Tournament Poker Ireland Ltd presents its first Irish National Student Poker Champion

carfax

Edit; Tournament Poker Ireland Ltd presents its first Irish National Student Poker ChampionSHIP (lol)

Date of the Event; Saturday, January 27th 2007

Location; RDS, Concert Hall, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Start time of Event; 12 noon.
Game type; No-Limit Hold’em.
Buy-in; €65+€7reg

This will be dealer dealt and will be a two day event.

Estimated prize-pool; €26,000- 100% prize-pool payout.

There will be a sponsor for this event, which we will announce in due course.

Other sponsored prizes will be added.

This tournament will be a capped event, 440 players due to size of venue

Blind Structure; Depending on the number of entrants the blind levels will be between 40 mins and one hour with a 10,000 starting stack.
(eg, 300 players means one hour clock, 400 players means 40 min clock)
25 - 50
50 - 100
100 - 200
150 – 300
150 - 300 25
200 – 400 50
300 – 600 75
400 – 800 100
500 –1000 100
800 –1500 150
1000 – 2000 200
1500 – 3000 300
2000 – 4000 400
3000 – 6000 600
4000-8000 800
5000-10000 1000
8000-15000 1500
10000-20000 2000
15000-30000 3000
20000-40000 4000 etc....

Email stephen@pokerireland.ie to express an interest and pre-register.

Registration will open soon but we need to hear from as many interested players as possible right now.
Once a sponsor has been confirmed we will register players on a first come first serve basis. All those that have pre-registered will be guaranteed a seat.

Registration will close 66 hours prior to the event, (i.e.12 midnight on Wednesday Jan 24th).

Check out www.pokerireland.ie for more info and to register on our forum to discuss the event itself.

Tournament Directors - Stephen Mc Lean and Derek Williams

Many thanks,
Stephen Mc Lean.
stephen@pokerireland.ie

AKQJ10

Sounds great. Looking forward to this more than Christmas

carfax

Lol, Cheers.

rag2gar

Should be an historic event for poker in this country imho, looking forward to it too

phantom_lord

sounds great!

The structure should make up for having to play with bloody students.

carfax

Thanks lads,

We really need every student player to tell as many other students as possible about this.

We are literally in the final final stages of the negotiations with a sponsor and there will be lots of bonus's on offer for participants.

I just need as many people as possible pre-registered not only because it will make registering more straightforward but because it will look good to have loads of interested players.

stephen@pokerireland.ie to pre-register.

cooker3

Well 1 day before my birthday, would be a nice present to win it.

It sounds great, 1 issue I have is €72 in total maybe a bit high for good few people but hopefully those can satelite their way through it.

In general sounds great.

Da GOAT

what are you consituting as a student? any one on a course or what exactly?
i do night classes for ICAI.

phantom_lord

cooker3 wrote:

It sounds great, 1 issue I have is €72 in total maybe a bit high for good few people but hopefully those can satelite their way through it.

Blind Omaha!

BigCityBanker

I am a registered student - do I count?

Killme00

What do you consider a student
I have a BA and an MBA and am studying for the ACCA...do i count
please say yes

carfax

Send the email to pre-register and all questions will be answered.
stephen@pokerireland.ie

A student is somebody that is currently studying in my opinion.
I've had one inquiry from an 18 year old leaving cert student so far.

Mellor

We talked about this in another thread, anybody currently registered in 3rd level education.
2nd level students should consult Carfax on an individual basis.

Mellor

So max no. of entrants results in €28.6k prizepool. Plus extra for sponsors.
Can you leak any info about sponsors carfax, who's involved.
I was thinking about this the other day and I realised that aswel as a pokersite making a good sponsor, somebody like toyota (sponsor WSOP) might also get involved, without infringing on the other sponsor.

You should get a ticker count-down thing for your sig carfax, www.tickerfactory.com i think





Here's one I made earlier, well just now

myflipflops

i've said it before and i'll say it again - superb work carfax.

carfax

pwhite587 wrote:

i've said it before and i'll say it again - superb work carfax.

Thanks lads,

Just need to keep this going. I'm getting plenty of emails now with players pre-registering but I need everyone to keep telling people about it.

Its the players that will make this event and I just want to make sure we get at least 400.

email stephen@pokerireland.ie to pre-register.

Cheers.

cardshark202

Great work Stephen. Email sent

Tar.Aldarion

Hmm, sounds good to me! I mean, excellent.
Wonder are any other Nuig people going to turn up.
Email sent.

