Planet Hollywood schedule as those are really good tourneys. And for some great value (although not with the best structures) the Rio Deepstacks that they run every day are a GREAT value!!
Do they run different games during the WSOP? Last time I was in Vegas, I stayed at Planet Hollywood and while the tournaments were easy enough, they were super fast and had a very high rake %.
What are those Rio Deepstacks? I am interested to know why you say the PH tourneys are really good, and why the Rio’s ones are great value?
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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FWIW, I’ve never played the PH mtts, im just basing that on what a lot of other people (who I trust) say.
The Rio Daily Deepstacks are pretty quick structures. But are SUPER soft and often pay like $35K for first. Hard to find one day tourneys where you can ship that kind of money.
August 20, 2015
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Cool – not saying they are bad, just curious as to the ‘why’ here.
Unreal about those dailies at the Rio. Wow.
I’m going to be in Vegas for a few days over the last week of October/first week of November and want to cram in as much MTT time as I can. Was just thinking the Aria $125 tournaments, but will have to look at the Rio’s (or do those only run during the WSOP?).
November 7, 2015
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The Rio daily deepstacks are part of the WSOP that run from beginning to end, with exception of some of the collosus days i believe. Well worth it if u can run good for 12 hours or so
December 30, 2015
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Anyone have any thoughts on my last post about the Colossus II structure etc? Anyone else thinking about playing one of these?
February 20, 2015
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Colossus is fun because it has so many runners, but the variance is also a killer. It just depends on why you’re going in the first place.
If I recall, the GTD events at PH were overlays last year. Someone’s GTD events were anyway.
Last year I found a spreadsheet (Google doc) on 2+2 that I shared here. It essentially showed all the non-regularly-scheduled tournaments, broken down by day. That way you could figure out whether to go to Venetian, Binion’s, Aria, etc. If I find it, I’ll share it. If you’ve seen one, please share it 🙂
TPE meetup is always so early. I’ll try, but I’m more likely to be there around the 4th of July.
Deepstacks are a good balance between length (one day) and V quality (piss poor). If those also pay out 15% of runners, well, not bad at all, really.
Room rates for me at Rio have dropped a little, but still waiting. Don’t forget, if you have a total rewards acct already, to sign in before clicking “book now” at the top of the screen. The prices change all the time, and if you look at their multi-casino monthly calendar, any price in green is cheaper because you’re signed in, essentially.
August 4, 2013
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TOTAL REWARDS CREDIT CARD. Get one. I was going to lose my platinum status (for lack of gambling) but was given the offer that if I got their visa card I would maintain my platinum status as long as I had charges of $4,000 a year on the card…put your groceries on the card and you get platinum status (if I have understood the offer correctly). Now, if you’re someone who is in debt this is not a good deal because I think the card has some sort of ridiculous interest rate of 23.99%. I know everyone wants the points for free meals but having the platinum status in Vegas for the summer is of very high value imo. last year there was a cab line at Planet Hollywood to get to the Rio that was over an hour long; I got in the Platinum TRC line and was gone in less than a minute. checking into hotels, going to the buffet, registering for events…all much easier. it is something to look into
February 20, 2015
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I think it’s $5,000 for Platinum. There is another tier at $10,000. It’s not actually Diamond but you get some Diamond-like perks. None of the ones I want but whatever.
The WSOP just announced that you can use a credit card to pay for buy-ins up to $1,500, but you have to pay the ~3% fee so unless you have a card with at least 3% rewards, you might as well just pay cash. I tweeted at them whether there was a fee exception for using the TR credit card, and they said no. I’m annoyed because I was looking forward to not bringing so much cash to town this summer. $500/$1000 traveler’s checks are hard to get these days. And if you’re international and pay a fee for international transactions, that fee would on top of this fee.
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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Curse that 3% fee. I was looking forward to racking up a whole lot of Amazon points this summer!
March 28, 2016
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I’ll be in Vegas from June 2nd – 6th for my first WSOP. Stoked to be playing the Colossus II.
Does anyone have experience playing dailies out there? I’m trying to see if there are any good alternatives to the WSOP daily deepstacks. Aria looks decent, but I’ve never played any daily tournaments in Vegas.
Thanks
February 20, 2015
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The daily deepstacks are a fun, high-variance option. Lots of awful, awful players, and first place is usually 5 figures.
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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Three weeks to go!!
January 19, 2014
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looking forward to first wsop, not sure if i am ready, but have to go to find out! will for sure come to meetup, do you know which pros are planning on attending?
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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It really depends on who is deep in what of course…but I know that Marc Alioto, Myself, Tim Kelly and RonFez will be there at that time so will be there if we are not in anything. Pretty sure TheGinger and Cory will be there at that time as well. I’ll try and get a feel from the other pros to see who will be around!
June 3, 2012
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Looking forward to hanging out with you guys again, it’s been too long. Will be at the meetup unless I’m in the milly maker.
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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Julius187 said
Looking forward to hanging out with you guys again, it’s been too long. Will be at the meetup unless I’m in the milly maker.
Our hope is always that nobody can make the meetup because everyone is deep in tourneys! 🙂
That being said, if you can make it it will be great to hang!
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July 20, 2010
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WOOT WOOT, schedule 100% confirmed, I will be in Las Vegas May 29-June 13, A couple days of R&R, a whole lotta TPE booth, 1-2 bullets in Colossus + 2-3 other carefully selected tourneys, a few live cash sessions, My birthday,TPE meetup,1 round of Golf and heaps of chillin with my boys at the TPE house!
February 10, 2016
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Killingbird said
Julius187 said
Looking forward to hanging out with you guys again, it’s been too long. Will be at the meetup unless I’m in the milly maker.Our hope is always that nobody can make the meetup because everyone is deep in tourneys! 🙂
That being said, if you can make it it will be great to hang!
Well finally got my house booked today! Looking forward to meeting you guys at the meet up and pounding some beers with KB!
TPE Management
April 6, 2010
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BigSweatPoker said
Killingbird said
Julius187 said
Looking forward to hanging out with you guys again, it’s been too long. Will be at the meetup unless I’m in the milly maker.Our hope is always that nobody can make the meetup because everyone is deep in tourneys! 🙂
That being said, if you can make it it will be great to hang!
Well finally got my house booked today! Looking forward to meeting you guys at the meet up and pounding some beers with KB!
yesssssss!
February 20, 2015
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https://www.groupon.com/deals/spice-market-buffet-planet-hollywood-las-vegas-2
Almost nitcast-worthy but still a relatively good deal in any case. “Spice Market Buffet” was much more appropriate a name when it was the Aladdin but whatever.
Also, if anyone wants to go July 5–16, let me know. Unlimited champagne, beer, and wine!
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