GJP Festival of Poker II - May 25th

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Green Joker Poker are pleased to present :

The Festival of Poker II.

Location : The City North Hotel, nr Drogheda, 10 mins from Dublin Airport.

May 24th 8pm - Super Satellite €50+€5 Rebuy
May 25th 4pm - €1000+€80 Main event. 3 Days. 15k chips. 1 hr clock.
May 26th 6pm - €500+€50 2 day event. 10k chips. 45 min clock.
May 27th 3pm - €300+€30 1 day event. 8k chips. 40 min clock.

Fully dealer dealt.
300 players Max.
Online qualifiers start on GJP in February.
Live Qualifiers will be announced throughout Ireland.
You can win tickets in our monthly €300 games.
You will be able to buy in direct from your GJP online account.
You can buy in direct via wire transfer or at any GJP event.
This will be a ranking event.

Side events will use structure that we use in monthly games.
www.greenjokerpoker.com/structure.html

Contact me via email or PM for more details.

Structure for Main Event:

25/50
50/100
75/150 * was missing last time!
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1000 End of Day 1
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000
2500/5000
3000/6000
4000/8000
5000/10000 End of Day 2
6000/12000
8000/16000
10000/20000
15000/30000
20000/40000
25000/50000
30000/60000
40000/80000
50000/100000

carrigeen

excellent cant wait

now between you , neil and ken in cork ye can up with an excuse to give the girlfriend that i'll be away for three w/e in may:(

BIG-SLICK-POKER

Super Mike I should get a few tickets out for this at our event , Hope ye are down advertising at our event for this one the week before .... You are more than welcome ...
Some Quality month of poker in May ......


Neill K

BIG-SLICK-POKER

carrigeen wrote:

excellent cant wait

now between you , neil and ken in cork ye can up with an excuse to give the girlfriend that i'll be away for three w/e in may:(

I must give her a bell and see wat shes up to those weekends pat

LuckyLloyd

Wooo Hoooo. This is going to be great.

brianmc

LuckyLloyd wrote:

Wooo Hoooo. This is going to be great.

Poker - In the Amstel tradition.

Scotty #

No antes Mike?

I liked their introduction to the montly games

LuckyLloyd

Scotty # wrote:

No antes Mike?

I liked their introduction to the montly games

Keep the antes away from the main event!!

pok3rplaya

I'm there. Cash games should be roughly the same as last time right?

phantom_lord

Sounds good. free-rolling the 1k with my aps sound's even better...

DeVore

Antes cost time and are awkward in my opinion. Plus from what I can see they are not used properly in Ireland at all (they were designed to slow the structure down , not be an additional tax on players. I'll rant another day on this). Anyway, in a 60 minute tournie with 15k starting I think you'll get more hands per hour without antes. Just my 2c.

DeV.

DeVore

phantom_lord wrote:

Sounds good. free-rolling the 1k with my aps sound's even better...

Yeah, I have a feeling a lot of Greenjokerpoker's online players will be cashing in their loyalty scheme money to play this for nothing!

DeV.

Shortstack

DeVore wrote:

Yeah, I have a feeling a lot of Greenjokerpoker's online players will be cashing in their loyalty scheme points to play this for nothing!

DeV.

Just a quick note that you do NOT need to save up your action points to use your sponsorship fund. They are merely a guide as to how quickly your fund accumulates.

DeVore

Yeah, I should have said "money" (corrected it now).


Money is much better then points... *cough*

DeV.

califano

wrote:

Antes cost time and are awkward in my opinion.

Totally agree.

I would suggest your online GF to the main event be a ticket only package to generate more tickets. Recently JP's online ticket only(incl reg) GF for the IPC worked well.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

DeVore wrote:

Antes cost time and are awkward in my opinion. Plus from what I can see they are not used properly in Ireland at all (they were designed to slow the structure down , not be an additional tax on players. I'll rant another day on this). Anyway, in a 60 minute tournie with 15k starting I think you'll get more hands per hour without antes. Just my 2c.

DeV.

Tom if u have any advertising for this event can u send it on as i will pop it up in the clubs - Are u ok with us doing sats for this the weekend before

Neill K

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rounders123 wrote:

Totally agree.

I would suggest your online GF to the main event be a ticket only package to generate more tickets. Recently JP's online ticket only(incl reg) GF for the IPC worked well.

