WSOP Super Satellite - 3 tickets gtd.

BigCityBanker

Munster Poker Tour in association with paddypowerpoker.com and Tralee ICG are proud to announce a WSOP Super Satellite which will hopefully generate up to 10 main event packages. 3 WSOP packages are guaranteed.

Each package includes entry to the WSOP main event, return flights and accommodation for two and $1,000 spending money.

When: Friday April 25th to Sunday April 27th
Where: Brandon Hotel, Tralee (when booking quote Poker Weekend as reference)
Organisers: Munster Poker Tour (Connie O’Sullivan & Matt Dobbins otherwise known to the boards community as Connie147 and Lplate)

Buyin: 250 + 30reg. 1 Rebuy and 1 Add-On available at 200.

This is a charity event and a maximum of 25%** of the prizepool will be withheld for Tralee ICG. This will be adjusted within reason by the organisers to ensure as many packages as reasonably possible will be generated.

Structure has yet to be finalized and will be posted in due course, those with experience of playing with Connie and Matt will know that it will be a generous structure to allow for maximum play. Connie will be acting as TD.

Tickets can be purchased in advance and Satellites will be available on paddypowerpoker.

those with questions please post them here.

**25% is being withheld for charity, they are e10k packages. However, lets say there are 6 packages and 7th gets e8,700. Well in that evantuality the charity will return some euros to the prizepool in order to produce 7 tickets instead of 6. The intention is to take 25%. However in the above eventuality it will obviously not be a full 25% as they are returning funds to the players

connie147

Yep,I'm really looking forward to this. I can confirm that there will be a 1 hour clock in use, chip stacks to be confirmed at a meeting this week(I'll post it on here asap).
Each package will be worth €10,000 ,including a $10,000 entry to world series m/e,flights and accom for 2 and $1,000 spending money.

There will be at least 3 packages guaranteed and the charity's take doesnt kick in until then. This will be a fully dealer dealt 3 day event which I envisage getting a big crowd (I hope so anyway).

More details to follow shortly

Connie.

scooter 007

nice one connie looking forward to this

nicnicnic

so possible spend of 650+30 reg, why not have a €500 FO with €100 reg split 30% costs 70% to the charity

connie147

nicnicnic wrote: »

so possible spend of 650+30 reg, why not have a €500 FO with €100 reg split 30% costs 70% to the charity

Hi Nicky,
The idea for this tournament came from the charity. We sat with them and discussed different options as in buy in costs etc etc. Their belief is that they themselves will be able to sell a lot of tickets priced at €250 while if the buy in was up near €500,they felt only the serious poker player would buy in hense taking away their ability to sell to the ordinary player. They have an excellent committee and I can see them getting a lot of punters that we wouldnt see for a €500 event. Also,it means when we run sattellites locally for the tourney,we'll qualify twice as many people. And I'm pretty confident that all entrants will either rebuy or top-up hence making it a €450 tourney.

Hope this makes sense.

Connie

bops

connie. i agree with you on having the entry at 250 to get more punters and satt qualifers in

but i don't like grey areas...re the amount withheld for charity

i think it should be made very clear - grey areas = doubt imo

i think a good idea would be to take 50 from every 200 rebuy/topup for the charity

anyway gl with it, it sounds like it'll be a vgg

BigCityBanker

bops wrote: »

connie. i agree with you on having the entry at 250 to get more punters and satt qualifers in

but i don't like grey areas...re the amount withheld for charity

i think it should be made very clear - grey areas = doubt imo

i think a good idea would be to take 50 from every 200 rebuy/topup for the charity

anyway gl with it, it sounds like it'll be a vgg

I suppose i understood what i was writing and took for granted that other would also. 25% is being withheld for charity, they are e10k packages. However, lets say there are 6 packages and 7th gets e8,700. Well in that evantuality the charity will return some euros to the prizepool in order to produce 7 tickets instead of 6.

Its harldy much of a grey area? They are taking 25%. However in the above eventuality it will obviously not be a full 25% as they are returning funds to the players.

hope this helps and apologies if my initial post was unclear.

bops

...yep but connie says that their is no money taken out of the prizepool until after €30,000, which is contrary to what you said...

i dunno maybe im just thick, but it looks like a grey area to me!

connie147

bops wrote: »

...yep but connie says that their is no money taken out of the prizepool until after €30,000, which is contrary to what you said...

i dunno maybe im just thick, but it looks like a grey area to me!

Thats correct! 3 x €10,000 tickets are gtd,so if the prize-fund is less than that,the €30k is paid out and the charity gets nothing.

