Palms MTT's

[Prime Time]

The tournaments at the Palms are very soft, and if you get a chance to play them there is definitely positive EV there.

They have 4 daily that range from 500 and 200 events. And 100 and 200 RB events.

I played three and made 1 final table during my stay in Vegas.

Here is an example that I was telling Gavin about: in one w/ around half the field gone, weak player limps UG, I push w/ JJ in UG+1. All fold to limper who calls after thinking for 5 seconds w/ As6s for three quarters of his stack. A nice double up gift.

If you get a chance, go check these out.

[PennDisc]

What is the blind structure on these?

[LLKOOLK1]

I agree..they also have those single table tourneys that spread out payouts pretty liberally, and is an extremly easy game to place in top 3...literally sat there all day on my last day of my wsop trip...It seems like a real party hotel/casino and has allot of young inexperienced players, who really make the games much softer than usual, but provide you with the occasional bad beat
=LL

[Pigskin P]

Have to agree with Prime Time, who I had the pleasure of meeting and playing with near the end of one of these. Lots of bad players who fall in love with any crappy Ace and who don't seem to have a problem calling all-in after announcing that they think they're beat (WTF??). I played 3 and made one final table as well - but felt I could've easily made the top 10 in all three had I not run into some horrendous beats. I met a guy named Keith over at the WSOP who said he had entered 7 of the Palm tournaments and had won 3 of them outright.

I also found good action in their 2-5 NLHE game, though I'm not a big fan of their room. Made $1000 bucks in a little under 4 hours playing fairly a straight forward TAG game. Twice had players pay off my overpairs by pushing with top pair.

If you're running bad at the Series, a trip across the street to the Palms might make your day. Worked for me.

[billyjex]

just curious, how big is the field for the Palms tourneys?
( the 100 rebuy and 200 freezeout specifically.) thanks.

[James Lang]

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just curious, how big is the field for the Palms tourneys?
( the 100 rebuy and 200 freezeout specifically.) thanks.

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Check cardplayer's website, they list every tournament they've run so far

[radioheadfan]

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The tournaments at the Palms are very soft, and if you get a chance to play them there is definitely positive EV there.

They have 4 daily that range from 500 and 200 events. And 100 and 200 RB events.

I played three and made 1 final table during my stay in Vegas.

Here is an example that I was telling Gavin about: in one w/ around half the field gone, weak player limps UG, I push w/ JJ in UG+1. All fold to limper who calls after thinking for 5 seconds w/ As6s for three quarters of his stack. A nice double up gift.

If you get a chance, go check these out.

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It's not a gift when he hits his A 30% of the time. Then it's a get the hell out of this tournament on a bad beat gift....

[plaid]

What's the competition like once you're down to the last few tables?

Just curious, since I see a few familar names, including :
Barbara Enright -- http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournaments/event.php?id=2113&screen=result
Gary Bush and Steve Kaufman -- http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournaments/event.php?id=2107&screen=result

Are the Palms events (esp. the evening events) attracting of any of the better players on a regular basis, or was it more an anomaly to have some (semi)famous players play in the few events where I've seen them listed as making the final table?

[Degen]

headed back right now...thx