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I won a single table satellite into the Red River Roundup being held at the Winstar Casino (http://www.winstarcasinos.com) in Oklahoma, August 25-27. David Williams and Greg Raymer (and last year's winner) will be in attendance (with $5k bounties on their heads).Poker Gods, please give me a shot at Raymer!!! It's an $1100 buy-in and they are currently saying it's capped at 504 people, but I got the impression they may expand it. It's not a great structure, but since it's only 45 minutes from my house and I'm on a complete free-roll now, I'm not going to complain! :)I'm playing on Friday the 25th, so I'll post a recap on Saturday.

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I won a single table satellite into the Red River Roundup being held at the Winstar Casino (http://www.winstarcasinos.com) in Oklahoma, August 25-27. David Williams and Greg Raymer (and last year's winner) will be in attendance (with $5k bounties on their heads).Poker Gods, please give me a shot at Raymer!!! It's an $1100 buy-in and they are currently saying it's capped at 504 people, but I got the impression they may expand it. It's not a great structure, but since it's only 45 minutes from my house and I'm on a complete free-roll now, I'm not going to complain! :)I'm playing on Friday the 25th, so I'll post a recap on Saturday.
For a $1000 buyin tourney, one would expect a better structure than a home game type blind doubler.
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I just learned this home game called "Red River." When the river comes, if it is a red card, there is a round of betting followed by another card (and subsequent round of betting) until the last card that shows is black.Crazy.But fun :club:

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I'm in Hickory Creek (just south of Denton). Yeah, the blind structure is pretty bad...I'm hoping they'll change it, but not holding my breath!I've not heard of that Red River game Ben... I'll have to try that one out at our next dealer's choice night....

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I won a single table satellite into the Red River Roundup being held at the Winstar Casino (http://www.winstarcasinos.com) in Oklahoma, August 25-27. David Williams and Greg Raymer (and last year's winner) will be in attendance (with $5k bounties on their heads).Poker Gods, please give me a shot at Raymer!!! It's an $1100 buy-in and they are currently saying it's capped at 504 people, but I got the impression they may expand it. It's not a great structure, but since it's only 45 minutes from my house and I'm on a complete free-roll now, I'm not going to complain! :)I'm playing on Friday the 25th, so I'll post a recap on Saturday.
Hey bro I won my seat last night on the first try. I will see you there. I am playin in the Saturday start day. I hope to see you at the final table :club:
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Hey bro I won my seat last night on the first try. I will see you there. I am playin in the Saturday start day. I hope to see you at the final table :club:
I'm in too...playing Friday. It's a brutal structure...over 500 entries, only 18 pay out. VERY top heavy payouts...1st gets 40% of the prize pool, so a little over $200k, plus an entry to the 5 Diamond WPT event and a freeroll for next years roundup. Good luck to all, hope to see some FCPers there.
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I'm in Hickory Creek (just south of Denton). Yeah, the blind structure is pretty bad...I'm hoping they'll change it, but not holding my breath!I've not heard of that Red River game Ben... I'll have to try that one out at our next dealer's choice night....
Where did you win your seat? Is there a way to do this online?
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Where did you win your seat? Is there a way to do this online?
I don't think you can qualify online. Go to winstarcasinos.com and they have several casinos that u can qualify from.
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Hey Aces, Good luck. I won a seat about 5 weeks ago also. Been going nuts waiting for that thing to come around. Structure does seem pretty crappy. FYI: I heard David Williams is playing on Friday and Raymer on Saturday.

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I called Winstar and I they updated the blind structure:Starting chips: 3000Blinds Go up every 30 minutes:25-2525-5050-10075-150100-200300-600etc....I wasn't able to get the entire list as I didn't have anything to write with but it is better than I thought. There were rumors that it was a blind doubling crapshoot so it looks like it is a little better. THe only bad thing is that they only pay the top 18. I guess it's good if you win :)I'll see you donkies there !!!!