But the whole reason for this game is to raise funds for the charity.In return,an excellent game with an excellent structure will be provided. The max the charity is getting will be 25%,but in real terms they wont even get that much because they realise that a 3 day tourney cannot be run including the feeding of players on a €30 reg fee,so they will meet the shortcomings out of their take,as well as agreeing to make up the shortcomings so an extra ticket can be given instead of cash for the package bubble boy.

What I can assure you Ian,is that everything will be fully transparent, otherwise we wouldn't be involved. Now go and organise your time off and I'll see you there:)

Connie

careca

Could be a good omen. Win a WSOP ticket in my home town Will do my very best to get down for this and will spread the word amongst some gamblers I know down there. Will there be cash games over the weekend Connie for those knocked out early?

Also just one point. It might be a good idea to state exactly how much the charity will spend to top up to a ticket. Its all very good to say they will top up from eg 8700 to the 10K, but what if the extra cash after ticktes is only 1200 or so, will they top up then?

Lplate

Ok guys, just to clear up the grey areas.
The tournament has a guarantee of 3 packages. If the required entry for three packages is not reached the charity will receive nothing. If (when) the requirement is reached, the charity will receive a maximum of 25% of the total take, subject to the provision of the three packages.
The charity has agreed to supplement the prizepool as follows. If the surplus after all packages have been awarded is between €1 and €4,999, the prize will be increased to €5,000. If it is between €5,000 and €9,999 the prize will be increased to a package.
I hope this makes it a bit clearer.
Any more questions, feel free to ask them here or through pm.

Lplate

careca wrote: »

Could be a good omen. Win a WSOP ticket in my home town Will do my very best to get down for this and will spread the word amongst some gamblers I know down there. Will there be cash games over the weekend Connie for those knocked out early?

Also just one point. It might be a good idea to state exactly how much the charity will spend to top up to a ticket. Its all very good to say they will top up from eg 8700 to the 10K, but what if the extra cash after ticktes is only 1200 or so, will they top up then?

See above for the answer to your second question, careca.
As for the first, there will be plenty of (mad no doubt) cash action available. Hope to see you there.

nicnicnic

connie147 wrote: »

Hi Nicky,
The idea for this tournament came from the charity. We sat with them and discussed different options as in buy in costs etc etc. Their belief is that they themselves will be able to sell a lot of tickets priced at €250 while if the buy in was up near €500,they felt only the serious poker player would buy in hense taking away their ability to sell to the ordinary player. They have an excellent committee and I can see them getting a lot of punters that we wouldnt see for a €500 event. Also,it means when we run sattellites locally for the tourney,we'll qualify twice as many people. And I'm pretty confident that all entrants will either rebuy or top-up hence making it a €450 tourney.

Hope this makes sense.

Connie

forgot I posted in the tread, yeah can see the logic now Connie

connie147

nicnicnic wrote: »

forgot I posted in the tread, yeah can see the logic now Connie

Phew, the great man agrees with me:).

Connie

nicnicnic

connie147 wrote: »

Phew, the great man agrees with me:).

Connie

:)yep you have my blessing

Lplate

Tickets are now on sale for this and the first 30 are sold. Any club/tour etc that wants to run satellites, contact me for posters/tickets etc.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Looks good, will be down for this

Lplate

Jeremias CoolS Income wrote: »

Looks good, will be down for this

Look forward to meeting you there Jacky. If booking the hotel state that you're coming for the poker and you'll get a better rate.

scooter 007

when are online sats starting for this and are ye running them in the club over the next couple of weeks

scooter 007

bump

Lplate

scooter 007 wrote: »

when are online sats starting for this and are ye running them in the club over the next couple of weeks

Hi scooter,

The online schedule is:

How to Qualify
Date – 10th, 17th and 24th April.
Time – 9.30pm
Buyin – $20 + $0 reg (rebuy)
Min Players – 8

We will be organising live sats also. Details will be here and you'll get a text.

5starpool

Hi,

To those involved in this, please post structure etc as per charter.

Thanks.

Lplate

5starpool wrote: »

Hi,

To those involved in this, please post structure etc as per charter.

Thanks.

Apologies Dom. Hope the below is ok.

