Irish Poker Cup

Irish poker cup-team event

Connacht won the teams tournament last year in the battle of the provincies. This years team event will be a inter county championship. The proposed structure is as follows.
Total team event making it the biggest poker team event in the world to date.
32 teams. Each team representing their own county. 10 players per team. 5000 plus reg per team.
2/3 day event City west last weekend in August.
This will be a total team event with prizepool paid out as follows.
1. 100,000
2. 50,000
3. 10,000
There will be one individual prize for the winner, and a cash prize for 2nd/3rd. This will be added to the prizepool not subtracted from it.
A captain is nominated for each county by pokerevents chief director Donal Mac Aonaghusa.
Captain of each county team is responsible for picking the other nine(or 10 if captain wishes not to play) team members. Criteria is player A) Must live or have lived in the County. Parents / Grandparents live or have lived in the County. i.e Action Jackson is playing for Louth and Lawerence Gosney for Armagh as both their grandparents are from these Counties. If you have close links to a County i.e you work there or your wife is native and you want to represent this county you may state your case and it will be considered.
Every member must wear their own county colours. No branding allowed. Pokerevents will supply all the team shirts.
All captains have being chosen. If any players are interested in playing you can PM me of carfax and we will put you directly in touch with the captain. It is totally up to the captain who is on the team.
Provisional point structure will follows. The idea being it is a total team event with the best team coming out on top and any resonable tactics are allowed. It will also be clear the total Pool is paid out on a team basis only bar the winner who has a individual prize as a incentive to win in the case of his/her County not being in the running for a money spot and the threat of collusion. The points structure will be in such a way that it is clear right through the event which County is leading. The draw for seats will be made in a way that no two county players will be at the same table until number of team players is more than the number of tables in play.

It will be NL Hold em freezeout. It will more than likely be fully televised with a transmission on RTE and the pokerzone. This is subject to the level of sponsorship involved.
Also on the same weekend the Irish Poker Awards will be hosted during a gala dinner on the Saturday night. All team partiscipants will be invited.

60 minute clock with a 10,000 stack.
Dealers at every table with Donal MacAonghusa directing procedures.
Full blind structure will be posted nearer the date.
This is first place we have posted info to give boardsters a opportunity to partiscipate.
Full listings of teams will be announced by the first week of July (before players head off to wsop).
Suggestions welcome.
Fintan Gavin.