NEW (Credit crunch) TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE POKER ROOM, TALLAGHT,

The Poker Room · 31-08-2008 9:56pm #1

Please find enclosed the new Tournament Schedule for the Poker Room, In the Square Tallaght.

We have done our best to give a good variety of games and the best value for money any where. New Schedule starts Tuesday the 2nd of September.

1. Students and Casino employees never pay reg.

2. 110% prize pool, from now on the club will add 10% to all prize pools for tournaments (already at 100% payout) No gimmicks or catches.

3. Always cash payouts, free tickets will not be used as part of the prize pool. Cash, Cash and only cash.

4. Free Beer, food and refreshments for players.

5. Pay before the announced start time and receive 1k bonus chips, 2k on Friday.

6. Always dealer dealt.

The schedule (Forum rules listed below.)

8p.m Sunday €40 +€5 Deuces Wild (very popular), 15 min blinds 7k starting stack. No limit, Holdem Freezeout but Deuces are wild. 1K early bird Bonus chip. (Very fun game)

8p.m Monday, Free Entry, €10 re-buys for 90 mins. 3k starting stack, 3k rebuys, €20 top-up 6k chips. 15 minute blinds. 1k Early Bird bonus chip

8p.m Tuesday, €40 +€5 round of each, 8k starting stack, 20 minute blinds, alternate rounds of No Limit Texas Holdem and then P/L Omaha.
1k Early Bird Bonus chip, Improve your Omaha skills and be the Iron Man or Woman of Poker.

8p.m Wednesday €20 +€2 €5 scalp Texas Holdem, No Limit Freezeout ( 15 min blinds, 6k starting stack. 1k Early bird bonus.

8p.m Thursday €50 Holdem, Freezeout, No Reg, 10K Chips, 20 minute blinds. 1k Early bird bonus

2p.m Friday No Limit Holdem, Deepstack, €50 +10, €5 scalp, 10,000 starting stack, 30 minute blinds. 2k Early Bird Bonus.

8p.m Saturday, Satellite for Killarney €550 ticket. ( I Ticket Guarantee each week) 1 ticket for each 10 players entered. €50 + €5 Buy in. 8k starting stack, 20 minute blinds. Free Bus to the event from Club.
1K Early Bird Bonus chip.

Forum Rules.

1. Events are run By The Poker Room, Top Floor, Atari Expo, The Square,
Tallaght, Dublin 24. 086-2301229

2. Commercial

3. Date and location posted above.

4. Reg and Start Time Posted above.

5. Membership of club required, Free, takes two minutes.

6. Pay on the day at the club.

7. Tournament type posted above.

8. Cost of entry posted above.

9. Reg Cost posted above.

10. 110% prize pool, 10% added by the club to each prize pool.

11. No Guaranteed prize pool, Depending on number of entrants.

12. Rebuy Tourney on Monday, details posted above.

13. Staring chips for each tourney posted above.

14. Rebuy and Top up chip amounts posted above.

15. Blind levels

25 - 50
50 - 100
100 - 200
200 - 400
10 Minute Break

300 - 600
400 - 800
500 - 1000
750 - 1500
10 Minute Break

1000- 2000
2000- 4000
3000 - 6000
4000 -8000
5000 - 10,000
Break at Final Table (No antes)

6000 - 12,000
8000 - 16,000
10,000- 20,000
15,000 - 30,000
20,000 - 40,000

16. Blind time frames posted above for each tournament.

17. 10% of Field will be paid or top 3 places if there is less than 30 runners.

18. Professional dealers on all tables, for every Tournament.

19. WSOP Rules as listed on their website.

20. Tournament Director Identified on the day.

21. T.D has final say on all disputes.

If you have questions please call Ross on 086-2301229.

Cash Games Every Night, Starting at 9p.m. 10K Estimated Cash League Prize Pool going on Now.

tm2204 · 31-08-2008 10:59pm

Great value tournies in a nice place to play poker. I've played the Friday tourney & it's a great game.

Good luck with the new schedule Ross; hope it gets supported.

flushje · 01-09-2008 1:00pm

Looks good gl

doke · 01-09-2008 7:45pm

Looks good, I'll try to get there on Friday.

Sparks43 · 02-09-2008 3:03am

looks a too good to be true schedule tbh but its enough to make me a little bit curious

you shall see me at an event in the near future with work/killarney permitting

best of luck with that schedule if you were in the city centre you would have people hanging from the ceiling

also 1 quote from this which is aimed at the alternative poker room aka poker events/eglingon casino

8p.m Saturday, Satellite for Killarney €550 ticket. ( I Ticket Guarantee each week) 1 ticket for each 10 players entered. €50 + €5 Buy in. 8k starting stack, 20 minute blinds. Free Bus to the event from Club.
1K Early Bird Bonus chip.

this is how to look after players with no massive reg/leauge fees frankly its a joke imho

The Poker Room · 02-09-2008 3:23pm

Hi Just to remind everyone that we have a Tournament tonight at 8p.m

1k added to your starting stack if you register before 8p.m

Alternate rounds of No limit holdem and Pot limit Omaha, this is a freezeout with 8,000 starting stack and 20 minute blinds. Great way to improve your Omaha skills for little money, or to clean up if you already have omaha skills. (If only it was that easy.)

