High Roller’s Senior Classics To Pass $17 MILLION in November!

Roto Grip's Roger Noordhoek congratulates 50 & Over Champ Wally Kraus and runner-up Bernie "I"

Greetings from Las Vegas! (Watch for info on a new scratch team/singles/doubles tournament for military vets and their guests January 25 - 28, 2010 at Orleans Hotel, Casino & Bowling Center in Las Vegas. It will follow the Military Bowling Championships that allows only Retired and Active Duty military personnel. By request, this new event is for all who have served in any branch.)

As the Senior Thanksgiving Classics get underway in November, by the time the champ of the 60 & Over Classic has been crowned, the Classic series will have passed the $17 MILLION in payouts to senior bowlers!

Brochures for the 2009 Thanksgiving Senior Classics, hosted by Sam’s Town November 22 - 29, are now available and entries are already being received! Watch for your copy in the mail or print it now at www.high-roller.com. You can enter online. It’s fast, easy & secure! As in all High Roller senior events, the Thanksgiving Classics are for amateurs only.

There are 3 separate tournaments during Thanksgiving week starting with the Age 60 & Over event, followed by the age 50 & Over event and finishing with a “Classified” 50 & Over event that doesn’t allow former senior champs or many top money winners. You can bowl just 1 or bowl all 3 Classics if you are eligible! Both 50 & Over events have separate qualifying for age 60 & older players. There is bonus qualifying during the week for those players aged 67 & over as well!
There is also a 1-day Match Play tournament on Saturday, November 28.

Presents the Senior Classic Series!

Call Sam’s Town now at 1-877-593-5993 and mention High Roller to take advantage of great room rates by November 2nd!

Roto Grip High Performance bowling equipment is the presenting sponsor of the entire Classic series in 2009. 100 recently released balls will be given as prizes during Senior Classic week. And the Roto Grip staff will be onsite for demonstrations and layout all week.

Welcome also to co-sponsors 3G High Performance Shoes, Vise Inserts, Verve Energy Drinks & Enterprise Auto Rental.

Each separate Classic is a 3-game scratch qualifier with a match play finals. The Defending Champs are Bob Brown, Wally Kraus and Curtis Cage as each also became a member of the elite High Roller $10,000 Club. Join them and hundreds more for top level competition in the 3 main events and the many Sweepers and companion events offered.

High Roller has now paid $16,934,763 in prizes in Senior Classics since the inaugural event in 1993! For more info and brochures, call us toll free 1-800-257-6179 or visit us at www.high-roller.com.

ALL MATCH PLAY!

Greetings from Sam’s Town!

What a difference a format can make!  With the July High Roller once again all single elimination match play, it had the feel of the “old Showboat” days!

Even the crowds felt more excitement watching leads go back and forth in those late frames, many outcomes not known until the final ball of the match!  And even then, many matches needed a tie-breaker to determine who advanced and who didn’t.

San Diego’s Steve Smith remembers the old days as he was bowling in his 39^th High Roller event going back to the 1998 July High Roller.  Does experience matter? Well, consider that Smith was the last remaining undefeated player coming out of the Age 49 & Under division with 10 wins!

Experience count?  How about Steve Calyore representing the 50 & Over/215 players?  Calyore, the 53 year old from Naples, Florida was participating in his 72^nd High Roller dating back to 1983!  That’s right the 2^nd year of High Roller competition.

Yes, experience counts. Both players squared off with their 1^st High Roller title in mind knowing that only one would get it. It was the 41 year old Smith reaping in the $30,000 top prize, Calyore settling for his 2^nd runner-up finish and a $15,000 check.

Entries and the number of participants were up about 15% from last July and although the megabuck events are still fighting the economy, it was an optimistic crowd, hoping for another match play megabuck in February 2010.  Stay tuned!