Anyone playing/played the Heartland Poker Tour ?

[kasey2004]

Its a series of Tourneys in Minnesota.

I am thinking of playing in one.

Just wondering if anyone played in the first one i think happened already, and/or the next ones they are having. I guess they are televising the final table on Fox Sports.

Heartland Poker Tour (http://www.heartlandpokertour.com) for more info

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[CDSNUTSINYAMOUTH]

I have seen advertisements of this tournament on a bathroom stall driving through Morton. I really wanted to play in one of the tournies..I think it just passed..like a quarter million dollar guaranteed. Looks like a lot of fun.

How'd you do in them?

[kasey2004]

The first one was a huge guarentee with a $500 entry. I was wondering if anyone else played in it. Just to know if the structure/play was decent.

I will be playing in October in Theif River Falls

"$30,000 Guaranteed For 1st Place!! · $250 Buy In + $25"

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[tek]

I played the first one last month at Northern Lights (and will play at Jackpot in two weeks).

It was run pretty well, although there were no monitors with blind levels and timers. The TD seemed to be new to tournies, but did a fine job. The check-in table was well run. The dealers did a fine job.

The final table was set up profesionally with scaffolding around it for lights. I was impressed with the production quality.

On a technical note, I know they were a few players short of breaking even on the prize side. If FSN paid them, they may have broke even for the event, as the radio and print ads for the tourny were not cheap...

They have a great idea as far as having other casinos run satellites for the casino hosting the event.

I notice they are guaranteeing less in subsequent events than they did last month. Also, future events guaranty first place while some guaranty just first. The entry/buy in
is also different for some events: some are $250+25 and some are $500+50.

Northern Lights final table is scheduled for September airing.

[pudley4]

Can I bump this since I just finished 2nd at Jackpot's HPT event?

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Did anyone else play in it? I qualified Saturday morning; On Sunday I was the guy in the blue and white striped shirt and blue baseball hat.

[tek]

Oh yes, seat one when we still had more than 6 players, right? Who won?

I took 7th place today. Missed the TV cut by one, but had a great run of cards and cashed $4245.

There were four qualifying rounds: 11AM and 4PM on Fri and Sat. I made the top 9 on Fri 4PM.

I had mixed results with regular hands, but went all in seven times and won each time. Despite being behind each time, I made the draws I needed. Made it to the fimal table of eleven and coasted until two more got knocked out.

Came back today at 9AM along with 39 others. The magic continued. Second hand AA. JJ goes all in, I call and win unimproved. Some time later I flop quad 10's and bet the flop and turn hard and go all in on the river. One guy stayed with me all the way with AK and a A1010 flop. He still had some chips left, but was soon out. Took out another guy who was all in with 11k--got a K on the river to go with my AK and made a better boat than him /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Around noon we were down to 10--4 more until the TV final table. At 12:30 we were down to 7. I was second to last in chips and the payout for 6th and 7th were not much different. I didn't want to be the short stack at the TV table and have to go all in on some random hand and get knocked out.

So I waited for as good a hand as I could get with the blinds at 6k/12k and me at 187k. I got an AhQd. UTG raised to 36k, I called. The guy behind me raised to 100k. Folded to me, I go all in. Raiser calls with QQ. I knew I'd probably be behind, but I still had a decent hand heads up. I needed to make a move to simultaneously double up and knock someone off to be comfortably stacked and have momentum for the final 6 and I had been making my draws all through the tourny.

The flop did not have an Ace, but it had two hearts. The turn had another heart. Got mucho outs to suck out on the river. Maybe too many. All my all-ins were made by hitting one of a few outs. I always seem to hit a few outs but whiff when I have many outs.

Didn't make an Ace or a heart. Out on the bubble with no regrets.

I'll be at the Heartland event on the 8/27 qualifying round at St. Croix casino. Give me a Sup Bro /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[kasey2004]

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Can I bump this since I just finished 2nd at Jackpot's HPT event?


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good job.

Im still waiting for Thief in October so i dont have to travel to far to play.

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[Richard Tanner]

Anyone know of the age limits for these tourneys, more specifically the one at The Seven Clans Casino in October. I've gone over that website and the one for the Casino and there is no age info to be found anywhere.
Thanks

Cody

[whiskeytown]

I heard about them from Dee, my bartender at Applebee's - (she's a big poker player) -

not sure - I can't make the turtle lake events, unfortunately - which is too bad cause they look pretty top heavy.

RB

[Bartman387]

I aiming at playing in the Mystic Lake event, $100,000 guaranteed aint bad

[kasey2004]

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I would like to play more of them, i cant until the Theif River Falls one... anyone close enough to play that ?
I noticed alot of 2+2ers from Minnesota.

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[tek]

Mystic Lake isn't on the schedule.

[Bartman387]

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Mystic Lake isn't on the schedule.

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Oops, meant the Mille Lacs event

[prana]

man i didn't realize there were that many people in this area frequenting this forum.....sweet

[prana]

a buddy of mine cashed in the first event, 1 out of the final table, i couldn't make it but plan on hopefully hitting one of the next couple depending on school issues.

[Bartman387]

I may be able to get my work to pay for my entry in exchange for me wearing their logo, but I am wondering if the HPT allows logos? I didn't see anything on their website about it, does anyone have any idea if they allow logos?

[tek]

Heartland contact info (http://www.heartlandpokertour.com/contact.htm)

Email them. They respond very quickly.

[Bartman387]

After I posted I noticed the contact info, I just figured with us having a poster who made it to the final table and a few others who played on teh final day they may have info on whether they had a policy regarding this.

[tek]

I don't have a sponsor so I didn't really look into it.

[Bartman387]

e-mailed Todd Anderson and he got back to saying to go for it, just in case anyone was interested.