For the main event we need to include some exes as the tournaments are open to bluesq and uncover as well. Most of their players are UK based. It will be a nominal $300 exes with the cost of a single room for three nights included in the package. At current ex rates this values a package at $2100.

If any locals win then the cost of the room can be put towards a side event if no accom is needed or used in a deal to create more tickets.

If we think can fill a few GJP only satellites for ticket only then we will add them but most people will want to stay anyway.

I will get a STT table for tickets only put up also but this wont happen until the switch to playtech.

Shortstack

BIG-SLICK-POKER wrote:

Tom if u have any advertising for this event can u send it on as i will pop it up in the clubs - Are u ok with us doing sats for this the weekend before

Neill K

Posters will be printed within the next week or so and we will distribute to all who wish to have them in their clubs. I will be in touch with club owners in the next week to co-ordinate satellites.

Run as many as you can Neill. I will try and make it down for your festival and help run the sats.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

Shortstack wrote:

Posters will be printed within the next week or so and we will distribute to all who wish to have them in their clubs. I will be in touch with club owners in the next week to co-ordinate satellites.

Run as many as you can Neill. I will try and make it down for your festival and help run the sats.

Ill have to run sats for the Macau which is the week after yours also mate , as Ken always looks after me so ill have to spread the sats between each

Neill

mdwexford

DeVore wrote:

Antes cost time and are awkward in my opinion. Plus from what I can see they are not used properly in Ireland at all (they were designed to slow the structure down , not be an additional tax on players. I'll rant another day on this). Anyway, in a 60 minute tournie with 15k starting I think you'll get more hands per hour without antes. Just my 2c.

DeV.

do you not think it makes pots worth stealing pf and creates more action though Tom??

Wreck

BIG-SLICK-POKER wrote:

Some Quality month of poker in May ......

Why are there so many good events on in May - does no one have any sympathy for me - fecking exams at the end of May

Hopefully I'll still make it to one of these excellent tournies though, the structure for GJP main event looks like great value.

Fatboydim

Nice structure.

The only thing I'd change is to make it a 90min clock and 10k starting stack. I don't think the extra 5k makes a difference [other than promoting daft play from me early on] but an extra 30mins would.

But I quite understand that it would last a week that way. Especially the way Carigeen plays.

carrigeen

mdwexford wrote:

do you not think it makes pots worth stealing pf and creates more action though Tom??

I agree with that , I think they play a very important role in any deepstacked tourny


PS Neil I'll PM on that mobile number;) Im relying on you !!!!!!!!!

carrigeen

Fatboydim wrote:

Nice structure.

The only thing I'd change is to make it a 90min clock and 10k starting stack. I don't think the extra 5k makes a difference [other than promoting daft play from me early on] but an extra 30mins would.

But I quite understand that it would last a week that way. Especially the way Carigeen plays.

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! iI'm a speedy in westwood terms
I think your just a tad bitter cause u make sligo j look fast

Fatboydim

carrigeen wrote:

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! iI'm a speedy in westwood terms
I think your just a tad bitter cause u make sligo j look fast

Only when relating a bad beat story - Did you see that call with the pocket
8s????:D

pok3rplaya

I just realised this is right in the middle of my exams. Boooo!!!

phantom_lord

quite possibly in the middle of mine too, meh, I'm here to gambool!

Dub13

Sounds good.

Jesus Wept

carrigeen wrote:

I agree with that , I think they play a very important role in any deepstacked tourny


PS Neil I'll PM on that mobile number;) Im relying on you !!!!!!!!!

antes aren't needed, the structure is the best in Ireland, actually, just one of the best structures in general.

30something

Bah, according to Holles St scan bay's due on the 26th May.:(

Jesus Wept

30something wrote:

Bah, according to Holles St scan bay's due on the 26th May.:(

move it... the baby will understand

carrigeen

The-Rigger wrote:

antes aren't needed, the structure is the best in Ireland, actually, just one of the best structures in general.

Totally agree the structure is excellent and I would also say for 1k vital for anyone planning to play bigger buy ins in the coming months.

But I still feel antes are an integral part of a deepstack tourny. The dynamic around the button changes on the introduction of antes and more so as the antes become more relevent. I would also argue it encourages action and obviously makes it more valuable to both attcak and defend the blinds.

I will still be playing as I agree it is a very good structure but I would still strongly recommend the introduction of antes

Ollieboy

30something wrote:

Bah, according to Holles St scan bay's due on the 26th May.:(

sure you've done you bit, what more does she want, blood....

