World Series of Bolton St. Poker

fiddlesticks

Poker Mania on May 3rd. Bolton st. poker present the very first annual world series of bolton st. poker. Included in the prize fund is a winners bracelet worth E150 for the winner and a bottle of vodka. All part of the bolton st annual poker budget blowout! Food provided from Bolton st canteen. All poker will be played on tables provided by Green Joker Poker.

1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.) Bolton St. Poker Soc
2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.) Commercial
3. Date and Location of event - May 3rd, Bolton St. canteen
4. Registration and Start time of event. 2.30 reg, 3.00 cards
5. Any prerequisites (member of club, society etc) No
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (in advance, at the door etc.) Maximum entrants is 80
7. Type of Tournament (Hold'em/Omaha etc Freezeout/Rebuy etc.) E15 FO Hold'em
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc. E15
9. Cost of registration N/A
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund 100%
11. Any guarenteed prize pool. E1200
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels. N/A
13. Starting Chips 5000
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts. N/A
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
Break incl food.
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1,000
700/1500
1,000/2,000
2000/4000
3,000/6,000
4,000/8,000
5,000/10,000
7,000/15,000
10,000/20,000

16. Blind timeframes 20mins

17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc) - Winners bracelet including engraving, bottle of vodka, and hopefully E600 for winner if all goes to plan. Top 10% being paid

18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill Top two final tables will have two fairly well experienced dealers.
19. Will there be a documented list of rules Yes
20. Is there a tournament director Yes - Kenny Darcy, Chairman of Poker Soc
21. How are disputes handled - who has final say. TD has final say

Also as with every bolton st. game, the two final tables are played across the road in the Kings Inn on professional poker tables. Be sure to register early to avoid disappointment. Sit 'n' goes will be running all day.

phantom_lord

Where and how do we get tickets in advance?

fiddlesticks

U pay at the door. Chance of a free bottle of vodka and a much coveted winners bracelet.

phantom_lord

fiddlesticks wrote:

U pay at the door. Chance of a free bottle of vodka and a much coveted winners bracelet.

Ok, sorry, I read number 6 incorrectly.

shoutman

I'm looking forward to this. should be a good day.

ditpoker

purpose of event: commercial!?!?!?!?!?! hmmm...?

sadly i start my exams on the may 2nd... so no WSOBP for me!

beamo

sounds good cant say no to a low buy in freezeout

DITTag

There will also be a number of spot prizes on the day including two poker tables and two sets of 500 13.5 g poker chips.... they will be awarded for the likes of best hand and knocking the last tournament winner out... (me)

DITTag

World Series of Bolton St. Poker

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Poker Mania on May 3rd. Bolton st. poker present the very first annual world series of bolton st. poker. Included in the prize fund is a winners bracelet worth E150 for the winner and a bottle of vodka. All part of the bolton st annual poker budget blowout! Food provided from Bolton st canteen. All poker will be played on tables provided by Green Joker Poker.

1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.) Bolton St. Poker Soc
2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.) Commercial
3. Date and Location of event - May 3rd, Bolton St. canteen
4. Registration and Start time of event. 2.30 reg, 3.00 cards
5. Any prerequisites (member of club, society etc) No
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (in advance, at the door etc.) Maximum entrants is 80
7. Type of Tournament (Hold'em/Omaha etc Freezeout/Rebuy etc.) E15 FO Hold'em
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc. E15
9. Cost of registration N/A
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund 100%
11. Any guarenteed prize pool. E1200
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels. N/A
13. Starting Chips 5000
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts. N/A
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
150/300
Break incl food.
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1,000
700/1500
1,000/2,000
2000/4000
3,000/6,000
4,000/8,000
5,000/10,000
7,000/15,000
10,000/20,000

16. Blind timeframes 20mins

17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc) - Winners bracelet including engraving, bottle of vodka, and hopefully E600 for winner if all goes to plan. Top 10% being paid