TIME SB BB ANTE OTHER
FRIDAY 8PM 25 50
9PM 50 100
10PM REFRESHMENTSBREAK
11PM 75 150
12PM BREAK
1.15AM 150 300
2.15AM END OF PLAY DAY 1

SATURDAY 1PM 200 400
2PM 300 600
3PM BREAK
3.15PM 400 800
4.15PM 500 1000
5.15PM DINNER BREAK
6.15PM 500 1000 100
7.15PM 600 1200 100
8.15PM BREAK
8.30PM 800 1600 100
9.30PM 1000 2000 200
10.30PM BREAK
10.45PM 1500 3000 300
11.45PM 2000 4000 300
12.45AM BREAK
1AM 2500 5000 500
2AM END OF PLAY DAY 2

SUNDAY 1PM 3000 6000 500
2PM 4000 8000 1000
3.PM BREAK
3.15PM 5000 10000 1000
4.15PM 6000 12000 1000
5.15PM BREAK
5.30PM 8000 16000 1000
6.30PM 10000 20000 2000

At TD’s discretion thereafter.

Starting stack is 4,000 chips
Rebuy is 5,000 chips
Add-on is 7,000 chips

The rebuy period is the first 5 levels (ie to end of day 1)
Players can rebuy when their stack is 2,000 chips or less.
Everyone still in at the end of day 1 can add-on.

BIG-SLICK-POKER

Send me on some flyers posters for this matt

Blazin Aces
Mayors Walk
Waterford

Lplate

BIG-SLICK-POKER wrote: »

Send me on some flyers posters for this matt

Blazin Aces
Mayors Walk
Waterford

Np Neil. Will be sent tmw am.

buzz3003

Starting stack is 4,000 chips
Rebuy is 5,000 chips
Add-on is 7,000 chips

Was thinking of entering this but with such small starting stack for 250 euro it is just about forcing people to re-buy, if they are serious about the game .Hence the idea of 500 euro freeze-out plus 50 to the charity as previously mentioned is a great idea ,also will people bother with the online qualifying , when even if they get through they will probably if there serious have to at least re-buy agian.
Imo large re-buys really dis-advantage players who love the game , but havent got a large dispossable income to risk.

AdMMM

You still start with an 80BB stack and the clock is an hour! There's plenty of play, even if you don't plan on rebuying!

buzz3003

ok agreed but a freeze-out gives a level playing field for all players, also a player who has more cash to buy back will always bully players who cant afford buy backs,freeze-outs make the game equal for all players.knowing how well connie and matt organize there tournaments, i'm sure they could attract 200 players


therefore 200players x 450 euro = 90,000 euro = 9 places for wsop

200 players x 50 euro = 10,000 euro for the charity less dealers fees.

equals everybody happy

connie147

buzz3003 wrote: »

Starting stack is 4,000 chips
Rebuy is 5,000 chips
Add-on is 7,000 chips

Was thinking of entering this but with such small starting stack for 250 euro it is just about forcing people to re-buy, if they are serious about the game .Hence the idea of 500 euro freeze-out plus 50 to the charity as previously mentioned is a great idea ,also will people bother with the online qualifying , when even if they get through they will probably if there serious have to at least re-buy agian.
Imo large re-buys really dis-advantage players who love the game , but havent got a large dispossable income to risk.

Hi Buzz,
There is only 1 rebuy and add on allowed so its not a case of people who have loads of money can bully all round them. Everybody is going to either rebuy or add-on and some people will do both. The structure is good enough that certain people wont have to do either if they dont want to.
The game should suit all really, why not look on it as a 450 f/o, take your rebuy at ther start and play a 1 hour clock tourney with 9,000 chips.

Connie

buzz3003

thanks for reply connie but that doesn't work out you stated earlier that you cant re-buy until you fall below 2000 chips so worse case you can only have 7000 chips.for a example player 1 buys in gets 4000 chips pick up a few chips early on but never a lot, but doesn't fall under 2000 before end of day 1 and so cant re-buy but gets add -on 7000 chips . player 2 buys-in 4000 chips falls below 2000 say 1850 +5000=6850 then stays about same then gets add-on 7000 chips =approx 14000 chips because he can afford the extra add-on then he get just because of his buying power a chip advantage,if the game isnt solely about the deep pockets and more about the play surely make it 4000 buy-in ,4000 re-buy ,and 4000 add-on why the chip increase for the richer players ?????

Sorry for the rant connie & matt as i no you run great tournaments , but am getting sick of getting chipped out in re-buys by players with deep pockets , and raising huge with nothing and putting people off good size pots , just because they can afford to.

zuroph

buzz3003 wrote: »

but am getting sick of getting chipped out in re-buys by players with deep pockets , and raising huge with nothing and putting people off good size pots , just because they can afford to.