Blinds 40 mins or an hour? Says an hour on the site I think.

fobster

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Blinds 40 mins or an hour? Says an hour on the site I think.

carfax wrote:

300 players means one hour clock, 400 players means 40 min clock

This is shaping up to be one hell of a tourney, can't wait.

Tar.Aldarion

Ooops, missed that!

Rb

Do part-time students qualify for this?!

Mellor

rb_ie wrote:

Do part-time students qualify for this?!

I'd imagine so, as long as its a proper course. With a min duration set by carfax,
and not a week long course on sewing

Rb

Mellor wrote:

I'd imagine so, as long as its a proper course. With a min duration set by carfax,
and not a week long course on sewing

Lol, no, not sewing. I've to repeat a few modules from last year starting January, part time 'til June.

Mellor

And will you be a ful time student again next year? if so it can't be a problem.

Rb

Mellor wrote:

And will you be a ful time student again next year? if so it can't be a problem.

In that case, I'm almost sure I'll be in attendance.

cooker3

You know when this was originally proposed who realised how technical the definition of a student would get!

carfax

cooker3 wrote:

You know when this was originally proposed who realised how technical the definition of a student would get!

Lots of recently graduated students???

Quick reminder again to anyone reading this thread for the first time.

Email pre-registrations to stephen@pokerireland.ie now please.

Getting loads of responses and I'm sure we will make the 400 player mark at least but just want to get the word out to as many people as possible earlier rather than later.

Thanks,
Stephen.

Fizman

Super, im just finished 5 yrs of college and this tourney comes along :rolleyes:

carfax

Hi all,

Just wanted to send out another quick reminder to tell anyone that might be interested in playing in this student championship to email me.

I've been getting a great response but everyone should know that I will not be looking for payment of registration until closer to the actual date.

What I do need is as many people pre-registered as this will make it easier to guarantee people a place in the tournament etc......

Thanks,
stephen@pokerireland.ie

Also, you do not have to be a full time student to play, just a student of some description.

Pre-register now please.

BigCityBanker

carfax wrote:

just a student of some description.

RESULT.......

carfax

BigCityBanker wrote:

RESULT.......

Send me an email so BigCity.

It just gives us a lot more leeway with sponsorship with more and more people pre-registered.

stephen@pokerireland.ie

Cheers mate.

BMcG05

Just noticed on pokersoc.com "Satellites: Satellites will be running in colleges throughout the country right up until January 24th. Online satellites for this event will be confirmed soon". Thought Id give you a heads up that UCD (and Id imagine other colleges) are finished up on December 1st until Jan 23rd 07. Don't want to discourage you but it means that, with us anyway, there will be no more meetings before the event itself and therefore no practical way of publicising the event to our members (emails dont seem to work).

On a more optimistic note, it does sound like a brilliant tourney and Ill defo mention it to anyone I can here

Goodluck2me

word of mouth seems to be th eonly way right now if getting the word around.... i think posters would make a huge difference too. if its well advertised then it should really be a success.

check pms Carfax...

carfax

BMcG05 wrote:

Just noticed on pokersoc.com "Satellites: Satellites will be running in colleges throughout the country right up until January 24th. Online satellites for this event will be confirmed soon". Thought Id give you a heads up that UCD (and Id imagine other colleges) are finished up on December 1st until Jan 23rd 07. Don't want to discourage you but it means that, with us anyway, there will be no more meetings before the event itself and therefore no practical way of publicising the event to our members (emails dont seem to work).

On a more optimistic note, it does sound like a brilliant tourney and Ill defo mention it to anyone I can here

Thanks for the heads up. Its really a simple matter of sending out an email to all of the players in the Poker Soc in each college......DIT have by far the most pre-registered players so far and thats really down to Jeff and Anto telling players about the tournament and sending out a group email. For this to be a success we really need all of the colleges telling players about it.

Its not just important in terms of college poker but also for the future of the sport, imo.

stephen@pokerireland.ie PRE-REGISTER NOW!!!

carfax

If emails aren't working then fair enough.

But you can only do your best to tell people about it and word of mouth is the best way to organise a tournament in my experience.

Mellor

DIT bolton street and kevin street are running a €25 euro freezeout in the next week or two, expect a large number of players so if you van get posters to me Carfax ill try put them up at the event for the janurary one.
i've been telling alot of players about it at the bolton street game and ill try get a group email/text sent out after the bolton street reezeout to avoid confusion

ditpoker

Mellor wrote:

DIT bolton street and kevin street are running a €25 euro freezeout in the next week or two

is this the "1 in 10 wins a trip to croatia" game where "blind levels increase throughout the tournament" ? I'll be donating to that, (Dec 9th??), stephen, if you could get posters together by then or fliers even to advertise at that event. We'll be running a qualifier before we break for x-mas with "tickets added" via hoodie sales... I HOPE!

