Monthly American style tournament in Galway.

jacQues

This is a commercial event brought to you by Sunday Poker:

What?
American style multi-table Texas hold'em freeze-out. All tables will have no more than nine players.

When?
Every last Sunday of each month. The first one will be 29 April 2007. Registration at 4:30 pm, cards in the air at 5:00 pm.

Where?
In the Corrib Casino: 11 Forster Street, Eire Square, Galway. Because of the location membership of this private members club is required but is 100% free and quite simple; BRING PHOTO ID. Professional dealers at all tables.

How much?
50 euro for the tournament and 5 euro registration fee for 55 euro total. Tickets can only be purchased on the day itself. 100% of the prizepool will be paid out in cash to the top (number of tables)+1 players.

Structure?
Each player starts with 50 euro in chips. Chips cannot be exchanged for their cash value.
17:00 25c/50c
17:25 50c/1
17:50 75c/1.50c
18:15 1.25c/2.50c
18:40 2/4
19:05 3/6
19:30 break
19:45 5/10
20:15 10/20
20:45 15/30
21:15 20/40
21:45 30/60
22:15 break
22:30 50/100
23:00 75/150
23:30 125/250

Rules?
Standard poker rules apply. The tournament director has final saying in all matters.

valor

what does american style mean?

Jools Poker

Good luck with this Jacques- just curious though about the "american style" thing?? what does that mean?

jacQues

American style means that your starting stack equals your buyin. So 50 euro to start with (8x25c, 8x€1, 8x€5). It would be the exact same as starting with 5,000 chips and 25/50 blinds, but we are hoping to be different. ;D

The second difference is that minimum raises are equal to the last bet or raise (as opposed to the total bet before you) and chips will be put in the pot when possible in order to keep track of this (just like on TV so).

jacQues

P.S. Yes I know the WSOP changed their chips this year - bastards! lol

DeadMoney

I'd go for a look but the last time i tried to enquire about a tournament in the Corrib casino, the foreign doorman had trouble understanding phrases like "is there?" and "poker tournament"! Quite frustrating really! He was probably just used to drunk talk from the usual punter!

The_Chopper

jacQues wrote:

This is a commercial event brought to you by Sunday Poker:

What?
American style multi-table Texas hold'em freeze-out. All tables will have no more than nine players.

When?
Every last Sunday of each month. The first one will be 29 April 2007. Registration at 4:30 pm, cards in the air at 5:00 pm.

Where?
In the Corrib Casino: 11 Forster Street, Eire Square, Galway. Because of the location membership of this private members club is required but is 100% free and quite simple; BRING PHOTO ID. Professional dealers at all tables.

How much?
50 euro for the tournament and 5 euro registration fee for 55 euro total. Tickets can only be purchased on the day itself. 100% of the prizepool will be paid out in cash to the top (number of tables)+1 players.

Structure?
Each player starts with 50 euro in chips. Chips cannot be exchanged for their cash value.
17:00 25c/50c
17:25 50c/1
17:50 75c/1.50c
18:15 1.25c/2.50c
18:40 2/4
19:05 3/6
19:30 break
19:45 5/10
20:15 10/20
20:45 15/30
21:15 20/40
21:45 30/60
22:15 break
22:30 50/100
23:00 75/150
23:30 125/250

Rules?
Standard poker rules apply. The tournament director has final saying in all matters.

Nice to see the Corrib are finally doing something to try and attract custom. Now if they'd only work on their cash game promotions they might get all the custom

NeoSlicerZ

Definately the classier club in Galway.

cooker3

American style, so like you have people celebrating after each hand and saying holla!

Mellor

and they put cheese on the poker chips

Goodluck2me

Mellor wrote:

and they put cheese on the poker chips

duh cheese=money....
bad analogy

Hoki

dam if i saw this earlier than now i would have gone in and played it , will definitely give it a whirl next week, i like the early start

The_Chopper

cooker3 wrote:

American style, so like you have people celebrating after each hand and saying holla!

Don't forget high fiving each other when they win a pot

jacQues

LOL @ some replies there.

We got 14 runners and 8 blind levels later the payouts were as follows:
1st €335 jacQues
2nd €220 David Collins
3rd €145 Liam Nolan

Many thanks to all attending, Vesty for making this tourney possible and Carry for being a great TD even though he worked untill 7 am the previous day and was sick with the flu.

The next American style tournament will be 27 May 2007 at 5:30 pm. We are expecting three tables for that one.

jacQues

cooker3

jacQues wrote:

We got 14 runners and 8 blind levels later the payouts were as follows:
1st €335 jacQues

RIGGED!

jacQues

cooker3 wrote:

RIGGED!

LOL

Before the final table I had AK suited / KK / JJ / 99 all busted by inferior hands and no callers for my QQ raise pre-flop. I got to the final nine with the shortest stack. After 40 minutes, not having played a significant hand at the final table, I was down to €8 with blinds at €2/€4. I pushed with 88 and trebled up (hitting a straight ), then doubled up twice in a row with AJ suited and AQ suited. Back to average stack I then started knocking out the shortstacks.

At the bubble I changed gears dramatically; from Hamster-rock to extreme-LAG. I walked all over the other players and talked the shortstack (Junior) into donating his entire stack to me . David took Liam out (I wasn't involved in that hand). He had a 3-1 lead on me I think. I never bothered counting and continued to push him out of every pot, showing 6 high and such. After check-calling him all the way with bottom pair and winning against his drawing hand I knew he wasn't going to bluff me anymore. He had no clue where he was and I knew exactly where I was all the time. He check-raised me on the flop with the top pair and walked into my AA and a couple of hands later I won with 8 6 when he called my all-in with K T on a 8 7 3 flop.

Oh what a rush that was! I was humming and notably happy. Carry said he never seen me like that, even though I rarely not make the money. It was the 2BB => ITM that did it. It was a good tournament with a good structure. The "stack equal to the buyin" worked for everyone and Vesty immediately gave the go-ahead for next month.

jacQues

Mellor

jacQues wrote:

LOL

Before the final table I had AK suited / KK / JJ / 99 all busted by inferior hands and no callers for my QQ raise pre-flop.
I was fairly pi$$ed off with this so I decided to rig the rest of the tourney, its fair enough, cos they sucked out on me so much.

jacQues

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