**Irish Poker League**(NEW)

roryc

Hi all,

New tournament list from the Irish Poker League. Mods can you add to Tournament Schedules sticky, thanks.

The Irish Poker League is an inter-pub/ club weekly poker event that runs all year, divided into numerous tournaments. Nightly games are a €20 + €5* freezout tournament (100% of Prizepool Paid Out). Cash Prize pool is divided on the night as follows (provisional, may change depening on numbers)
1st place - 40%
2nd place - 30%
3rd place - 20%
4th place - 10%

The Irish Poker League is also a points based league. Membership is free and every player is given their own individual membership card. Points are awarded based on where you finish in each weekly tournament. These scores are carefully recorded by your Tournament Director and added to the Venue and National Leaderboard, posted on our website each week www.IrishPokerLeague.com

Points are awarded as follows
1st - 1000
2nd - 800
3rd - 600
4th - 500
5th - 400
6th - 350
7th - 300
8th - 250
9th - 225
10th - 200
11th - 175
12th - 15th - 150
16th - 19th - 125
20th plus - 100

The top players from each venue and the National Leaderboard at the end of each tournament (first 'round' is 5 weeks long, from January 2008 each 'round' will be 10 weeks long) will qualify for the 'Provincial Finals'. There will be 5 Provincial Finals per year, one every 10 weeks. We plan on giving away about 2k in cash prizes each Provincial Final. (This will rise as more venues come on board)

The winner of each 'Provincial Final' qualifies for the Grand Final (one per year)
Grand Final 1st Prize is a trip to New Zealand and a seat in the 'Check Raise Fold Cash Classic', including return airfare and accomodation.

But that's not all!!

IPL members will automatically be entitled to our numerous online promotions, including our exclusive 'Points for Cash' promotion, whereby IPL members can convert the points they have accumulated into cold hard cash at any of our participating international online poker sites.

The Irish Poker League will also hold weekly online tournaments exclusive to IPL members.

IPL members can log on at any time to our website to find the nearest IPL participating venue, check out your local venue and National leaderboards, study the 'poker tip of the week' & poker news section, track other player's progress and subscribe to our Monthly newsletter email.


FIRST ROUND COMMENCES FROM MONDAY 19TH NOVEMBER - The top players from all participating venues after 5 weeks will go into Provincial Final with cash prizes (estimated €2k to be given away in first Provincial Final)


1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.)
Irish Poker League

2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.)
Commercial

3. Date and Location of event
Starting the week of 19th November, (subject to change and addition)

Mondays:
Tuesdays: Murrays (Ballsbridge)
Wednesdays:
Thursdays: Smyths (Fairview)
Fridays: Golf Links (Portmarnock)

(Venues still to be added)

4. Registration and Start time of event.
Registration: 7:30
Start: 8pm SHARP

5. Any prerequisites (member of club, society etc)
No

6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (in advance, at the door etc.)
Tickets purchased on night, numbers depend on venue capacity

7. Type of Tournament (Hold'em/Omaha etc Freezeout/Rebuy etc.)
Texas Hold Freezout

8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc.
€20

9. Cost of registration
€5*
(*most of reg fee will be paid back out in Regional and Grand Finals)

10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund
100%

11. Any guarenteed prize pool.
1 guaranteed ticket per year to New Zealand 'Check Raise Fold Cash Classic' including return airfare and accomodation. Awarded to winner of Grand Final

12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels.
No re-buys allowed

13. Starting Chips
To be decided

14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts.
Not applicable

15. Blind levels
To be decided

16. Blind timeframes
To be decided

17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc)
Top 4 places paid (subject to change)

18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill
Final table dealt

19. Will there be a documented list of rules
Yes

20. Is there a tournament director
Yes

21. How are disputes handled - who has final say.
TD has final say

roryc

Also forgot to mention, the last week of each round will be a 'double-points' week for the League.

-Kango-

what time does the one in the golf links start at thanks

1stimpressions

anywhere outside the pale for these provincial finals, sounds interesting though.

roryc

Kango - all games registration at 7:30pm, Kick off at 8pm

1stimpressions - at the moment we're only running games in Dublin, but the plan is to spread out and have an all-ireland League system, as shown on the website. This is a New Zealand company which is only starting up over here, but has about 800 venues running in New Zealand.

For info on where to play, click here

Thanks

roryc

Ok I have the starting stack and blind structure details, for some reason I cant edit opening post...

Starting Stack: 4000

Blinds: Every 20 minutes

25/50
50/100
100/200
200/400
10 minute Break
300/600
500/1,000
700/1,500
10 minute Break
1,000/2,000
1,500/3,000
2,000/4,000


Also, just to confirm the Smyths game is on THURSDAY, the website has it down for friday, im trying to fix this

Azazel-

a very good idea. I am very keen on participating. I live in cork at the moment so the sooner this gets outside the pale the better for me :-)

roryc

Azazel- wrote: »

a very good idea. I am very keen on participating. I live in cork at the moment so the sooner this gets outside the pale the better for me :-)

or you could just move up to dublin

roryc

Just a reminder that this kicks off tonight in Smyths in Fairview,

reg 7:30, start 8pm (Entrants accepted until 9pm)

cheers

roryc

Good turnout last night in Smyths, a few boardsies came along to check it out... any feedback is welcome!

Anyway, this is the top 20 placings from last night, should be up on the website soon enough. Next game is tonight in the Golf Links in Portmarnock.

1. Flavio
2. Mark Miller
3. Derek Coleman
4. Andy Kilbey
5. Anthony McMullan
6. Peter Hilliard
7. Matthew Coyle
8. Gary Kelly
9. Paul Doherty
10. Ian Gannon
11. Craig Savage
12. Paul Rodgers
13. Robert Fennelly
14. Sandra Coleman
15. Adam Dunne
16. Brendan Duffy
17. Darren Cartwright
18. David Cuthbert
19. Thomas Burke
20. Graham McCombe

roryc

Hi all,

Just a quick post, the Tuesday nights game wont be on in Murrays tomorrow night, venue is double-booked, its back there on December 4th.

Games as usual in Smyths (Fairview) this Thursday 29th and Golf Links (Portmarnock) this Friday 30th.

Current leaderboard can be found here.

Cheers

roryc

*bump*

This is on tonight in the Golf Links, Portmarnock. Directions here

National Leaderboard updated as of this week, lists the top 25 players.

cheers