Dub13

30something wrote:

Bah, according to Holles St scan bay's due on the 26th May.:(

The week before she is due give her a load of curry and sit her down to watch a mad emotional chick flick,this should work.

mdwexford

The-Rigger wrote:

antes aren't needed, the structure is the best in Ireland, actually, just one of the best structures in general.

the structure is the same as any other major buy-in 1 hour clock game, (bar the Irish Open) top drawer. the starting stack is in a league of its own but i agree with what Pat said above and think the introduction of antes would be a plus for the tournament. either way its going to be a cracking game which i am looking forward to playing.

Jesus Wept

mdwexford wrote:

the structure is the same as any other major buy-in 1 hour clock game, (bar the Irish Open) top drawer. the starting stack is in a league of its own but i agree with what Pat said above and think the introduction of antes would be a plus for the tournament. either way its going to be a cracking game which i am looking forward to playing.

I haven't done the research..but.. I think there are more levels in this than the IPC (plus no antes, larger starting stack), and from reading other posts, the Irish Open is missing other levels,

Also Mike, Tom and Luke were great, theyrepeated a level on day 2, and one on the final table (day 3), because time allowed it. I've never played at an event where the organisers running the event were willing to do this, all other places will stick exactly to the structure advertised as they want people in the cash games or out the door to save costs.

Marq

pok3rplaya wrote:

I just realised this is right in the middle of my exams. Boooo!!!

Same for me, bang in the middle of my finals. Just about impossible for me to play.

Liam Barker at last GJP Festival wrote:

It's ****ing ridiculous using a pot limit structure for a No Limit event, but I can't complain, I haven't had to play a hand for hours

cooker3

phantom_lord wrote:

quite possibly in the middle of mine too, meh, I'm here to gambool!

Actually it's on weekend after they are over so you wil be ok. I will have a demo on following week so not sure if I can work it.

LuckyLloyd

Well, the structure is different than other deepstack events. However, it was an unbelievable experience playing deep into the tournament without antes.

I would like to politely remind the most vociferous supporters of Antes in this thread that none of them went deep in this tournament back in November. I'm not saying this to be smart - I simply mean that they did not experience the lengthy structure without Antes (obviously, all of you guys have extensive deepstack experience from other tourneys).

The argument for antes is that they encourage action; but a drawback is that they reduce the number of hands played per hour (and thus per level), and they put below average stacks Under greater pressure earlier. Anything that can be done to keep stacks comfortable and discourage people getting it all in pre - flop is a good thing IMO.

phantom_lord

cooker3 wrote:

Actually it's on weekend after they are over so you wil be ok. I will have a demo on following week so not sure if I can work it.

shows how attention I pay to college

Marq

LuckyLloyd wrote:

I would like to politely remind the most vociferous supporters of Antes in this thread that none of them went deep in this tournament back in November.

How much deeper in the tournament would I have had to have gone for my opinion to matter?

phantom_lord

Marq wrote:

How much deeper in the tournament would I have had to have gone for my opinion to matter?

as deep as lloyd obv.

LuckyLloyd

Marq wrote:

How much deeper in the tournament would I have had to have gone for my opinion to matter?

Sorry Marq - didn't pick up that you were for the introduction of Antes.

EDIT: Ah, the Liam Barker quote. I see.

ditpoker

Lloyd, wanna buy 90% of in this tourny!? maybe?
(no antes, antes are for americans and players who are better than lloyd!)

Jesus Wept

Important question to Mike.....



Will there be an oversized novelty cheque for the winner ??????

Shortstack

The-Rigger wrote:

Important question to Mike.....



Will there be an oversized novelty cheque for the winner ??????

No but I may get an A1 size wire transfer form.

Jesus Wept

Shortstack wrote:

No but I may get an A1 size wire transfer form.

no dice

5starpool

Mike/Tom (or anyone that knows the answer), What is the parking situation like in Drogheda near this new club? Is there a car park? Is there on street parking, and will there be 'ample' amounts at 3 pm or so on a Friday afternoon?

Shortstack

5starpool wrote:

Mike/Tom (or anyone that knows the answer), What is the parking situation like in Drogheda near this new club? Is there a car park? Is there on street parking, and will there be 'ample' amounts at 3 pm or so on a Friday afternoon?

There is street parking, €1.20 per hour. And a few Multi stories. No fees ater 7pm.