Odds and Ends, Monday Edition

At this time last year, I was in Sydney preparing to cover the APPT Grand Final. Despite covering two of the three APPT tournaments held this year, I wasn't able to make it down to Sydney for the Grand Final that starts tomorrow. It's a shame but I'm sure the three Americans that are there will get on famously without me.

In the meantime... I'm starting to look forward to the arrival of a large group of clowns next week -- and I don't mean the ones associated with the National Finals of Rodeo. I've done a minimal amount of legwork at the request of true mastermind April to get the Saturday tournament set up at Caesar's. Start time is 1pm, buy-in is $100, the rest of the details are available on April's site. I promised the TD at Caesar's one thing, so here it is:

A few months ago, Caesar's started offering a bad-beat jackpot. It works the same way the jackpot at the Station casinos works: it starts at something high (quad 8s?) and then each week that it hasn't been hit the qualifier is lowered. When I was in the room a few weeks ago to work out the tourney details it hadn't been hit in a while. I have no idea if it's been hit since then. Anyway, there will be plenty of side-game action (I imagine). If something like a BBJ is a sweetener for you, you might consider offering Caesar's some of your play.

Lastly, City Center is opening in phases starting today. Unfortunately Aria -- the new gambling property in City Center with what is supposed to become the main MGM poker room on the Strip -- does not officially open until December 16. All you WPBTers that were hoping to get a fresh look at a new room will just have to come back to Vegas another time.