18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill Top two final tables will have two fairly well experienced dealers.
19. Will there be a documented list of rules Yes
20. Is there a tournament director Yes - Kenny Darcy, Chairman of Poker Soc
21. How are disputes handled - who has final say. TD has final say

Also as with every bolton st. game, the two final tables are played across the road in the Kings Inn on professional poker tables. Be sure to register early to avoid disappointment. Sit 'n' goes will be running all day.

bubbleking

Looks like DIT are setting up another tourney for DCU to take down they must still be lickin their wounds after the student masters . should be a good tourney. Pride on the line too it has to be said.

shoutman

Didn't DCU set up the Student masters?

DITTag

You should all come down then.. And we will see who the real student masters are...

bubbleking

DITTag wrote:

You should all come down then.. And we will see who the real student masters are...

cant speak for anyone else but il def be there sounds like a great tourney. :cool:

shoutman

Maybe we could have a longest lasting bet between us.
I'm getting a tooth pulled tommorow at twelve hopefully this wont effect my play.

fiddlesticks

shoutman wrote:

Maybe we could have a longest lasting bet between us.
I'm getting a tooth pulled tommorow at twelve hopefully this wont effect my play.

That sounds nice!hopefully ur mouth will still b numb and u'll have to write down wen u want to raise!ill defo jump in on that bet..free buy-in for me!

phantom_lord

DITTag wrote:

May 3rd.

Just when I'd finally gotten myself ready to do some study this comes up...:(


Oh well.


I'd be up for a longest lasting bet shoutman

sosh

Looking forward to this one 2moro, count me in to the last longer comp shoutman. Congrats on tour 3rd place in the fitz on Sun...;)
Does anyone agree that 20 mins for blinds is a bit short, after all it is the "WSOBstP"....

fiddlesticks

yeah an hr for blinds wud b sweet and 10k startin stack but they r lookin to finish it by sum time on wednesday!:D

ditpoker

is fiddlesticks who i think it is??

and luke, i assume 1% of the fitz win is going to the OnePercentPledge , all €1.70 of it!!!
I REALLY WANT TO PLAY THIS - but feckin' exams!!!
and i just lost a $120 hand online... and i cant play! are there any side bets!? I'll have a euro on DITTag to outlast shoutman!! any takers??? anyone?

sosh

fiddler, give us a chance, i find 20 mins can be too short... any chances of making it 25 mins:D PLEASE

Hydromonkey

Hmm, i have 2 exams on thursday but **** it i'll be there. Haven't played a DIT tournament in a long while, plus this one is 20 feet from the room i'm in tomorrow

sosh

wat is this 1 % pledge thing all about?

fiddlesticks

i dunno...not runnin the turnie wit the blinds still 2o min wit 5k means dare is still enough room for play..25 wud b sweet tho!as for u taylor, ill major a hefty E5 on me to outlast tag if ur silly enough to take it on! Luvn the study jeff..luvn it!:D

phantom_lord

sosh wrote:

wat is this 1 % pledge thing all about?

It's a plegde to contribute 1% of your live winnings to bigdragon's charity.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054916402&highlight=one+percent+pledge

Goodluck2me

sosh wrote:

Looking forward to this one 2moro, count me in to the last longer comp shoutman. Congrats on tour 3rd place in the fitz on Sun...;)
Does anyone agree that 20 mins for blinds is a bit short, after all it is the "WSOBstP"....

was that in the 25 rebuy or 30 freezeout...

fiddlesticks

goodluck2me wrote:

was that in the 25 rebuy or 30 freezeout...

30FO

bubbleking

anyone giving odds on DCU having representation on the final table??

shoutman

depends on how many are playing etc

smoke

will there be a top up? if so will it just be just the one?

