Ladbrokes Poker Festival Killarney-Official Thread -Oct 2008 - €250,000 Guaranteed

If the capacity is 800 as you already said why is it being restricted to 650 players :eek:

Just recieved an email 5 mins ago informing me that there is a freeroll for this on Thurs July 24th :rolleyes: I unfortunately left my DeLorean at home today, is this mail supposed to be advertising a freeroll today instead?

Cheers

Mateo Old-fashioned Globe wrote: »

actually tried to book hotel and Gleneagle sold out pffft load of cock

We have been warning people all along to book the hotel early as it would sell out. I'll be in touch with the girl looking after the poker bookings today and I'll find out the exact scenario as regards room availability. I was at a meeting earlier in the week and was told that Ladbrokes had 150 rooms taken for online qualifiers and that there was another 150 rooms sold to the public, and all them rooms were poker related. So that tells us that another 150 people(at least) have booked rooms in the hotel for the poker, but haven't registered for the tourney yet.(I'm awaiting a list because some of them rooms are more than likely twins or triples so theres obviously more that 1 poker player to a room).

The Glen Eagle hotel have another hotel, The Brehon Hotel, built in its grounds and this hotel is also being kept solely for the poker public along with the riverside appartments, also on hotel grounds. If you'd like my advice Fran, I'd book the Brehon if I was you. Its a 3 year old 5 star hotel that trades as a 4 star for commercial reasons, and is one of the nicest hotels I've ever been in. Literally, 1--2 mins walk to the National Events Centre where the poker is on.


Give me a ring when you get a chance on 087-2833343

Connie

connie147 wrote: »

Ladbrokes had 150 rooms taken for online qualifiers and that there was another 150 rooms sold to the public, and all them rooms were poker related.

The Brehon Hotel, built in its grounds and this hotel is also being kept solely for the poker public along with the riverside appartments, also on hotel grounds

Lol, degenerate city right there.
Visions of Stu Ungar betting the case loot on a game of penny toss down the corridor

thanks connie. just a pain to have to come up with the cash now, i thought id have another while to get it together!

also, its an email, get over it.

Mateo Old-fashioned Globe wrote: »

thx Connie got sorted

No problem Fran.

If any other boardie is having a problem with accommadation, please contact me and I'll do my upmost to sort it out for ye.
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Connie o Sullivan.

lol, well, yeah, and is the first one always empty for everyone else too?

DeadParrot wrote: »

the ladbrookes software is an absolute nightmare btw.

I think its alright, once you're in a game better than ipoker and devilfish, worse than stars.
but the lobby interface is terrible

connie147 wrote: »

Hi there,
If you pre-register into the event and then go on to win a sattellite ticket, obviously your not going to be left holding 2 tickets. In off line sattellites, it will be pretty easy to control this. I've sent an email off to Ladbrokes to confirm how payment for the "2nd" ticket thats won through an online satellite would be returned. I'll post here as soon as I have the details.

As regards the super satt, we intend to reserve enough tickets to service the super-satt. If as you say, people win tickets in the super satt that have already pre-registered their seat, (and I expect some will), then we'll still be able to move them tickets by way of stt's late on Thursday night or early on Friday.)

Hope that helps, if you've any more queries, post them up and I'll my best to answer them.

Connie

Just to confirm that Ladbrokes have been back to me to confirm that any player winning a satt on line with them, that results in that player having 2 seats for the main event, will have his seat value transferred into his account.

Connie

Mellor wrote: »

does that mean that we can keep playing sats for the cash value

Hi Mellor,
I presume you mean can you keep playing online satts for the cash value as in if you win a ticket online at Ladbrokes, can you play the other online satts on Ladbrokes and cash out one of the seats if you win a second one? If thats the question, I'll get back to you with a definate answer within a couple of days.

If your question is regards to off-line satts, then of course the answer is yes. If you already hold a seat and say you win another one at our super satt, of course we will give give you the monetary value of it.

Connie

eoin-dubh wrote: »

Is there a list of hotels that are [B]NOT[/b] fully booked ?

(Gleneagles and Brehon fully booked)

Thanks in advance.

There are still rooms available in both the Glen Eagle and the Brehon. I think whats happening is the hotel is totally blocked off for the poker event and somebodys getting mixed up somewhere. I'm on the phone as we speak to Norma, the girl whos looking after the bookings for the event. If you have any further problems, either pm me here or ring me on 087-2833343

Connie

helloboys wrote: »

bump

any updates in general for this event


also connie whats the best hotel in your opinion and where can i pay cash?

i know it was said before which clubs that you can pay cash in but i cant find it.

also is there a closing date for entries-how many left?

thanks

Hi,
The best hotel standard wise is The Brehon, but the Glen eagle hotel itself is a fine hotel in its own right. If you want to pay in cash, you can do so by sending it to Neil Kelly in Blazing aces card club waterford or to me in the Cue Club,Hilliards lane,High St, Killarney. We will then forward it to Ladbrokes to register you for the event.

Its impossible to say at the moment exactly how many players, but this is what I know:

Ladbrokes are qualifying 150 players, and they tell us that 70% of their qualifiers are bringing a poker playing buddy, so thats approx 250 players.

We intend having 150 players (at a minimum) qualify through off-line satts so add that to the ladbrokes 250 and we're up to 400.

Now, the Glen eagle hotel have 150 rooms and 30 appartments booked specifically for the poker weekend, seperate to Ladbrokes room bookings. None of these people who have booked rooms have entered into the event yet. How many players are gonna be in each room? If by some miracle, all of these people decided to pay their entry fee tomorrow, I'd say we'd be getting very close to our 650 cap.(and I havent counted the super satt tickets nor local players in any of the above figures).

I was at The Macau festival over the week-end and virtually everybody I spoke to is planning on playing the Ladbrokes event. I told them all what I'm telling you here, we cant take names without people officially entering.

So my advice to players is to enter on line at Ladbokerspoker.com or into either of the 2 clubs as outlined above. If your paying by bankdraught or cheque, make sure its made out to ladbrokes.

If I can be of any further help, either post here, pm me or ring me on 087-2833343.

Connie

buzz3003 wrote: »

connie are there going to be any live qualifiers for m/e that aint re-buys ??? ie 50 or 100 euro freeze-out qualifiers.

Hi Graham.
I'll be doing a few in the club in the weeks leading up to the festival. I'll text you on it nearer the time.

Connie

Still in the running for one too

Congrats, was watching it.
Risky push with A10, but you stood up

Well done lads was watching most of it