Rules for tournament
Attached are the rules for this tournament which I picked up.
Items to note. First of three preliminary rounds begins at 6:00, semifinals played at 9:00 and finals after semifinals completed. I think you can buy into all three rounds in advance if you wish, or hope a rebuy is available after the 6:00 or 7:00 round. I don't think there were any 8:00 seats still for sale after the 7:00 round because the buyin desk was gone.
Entry fee is noted as $25 with optional $5 dealer toke for extra 500 in chips. It says that the toke is optional, but it seemed like they collected it when signing up unless you specifically said you didn't want to pay the extra $5.
Rules say one player advances in preliminary rounds, but they actually let two advance. Players there said two advance was really their standard practice despite what the rules said. Be sure to ask dealer to be sure.
Although tables were set up to accomodate seven players, only had six at all 6:00 rounds, and some tables only had five at 7:00 round. Didn't watch the 8:00 round.
Also be sure to be in your seat, they start right on time. I saw a semifinalist disqualified because she showed up right after the dealer had dealt the cards and the rules say you are disqualified if you are not in your seat at start.
They also were having a bigger tournament on the weekend (July 10th) which I think was a $50 buyin with maybe a $50,000 prize pool. It wasn't advertised, may have been an invitational. Heard about it from a regular there. I did hear one player who said they were not a regular ask if it was still open. Dealer said they would get director to talk to them about it, so maybe you could get in without invite, not sure. I wasn't going to be there over the weekend, so didn't check on it myself.