Oh ive never been on the campus before. Where abouts is the tournament on, what room?

shoutman

There will be no top up smoke, and bolton st (man st) is right at the back of cineworld (formally known as ugc)
Once you go into the place ask for the students union then ask for the cafeteria and it will be in there.

ditpoker

heard this was down to 3 tables after only 2hrs and average stack being only 10 bb by 400/800 level... any reports?

smoke

Thanks, didn't make it in the end, really wanted to but guilted myself into staying in UCD and studying at the last minute. I'm sure there's a good few hours left in this and hope their will be a good report after (namely someone on here wins;) ).

shoutman

I played this, was an absolute joke. Possibly the worst run tournement I have ever played in.

Blind structure was totally different to the one posted on here, however this is not fiddlesticks fault as he received wrong information.

Blinds went 25/50 50/100 100/200 200/400..... Every twenty minutes.

Starting stack was 500 so there was a tiny bit of room to play but being self deal it meant we were averaging less then a round per level (I would of offered to deal for the table but i was at the end of the table so wouldnt of been able to.)

The start of the tournement we were told how we were moving to a pub across the road for the last two tables and could be there until 11pm.
The tournement started at three so there was protests from myself and fiddlesticks as to why the blinds were so short, the response we got was because thats the way they do it in bolton st. Despite fiddlesticks protests of but usually you play rebuys which start at 5pm so you have some time constraints they were dismissed.

Anyway the standard of play was ridiculous, the standard in aungier st is 100 times better on average imho.

For example blinds 25/50

Four limpers Late position raises to 400 to play. Two callers A4o and A5o.

Anyway I got knocked out after correctly laying down good hands to flush and straight chasers and then eventually going all in with middle pair to be called by someone with mid pair with a bigger kicker.

At five o'clock there were two tables left. One chap at the table had 20k in chips ie he had quadruples up in the first two hours, he was shortstacked!!!!!

It was just a terrible tournement and I will not play in bolton street again.

To compound my misery I got outdrawn in the second hand of a 5dollar sng when a guy raised to 300 i re raised to 1500 with ak (already being semi on tilt) Flop comes down Axx He raised 2000 i reraised all in he calls saying i know im behind but hey, he had a6, river was a six of course.

Not a good poker day. /End rant

Hydromonkey

Shoutman pretty much sums up my feelings on it

ditpoker

given that i have a nickname of ditpoker i would like to distance myself and DIT AUNGIER ST POKER SOC from this if it really is as bad as i have heard. DIT AUNGIER ST POKER SOC try to be reasonably poker player friendly!! anyway... back to study!!!

tribulus

that sounds like a nice waste of 15E, why the constant jumps in the blinds??

Goodluck2me

i think even if this isnt true it has cheered up the many studiers who couldnt go! cheers shoutman! hl with AK it never rains...

fiddlesticks

The lads in bolton st are in their first year of running their poker soc and that is the only excuse they can have for running what could have been a great event and earned much support for their soc into what turned out to be an absolutely apalling crapshoot. I offered to help in organizing tables and promoting their events on boards with the idea of them in not skipping blinds.
They also mentioned to me that they hadnt put up any posters for the event and this being the best way to get interest was so stupid!

Some calls on the table i was at were unreal! They was a guy on my right who was a calling station and the first hand i played against him he chased his gutshot and of course made it on the river. I was seriously shortstacked after that and doubled up nicely with jj. Again i get about half my stack again when i raise utg wiith AhQh..the guy who doubled me up previously reraises all-in. Knowing him pretty well for going a bit on tilt, i call. He has Jc9c! flop comes down 3hearts and i make nut flush!

A few hands later with blinds at 100-200 after skipping 75-150. Im sitting nxt to the button, get 77. i limp for 200. shoutman calls from the button as does sb.bb checks and flop comes down 7d3h2s..sb +bb check as do i and nxt card out is Kh. sb checks and BB bets 500 into 600 pot, i put him on flush draw r K8- K9, action to me and i reraise to 1500. shouts fold as does sb.he calls and nxt card is Kc!happy days. he checks and i raise 2500 with about 2500 behind. he reraise all in and i call instantly. he mucks sayin he had a K.

