New Game Every Monday, Spawell Templeogue EST €3000. Dealer Dealt €80 Freezeout

JP Poker

Starting tonight May 14th.


1. Who is running this tournament, JP Poker
2. The purpose of the event, Commericial
3. Every Monday, The Spawell, Tenpleogue
4. Reg 7.30pm, Game 8pm
5. Any prerequisites, none.
6. Tickets can be bought on the day, no maximum number of players
7. NL Hold’em
8. Buy In €80 (€65 Prize pool, €15 Reg fee )
9. Starting chips 5000, Early Bird 1000 before 8pm. New players allowed in up and during the 1st break after level 6
10. 15 Min Blinds

25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200
150-300
200-400

Break 15 Finger Food, Chip Race 25’s

300-600
400-800
500-1000
800-1500

Chip Race 100’s

1000-2000
1500-3000
2000-4000
3000-6000
4000-8000
5000-10000 Frozen Until Finished

Depending on total chip count, players left and average chip stack to blinds and antes the clock may be frozen a lot earlier, we will also repeat levels if the game is going fast.
11. Professional Dealers on all Tables
12. JP Mc Cann is TD
13. TD has last say
14. A set of rules will be on display

jimmii

Even with fast dealers there are only going to be 7 or 8 hands per level with 9 players at the table. Is there no way the levels can be longer?

Theresalwaysone

This is a good idea, the fact that it is close to UCD and our pokersoc used to meet on mondays may mean more runners.

Still the levels are a bit short, u could see a whole level without posting a blind for that level.

Lazare

jimmii wrote:

Even with fast dealers there are only going to be 7 or 8 hands per level with 9 players at the table. Is there no way the levels can be longer?

I'm sure JP is under time constraints in the spawell, he is forced to have the game over at a certain time. Believe me, if he could have 40 min levels he would.

JP Poker

Hi Guys,

As Lazare stated there are time constraints with running pub games. The latest this game can go to is 1pm.

We will repeat blind levels or make them longer if time allows.
E.g. Last Thursday we had 54 players in Molloys, we repeated the 1000-2000 and the 2000-4000 level.

Tonight is our 1st game having dealers at our pub games. I hope to make this 20 min levels from 500-1000 but would need to see how we are for time after tonight.

jimmii

I figured that might be the case alright but I think it might be a few people off. The location is very handy for me so I might pop down see what its like.

JP Poker

jimmii wrote:

I figured that might be the case alright but I think it might be a few people off. The location is very handy for me so I might pop down see what its like.

Hi Jimmii,

Tonight is our 1st night back in the spawell after 10 weeks in the Red Cow on Monday nights. My guess is that their will be 35-45 so i expect to be able to repeat a few levels. Hope to see you there.

Jp

LuckyLloyd

As usual JP - best of luck with this. I won't be in attendance myself - but I do understand the time contraints of playing in licensed premises. I am sure that compared to other pub games around the City - this will compare very favourably.

JP Poker

We had 50 players, which was a great turnout for our 1st night.

Some Red Cow regulars played aswell.

We got to the final 9 players with the blinds at 1500-3000
Andrew Brennan 34500
Gareth Thian 36500
Sean Jethi 14000
Ronan Harty 28500
Richard De Barra 32000
David Coyle 15500
Alan Sexton 43500
Brian Gaynor 61500
Ken Golding 27500

The Prize pool was €3250
The orginal break down was as follows

1st €1000 & €150 Deepstack ticket
2nd €550
3rd €400
4th €260
5th €200
6th €170
7th €130
8th €100
9th €90

Best Hand €50 Ticket
Bounty €50 Ticket
League €100

1st Gareth Thian
2nd Brian Gaynor
3rd Ken Golding
4th Richard De Barra
5th Andrew Brennan
6th David Coyle
7th Alan Sexton
8th Ronan Harty
9th Sean Jethi

JP Poker

Hey Guys,

I had a couple of my dealers count how many hand they were getting in per round. The most was 9 the lowest was 6 (this round has some big hand been played out).

We didn't repeat any levels last night as I wanted to see how close to finishing time it ran, however a deal was done with 30 mins of play left on the cash and the lads played on for the tickets.

I will be making some changes in the next 2 weeks to try ensure everyone pays a SB & BB in each level. Firstly we will play 8 handed and not 9 handed as we did last night. Secondly i will try 20 min blinds from the 1000-2000 level next week and 18 min blinds from the 300-600 the following week.

Ultimately i want to run a tournament that allows for the best possible play given the time contraints without the game ending on a chip count.