Blonde Poker Teams up with Big Slick Events

BIG-SLICK-POKER

BLONDE POKER IRELAND LAUNCHES AUGUST 07



BlondePoker and Big Slick Events Ireland have teamed up bringing an end to Big Slicks Association with Boyle Sports, Blonde Poker who are looking to take on the Irish Market. have Teamed up with Neill Kelly, Director of Big slick events from August 07 and look to bring events to Irish Shores With Tv Coverage and Live Coverage at the Main events.

Big Slick are relatively New to the Poker Scene but have Established themselves very Quickly in The Irish Poker Scene in the past two years with Valued Tournaments with Decent Prizepools and Superb Player Friendly Events which have attracted Large Numbers at each Event ...

I spoke To Big Slicks Director and T.D Neill Kelly Recently and he had this to say about the Merger

"I am Delighted to be Associated with Blondepoker as they seem to be on the same wave length as us when it comes to player Friendly affordable Events with large fields ..There Online Team is excellent and there recent switch to I-Poker has been a Great success so far, They have a great Loyalty scheme for all players and seem to have everything the poker player needs in a site, They have a suberb team for live reporting in Snoopy and Jen Mason and have a Huge following throughout GB and Ireland , I Look forward to bringing Poker to a different level in Ireland as did the Irish Open This Year , We hope that we can further increase Players online at Blondepoker and also open players eyes to the world of superb valued Live Poker Events in Ireland Once i met Dennis O Mahoney of Blondepoker I knew his interests were the Poker Player and the game and this was good enough for us to make the move"

Players From Europe will be delighted to see the up and coming events that Big Slick and Blondepoker have in store with Big Slick Planning Irelands First I.S.O.P (Irish Series Of Poker) A week long European Ranking event to be held in Ireland with the Main event Being a €1000 Buy in 20k starting Stack and 90 min Clock 4 Day event In the Later Stages of Summer of 2008 Venue and Dates T.B.A And there will be plenty of other events in the Calender that will raise a few eyebrows ...


Neill Kelly / Richard Frisby / Keith Murphy
Directors Big Slick Events

www.bigslickevents.net

kryogen

Well done lads!

great news!! i think its great idea for irish poker and for yourself of course!! i think the players will really benefit too!

ps Neill stop texting my old number will ya!!!! ive told ya my new one!!

Bryan.

MrPillowTalk

Looks good lads wp

BigCityBanker

nh, wp.

C4Queen

Heard it from Neil some time ago and very glad to see it is on the role....

Big congratulation sure it will work out fine!!!

They should be happy to get you Neil! And i mean it.

Anna panna..

BIG-SLICK-POKER

The Fox Said He would Dye his Hair Blonde for our Main Events now , Well wat hair he has anyhow

Lol:D

redroar1942

Realistically there are too many poker events already in ireland. My only hope is that this improves the quality of the big slick tournaments. I've nly played in a couple but have found them badly structured and under staffed. I only played a second one because i was forced to take a ticket when i cashed in a previous event. Needless to say the ticket bundling was not clearly advertised before hand.

nicnicnic

redroar1942 wrote:

Realistically there are too many poker events already in ireland. .

really so no decent event from early june in the macau to the etp in late oct is to many. there is not enough poker events and what there is seem to get bunched together. The major operators should get there heads together and come up with a better spread on events.

having three in a row like happened in late may and then nearly 5 months without a €500+ buy in is just ridiculous.

As for your criticism of big slick I can only surmise your experience is based on a smaller event that had to be finished is a set time any event of significance that they have run has been top class on all fronts

LuckyLloyd

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redroar1942

Realistically there are too many poker events already in ireland. My only hope is that this improves the quality of the big slick tournaments. I've nly played in a couple but have found them badly structured and under staffed. I only played a second one because i was forced to take a ticket when i cashed in a previous event. Needless to say the ticket bundling was not clearly advertised before hand.

Jesus Wept

redroar1942 wrote:

Realistically there are too many poker events already in ireland.

Why?