110% prize pool, so we will add an additional 10% to whatever is collected.

Its 40 + 5 (5 is free if your a student or casino employee.)

Free Beer, obrien sandwiches and drinks.

Hope to see you there.

Thanks Ross 086-2301229

FuttBucker · 02-09-2008 10:59pm

what were numbers like?

The Poker Room · 03-09-2008 1:46am

We had a full table for our round of each.

Good game with Paul Dowling and Paul mcmenmly chopping first and second.

First night of our new schedule and looking good for numbers for tomorrow night.

thanks ross.

The Poker Room · 04-09-2008 5:38am

Great game tonight we had 27 runners.

Ken Davis won 1st place and best hand of the night. It was his birthday as well so congrats to Ken.

€50 freeze out tonight (Thursday) at 10p.m Yes its a late start.
10k starting stack, 20 min blinds and 1k early bird bonus.
110% prize pool, Money added by the club to every tournament and free reg for Students (Student ID must be presented) and casino employees.

Friday is our usual popular daytime (2p.m) Deep stack, 10k chips and 30 minute blinds, we have added in two extra levels to give even better value and €10 scalp. Its a great game with very steady numbers much better than working. 110% prize pool as always.

Saturday is our Kilarney satellite, Its the best value Satellite there is. Only €55 to enter (€50 if your a student or casino employee) and we guarantee at least one ticket and one ticket for every 10 entrants.
We will also provide free transport to and from the event and low cost accommodation. 8p.m start on Friday
8k starting stack, 20 minute blinds, 1k early bird bonus.

Hope to see you here,

The Poker Room, Top Floor, Atari Expo, The square, Tallaght on the Laus.
086-2301229

ghostface ste · 04-09-2008 12:12pm

Played last night and was good to see the numbers up, could turn into a good game. Only one comment, can the dealers not turn the 3 cards on the flop up at the same time? Showing one card at a time is not the best way to do it IMO. Will be back up next week anyway

tm2204 · 04-09-2008 5:27pm

The Poker Room wrote: »

Great game tonight we had 27 runners.

Ken Davis won 1st place and best hand of the night. It was his birthday as well so congrats to Ken.

€50 freeze out tonight (Thursday) at 10p.m Yes its a late start.
10k starting stack, 20 min blinds and 1k early bird bonus.
110% prize pool, Money added by the club to every tournament and free reg for Students (Student ID must be presented) and casino employees.

Friday is our usual popular daytime (2p.m) Deep stack, 10k chips and 30 minute blinds, we have added in two extra levels to give even better value and €10 scalp. Its a great game with very steady numbers much better than working. 110% prize pool as always.

Saturday is our Kilarney satellite, Its the best value Satellite there is. Only €55 to enter (€50 if your a student or casino employee) and we guarantee at least one ticket and one ticket for every 10 entrants.
We will also provide free transport to and from the event and low cost accommodation. 8p.m start on Friday
8k starting stack, 20 minute blinds, 1k early bird bonus.

Hope to see you here,

The Poker Room, Top Floor, Atari Expo, The square, Tallaght on the Laus.
086-2301229

Why such a late start Ross?

The Poker Room · 04-09-2008 7:58pm

The late start time is due to J.P's game at Malloys. Which regularly gets 60-80 runners.

We wanted to give people who were knocked out of that tourney before the break the chance to play in our Tourney.

We will gauge the response this week and see if it should be moved to the regular 8p.m time.

thanks

tm2204 · 11-09-2008 6:29pm

What time does this start tonight?

flushje · 11-09-2008 7:07pm

tbh i think its a bad night as when people get knocked out of JP's they wont want to walk when the can just play a side game and drink pints

Kelso · 11-09-2008 7:17pm

Played the freezeout yesterday. Good value for a €2 reg fee when dealer dealt. However it gets crapshooty pretty quick, blind levels are very short and a couple of levels missing.
I was allso disappointed, considering it had been brought up here before that everyone got the early bird bonus 1k chip, even when they were a half hour late. Need to be much stricter on that imo or just not bother at all

The Poker Room · 12-09-2008 12:12am

Thanks Kelso for the feedback.

We will add 150/300 level and 1500/3000 level next week.

The early bird was difficult this week as advertised that we would start the tourny late because of the football. So if you were sitting down prior to the start of the tourney you got the early bird if you arrived after we started you didn't but it will be strict from now on.

