The Monthly €200 Tournament

S.Emporium

Hi All,

Saturday 4th August at The Sporting Emporium.

€200 + €20 "No Limit" Hold'em Freezeout.

Doors open from 6pm for a 6.30pm Start.

8,000 Points Starting Stack.

30 Min Clock for 5 Levels, 40 Min from then on.


25 - 50 30 Min Clock
50 - 100
75 - 150
100 - 200

20 Min Dinner Break

150 - 300 30 Min Clock
150 - 300 25 Ante 40 Min Clock
200 - 400 25
300 - 600 50

10 Min Break

400 - 800 50
500 - 1000 75
600 - 1200 75
800 - 1600 100

10 Min Break

1000 - 2000 100
1500 - 3000 200
2000 - 4000 200
3000 - 6000 300


A Big Crowd is expected on Saturday for this Tournament so between 80 - 100 runners.


The Tournament Directors' decision is Final.

All Players in this Tournament must be a member of the club. If you are planning to join on the day, only a Valid Driving License or Passport will be accepted.


Hope to see you on Saturday,

Alex.

bottom feeder

Anyone else playiing this...?

mickste

looking foward to it

bottom feeder

Mick no AQ now you hear

ocallagh

I'll be in to this for sure.

LuckyLloyd

I will play and not cash as per all my previous outings in this excellent tournament. Sigh.

5pin5

give it a go

30something

5pin5 wrote:

give it a go

See you there Eamonn, intoduce yourself.

5starpool

I doubt I will be able to which is a pity as I have a decent record in this. I might get there for it though maybe.

Jayminator

In Donegal at a wedding i have no wish to go to...bah bah

nicnicnic

50/50 but if I do come up for it I will win

Glowingmind

Currently attempting to swap shifts at work so i can play this. Not looking good. Hoping to improve on last month's result

El Stuntman

I'd win this except I'll be in Stockholm

smurph

Might head into this (who am I kidding) see you all there :rolleyes:

Lplate

Am in Dublin for few days and have received permission from her on high to go in to this. Two questions: Where (exactly) is the SE and how long will the membership process take?

opr

El Stuntman wrote:

I'd win this except I'll be in Stockholm

I was over for a few days last year with the company i working for at the time. Man the women are unreal in that city !!

Opr

kincsem

Hope to be there.

LuckyLloyd

opr wrote:

I was over for a few days last year with the company i working for at the time. Man the women are unreal in MOST SCANDINAVIAN CITIES !!

A very neccesary FYP.

rag2gar

Lplate wrote:

Am in Dublin for few days and have received permission from her on high to go in to this. Two questions: Where (exactly) is the SE and how long will the membership process take?

Membership should take about 10 mins, bring passport/drivers licence.

Its on South Anne's Lane (off Grafton Street) (if you dont know where Grafton Street is I cant help you)

El Stuntman

opr wrote:

I was over for a few days last year with the company i working for at the time. Man the women are unreal in that city !!

Opr

never been so can't comment. If it's like Copenhagen I believe you...

although interestingly, I just found out today that this is on this weekend.

Nice move el S :eek:

ollyk1

El Stuntman wrote:

never been so can't comment. If it's like Copenhagen I believe you...

although interestingly, I just found out today that this is on this weekend.

Nice move el S :eek:

And the metrosexual evidence grows and grows.... :rolleyes:

NickyOD

I will be there. I look forward to crushing all of you.

regards

Nicky.

smurph

NickyOD wrote:

I will be there. I look forward to cruishing all of you.

regards

Nicky.

I think you meant Crushing there Nicky or is that a new poker lingo term thingy like floating:cool:

El Stuntman

I think he read the link in my post

and meant cruising

strewelpeter

I'm hoping to play this.

Is this now a one day event as you said recently Alex?
I will not be around on Sunday (not that that is likely to be a problem)
What time is it that the SE close at 4 5 or 6 ?

Glowingmind

It finished around 5.30am last month.

Got my shifts swapped, so i'll mostly be getting knocked out in the first level tomorrow.

Lplate

rag2gar wrote:

Membership should take about 10 mins, bring passport/drivers licence.

Its on South Anne's Lane (off Grafton Street) (if you dont know where Grafton Street is I cant help you)

Thanks rag2gar. Even a Kerryfied Brit can find Grafton St (on a good day):D

The_Chopper

If Nicky's in I may play - if nothing else to donate my chips and see him attemp a squeeze play with 85o again,

dannydiamond

if i can get off my lazy behind i might head up..me thinks nicky will chauffeur in the green machine..

NickyOD

The_Chopper wrote:

If Nicky's in I may play - if nothing else to donate my chips and see him attemp a squeeze play with 85o again,

I'm still very proud of that play. I got AQ to fold at least. and was in good shape against AK.

The_Chopper

NickyOD wrote:

I'm still very proud of that player. I got AQ to fold at least. and was in good shape against AK.

My bro had AQ if I remember correctly and he would have doubled up from AK.... i didn't mind. That was the last big buy in tourny I won. Thanks again for taking yourself out and allowing the mong to have all the chips

NickyOD

El Stuntman wrote:

I think he read the link in my post

and meant cruising

Only if KPNuts is there. He's dreamy.