Do you actually mean there are too many, or do you mean they just aren't run at a high enough standard?

redroar1942

As for your criticism of big slick I can only surmise your experience is based on a smaller event that had to be finished is a set time any event of significance that they have run has been top class on all fronts[/QUOTE]



I only played in a 250 event and in a 500 hundred event and had the same problems in both. I dont know if there are bigger BS tournies then those. I just prefer casino tournies. They seem to be less rushed, have lower regs and better staffed(and yes i know there not enough of them). I've been playing poker for about five years and every year these hotel tour operaters change name but the problems remain!!

NickyOD

No way is there too many. There's nothing happening at all on the west coast. I can't get a decent game anywhere.

nicnicnic

redroar1942 wrote:

I only played in a 250 event and in a 500 hundred event and had the same problems in both. I dont know if there are bigger BS tournies then those. I just prefer casino tournies. They seem to be less rushed, have lower regs and better staffed(and yes i know there not enough of them). I've been playing poker for about five years and every year these hotel tour operaters change name but the problems remain!!

well the €500 event was without doubt the best structure tournament ever run in probably the world for such a buy in so I just cant understand your criticism of the operators on this front.

heres the feedback tread from after the event

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055095416&referrerid=&highlight=

looks like that your in a minority of one as to criticism of that particular event

trolling maybe

redroar1942

looks like that your in a minority of one as to criticism of that particular event

trolling maybe[/QUOTE]


Hey its just my opinion. These forums always seem to be a back slapping fest so I just wanted to give the other side. Friends of mine travelled to one of the smaller event(they matter too) and were told after the prize pool was being reduced to cover the cost of transporting the tables to the event, seriously! Congrats on your recent results by the way.

Jesus Wept

Redroad1942 wrote:

Hey its just my opinion. These forums always seem to be a back slapping fest so I just wanted to give the other side. Friends of mine travelled to one of the smaller event(they matter too) and were told after the prize pool was being reduced to cover the cost of transporting the tables to the event, seriously! Congrats on your recent results by the way.

The-Rigger wrote:

Why?

Do you actually mean there are too many, or do you mean they just aren't run at a high enough standard?

So its quality, not quantity.

nicnicnic

redroar1942 wrote:

Hey its just my opinion. These forums always seem to be a back slapping fest so I just wanted to give the other side. Friends of mine travelled to one of the smaller event(they matter too) and were told after the prize pool was being reduced to cover the cost of transporting the tables to the event, seriously! Congrats on your recent results by the way.

ty, I don't mean to come across as condescending and the bigslick lads are good friends of mine but honestly don't see where people can find criticism from that €500 event but as you said you most definitely are entitled to your opinion.

redroar1942

The-Rigger wrote:

So its quality, not quantity.

Sorry I forgot to reply last time. There seems to be a lot of small buy (less then 200 I guess?) tournies that are poorly structured and under staffed. I understand why the regs are higher then casinos and the latter stages are rushed because the organiser is on a time frame, I just dont like it. Fair enough there seems to be a lot of positive feed back from the 500 events but the standards should apply to all tournies run by the same company.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

redroar1942 wrote:

Realistically there are too many poker events already in ireland. My only hope is that this improves the quality of the big slick tournaments. I've nly played in a couple but have found them badly structured and under staffed. I only played a second one because i was forced to take a ticket when i cashed in a previous event. Needless to say the ticket bundling was not clearly advertised before hand.

L.M.A.O


To be honest i should not even reply to a post like this as we do not have bad structured events and any time the game looks to get crapshooty i bring back the blinds ..In the space of two years we have gone from runnin $50 rebuy games self dealt to European Ranking events with 65 staff at the last Main event , Im sure the word Understaffed does not come into that ... If u had bothered hecking our structures for all our events i have taken advice from many poker players In Ireland to create Perfect Playing Structures ...

The only flaw we had with our events was when we tryed to do a€100 Freezeout tour same a Celtic Poker But fully dealt but this did not work out

But u say u played in the €500 This is where i noe laugh at u as a player Hour Clock 15k stack 3 day event and u say it was rushed , U definately were not at this event .....

redroar1942 wrote:

Friends of mine travelled to one of the smaller event(they matter too) and were told after the prize pool was being reduced to cover the cost of transporting the tables to the event, seriously!

This is even worse , We Pay 100% of prizepool , We have often lost money running events but never have we changed a Prizepool to get €20 in petrol for our own van ....Lol .....