We had 27 runners and Paul Mcmenmay won the €250 first prize and the Callaway golf clubs and 6 scalps. (not bad for €27)

Paul received several cash offers for the clubs I think €350 was the highest but he deceided to give them to his dad. Great job paul.

Kelso · 12-09-2008 4:39pm

That's fair enough then Ross, I didn't realise it had been advertised as a late start. The extra level should improve the game too, fairplay for putting it in.

One other thing I meant to mention too was it would be good if you had some kind of seat draw, rather than letting players pick their own seats. It would be simple enough just to have cards with table/seat numbers, put them face down on a table and have players randomly pick them.

Like I said though, it is great value to get a dealer dealt tourny for such a low reg fee, and the money added to the prizepool too, I will definitely be back

tm2204 · 12-09-2008 9:55pm

Couple of queries about the Friday game that i'd like cleared up:

1) The buyin is €65 inc a €10 scalp chip; so is this €55 into prize pool or only €45 into prize pool. Some confusion on this today and only €45 per person went into the prize pool. However you mentioned on another post that '2. As a commitment to offer the best value for money for our tournaments we are adding money to the prize pool in the form of scalps. So the buy is €55 + €10, but instead of the €10 going to reg, we are going to put €55 of your buy in the prize pool and give you a €10 scalp chip as well.' Can you clear this up?

2) In the original post on this thread is states '3. Always cash payouts, free tickets will not be used as part of the prize pool. Cash, Cash and only cash.' However the prizepool today included a 4th place prize of a free entry (ticket) to next weeks tourney with no option to cash it in.

Apart from this an excellent tourney with plenty of play & plenty of odd calls

Top marks for the sandwiches too :pac::pac::pac:

:D:D

P.S. I think somebody else mentioned, on here, about dealing the flop 1 card at a time. I'd like to endorse this and I much prefer when the three cards are dealt together. 2 of the dealers today dealt the flop 1 card at a time. Just a small observation.

The Poker Room · 13-09-2008 3:56am

thanks for the queries about the tourney, I will recall as best as I can what happened with the prize pool.

We had 14 runners, 8 of them paid reg (students and casino employees get free reg. ) so 8 X €65 = 520, 6 x €55 330 so € 850 in the prize pool. (For the last 6 weeks or so we have given a free ticket for 4th that doesn't come out of the prize pool but is paid be the club. )

So €850 - 14 x €10 scalp = €140 so €710 left

The prizes were

1st € 375
2nd € 170
3rd €100
4th free next week.

so € 645 in cash prizes. (if you include the €65 we put in to give the 4th prize, it measn that we took 0 out of the tourney today.

We had 3 dealers at €10 each X 18 hours = €180
Sandwiches = €18
Shopping for beer, coke etc

tm2204 · 13-09-2008 9:08am

If there were 14 runners and you are putting €55 per person into the prizepool + 10% added by the club (as advertised) then the prizepool should be €770 + €77 = €847 cash. The scalp chips are seperate and according to your other post there is no reg and all €55 goes into the prizepool! Also if there is no 'reg' then students/casino employees should pay €65 entry and not €55, otherwise they are being subsidised by the other players & not the club!

If you choose to add a free ticket for 4th place then that's great & appreciated but the 'cash' prizepool yesterday was only €645. That is all that was paid out. In your calculations above you have removed the cash value of the 4th place ticket from the cash paid out. Normally fair enough but you did advertise that cash & only cash was being paid out and there was no option to 'cash in' the ticket.

People would prefer to know that their entry consisted of €55 + €10 reg (or €0 reg for students/casino employees but the club takes the hit and not the prizepool) and that all €55 ends up in the prizepool. Nobody minds paying reg for a well run tourney like this. People just like transparancy and to know what is being paid out when they register for a tourney.

Myself, I thought from reading posts here on boards that I was paying €65 which consisted of €55 going into the prizepool, €0 reg, €10 scalp chip and that the club was adding 10% cash to the prizepool. In fact €645 cash was paid out from a prizepool that should have been €847.

flushje · 13-09-2008 10:29am

It still amazes me as to how you actually make money from this though Ross, fair play.

The Poker Room · 14-09-2008 11:10pm

Sorry would have answered quicker but I was kicked off boards for a day.

No if you pay €65 to play, €10 is your scalp and €45 goes into the prize pool, your scalp is part of the prize pool. So we had €90 in Reg (as 5 people didn't pay reg, students, casino employees) So we made €90 in reg and we added 10% to the prize pool.

So here is the numbers.

14 players x €55 = €770
We add 10% to prize pool €75
Total in prize pool €845

14 scalps x10 so - €140
1st place €370
2nd place €170
3rd place €100
Free ticket €65 For next week

So €845 total prize pool. (The scalps aren't free they come out of the prize pool.)