PiperT

Well, I've managed to wangle this for today. Looking forward to playing this for the first time in almost a year.

Any of you regulars up for a last longer punt - score a head ?

T

The_Chopper

So what does this actually kick off at 6.30 tonight? Will prob come out of my live wilderness to win it (donate dead money more like).
Any others attending?

mickste

keogh's at six if anybody's about

Jayminator

Me, Mick, John all meeting in Kehoes @ 6 for a quick beer.. Tim I'm in for the last longest. Split it with Shane last time i played this so my record is outstanding.

Might see ya in Kehoes Tim.

All welkoming to ze kehoes bar of grat fun and much laffter

S.Emporium

Hi All,


Just a quick report on this Tournament.


75 Runners.

Prize pool €15,000.

Play has just restarted after the 2nd Break.

23 Players left.

Average Stack : 26,000.

Chip Leader : Gary Clarke with 70,000 Chips.

1st Prize : €5,100.


Next report will be from the Final Table.


Alex.

S.Emporium

Final Table about to get under way with the usual suspects on it. Niall O'C, John Swarbrigg, Gary Clarke and John "Full Tilt" Katkin.

Chip Leader : Gary Clarke with 150,000.

Blinds : 800 - 1600

Antes : 100

Average Stacks : 66,666.

Deal done so 10th and 11th both receive €200 each.

1st Place : €4,800.

2nd Place : €3,400.

3rd Place : €2,350.


Expected to go right up to 6am.


Alex.

kincsem

Deal for 1oth and 11th. :mad: Bar stewards. I was 12th.

Enjoyed it tonight. Much better than my usual 35th place.

30something

Well done Sean,ul not to cash having gone so deep.

I am still trying to figure out how my AK was no good on that 9**A9 board

NickyOD

Savage tournament Alex. Will be back to play it again for sure.

How did it finish up?

ditpoker

well done gary... chip leader right the way through, luckboxing it again!? how'd you finish!?

HalfBaked

They were doing a 7 way (!) deal when I was leaving last night. Two of the players couldn't come back for a final table today.

ocallagh

It took 5hrs to go from 11 players to 7 players! The blinds were high and SE was closing. 2 people could not come back the next day and nobody else particularly wanted to! so we did a 7 way deal. We all took 7th and split the rest based on chip counts. It was a very fair deal. First prize was 4900 and we all got roughly 2k each.

The blind structure as predicted was great. It's nearly too good in fact. I would suggest increasing the antes at the end slightly. Try to keep the antes close enough to 10% of the BB, otherwise they don't serve much purpose. Although saying that I think the structure is 99.99%!

Was happy with my play. I had a bad lull mid-way when I dropped below average. With about 22k left and average 40k I made a play with KJ after a raise of 4200 and a call. It took close to 10 minutes for them to fold. It proved crucial because it increased my stack by 40% and 10 minutes later I doubled up with TT v AK. This was the only time in the tournament I was all-in and got called! So had above average now and felt a bit safer. Got to FT with 50k and built it up to 90k after a few steals, including two SB v BB pots which I found interesting but too tired to tell. I hovered between 70k and 90k for the rest of the night not picking up much. The table was playing very tight and I regret not opening up a bit more when 7/8 handed. The standard was very high last night.

BigCityBanker

ocallagh wrote:

I made a play with KJ after a raise of 4200 and a call.

You were probably ahead - id have slowplayed this monster here in order to scoop a monster pot.

Ace2007

just wondering - if one player refused to do a deal - what would have happened???

S.Emporium

Hi All,


The Final Report on yesterdays Tournament.

The Final Table began at 3.00am having taken 2 and a half hours to lose 10th and 11th positions. Unfortunately between 3am and 6am the Tournament only managed to lose a further 2 players resulting in a 7 way deal. Firstly the players all take 7th place ( €450 ) and divide the remaining money by the percentage of their chips.

I must apologise to the Players involved in this deal as this is the last thing that should happen in any Tournament. I mentioned a couple of months ago that The S.Emporium was trying to find the almost perfect Structure so that Players could have a Tournament with a lot of play that could be good practice for the Bigger Tournaments such as the W.S.O.P but also finish within the 12 hours.

The change that will be made to the next €200 Tournament will see the 75 ante removed, so the Structure will be as follows :

25 - 50 30 Min Clock
50 - 100
75 - 150
100 - 200
150 - 300
150 - 300 - 25 Ante 40 Min Clock
200 - 400 - 25
300 - 600 - 50
400 - 800 - 50
500 - 1000 - 100
600 - 1200 - 100
800 - 1600 - 200
1000 - 2000 - 200
1500 - 3000 - 300
2000 - 4000 - 300
3000 - 6000 - 500
4000 - 8000 - 500

In September we will be holding a Mini Festival which will see the Monthly €200 replaced by a €500 Freezeout. I will post the details of this festival in the next couple of days.

Alex.

Glowingmind

Great tourney.

Unfortunately my own performance was less than great.

Started eratically, leveled out a bit and started to pick up chips. Then I managed to play some of the worst poker i've ever played when we got to 3 tables and donated my pretty healthy stack around the table. Bad ugly spewy poker.