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Hello all. I won a seat on my first try about a month ago...I found this structure on another message baord. It's not perfect, but I was fearing much worse a few weeks ago. Don't know how accurate it is, but this is the info I found:The 2nd AnnualRed River Roundup Semi- Final Rounds - August 25th & 26th - 12:00 pmFinals - August 27th - 2:00pmSchedule Of Play 2006 Red River RoundupLevel Time Blinds Ante1 30 Minutes $25 - $252 30 Minutes $25 - $50 3 30 Minutes $50 - $1004 30 Minutes $75 - $15020 Minute Break5 30 Minutes $100 - $2006 30 Minutes $200 - $400 $25 7 30 Minutes $300 - $600 $508 30 Minutes $400 - $800 $7520 Minute Break9 30 Minutes $600 - $1,200 $10010 30 Minutes $800 - $1,600 $10011 30 Minutes $1,000 - $2,000 $20012 30 Minutes $1,500 - $3,000 $30060 Minute Break13 30 Minutes $1,500 - $3,000 $40014 30 Minutes $2,000 - $4,000 $50015 30 Minutes $3,000 - $6,000 $60016 30 Minutes $4,000 - $8,000 $80020 Minute Break17 30 Minutes $5,000 - $10,000 $1,00018 30 Minutes $8,000 - $16,000 $1,50019 30 Minutes $10,000 - $20,000 $2,00020 30 Minutes $15,000 - $30,000 $3,00020 Minute Break21 30 Minutes $20,000 - $40,000 $4,00022 30 Minutes $25,000 - $50,000 $5,00023 30 Minutes $30,000 - $60,000 $6,00024 30 Minutes $40,000 - $80,000 $8,00048 20 Minute Break25 30 Minutes $50,000 - $100,000 $10,00026 30 Minutes $60,000 - $120,000 $12,00027 30 Minutes $75,000 - $150,000 $15,00028 30 Minutes $100,000 - $200,000 $20,000

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sorry to start this and then disappear... crazy couple of weeks here...I'm ready for tomorrow!!!Also glad the structure has been modified to be a little more sensible...I'm playing tomorrow (Friday)... I'll be wearing my FCP gear, so come on up and introduce yourself if you see me! Good luck, let's get an FCP person at the FT!!!

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Well, the structure wasn't even as good as I had posted above as the 75/150 level was cut out...plus in a 504 person capped tourney, somehow we ended up with 280 players playing today...???so we went from 50/100 to 100/200 to 200/400. SickI was at 7k at the first break when avg was 4k...but went ice cold after and got ate up slowly.KQ from the button and pushed into an unopened pot with only about 5x the bb left. BB woke up with QQ and I was finito.Finished about 77th of 280.anyway...good luck to anyone playing tomorrow.

