Head over to the IP and get involved in a WPT satellite poker tournament event.
IP Poker Classic / WPT Satellite
October 19 through October 29
Fri Oct 20 – ($300+$30 No Limit Hold’em)
Sat Oct 21 – ($500+$50 No Limit Hold’em)
Sun Oct 22 – ($300+$30 No Limit Hold’em)
Mon Oct 23 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Tues Oct 24 – ($200+$25 Ladies No Limit Hold’em)
Wed Oct 25 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Thurs Oct 26 – ($300+$30 No Limit Hold’em)
Fri Oct 27 – ($500+$50 No Limit Hold’em)
Sat Oct 28 – ($1,000+$80 Championship No Limit Hold’em)
Sun Oct 29 – ($300+$30 Last Chance No Limit Hold’em)
Second Chance Tournaments
Second Chance Tournaments start at 8PM and will be 1-day events.
Fri Oct 20 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Sat Oct 21 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Sun Oct 22 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Mon Oct 23 – ($100+$15 Turbo No Limit Hold’em)
Tues Oct 24 – ($200+$25 Pot Limit Omaha)
Wed Oct 25 – ($200+$25 Limit Omaha)
Thurs Oct 26 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Fri Oct 27 – ($200+$25 Double Stack Turbo NL Hold’em)
Sat Oct 28 – ($200+$25 No Limit Hold’em)
Super Satellites
October 19 – October 21 5PM start
$40+$10 Entry Fee
Winner’s will receive $500 Buy-in Chips
Oct. 22 – Oct. 28 5PM start
$40+$10 Entry Fee
Winner’s will receive $1,000 Buy-in Chips
Single Table Satellites
October 19 – October 29
Satellites run 24 hrs.
Entry Fees: $45, $65, $120, $350, $3,020
Room Rates
IP Poker Classic room rates
Sun thru Thurs $69
Fri & Sat $119
$10 Free Bet will be given with each room
1-(888)-WIN-AT-IP (Use code: WPT)
All events start at 11AM. Upon reaching the Final Table, a determination will be made if the tournament will play out or conclude the following day. Championship Event final table will reconvene on Sun. Oct. 29th at 2PM. 1st Place Prize will also include a Trip to the WPT World Championship event in Las Vegas.
BILOXI – The IP Casino made history Friday when it began hosting the Coast’s first poker circuit tournament.
From now until Oct. 29, players will vie for the first prize and a seat at the World Poker Tour Championship Event in Las Vegas. This is the tour featured Wednesday nights on the Travel Channel. It is a joint venture of Hall of Fame poker player Lyle Berman, one of the founders of Grand Casinos, and television creator and filmmaker Steven Lipscomb.
Lee Bond, IP’s director of financial planning and analysis, helped set up the tournament through contacts at Lakes Entertainment, another casino company founded by Berman where Bond previously worked.
“I called and asked what the possibility of getting a World Poker Tour event at Biloxi would be,” Bond said. “Two hours later, we had people at the World Poker Tour excited about coming to Biloxi.”
Jacob Markowitz of Biloxi, who has been playing in poker tournaments for the past three years, sat out the action on Friday but was sponsoring another player. He said he planned to get into the game today. He said he expected the games to average about eight hours.
The World Poker Tour is a different circuit than the World Series of Poker, which is owned by Harrah’s Entertainment. Grand Casino Biloxi was scheduled to host a World Series of Poker tournament this year. That would have been the Coast’s first poker circuit event, but it was canceled because of Hurricane Katrina.
Source: Sun HeraldÂ
Hey! Pete Fountain’s back! The legendary jazz icon has had a difficult year, but is ready to set South Mississippi’s feet a-tappin’ once again. He packed the house at Casino Magic Bay St. Louis’ Oak Royale Room before the storm, and will pick up right where he left off next Friday at Hollywood Casino. Tickets are $20, include two free drinks, and go on sale Monday.
Fountain has fought hard to keep himself and his signature Dixieland jazz sound alive in the last year. His Bay St. Louis home, to which he planned to relocate permanently before Katrina, was reduced to a slab. His collection of mementos and memorabilia from a career spanning more than a half-century were washed away, as was his regular gig at the casino. But he’s still going strong after eight moves across two states, a massive heart attack, quadruple bypass surgery and a vicious case of the shingles. Read the rest of this entry »
