Sporting Emporium EPT Barcelona Qualifier - Tuesday 29th August

ianmc38

I was asked to post up the details on boards, so here goes:

1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.) - The Sporting Emporium

2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.) - Commercial

3. Date and Location of event - Tuesday 29th August Sporting Emporium, Annes Lane (off Grafton Street)

4. Registration and Start time of event. Event starts at 9pm. There are single table satellites available beforehand.

5. Any prerequisites (member of club, society etc) - Must be a member of the club. Cost of membership is €20 with €20 in chips given to new members. Photo Id required to join

6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (in advance, at the door etc.)

Tickets can be purchased on the night. Places are limited to ~120. 50 tickets have already been sold.

7. Type of Tournament (Hold'em/Omaha etc Freezeout/Rebuy etc.) No limit hold-em, with one rebuy or topup

8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc. - €150 Entry + 1x€150 Rebuy or 1x€150 Topup

9. Cost of registration

10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund - All entry fees and rebuys/topups go into the prizepool

11. Any guarenteed prize pool. - 2 Packages Guaranteed. 1 package consists of an EPT Ticket (€5000) + €2500 expenses. A cash alternative of €7500 can be taken instead

12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels. - 1 Rebuy or Topup. Rebuys stop after level 4.

13. Starting Chips - 3500 Chips

14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts - 5000 Chips

15. Blind levels

Level 1 25 50
Level 2 50 100
Level 3 75 150
Level 4 100 200

Break - 30 Minutes. Hot buffet served.

Level 5 150 300
Level 6 200 400
Level 7 300 600
Level 8 400 800
Level 9 500 1000
Level 10 800 1500

Break - 10 Minutes

Level 11 1000 2000
Level 12 1500 3000
Level 13 2000 4000

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16. Blind timeframes - Levels 1-4 are 25 minutes each. Subsequent levels are 20 minutes long.

17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc) - If the field has over 110 runners, 18 places will be paid

18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill - Highly experienced dealers at every table

19. Will there be a documented list of rules - The rules are available from the TD

20. Is there a tournament director - Yes. Alex/John/Dave

21. How are disputes handled - who has final say. - tournament director

EARMUFFS

What times are the single table sats starting at?

ianmc38

Ermm im not sure. I think a few hours before hand. maybe someone who played the world series STTs can let you know...

ligger

6pm for SnG's I was told but I'm only going for the "Hot Buffet"..:)

ollyk1

I assume the game starts at 9pm Ian??

I'll probably ring in my entry and arrive at the last minute. btw if anyone wants to sell me a ticket at a discount or for cash and a slice of my action pm me.

ianmc38

Yeah Olly due to kick off at 9. Seats are drawn 8:30. I shall take 10% of you Olly. PM en route.

Any other boardsies in this?

ollyk1

ianmc38 wrote:

Yeah Olly due to kick off at 9. Seats are drawn 8:30. I shall take 10% of you Olly. PM en route.

Any other boardsies in this?

I was hoping to buy a cheap ticket not sell slices of my hot gambling streak but since I know you'll need some external interest once your knocked out after an hour I'll sell you a small slice I guess.

Man I'm going soft

See you later Ian.

ianmc38

I'm expecting to win at least one ticket tonight, maybe even two. With y ou and HalfBaked added to the equation, i might even get a piece of the third.

eggie

Have a ticket for this, think i'll play for the craic.

ligger

Have a ticket and will be in early to try and win my rebuy (or hopefully use it as a top up.) Hoping not to repeat my WSOP qualifer where I was Cinderella and out before midnight:mad:

Washout

i have a ticket also so defo see ye there.

Flushdraw

I heard this was cancelled so its best if nobody goes. The jackpot will be better value so maybe just all head there.......

ianmc38

Ugh. Came 18th for 320. Ollyk1 about 15th. Washout 17th. Tom Hanlon was the only boardsie left i think. Obron was massive chip leader. I played really well for most of the tourney, had a large chip lead on ym table, raising every 2nd hand. Got 1 horrible bad beat by another boardsie who played back knowing that I was running over the table. Then lost a race with AQh against Ken Dohertys 33 before blinding into the money.

