Sporting Emporium Ipt Grand Final Qualifiers

carfax

The Sporting Emporium are now running satellites into the Grand Final of the Irish Poker Tour.

Every Tuesday at 9pm (throughout May) the Sporting will be running €50+€10 reg tournaments with unlimited re-buys at €50 for the first hour.

Players will qualify directly into the IPT Final on June 2nd.
The entry to this tournament is worth €3,000 + €200 and the prize-pool is going to be an estimated €1,000,000.

If the necessary €3,200 is not reached players will receive credits for other Irish Poker Tour festival events.

You can contact the Emporium on 01 7030600.
Its located on Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2.

Or you can ring Stephen from Poker Events on 0872 424 626.

Lafortezza

Charter plz.

carfax

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean by charter please.

I don't have all of the exact info on this tournament itself but you can contact the Emporium Poker Room (01 7030600) to find out the starting stack and other details like that. Most of their tourneys start with a stack of 4,000 and half hour blind levels.

These tournaments are run very professionally and are of course 100% prize-pool payouts.

Lafortezza

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=227377

I've pmed you.

If you wish to use this forum to advertise these or any tournaments you have to follow the rules as outlined in the charter. Please edit your posts asap. ty

Samba

If the necessary €3,200 is not reached players will receive credits for other Irish Poker Tour festival events.

I was considering playing until i read that part, you have got to be kidding, right?

If the prize pool were to reach 2.2k, I would rather put up the 1k myself than gain entry into another event.

carfax

Of course you can make up the difference if you like. The credits can be used in any of the IPT tournaments.

Sorry about the mistaken info.

carfax

As you can probably guess I am new to this forums (and forums in general).

I hope a pmed isn't going to be too painful for me, lol.

Here's the info in the same layout as the charter;

1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.)- The Sporting Emporium
2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.)- To qualify for the Irish Poker Tour Grand Final and win a small fortune (commercial).
3. Date and Location of event.- Tuesday 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th of May in The Sporting Emporium, Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street D.2
4. Registration and Start time of event. Registration 8:30 Start 9pm
5. Any prerequisites (member of club, society etc)- Must be a member of club but you can become a member on the night if you bring I.D etc..
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (in advance, at the door etc.)- Entry fee can be paid on the night.
7. Type of Tournament (Hold'em/Omaha etc Freezeout/Rebuy etc.)- No-Limit Hold’em multiple re-buy tournament.
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc.- €50+€10reg, €50 for re-buys
9. Cost of registration- €10
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund- 100% prize-pool payout
11. Any guarenteed prize pool.- No
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels.- Re-buys for the first hour (2 levels)
13. Starting Chips- a very playable stack (I’m not sure what it will be exactly)
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts.- a very playable stack (I’m not sure what it will be exactly)
15. Blind levels- 25-50,50-100,100-200,-200-400 (I’m usually knocked out by this stage so I’m not completely sure what they go up to thereafter)
16. Blind timeframes- 30minutes
17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc)- credits for IPT June 1st-5th tournaments.
18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill- Yes, very skilful, intelligent, attractive dealers.
19. Will there be a documented list of rules- YES
20. Is there a tournament director-YES
21. How are disputes handled -a big shouting match, fisticuffs if it gets serious. who has final say.-Management/Tournament Director

califano

Whats the story with no 150/300 level in the Sporting Emporium?. The jump from 100/200 to 200/400 is a bit harsh dont you think?.
Until the 150/300 level is included i cant see myself playing there again anytime soon.

carfax

Yeah,
I know what you mean but I still find the structure very playable.

You just have to make sure you're prepared for the jump. The tournament itself is still well worth it in the sense that its basically a winner take all (shootout, if you will) and it will probably be necessary to build a big chip stack early to have a reasonable chance.

I agree though, I would like to see the 150-300 levels included in all tournies everywhere.
The first time I played in the Sporting Emporium I pointed it out to Bernard (the then poker room manager) but I guess he thought most of the players were happy with it.

califano

Fair enough but the 150/300 level has been mentioned to the cardroom managers many times by many people none more so that ollyk1 i'd say. They just seem to have 'taken it on board' and done nothing.
This is one of their only flaws but its a big one and a lot of past S.E threads are about this 150/300 level or should i say lack of it.
I hope the satellites go well anyhow.

Lafortezza

Do you work for the SE carfax?

carfax

No, I don't. But I do like playing there.
I think the atmosphere is good and the staff are great as they are in all of the Dublin casinos.

I work for the Irish Poker Tour.

kpnuts

Had a bad afternoon session online, so I made for the SE to play this €50 rebuy "satellite" last night. Very disappointint turn-out, however... just 2 starting tables with a total of only around a dozen runners. Total prize pool of €1,550 so they just paid top 3 spots (50-30-20). Fair enough, but I would suggest that if turnout is so poor again next week that they change it to a €100 rebuy before it starts, so that there is at least a chance of getting close to a ticket. Other than that, decent game, no complaints about the structure, 20-minute clock, unlimited rebuys for 80 minutes, no missing levels... 25-50, 50-100, 75-150, 100-200, 150-300, 200-400, 300-600, 400-800, 500-1,000 etc

sikes

they have it the same night as the boyle one. seems a bit stupid.

ianmc38

I've mentioned the 150/300 level about 100 times to the management there. Always greeted with: "are you serious there's loads of play left even with that jump". yeah right, perhaps if you like playing craps.

JuliusFranco

i don't think the Merrion or Fitz have a 150/300 for small tourneys either (expect the Fitz tuesday €50 game)

Pokerevents

did any1 notice this level was skipped for the irish open also

kpnuts

150-300 level was included last night, as I pointed out in above post. Yes, there were a LOT of people pi$$ed off about that level being skipped in Irish Open, don't see what relevance that has to this thread, however.

Fintan/Steven, can you guys perhaps organise that next week's SE "satellite" be changed to a €100 rebuy so there is at least a chance there will be enough in the pot for an IPT ticket?

Cheers,

KP

carfax

I'll certainly mention it to the Sporting management but its not my gig, they're calling the shots.

I'm really happy that they did listen to me about the 150-300 level though.

You didn't mention how you fared kp?, did you money?

I'm sure they'll get a decent crowd in next week anyway, but....

As it stands right now they are running a Leinster Open satellite next Tuesday just to build interest....If there is €3,000 in the prize-pool they are simply giving away 6 tickets to the May 26th event in the Gresham Hotel.

They'll be running main event qualifiers by the following week I would say.

kpnuts

OK thanks for the update, Stephen.
I won it on Tuesday

carfax

Nice one