Including Wages, Food, Drink we had a net loss of €200 from the tourney on Friday and we do almost every Friday.

If we put the prize pool and the reg into the prize pool and put in 10% as well we would be out of business in about 2 weeks.

I played cash at the celtic poker tour on Friday and to the best of my calculations they took €50k in prize pool and paid out €33k. and no free beer.

Our Friday tourney as with all our tourneys are by far the best value tourneys anywhere in Ireland with the 110% prize pool.

If you have other questions you can talk to me on Friday or suggestions as to improve the game.

So

The Poker Room · 14-09-2008 11:17pm

Sorry just re-read your last e-mail.

At no time did we advertise Free reg for everyone on Friday and 10% added. You would expect to pay reg. Not forgetting the freebies etc.

If the reg doesn't go in the prize pool, then we are paying for the students and casino employees, as the reg would go to the house.

We made that offer to get players in to the tourney to support numbers.

Hope this helps with you enquires.

It is difficult to have transarancy when there is so many variable with scalps, free regies etc. but we will try our best in future.

DubTony · 15-09-2008 12:15am

The Poker Room wrote: »

I played cash at the celtic poker tour on Friday and to the best of my calculations they took €50k in prize pool and paid out €33k.

:eek: Are you for ****ing real? There are still people playing in things like that?
Shakes head in amazement

tm2204 · 15-09-2008 1:05am

The Poker Room wrote: »

Sorry just re-read your last e-mail.

At no time did we advertise Free reg for everyone on Friday and 10% added. You would expect to pay reg. Not forgetting the freebies etc.

If the reg doesn't go in the prize pool, then we are paying for the students and casino employees, as the reg would go to the house.

We made that offer to get players in to the tourney to support numbers.

Hope this helps with you enquires.

It is difficult to have transarancy when there is so many variable with scalps, free regies etc. but we will try our best in future.

Ross, let me say first that in asking all these questions I am in NO WAY having a go. I think the Friday tourney is fantastic value with the 110% prizepool, 10k +2k stack and 30 min blinds.

My questions were as a result of some confusion last Friday re the prizepool and what people thought should be in it. My questions were also as a result of numerous posts The Poker Room put up here on boards re this tourney.
In these posts (spread across numerous threads) it WAS stated that:
(a) prizepool would be 110%
(b) only cash payouts & NO tickets
(c) €55 of every €65 collected would be in prizepool & other €10 would be a scalp chip

Now most people would consider this too good to be true as how could you affordto do this? It was just the misleading posts that caused the problem. In reality your Friday tourney for €55 + €10 reg is the best value around by far.

Some suggestions for improvement (constructive):
(a) scrap the €10 scalp and put €55 into prizepool. In a deepstack good blind levels tourney having scalps encourages bad play & reduces the quality of the gameplay IMO
(b) scrap the €65 ticket for the next week and leave the €65 cash in the prizepool
(c) Have the dealers deal the flop 3 cards over together instead of one at a time
(d) Make sure you have some non meat sambo's for me as i'm a veggie

Hope this tourney goes from strength to strength as it's a good un.......

The Poker Room · 15-09-2008 4:41am

never to my recolection did we state that €55 would go into the prize pool and you would a €10 scalp as well.

I actually asked 10 players two weeks ago if they would prefer to have the scalp or put the €10 in to the prize pool and everyone said that they would prefer to have the scalp. Its one or the other.

The Poker Room · 15-09-2008 4:51am

Thanks for the suggestions, I do think the scalp muddies the transparancy
of the payout.

So as form next week we will lose the scalp, everything goes in the prize pool (apart from the reg) and we will payout 110% in the prize pool, no free pass for fourth place.

We have bought a George Forman grill so you can make your own toated sambos,

Thanks Ross.

BIG-SLICK-POKER · 15-09-2008 3:11pm

Guys who do i contact about sats from tallaght for Killarney

Neill
0872828744

tm2204 · 15-09-2008 8:35pm

The Poker Room wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestions, I do think the scalp muddies the transparancy
of the payout.

So as form next week we will lose the scalp, everything goes in the prize pool (apart from the reg) and we will payout 110% in the prize pool, no free pass for fourth place.

We have bought a George Forman grill so you can make your own toated sambos,

Thanks Ross.

Thats great stuff Ross.

I think this will make for an even better game.

See you on Friday.

Get In There · 15-09-2008 10:16pm

If only you werent based so far away from me... If you were operating in town, running these kind of tournaments I think you would attract a lot more players than you do in Tallaght..

Nonetheless, I wish you the best of luck

(ps: please stop sending me texts

)

The Poker Room · 16-09-2008 10:16am

Get In there,

thanks could you send me your mobile number and name so I can remove you from the text list, many thanks

ross 086-2301229

NEW (Credit crunch) TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE POKER ROOM, TALLAGHT,

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