Last night, I received a telephone call from Les Thacker, a casino host at the Hilton and the former 2nd-in-charge at the Hilton Millions. He confirmed that the CLASSIC is officially cancelled. He says a committee at the Hilton has setup a FINALS for Dec 6-7, 2007. All entrants in the 4 qualifiers will be invited and rooms comped. There will be a wild card drawing of all entries who did not qualify. I believe if you played more than once and did not qualify any of the times, you will have a card in the drawing for each time you played. They will draw 16 wild cards and the field of 32 (with the 16 qualifiers) will play a single elimination step-ladder 32-player draw, head-to-head matches. He believes the prize fund is about $157,000. I believe it is over $160,000 and closer to $165,000.