Then loosey-loosey to my right wins a huge pot with 3 all-ins when his A8 makes a str8 on river. I berate him on how it ws a bad call. Nxt hand i get As10c with blinds at 200-400. Four limpers including loosey and i raise all in for around 14K. folded around to loosey, with a nice bit of speech play I talk him into calllin and he turns over Ac7s! I double thru and say it was ul!

With blinds at 400-800 and folding 99 face up to all in on the last hand, i get KK utg. I raise to 5k coz u will get called by anything like Ax r 1010. folded around to a guy 2 off the button, he reraises all-in. After much humming and hawwing by others..action to me.I call and he turns over JJ. Happy days- pick up another pot of bout 24K! Then i get moved table in chip lead which was 3rd final table..i double 1 shortstack up with A6o against j10o when he makes 2 pair. All preflop!

2nd FT in pub now. This tournie definitely has the air of being in a PUB. i hav 31K and chip lead is 33K. After losing 2 races where i was ahead preflop im down to bout 18K. I then lose another big pot after a guy all in preflop makes backdoor flush..blinds were 1k-2k and im on button. I hav jd10d.guy in mp limps..sittin to my rite all-in for 5k. i call as does sb,bb and mp. flop is 10s7c3s.checked round to me and i go all in for 13k thinkin im ahead of the guy in my rite missing the flop and the 20k pot wud b nice to scoop. sb +bb fold and mp calls with 2s2h!!!!!! nxt card is 4c and river is 8c!

At FT around 38k - 32k. In ok shape blinds are heavy though but i got them to agree to 40min blinds and no more skipping of levels! Couple of shortstacks and estimated chipcount of table is 225k. Blinds now at 2k-4k..im just after takn down a pot after raising utg+1 to 14k. I muck showing an ace. Vry nxt hand i get As10c and raise to same amount as before. guy to my left goes all-in. folded aroun and he has me covered by 2k. I hav 39k in total..leaving me 24k. i have a great read on him as he looks at his cards knowing when he has a hand but wasnt paying attention bcoz i was collecting my chips.

I then proceed to make the worst call ever!he shows AKo and gets K on flop and im out for eight! 5th got paid which i thought was top heavy even for the lack of runners. At least a guy from Aungier st dit took it down and the bracelet was seriously sweet!

shoutman

you should be shot for making that call fiddler!!!

Who won?

jbravado

This was as desribed. An absolute jokeshop.The blinds left absolutley no room for play,after about one hour and it quicky became an absolute allin fest. This is not however my main grievance. The sensible and correct advice given by the guys who posted the original structure was totally ignored-very much a case of were right-your wrong,totally ruining what had the potential to be a decent game!

My spirits were somewhat lifted by the emergence of "steaming" Willy Beamen as a force in student poker!There was also a decent atmosphere in the pub later on.The blind levels were extended to every 45 mins!unreal.It was too little too late.

fiddlesticks

jbravado's mate willie. he was the guy wearin the red hoodie and cap.i folded my 99 face up to..at least he was a decent payer instead of just a luck box. the only reason i made that stupid call was gettn bout 80k in chips.so stupid.sham of an event tho....

shoutman

Fiddler you had it for the taking!!

Ah Yes Steamin' Willy B, nice bloke too. Congrats to him.

Hydromonkey

fiddlesticks wrote:

A few hands later with blinds at 100-200 after skipping 75-150. Im sitting nxt to the button, get 77. i limp for 200. shoutman calls from the button as does sb.bb checks and flop comes down 7d3h2s..sb +bb check as do i and nxt card out is Kh. sb checks and BB bets 500 into 600 pot, i put him on flush draw r K8- K9, action to me and i reraise to 1500. shouts fold as does sb.he calls and nxt card is Kc!happy days. he checks and i raise 2500 with about 2500 behind. he reraise all in and i call instantly. he mucks sayin he had a K.

