Hey all, I'm going to go play this based on last year's specs and the timing of a few things that I think will lower the expected attendance: (1) time change (2) price of gas in SoCal (3) bad economy (4) I can afford to play until 4am as I am not working (see #3) :laugh: I doubt this is enough lead time for anyone local to consider a drive out for the 4pm event...but if so, look for me!! ~Sandy
I was quite right about the attendance: 168 registered, 6 were men vs 242 registered last year. I was knocked out 3 hands after the first break, appx. 105th...oh well. But I did well enough at Pai Gow to make back my entry and pre-tournament losses. :laugh: So costs were: T-shirt, 3/4 tank of gas, two fast food meals.
Anti-discrimination laws rarely but occasionally go too far. Six men registered for the ladies' tournament? Maybe I'm just a throwback but I'd be embarrassed to enter such an event, and that embarrassment would increase logarithmically if I won. Sometimes the legal thing to do doesn't quite meet with the right thing to do. Shame on those six guys. Get a life, gentlemen.
Those 6 guys got bounties on their head by the LADY Poker Room Manager! $15 food voucher on all of them a pair of earrings (from a jeweler who was playing) on all of them RiverCard.com's President had a hat for the ladies who knocked the first 5 out and a 'package' of merch for the lady knocking out the last man $50 Harrah's spa voucher for the lady who knocked out the last man If the pot got sweeter after I was out, I don't know about it. I also heard rumor that they were also going to relinquish their Harrah's card for playing inthe Ladies' round...but I wasn't paying that much attention as there wasn't a guy on my table.