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yeah, they upped it to 560 people, thus 280 Friday and 280 Saturday...you ran better than me... my (long) report is forthcoming...but suffice it to say that the best hand I saw all day was pocket 8's... :(they did make it 2 starting days, but with the way the blinds were going up, I'm not sure why... apparently there's a 7pm curfew in Oklahoma or something, cause they certainly didn't want us to still be there... (unless we were in the cash game, of course!)Showed up 45 min before cards are in the air and get registered. I get my seating assignment and am happy to see that I'm at table 26 (my birthday is today, the 26th) and that I'm at seat 9 (I like sitting in that spot and 9 is one of my lucky numbers).Standing around, checking out the scene when David Williams walks by being led by one of the tournament folks. He's personable and stops to shake hands with anyone that asks. I overhear someone else say that David is starting at table 26. I look over at the table and notice that seats 1-6 are full, so only 7-10 are left open. I'm at 9, so I've either got David on my immediateleft or a couple to my right. Given that he has a $5,000 bounty on his head, I'm doing a little prayer that he's on my right. I wasn't nervous at all before this, but hearing that he's at my table puts a couple of small butterflies in my stomach.I take my seat and #8 shows up, so he's either $10 or $7. He finally comes over and sits in the #7 seat and introduces himself to me and seat #8 (#6 was empty). After everyone is seated they do a little 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" number on the stage. It was OK, but the best thing about it was the talent which looked pretty nice in their tight shorts, chaps, hats, etc... Next is the emcee, and then the tournament director gets up and goes over some rules. He seems a bit nervous as his voice was shaking a bit...guess he's finally made the BIG time in Thackerville, OK. :club: As for the rules, they are pretty standard. There was one that I found interesting. If you exposed your hand before betting was complete (i.e.-showing your opponent what you have to get a read), there is a 15 minute penalty, BUT your hand is not dead. Seemed a little counter-intuitive to me, but perhaps I've not thought it through enough. The structure is pretty horrible : $3,000 in starting chips with starting blinds of $25-$25... 30 minute levels... by level 4 it's up to $100-$200... if you don't catch some cards in the first couple of rounds, you're just going to have to push in and get lucky in round 4 or so... (it was worse than this though at one point)Unfortunately for me, I never had any hand better than a pair of 8's (pocket 8's at that!). I got some low pairs a couple of times in early position, which I ditched, and the board would not have given me a set in any of those instances. I got AK spades one time and busted someone, but he only had about $700. I never had any flush draws, and I only had 2 open-ended straightdraws that both missed (got to see them cheaply). I saw AJ a couple of times, but both times I can think of there was a raise and a re-raise, so I had to muck.Of the starting 10 at table #26, 9 of us seemed to know what we were doing and the 10th was the guy I busted. I was able to run a few bluffs and built my chip stack up to about $3600 in the second level, but I pretty much just bled away after that.Around the start of the second round, there was a small stir in the room and we looked up to notice about 10 young ladies had come into the room in what I would call the sexy-cowgirl-goes-to-school outfit. Red and white plaid short sundress... white knee highs.. boots and cowboy hat... this outfit definitely looked like it came from a mail order stripper clothing catalog... we finally figured out they were the drink runners, and one particular blonde was around our table, so we decided to put her to work... we started ordering drinks, 2 of us at a time, and we worked our way around the whole table, just so we could keep watching her walk away and come back... walk away and come back...Right before the 4th level ended, David was down to $1050 in chips, so we were all waiting for him to shove in. We were also watching the table breaks be done and we were next in line to be broken up, so we were trying to play as fast as possible.Before David could shove in, the tournament person come over to move us. We cajoled her into letting us have one more hanf, but David did not push in. (He went to the next table and doubled up with AQ versus A6 on his very next hand!)Unfortunately for me (again), I got bounced to the next table to be broken up, and 1 away from the BB. As soon as the blinds run through me, I'm moved again, this time I'm sat in the button though, so I finally caught a break. I get about 4 hands in (this dealer is SLOW!!!) and we are sent to break. I'm talking to the guys at this table during the break and they tell me that in level 3, they had played for 20 of the 30 minutes when someone noticed they had a green card in their brown deck (or it might have been vice-versa)! I guess when the dealer switched out the decks between levels, they someone got a card transferred over and it wasn't noticed until 2/3 of the waythrough that round! Unreal....Blinds are now $200-$400 and my stack is down to $2000... I fold my 72 to a massive raise in my BB. Then I get KJ in the small blind. There's one limper when it gets to me, so I decide to make my stand.. this is only the 2nd hand that I've had 2 face cards in all day! I shove in my last $1800, the BB folds, and the limper calls (uh-oh). He turns over 8's though, so I have some outs, but nothing hits for me and that's it. Oh well... I'm out at about 150 of the 280 that started today. I move over to watch David and in a few mintues he's all in with pocket 8's versus K's. The K's makes a set on the flop and full house on theturn and that's it for David at about 140th position.Overall, I had fun. I was on a free roll after winning the satellite, so it's hard to complain. However, the structure was pretty bad, just turned into an all-in luckfest in the 4th level. I even overheard David complaining about it to the tourney folks on his way out. That being said, I did get to spend about 2 hours playing and talking with David, so that was cool. I got some free schwag (hat, shirt, koozie, and key rings). If you are still reading.. thanks...if not, wake up!

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