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Due to a conflict in dates with The Cine Vegas Film Festival, The Palms Casino Resort is unable to hold the poker tournament this year.
After consulting with Club Officers, Robert Pardue Poker Chairman, David Spragg worker bee, and others, it was left up to ME 
to decide where to take the tourny.
Binion's poker manager Gary DeWitt has been a friend for over 25 years. They have a very agressive tournament schedule and the locals rate their tournaments among the best ran tournaments in Las Vegas.
My thoughts:
The Histroy of Las Vegas began Downtown. We sometimes forget that when we are strolling the sights of the strip.
How many of you have ever stood in front of where the Northern Club, Nevada Gaming License NO 1, 1931, was and pictured what it looked like in 1931?
How many of you have never even been Downtown?
Binion's was the place where poker began in Las Vegas.
I remember when the WSOP was less than 10 tables jammed in where ever they could get them. I remember the day Jack "Tree Top" Stauss got busted, picked up his drink and started to leave. Someone said "Jack there is another chip under your napkin. Jack sat back down, and became the WSOP Champion a few hours later.
The area was so smokey, it was hard to get your breath. Benny's wife threw a hissy fit every year. She did not want poker. Little did she know what poker would come to be today and Binion's would always be "Where It Started."
We will have a set of chips for the entrants this year. Still working on the problens related to having the tournys in two casinos.
Buy-ins are the same as last year, $100 for poker, $80 for Blackjack.
Looks like I get to play this year for the 1st time since The Orleans tourny in 2002.
I plan on having my winning picture taken on the same spot the likes of Stu Unger, Tree Top, Johnny Chan, and Doyle stood for their winning photos.
As Bob Barker would say "COOOOOME on DOWN" Town.
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Well... big FUN & a Bounty on Gene