Can you elaborate on this? I’m headed to Vegas in January and while I’m saddened to hear poker rooms are closing I’m titillated by the idea of massive freerolls. Just played a few hours of 1-3 at Borgata and would’ve loved a damn freeroll lol
Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, and Mirage have been "permanently" closed. The Freerolls will be held at the MGM, in November and December. As such, the collected jackpots must be returned. A spokesman has said that the future of the rooms going forward will be "continually evaluated", but they have already moved slot machines into the Mirage poker room. Slots continually make more money than card rooms, so I'm calling it dead for good, unless poker has a second boom.
Mandalay Bays was Nov 3, and they handed out $24,022
The Mirage money will go Nov 17th, to the tune of $69,804
Excalibur's money will go Dec 1st, and will be played for $27,837.
"Tickets" go very quickly, as you would expect. Man Bay and Mirage events have already sold out, but you can still get a chance at the tournament start, as anyone not there 20 minutes
before the start of the event will surrender their seat to players waiting at the room.
I can dig up the email if anyone needs more info.