TXtourplayer
Executive Member
From what I am hearing we may have seen the last of the week long blackjack tournaments at the Cherokee casino in Tulsa.
Normaly they would have started advertising for their February events by now. I was told that they are looking at going back to the old tournament format of only allowing players with a set number of hours played on the regular tables a chance to play in any up coming tournaments.
It's a shame that they are not going to continue these week long blackjack tournaments after working so hard to build them up.
I understand the thought process behind the change, this way the prize money will be won by locals and the money will stay locally. At least by someone that puts in the required hours needed to qualify for the tournaments.
What I don't understand is why cancel the current blackjack tournaments when they give away so much more in the poker events?
With their location (centrally located), and if they continued to host these week long events, and add a little more to the prize pools I think they could easly have some of the biggest player turnouts in the country.
After all they have to give away all the money they win, all they get to keep are the antes.
If they go back to the free $30,000 1st prize monthly events for qualified players with X number of hours, plus open the event up to everyone else at a $300 entry, just think how many players they would draw?
Think about all the rooms they could and would sellout, the food and any and all table or machine play they would receive during that week.
They could hold the week long $100 entries and then with the out of town players entries and re-buys adding to the prize pool, first place could be over $50,000 easy for the main event.
Just my opinion, what do y'all think?
Normaly they would have started advertising for their February events by now. I was told that they are looking at going back to the old tournament format of only allowing players with a set number of hours played on the regular tables a chance to play in any up coming tournaments.
It's a shame that they are not going to continue these week long blackjack tournaments after working so hard to build them up.
I understand the thought process behind the change, this way the prize money will be won by locals and the money will stay locally. At least by someone that puts in the required hours needed to qualify for the tournaments.
What I don't understand is why cancel the current blackjack tournaments when they give away so much more in the poker events?
With their location (centrally located), and if they continued to host these week long events, and add a little more to the prize pools I think they could easly have some of the biggest player turnouts in the country.
After all they have to give away all the money they win, all they get to keep are the antes.
If they go back to the free $30,000 1st prize monthly events for qualified players with X number of hours, plus open the event up to everyone else at a $300 entry, just think how many players they would draw?
Think about all the rooms they could and would sellout, the food and any and all table or machine play they would receive during that week.
They could hold the week long $100 entries and then with the out of town players entries and re-buys adding to the prize pool, first place could be over $50,000 easy for the main event.
Just my opinion, what do y'all think?
