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Monday, October 26, 2009
Garth Concerts Sold Out
Garth Brooks fans jammed up phone lines and created overwhelming traffic at the website of the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday (October 24th) morning in hopes of getting tickets to his first set of shows at the venue. Tickets for the superstar's first five weekends at the Encore Theater sold out almost immediately.

Phone lines at the Wynn were able to accommodate 141,934 calls before the system reached maximum capacity and callers received a busy signal. Over the course of the morning, the website received more than 5.4 million page views with up to 40,000 people waiting in an online queue at any given time.

Brooks' future concert dates will be announced soon.

Tickets are priced at $125 plus surcharges.

Fans still have a chance at getting tickets for the sold-out concerts. Returned or unclaimed tickets will be released to a stand-by line that will form at the Wynn box office on show days.

In an effort to keep ticket scalpers out of the mix, attorneys for the Wynn Las Vegas are "communicating with suspected known scalpers and private unauthorized sellers," according to a release. As unauthorized ticket agents for either the Wynn or Garth Brooks, attorneys are letting these people know their customers could be turned away at the door if management determines that "the ticket was purchased from a ticket reseller at an amount in excess of face value."

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