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Friday 4PM

I played the first one last month at Northern Lights. 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 for broadcast rights, 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'm not sure why they are having two events in August and none in July.

One of the dealers at St. Croix (where the Aug 25-28 event will be held) said something about Heartland tryiong to get 'name players' to come in. Probably have to be broke name players who need a $30k first place win to get their craps and horse betting BR up to snuff (if ya know what I'm sayin' without mentioning names...)