rumor has it, Caesar's IN will be 100 tables, soon.

[Randy_Refeld]

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Perhaps they are going to try to get a WPT or WSOP-circuit event that will require 100 tables in one of their convention rooms or something like that

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I don't know anything about the WSOP circuit. Any casino that wants to pay the WPT can have a WPT event.

[tylerdurden]

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I don't know anything about the WSOP circuit. Any casino that wants to pay the WPT can have a WPT event.

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WSOP Circuit is only held at properties owned by Harrah's (so far, at least). I'm guessing that eventually the WPO at the Tunica Horseshoe will eventually stop being a WPT event and become a WSOP Circuit event (they probably have a contract with WPT).

[steamboatin]

Harrah's owns Caesar's IN now. My understand they will expand into the entire half of the the main deck where the poker room is located now.

[MicroBob]

Right - Harrah's is a monster now and they own Caesar's so it could be a WSOP event.

Regarding the WPO... I suspect you are correct that they might become WSOP-circuit.
They were an ESPN event in 2002...then WPT in 2003, 4 and 5.


Possibly the reason they were WPT for 2005 had to do with already being committed to that. Perhaps the WSOP-circuit concept came to late and if Gold Strike/Horseshoe had already committed to WPT again for that year they just decided to stick with it.


but for future years it would certainly make sense if the WPO was a WSOP-circuit event instead.

[shortcore]

Ok, the skinny of it is that they are expanding to 30ish tables and they will be hosting WSOP circuit events. This is from multiple old hand dealers that I am buddies with.