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Good live tournaments in Michigan and surrounding areas

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  1. Duff McGuire Duff McGuire is offline

    Lake Orion, MI
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    May 21st, 2011 (5/21/2011 6:52pm)

    Since online is basically shut down, I am trying to find good live tournaments. For the most part the Detroit casino tournaments are terrible. I would love to find a good blind structure tourny. I play at Snookers on Sundays once in a while and their structure is ok. I have also looked at Soaring Eagle last Saturday of the month tourny. I have heard good things about it. Also would be willing to drive the 3.5 hrs to Hammond IN and play in their $500 end of the month tourny. Any others or any comments on the ones I mentioned? Seems most of the tournys locally are a total donkfest.
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  2. WirdPair WirdPair is offline

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    Jul 19th, 2011 (7/19/2011 3:19pm) in reply to Duff McGuire

    I'm considering going to Hammond this month for $500 buy-in tourney($15K added to prizepool, and final 9 players in July win seat into 250K guarantee-$1500 Buy-in Tournament in August). Plus I guess they give away a bunch of seats to the cash game players throughout the month, so the field is pretty soft. Looked at blind structure, and it seemed OK, had the dreaded 100-200-25 to 200-400-50 level jump. Overall structure looks decent, 40 minute blinds, 10K starting stacks(8k+2k for $10 dealer toke) Here is link for structure http://www.horseshoehammond.com/imag...yTrnmnt_Rk.pdf
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  3. mdshack14 mdshack14 is offline

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    Jul 19th, 2011 (7/19/2011 10:50pm) in reply to WirdPair

    I've played in the past couple Friday and Sunday tourneys at the Horseshoe in Hammond and the structure is decent and the players are pretty bad. With the bigger starting stack and longer blind levels(only 30 minutes for the Friday and Sunday tourney) it would seem that the Saturday tourney would be even better.
     
  4. famous5ives famous5ives is offline

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    Jul 20th, 2011 (7/20/2011 2:01am) in reply to mdshack14

    soaring eagles is decent, i havent been there in over a year. I remember i played in one good one, and one shitty one, i would assume the good one was the end of the month tournament
  5. Duff McGuire Duff McGuire is offline

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    Jul 20th, 2011 (7/20/2011 4:50am) in reply to famous5ives

    The problem with soaring Eagles is you have to drive up there the day before to ensure you get into the tournament. They only have 180 seats. I have been thinking about the Hammond tourny.
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  6. Drinking Buddy Drinking Buddy is offline

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    Jul 20th, 2011 (7/20/2011 7:49am) in reply to Duff McGuire

    Stacks Holdem Bar
    The Summer Classic Tournament is just 4 days away. Remember, Preregistration starts on Wednesday, July 20th for $250! Saturday Registration will be $300. Come be a part of another big tournament at Stacks on July 23rd at 1PM.


    Address
    4750 S. Hagadorn Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823 · Get Directions
    Phone
    517-333-6799
    Website
    http://www.stacksel.com
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    Mon - Fri: 3:00 pm - 2:00 am
    Sat: 12:00 pm - 2:00 am

    new charity room the first time they ran this tournament 1st was over 8k
     
  7. mdshack14 mdshack14 is offline

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    Jul 20th, 2011 (7/20/2011 7:57am) in reply to Drinking Buddy

     
    Originally Posted by Drinking Buddy View Post

    Stacks Holdem Bar
    The Summer Classic Tournament is just 4 days away. Remember, Preregistration starts on Wednesday, July 20th for $250! Saturday Registration will be $300. Come be a part of another big tournament at Stacks on July 23rd at 1PM.

    Address
    4750 S. Hagadorn Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823 · Get Directions
    Phone
    517-333-6799
    Website
    http://www.stacksel.com
    Hours
    Mon - Fri: 3:00 pm - 2:00 am
    Sat: 12:00 pm - 2:00 am

    new charity room the first time they ran this tournament 1st was over 8k

    Why do they start with such massive stacks in such low buy in tourneys and then increase the blinds every 15 minutes?
     
  8. Drinking Buddy Drinking Buddy is offline

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    Jul 20th, 2011 (7/20/2011 8:04am) in reply to mdshack14

    tbh i have not been there yet, I just saw that the last time they ran this tournament it was over 8k up top which is quite large for one like this...haven't even looked at the structure, but the room looks nice :-x
     
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