Wayne “Charley” Wiggins passed away on Sunday. Charley was a nightly player and friend of VEI and for the last three seasons was a consistent 21+ winner going into the Final Tournaments. This season Charley had accumulated over 40 wins. VEI is looking into ways to honor Charley at the Final Tournament and will post its decisions here within the next week. If you have suggestions send them to postmaster@veipoker.net.

Funeral Arrangements – The services are Thursday, July 2, 2009 at Dudley Funeral Home, New Smyrna Beach Chapel located at 1108 N. Dixie Freeway New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168. The viewing is open from 11am – 1pm and the memorial service is at 1pm. Following the memorial service their will be a gathering of friends at the Pub 44 – NSB.

Final Tournament Information. The Semi-Final Tournaments will take place on Friday - July 17th @ 7:00 PM and Saturday - July 18th @ 12:00 PM (NOON), with the Finals to be held on Saturday – July 18th @ 5:30 PM. Players for each Semi-Final Tournament should arrive 90 minutes before actual play. Anyone that registers online will receive a 500 chip bonus (This bonus does not count as a win) at the Final Tournament. You should PRINT your Confirmation Email and bring it to the Final Tournament so that you do not have to complete that onsite Registration Form at Pub 44. Due to planning requrements at Pub 44 once you register please do not change your registration online any changes must be done by phone.

Players must register online by midnight June 30, 2009 to be eligible for the 500 chip bonues promised in the Player Incentives Plan. Those registering between July 1-15, 2009 will not be eligible. Online Registration closes at Midnight July 15, 2009.

The location, for the Final Tournament, will be the Pub 44 – New Smyrna Beach located on SR 44 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. You can find directions on our Vendor Information page.

If you have a win make sure that all your identification information is on file with us so that we can contact you and have your driver’s license number correct for identification at the door.

Tournament Registration

After reading this post check out June Double Certificate list to see which venues are presenting Double Cetificate Nights.

We have changed or added the following venues and nights so check the calendar for registration times at these locations.

Beginning in July we are adding the following events:

1.) Chop Shop Steakhouse located in Deltona is beginning poker nights on Wednesday July 1st. Register at 6PM and Play at 7PM.
2.) Boomerangs located in Port Orange will be hosting poker on Sunday beginning July 5th. Register at 6 PM and Play at 7 PM.
3.) South Turn located in Daytona Beach will be hosting poker on Wednesday evenings beginning July 1st. Register at 6 PM and Play at 7 PM.
4.) Peanuts Beginning on July 4th will be changing its Saturday starting play time from 3 PM to 5 PM.
5.) Red Tail’s located on Beach Street in Daytona Beach will be hosting poker on Wednesday evening eginning on July 8th. Register at 6 PM and Play at 7PM.

We will no longer be doing poker tournaments at the following locations:

1.) Crossroads Bar & Grill in DeLand
2.) Irish Pub in Titusville
3.) Effective July 19 we are being canceled at the following locations:
Port Hole – Port Orange
Pub 44 – Daytona Beach
Pub 44 – New Smyrna Beach
Saints and Sinnners – Destination Daytona

VEI will be offering Double Certificate Nights on the following dates at these specific locations. This is not a complete list for Season 12 and will be update again monthly so check it from time to time.

Venue Double Certificate Dates

Boomerangs Sports Pub – Sunday - – - – 7/5 7/12 7/19 7/26
Chop Shop Steakhouse - – - – - – - – 7/1 7/8 7/15 7/22 7/29
Irish Pub - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - 7/1 7/8 7/15 7/22 7/29
Shuttles Bar & Grill - – - – - – - – - – - -7/2 7/9 7/16 7/23 7/30
South Turn - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – 7/1 7/8 7/15 7/22 7/29

Joe Wasylean our Seaon 9 Final Tournament winner went to Vegas last week after the Season 11 Final Tournament and played a $550 tournament with part of his $5000 winnings from our tournament. Joe turned that $550 into $10,000 by finishing third in the World Series of Poker curcuit event. For details follow the link below the picture.

Read The Article Here, Congratulations to Joe!!

