As the California State Poker Championship rages on at the Commerce (with cool trophies, gotta say), tournament director Matt Savage\’s return to Vegas for an LV Poker Series at the Hard Rock has taken final shape. The series itself will now be called the Detox Poker Series. And Event #12 will be Pokerati NL/PLO.
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It\’s a $230 no-limit hold\’em / pot-limit omaha event, with a single $200 rebuy. Gee, sounds like a typical night for yours truly at the Pokerati game.
Takes place at 5 pm on Wednesday, August 18.
The 1 pm that day, btw, is a $230 NL … with no rebuys but a $50,000 guarantee. (A Matt Savage guarantee, mind you, not an old-way Hard Rock guarantee … seriously, the new bosses there really seem to have turned things around, and intend to prove their stuff during the WSOP.)
The Pokerati NL/PLO event will qualify for CardPlayer Player of the Year standings, too. (As will all the events in the Detox Poker Series.)
You\’ll notice another event added to the line-up is Event #6 … the Scott Fischman 7-Game Mix. I\’ll have to find out what the games are he\’s playing — have seen the regular cash game he hosts at the Hard Rock sometimes include as many as 13 games.
I\’m pretty excited … and hope expect to see all of you there. It\’s been too long since I\’ve hosted a tournament … I wanted to TD this one actually, but alas, apparently Savage is \”more experienced\”. Whatever … if this goes well, maybe something akin to the Pokerati Invitational and Lodge Amateur Poker TOC can come of it.
Meanwhile, if you happen to be in Vegas, don\’t forget, tonight is @Pokerati night @HardRockPoker … which generally means the best 1/2 NL/PLO in Vegas … lots of running-it-twice … $50 splash pots every half-hour … fun media types trading rumors and war stories … shameful amounts of twittering … usually a Euro or two … and almost always a Delta Beta or three who overplay their hands in PLO without a viable redraw.