Excellent tourney, excellent structure and lots of good players. Pity I didnt get a ticket but c'est la vie. I'm happy with how I played and just got unlucky in a few crucial pots.

Edit: Nice to meet Nicky power and Pokertroll. Nicky I hope you put my chips to good use!

nicnicnic

Nice to meet you to sir. Unfortunitly my Sb JJ was no match for Tom's cut off steel with AA:( . came 8th for €700

i'll own up to been the boardsie whom sucked out on you, but was really glad to see you make the money after your bubble trouble last week

ligger

Had 2 Bubbles in the SnGs before hand, so that was my bad luck out of the way...

Finished 28th (ish) when my 2nd (and biggest) Pocket pair 4's was cracked by the mighty Q3 o/s.

Washout

ianmc38 wrote:

Ugh. Came 18th for 320. Ollyk1 about 15th. Washout 17th.

not that it matters but i think came 13th.

it was a fantastic tournie. i went busto last hand before the break when i ran my AK to an UTG limped KK. so shortstack play at its best after the break.

ligger were there any other boardsters at our table? trying to put names to faces.

ligger

Washout wrote:

ligger were there any other boardsters at our table? trying to put names to faces.

Where were you sitting? Not so good on the facematching either?

Washout

table 2 seat 3....directly across from you

ligger

Ahh now I know you, we have played a few times before me thinks. Was very tempted to call your all in 2 rounds before my exit. I was in SB and you pushed for about 3.5k or so. I had AQ sooted and it was the best hand I had seen in 2 hours..

Washout

ligger wrote:

Ahh now I know you, we have played a few times before me thinks. Was very tempted to call your all in 2 rounds before my exit. I was in SB and you pushed for about 3.5k or so. I had AQ sooted and it was the best hand I had seen in 2 hours..

i had you dominitatedw with AK suited. why didnt you call???? that makes me grumpy now

ligger

Figured you had a hand but was hoping for a coin flip v 1010 or JJ. But as you had not played a hand for a while figured you probably had me in trouble. Only got 2 pk Pairs all night, the fours and 33 early on. Happy enough with my play just could not get any cards:(

Washout

ligger wrote:

Figured you had a hand but was hoping for a coin flip v 1010 or JJ. But as you had not played a hand for a while figured you probably had me in trouble. Only got 2 pk Pairs all night, the fours and 33 early on. Happy enough with my play just could not get any cards:(

i just did that to create the table image to effectively use the pushbot mode which on that table worked a charm

califano

Washout wrote:

i just did that to create the table image to effectively use the pushbot mode which on that table worked a charm

So you planned ahead for shortstacked play?:p

Washout

rounders123 wrote:

So you planned ahead for shortstacked play?:p

lol circumstances planned it for me :-)....the table went from being quite loose before the break to tight into the second level after the break....as per liggers example where he folded AQs to just a 3500 all-in push

pokertroll

Excellent tourney alright. Nice to put a few more names to faces with some of the other boardsters. Unfortunately I was card dead for the whole night and was completely neutralized by a fat Freddy Mercury lookalike, two to my left, who was happy to call any raise I made. Was funny to find out who the chief was...

ligger

Washout wrote:

as per liggers example where he folded AQs to just a 3500 all-in push

Good read by me:)

And it was 50% of my chips.

ianmc38

nicnicnic wrote:

Nice to meet you to sir. Unfortunitly my Sb JJ was no match for Tom's cut off steel with AA:( . came 8th for €700

i'll own up to been the boardsie whom sucked out on you, but was really glad to see you make the money after your bubble trouble last week

WP Nicky. I thought you were gonna bring one home. You played great poker after you'd sat down at table 3. Do you know who won them in the end? Obron and Tom must have had massive stacks.

ollyk1

Ran my 75k stack (chip average 50k at the time) and QsQc into Obron's limped black aces. Twice in two week I've done this

Left with that question of whether or not I could get away from it. I hates that.....I had opened up my game and was beginning to really make moves and go for a big stack and a real shot at the ticket and Obron knew this so I don't think I can fold a genuinely decent hand in this spot but it's always in the back of your head you know...:rolleyes:

Very enjoyable game and after making some marginally poor folds early on I started to play pretty well and hit a board on a semibluff and really got motoring so I was a bit sick that it ended so abrubtly. That's poker.