RE Posters: do you have any artwork you wanna use? i can have a stab at a poster if ya want. And if you wanna get them done at short notice i suppose Reads of Nassau st do bets deals, they'll even take a few quid off the price if you let them stick a READS banner on the poster.

cooker3

Just send a mass mail out to dcu pokersoc mailing list so hopefully get some more interest now from here.

carfax

Hi lads,

I will do my best to get artwork done but am crazy busy today.

I will PM you by tomo.

Thanks.

carfax

cooker3 wrote:

Just send a mass mail out to dcu pokersoc mailing list so hopefully get some more interest now from here.

Cheers Rob.

carfax

Hi,

I think I have a competitive quote for flyers/posters so I will get this sorted out first thing tomo morning.

It will probably be Monday at the earliest before I can get them out to peops though as I am in Sligo on Saturday (in the Adelaide Casino for those of you that might want to play in a €200+€20 freezeout).

Thanks for all the support.
Sorry if my messages were a bit short earlier but just getting back to each individual that pre-registers is time consuming I suppose.
The number of people that have pre-registered is fairly substantial especially considering its 2 months before the tournament takes place..... but again, to anyone reading this thread for the first time email stephen@pokerireland.ie now to pre-register and guarantee your seat.

For more info check out www.pokerireland.ie

Thanks.

ditpoker

carfax wrote:

Hi,

I think I have a competitive quote for flyers/posters so I will get this sorted out first thing tomo morning.

It will probably be Monday at the earliest before I can get them out to peops though as I am in Sligo on Saturday (in the Adelaide Casino for those of you that might want to play in a €200+€20 freezeout).

Thanks for all the support.
Sorry if my messages were a bit short earlier but just getting back to each individual that pre-registers is time consuming I suppose.
The number of people that have pre-registered is fairly substantial especially considering its 2 months before the tournament takes place..... but again, to anyone reading this thread for the first time email stephen@pokerireland.ie now to pre-register and guarantee your seat.

For more info check out www.pokerireland.ie

Thanks.

big fan of the hard sell arent ya!

Mellor

ditpoker wrote:

is this the "1 in 10 wins a trip to croatia" game where "blind levels increase throughout the tournament" ?

Not sure whats happening with the DIT tourney, it may be a rebuy now and i dont like the sound of some of the details.

carfax

Mellor wrote:

Not sure whats happening with the tourney, it may be a rebuy now and i dont like the sound of some of the details.

The National Student Champs defo won't be a re-buy tourney.....I think DIT is talking about a different tourney there.

And yes I am a fan of the hard sell (no matter how good a service you offer people just seem to want more)....One question I was asked was would I be subsidising anyone travelling to the tournament from outside of Dublin, he he.

Tar.Aldarion

Dug up some old emails from poker soc this year. This is their email address, poker@socs.nuigalway.ie
You could try to contact them and ask for a mailing list.

Mellor

carfax wrote:

The National Student Champs defo won't be a re-buy tourney.....I think DIT is talking about a different tourney there.

Sorry Carfax, we were talking about a different game, changed my post now as not to confuse any hopefulls.
If you get any posters made up throw a few my way and ill get them put up in bolton street.

carfax

Cheers guys.

Goodluck2me

was talking to a few of the boys in UCD today about this and ive never had so many positive responses from it so it all seems to be going well. id also think apart from wheni win it i could make some money from Jeffery and anthony etc, by doing some sort of a team element to it (nominal fees obviosly as to not effect the game (or give you excuses)) like 5 best UCD..v 5 DIT versus the 3 best in trinity, (not sure it theres a fouth player there yet...).. what do you reckon?

also what about getting dealers for this, was thinking novelty dealers would be funny. ( i dont mean liek clown outifts and wigs) more like people we know? role reversal etc?? anyone?

shoutman

How I would love to give Joe O'Neil some stick if he was to deal....

carfax

shoutman wrote:

How I would love to give Joe O'Neil some stick if he was to deal....

Lol,

Joe is the first person I am going to ask so.

Its actually a bit of a problem to find dealers for this. The best of the best will be playing in the thing.

carfax

Don't forget keep the emails coming
stephen@pokerireland.ie to pre-register.

I should make that my signature for when I post.