Yeah that was me, i wasn't happy with how i played the hand at all, got complacent. You knocked me out aswell didn't you (AQ vs 34)? At least i lost to a decent player

beamo

i took this down for DIT aungier street! the tournament wasn't the greatest, the skipping of blind levels and short length of them even though we had until 11 o'clock to finish it seems a bit odd, i arrived on the last 2 tables with 17k which seemed short stacked with blinds increasing fast but things settled down when we convinced them to make the blinds 40 mins and stop them doubling them with 2 tables left, i arrived at the final table with about 20k with 270k in play, won a small pot ot two before trying a button steal with 67o and being called by the big blind with A5o, he hit 2 pair but i got very lucky when i rivered a straight to get myself up to about 65k, then came a key hand, i raised on the button with Q10 of clubs and the big blind called, flop came AKJr i pumped about 20k in the pot and was called a Q came on the turn which could have crippled my hand but ended up helping me, i pushed for 40k and was promptly called by the chip leader holding AQ and i doubled thru, 3 handed we played about 20 hands 17 of which i won uncontested, eventually we were down to 2 after Q8 won a race against Ax, heads up was a patient affair and lasted about half an hour and was eventually ended when i hit a straight with 85o

shoutman

You're my boy blue, you're my boy!

fiddlesticks

Hydromonkey wrote:

Yeah that was me, i wasn't happy with how i played the hand at all, got complacent. You knocked me out aswell didn't you (AQ vs 34)? At least i lost to a decent player

I think u had AKo V 34s. i raised to 1800 utg+2 wen blinds were 300-600. u reraised all in an fo sumting btween 4500-5500. meant it was like 1900 r 2200 more for me coz i remeember i was gettn gud odds of bout 4.5 to 1 r 4/1. I cant remember exactly how much but i kno i was gettn gud odds.

fiddlesticks

beamo wrote:

i took this down for DIT aungier street! the tournament wasn't the greatest, the skipping of blind levels and short length of them even though we had until 11 o'clock to finish it seems a bit odd, i arrived on the last 2 tables with 17k which seemed short stacked with blinds increasing fast but things settled down when we convinced them to make the blinds 40 mins and stop them doubling them with 2 tables left, i arrived at the final table with about 20k with 270k in play, won a small pot ot two before trying a button steal with 67o and being called by the big blind with A5o, he hit 2 pair but i got very lucky when i rivered a straight to get myself up to about 65k, then came a key hand, i raised on the button with Q10 of clubs and the big blind called, flop came AKJr i pumped about 20k in the pot and was called a Q came on the turn which could have crippled my hand but ended up helping me, i pushed for 40k and was promptly called by the chip leader holding AQ and i doubled thru, 3 handed we played about 20 hands 17 of which i won uncontested, eventually we were down to 2 after Q8 won a race against Ax, heads up was a patient affair and lasted about half an hour and was eventually ended when i hit a straight with 85o

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U have to defend ur title next year as WSOBstP. That bracelet was sweet....

beamo

fiddlesticks wrote:

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U have to defend ur title next year as WSOBstP. That bracelet was sweet....

ah yeh defo be a bit a banter yeh the bracelet's nice anybody know where i could get a couple of links taken off it? its big enough to fit round me ankle!

shoutman

Any Jewellers or watch makers would do that for ya Beamo

Oh and the time where you folded to my reraise and I wouldnt tell you what i had, well I had j9o.

beamo

shoutman wrote:

Any Jewellers or watch makers would do that for ya Beamo

Oh and the time where you folded to my reraise and I wouldnt tell you what i had, well I had j9o.

ah no, outplayed! youre a sick sick man luke!:) i actually did have 23o that hand tho!

shoutman

tbh I totally forget what the hand was, was the board paired or something.