Volusia Entertainment, Inc. wants you to know that you can compete in local “FREEROLL” Texas Hold’em Tournaments to win a paid $5,000 seat at a major poker event of your choice and $1000 for travel expenses. In addition we payout almost $3000 for places 2 thru 10.We are the only company still offering this Grand Prize four times a year. Do the math we will payout about $44,000 this year and have already paid out $72,000 in the last 18 months.

Come play for free with the poker players of Brevard, Flagler, Marion and Volusia counties.

You can join them by clicking on Venue Registration and signing up for a tournament near you.

That’s it!

These venues are Freerolls. Just tip your volunteer dealers each game. There are a minimum of three tournaments per event. Winners receive a certificate to our final tournament.

Be sure and read the posts that let you know how chips are awarded for the Final Tournament and which venues were recenty added.

VEI has reviewed the Player Incentive Program and made significant changes for Season 12. The changes are so extensive that they did not effectively fit into the blog area of the website. Therefore, we have had the webmaster add a link to the left column of the website for players to read. ALL PLAYERS PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION IN PLAYER INCENTIVES LINK.

In addition, VEI under agreement with our newest sponsor is adding cruise vouchers to the prizes for place 2-10 at this season Final Tournament on April 17 and 18. Check out their link at the top right side of the website. If you are qualified to play, and have a win between Jan 1 and March 31, 2009, be sure to register quickly to reserve your seat. Season 11’s prize pool will total over $10,000 an 11% increase over last season.

You can play for the best prize pool in the area or play with the rest.

In order to encourage players to play more frequently and reward them for their additional wins we have implemented the following graduated bonuses. Please note that wins carried forward do not qualify for moving up the bonus scale and are counted as strict 500 chip bonuses.

Graduated Add-On Chip Counts:

If you think of each win as being worth 500 chips you can calculate your starting chip count as follows:
For wins 1-10 you will receive the 9,500 chips for a range starting at 10,000 – 14,500.
For wins 11-20 you will receive a bonus of 12,000 chips for a range from 17,500 – 22,000.
For wins 21-30 you will receive a bonus of 14,500 chips for a range from 25,000 – 29,500.
For wins 31-40 you will receive a bonus of 17,000 chips for a range from 32,500 – 37,000.
For wins 41-50 you will receive a bonus of 19,500 chips for a range from 40,000 – 44,500.
For wins 51-60 you will receive a bonus of 22,000 chips for a range from 47,500 – 52,000.
Finally, at 61 wins you will receive a bonus of 25,000 chips for a range starting at 55,000 chips

EXAMPLES:
1 win = (1*500) + 9500 = 10,000 starting chips
10 wins = (10*500) + 9500 = 14,500 starting chips
25 wins = (25*500) + 14,500 = 27,000 starting chips

Due to an unprecedented level of spamming and hacking-attempts occuring on the site we have decided to take the forums down. It would appear that the forums were not heavily used. If you think we should re-open them please let us know and we’ll certainly reconsider.

Thanks,
The mgmt

For those of you that have been playing with us in Volusia County at the Beachside Tavern, Biker’s For First Amendment Rights, Capella’s, Gilly’s Pub 44, Josh’s Place, McKenna’s Place, Merk’s Bar & Grill or Rich’s Place we want to let you know that “Chas” Young has passed away due to a massive coronary this past week. Whether you hated or loved ” Chas’ ” his rough and ready style of play he will be missed.

Charles Young
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Charles Eugene Young, 56, of Ronnoc Lane, a custom motorcycle builder, died Aug. 30 at home. Mr. Young was born in Oceanside, Calif. He was a member of the U.S. military veterans, the Black Sheep Club, New Smyrna Beach, and was an advocate for Locks of Love, Lake Worth. He enjoyed building and riding motorcycles. Survivors include his wife, Karen; three sons, James Hughes, New Smyrna Beach, Charles, Kansas City, Mo., and David, Hot Springs, Ark.; a daughter, Britiany Young, Hot Springs; his parents, Charles and Maryann Young, New Smyrna Beach; and a grandchild. Baldwin Brothers is in charge. Published in the Daytona Beach News-Journal on 9/6/2007.

We will miss him.

~Joe and Catherine Murray~.