Thanks Hemi.
Phaze, Yes the venues pay us as entertainment... like a band or Karaoke.
We run two tournaments each night and bring about 30-50 people out for about 5 hours
No cover, no charge at all to play poker.
We use the money to pay for equipment, little daily prizes, a Tournament Director for each event and of course the Grand Prizes.
Hemi, was/is one of our very talented Tournament Directors.
We give away tournament seats and a nights lodging.
The hotels cut us a good rate on the rooms
We have also filmed six of our final events and aired them on local TV, I need to digitize these and load them on the web.
We also brought in Linda Johnson in 2006 to host one of our finals, she is one of the finest ambassadors for poker there is.
Anything I can help with, let me know.
Duncan
UPT Tour Director