P.S. Absolutley disgusted by that pussy Ian's limpage into the money. Terrible stuff

ianmc38

ollyk1 wrote:

P.S. Absolutley disgusted by that pussy Ian's limpage into the money. Terrible stuff

GO FúCK YOURSELF

2 bubbles in one week was all i could take.

ionapaul

Well done those who cashed, limpage is ok once in a while Ian, purely to get over a mental hurdle and all How many runners? How was the athmosphere?

ianmc38

Somewhere around 110 runners Paul. Great atmosphere.

I genuinely thought I was going to win a ticket last night, as I was playing really confidently, raising every second hand and meeting no resistance until Nicky Power came to the table. I lost a big pot against him that would have given me more than 50k with the average around 16k, when I raised for the 3rd or 4th hand in succession with JQo. Nicky pushed and I called, knowing it was one of those I know that he knows situations. He tabled JTo and luckboxed a T on the flop to send me to the summit of Tilt mountain

I win that hand and I reckon I'd be booking my flights to Barcelona, but it wasn't to be. in the end I limped in to the money like a little girl, folding J9o on my BB with blinds at 2k/4k, leaving myself 7.5k behind. i knew Ken had 2 overs, but it was on the bubble and 10th-18th all payed the exact same amount.

califano

Theres an epidemic of limping with big pairs in that place. Ive been done the last twice this way too. Most recently by a guy limping with QQ in MP after someone else limped.
Im going to smoke some fool making this same play myself. Or be smoked!.

ollyk1

rounders123 wrote:

Theres an epidemic of limping with big pairs in that place. Ive been done the last twice this way too. Most recently by a guy limping with QQ in MP after someone else limped.
Im going to smoke some fool making this same play myself. Or be smoked!.

Not in this spot Aidan,

I think he played the hand pretty well given the circumstances with him having limped a couple of times (and taking shortstacks of flops) and with a lot of people in dire need of chips and likely to have a push with a lot of hands.

Limping in certain spots is a good play but I agree a lot of the time its not good but he played it well and got me. Fair play to him.

It was just one of those "ah fúck" moments where its 3.30 am I'm playing well and I'm really going for it and then I get shot down. Oh well. :rolleyes:

At least I'm consoled that I didn't spend an hour and a half moaning about my bad beats when I didn't win a 50/50 race, and bend over the table and let people fúck me and take my blinds

nicnicnic

ianmc38 wrote:

WP Nicky. I thought you were gonna bring one home. You played great poker after you'd sat down at table 3. Do you know who won them in the end? Obron and Tom must have had massive stacks.

When i left tom had about 110k, the JJ AA pot was approx 85k, obran had 300k and a decent player from Lois about 150k Thomas Nolan 60/70k.

I feel the hand that really crippled you Ian was when you rightly put down the 77 after raising. If you get through there you've got some play left in you but after that all you could do was make the money.

As for me I hit two tables out with 40k and it was all I could do to protect this till the final table. With obran having so much of the 700k or so chips and two first places 40k was not that low.I felt that I had a right chance of my first ETP appearance but wasn't to be

califano

ollyk1 wrote:

At least I'm consoled that I didn't spend an hour and a half moaning about my bad beats when I didn't win a 50/50 race

You mean like Ian?:D


p.s ah yeah i see your point but theres habitual AA limpers in those games. Weve gotta root em out!. Literally scalp em!

ianmc38

ollyk1 wrote:

At least I'm consoled that I didn't spend an hour and a half moaning about my bad beats when I didn't win a 50/50 race, and bend over the table and let people fúck me

Now now Olly. What you get up at your home games should be kept outside of the public eye.

Washout

what seat were you in nicnic? i was moved to Kens right and was at that the table for the 77 laydown ian made

nicnicnic

I was the raiser with 88:) seat 4 i think.

Also got to play with the chief. Had just moved to a new table and put 1100 early raise when blinds were 200/400, guy makes it 6k and three of the table comment your in big trouble. I'm thinking this guy must be a rock from the tables reaction. However a short time later i note the salmon jumper and likeness and realise I'm in the presence of a poker icon