This Is Very strange post someone posts Five times on a site , We leave a sponsor and join a new one and in comes our first ever complaint ...But hey Good with the Bad

Hopefully u will be at another event to see the changes we have made to this company ,



L.M.F.A.O

Neill K

redroar1942

BIG-SLICK-POKER wrote:

L.M.A.O


To be honest i should not even reply to a post like this as we do not have bad structured events and any time the game looks to get crapshooty i bring back the blinds ..In the space of two years we have gone from runnin $50 rebuy games self dealt to European Ranking events with 65 staff at the last Main event , Im sure the word Understaffed does not come into that ... If u had bothered hecking our structures for all our events i have taken advice from many poker players In Ireland to create Perfect Playing Structures ...

The only flaw we had with our events was when we tryed to do a€100 Freezeout tour same a Celtic Poker But fully dealt but this did not work out ...

Hopefully u will be at another event to see the changes we have made to this company ,

Neill K

I appreciate you having the decency to reply your self. I never form an opinion based on one event and my comments are'nt. They are fair reflection of what I(me, personally) experienced. I will try another B S event(please no more ticket bundling though). I will say that you re way ahead of the Celtic tour and some of the previous poker organisers in munster.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

redroar1942 wrote:

I appreciate you having the decency to reply your self. I never form an opinion based on one event and my comments are'nt. They are fair reflection of what I(me, personally) experienced. I will try another B S event(please no more ticket bundling though). I will say that you re way ahead of the Celtic tour and some of the previous poker organisers in munster.

Thats no problem mate we have really changed everything in a year and a half and have had many pro players who are in the world series say this year we have run the best events they have ever played in , I will always take Critisism on board but i can assure u that structures are player Friendly , Ticket bundling i really dont know wat to say we only ever gave out a €200 event ticket to the winner each week in Tramore which was a €50 F/o with 20 min clock and a 10k Starting stack which was great value ...

I really hope u do see a change in our events as did our sponsors

Did u play with us before we moved to Boyle Sports ?????

If so we changed everthing and stepped it up from there

gigetheman

kelly there is always 1 prat around to give out, your structure for the 500 event was brillant and come the winter festival there wont be a spare seat,

mdwexford

redroar1942 wrote:

As for your criticism of big slick I can only surmise your experience is based on a smaller event that had to be finished is a set time any event of significance that they have run has been top class on all fronts



I only played in a 250 event and in a 500 hundred event and had the same problems in both. I dont know if there are bigger BS tournies then those. I just prefer casino tournies. They seem to be less rushed, have lower regs and better staffed(and yes i know there not enough of them). I've been playing poker for about five years and every year these hotel tour operaters change name but the problems remain!!

average trolling attempt

RoundTower

I only played at one Big Slick event and it was excellent.

horsebokks

I only played in a 250 event and in a 500 hundred event and had the same problems in both. I dont know if there are bigger BS tournies then those. I just prefer casino tournies. They seem to be less rushed, have lower regs and better staffed(and yes i know there not enough of them). I've been playing poker for about five years and every year these hotel tour operaters change name but the problems remain!![/QUOTE]


this is a contradiction because big slick have never given tickets to bigger entry tournaments at the 250 or 500 tournements that they have run so i question the basis of your post.....big slick do however give tickets at their weekly games to the super sats for the upcoming winter festival ...if its last summer you are posting about they gave tickets at their weekly games to the end of summer €200 freezeout but as posted earlier you have only played the €250 & €500 tournies.....

NickyOD

Redroar, are you totally sure you're not confusing Big-Slick-Poker with another tournament organiser? How can you be upset with a €500 tourney with a 1 hour clock and 15K starting stack?

You are completely and utterly out on your own here with your criticism, and this is your first contribution to the forum. Not only that but you haven't given any evidence of why the event you played in was poorly run. You need to do that before you'll get any respect here. If you can't then I suggest you creep back beneath the rock you came from.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

NickyOD wrote:

Redroar, are you totally sure you're not confusing Big-Slick-Poker with another tournament organiser? How can you be upset with a €500 tourney with a 1 hour clock and 15K starting stack?

You are completely and utterly out on your own here with your criticism, and this is your first contribution to the forum. Not only that but you haven't given any evidence of why the event you played in was poorly run. You need to do that before you'll get any respect here. If you can't then I suggest you creep back beneath the rock you came from.

Thanks Nicky