The first time I ever went to the Tulsa Cherokee casino was last Dec. for the WSOB qualifiers. It is a very nice casnio, nice clean rooms, and very friendly people running it, but.... Their blackjack tournaments (for the WSOB qualifiers) were nice, but nothing I would make a speical trip for. Each player started with $1,000 in "No Cash Value" chips, you had a $10 min. and $1,000 max betting limits, no re-buys, 7 players per table, only 18 hands per round, and no surrender. Well after talking to the tournament director, Eric Woods (who I have since become friends with). I told him what most players want and are willing to travel for in a blackjack tournament. So I was pleasantly surprize to hear that now Tulsa offer's the following rules: 1. $500 in "NCV" chips. 2. $10 min. - $200 max. betting limits. 3. 24 hands per round. 4. 6 players per table. 5. 2 advance from each table. 6. Re-buys, (but not on their monthly tournaments). 7. Surrender. (Basicly my cruise format, except I offer $5 min. bet). It is very nice (and rare) when you find a casino manager or tournament director that listens to the players and actually trys to improve their tournament for the players, (which actually improves the tournaments for the casinos). Thumbs up Eric for being in that upper class of casino management with the likes of Jimmy Wike (Ceasars LV), Les Thacker (LV Hilton), and Adoff Lepre (Gold Strike, Tunica). Even better news (I hope), I suggested to Eric (tonight) that their monthly blackjack tournaments change their entry format. Currently they offer free entry into their monthly BJ tournament to any players with over 10 hours logged in the prior month. This is great for locals, but hard for most of us from out of state to try and get away just to play and get 10 hours just to be able and come back again the following month. My suggestion was to still allow the 10 hour comp-ed entry, but also offer a $300 buy-in entry to those who can't make it up each month for the 10 hours of regular table play and offer re-buys, even to the players who were comp-ed. Then all that extra money could go into the prize pool as well. I believe once he runs it by the state police (their gaming control) I think they will start running the monthly tournaments this way. It makes sense, the casino will pull in more players and add more money to the prize pool. At this time Cherokee is hosting a GUARANTEED: $70,000 monthly tournament, with GUARANTEED $30,000 1st prize money. Just think by opening up their tournaments they could pull in an extra $30,000 easy, making it a monthly $100,000 tournament with $50,000 for 1st prize or even better, pay down to 18th position so they would have more winners.
tulsa Good Job And Now I Hope They Are One Our Tour List-keep Up The Good Work Rick Build It And The Will Come
Tulsa Cruise? Here is an added note to my Tulsa thread. Eric Woods, (TD @ Tulsa) maybe going on the blackjack cruise this year. Seems that Tulsa like my concept of hosting a BJ cruise is wants him to check it out. If all goings well we maybe getting casino support. This could mean an extra 30 to 50 players for future cruises, possibly more. All the players going on this years cruise will get to meet Eric.
Tulsa Maybe Tulsa Could Very Well Be The Home Of Our Tournament Tour And Put Both Of Us On The Map What Do You Think:d :d :d
I think.... Any and all casinos that are interested in my Tour and are willing to work with and for the players has my vote! But remember it's a two way street, we need to take care of those casinos that are working with us.
Correction The Tulsa monthly tournaments are not using the new format, (at least not yet) that they used for the "Scotty Nyegen" BJ tournament, (the format I mentioned above). Here is a link to Tulsa Cherokee casino and their current tournament format. http://www.cherokeecasino.com/tulsa/cards_schedule_list.aspx# The site also just shows that only the 1st place of $30,000 is guaranteed, not the entire prize pool of $70,000. Thanks Chips for pointing this out.