+1

the mention of rebuy immediately puts me off tourneys, i much prefer a straight freezeout, or a double chance. rarely play rebuys any more.

Macau Cork

What' s the structure for this event connie

BigCityBanker

Macau Cork wrote: »

What' s the structure for this event connie

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Lplate wrote: »

Apologies Dom. Hope the below is ok.

TIME SB BB ANTE OTHER
FRIDAY 8PM 25 50
9PM 50 100
10PM REFRESHMENTSBREAK
11PM 75 150
12PM BREAK
1.15AM 150 300
2.15AM END OF PLAY DAY 1

SATURDAY 1PM 200 400
2PM 300 600
3PM BREAK
3.15PM 400 800
4.15PM 500 1000
5.15PM DINNER BREAK
6.15PM 500 1000 100
7.15PM 600 1200 100
8.15PM BREAK
8.30PM 800 1600 100
9.30PM 1000 2000 200
10.30PM BREAK
10.45PM 1500 3000 300
11.45PM 2000 4000 300
12.45AM BREAK
1AM 2500 5000 500
2AM END OF PLAY DAY 2

SUNDAY 1PM 3000 6000 500
2PM 4000 8000 1000
3.PM BREAK
3.15PM 5000 10000 1000
4.15PM 6000 12000 1000
5.15PM BREAK
5.30PM 8000 16000 1000
6.30PM 10000 20000 2000

At TD’s discretion thereafter.

Starting stack is 4,000 chips
Rebuy is 5,000 chips
Add-on is 7,000 chips

The rebuy period is the first 5 levels (ie to end of day 1)
Players can rebuy when their stack is 2,000 chips or less.
Everyone still in at the end of day 1 can add-on.

bops

day1 structure is obv wrong

there's an 1:15 min break where there should be a 100/200 level and a 15 min break??

connie147

bops wrote: »

day1 structure is obv wrong

there's an 1:15 min break where there should be a 100/200 level and a 15 min break??

Your right again bops!!.
12.00---100-200 blind level.
1.00am-1.15pm--15 min break.

Connie

Lao Lao

Sorry, seems to be a bit confusing or maybe I'm just thick.

Is it

a) one re-buy and one top up available

or

b) one re-buy or one top up available

Cheers

connie147

Lao Lao wrote: »

Sorry, seems to be a bit confusing or maybe I'm just thick.

Is it

a) one re-buy and one top up available

or

b) one re-buy or one top up available

Cheers

Hi there,
In the OP, it states 1 rebuy AND 1 top-up will be available.
Thats fairly self explanitory.

There is 1 rebuy and 1 top-up available @ €200 each.

Connie

The Improver

What kinda of numbers are expected, as i won my ticket the other night on ppp with only 15 players:D

Macau Cork

Hi Lads is there any side events since its a 3 day event.

BigCityBanker

Cancellation of Tralee Super Satellite

The World Series of Poker Super Satellite, planned for the Brandon Hotel in Tralee from April 25-27th, has been cancelled.

The proposed event, organised by Tralee ICG, in association with Paddypowerpoker.com and Munster Poker Tour, has not engendered sufficient funding to enable the organisers to successfully meet the requirements of the Guaranteed Packages for the winners.

We regret this announcement to all intending participants but no other option available to the organisers was viable. We thank you for your understanding.

Flushdraw

BigCityBanker wrote: »

Cancellation of Tralee Super Satellite

The World Series of Poker Super Satellite, planned for the Brandon Hotel in Tralee from April 25-27th, has been cancelled.

The proposed event, organised by Tralee ICG, in association with Paddypowerpoker.com and Munster Poker Tour, has not engendered sufficient funding to enable the organisers to successfully meet the requirements of the Guaranteed Packages for the winners.

We regret this announcement to all intending participants but no other option available to the organisers was viable. We thank you for your understanding.

WOW.....understanding that they pulled the plug on a gtd prize fund because they didnt make enough to cover it..there's going to be some unhappy campers around

Goodluck2me

at least they did it in enough time to give people the chance not to go. Perfectly fine imo.

nicnicnic

goodluck2me wrote: »

at least they did it in enough time to give people the chance not to go. Perfectly fine imo.

I'd echo these sentiments, which is strange as its Joe making them

Macau Cork

That's a shame , we have our Quailifier on the Saturday 10th May with 2 $12,500 packages up for grabs.

Thread already posted.

careca

There goes my chance of Vegas this year.

OilBeefHooked2

BigCityBanker wrote: »

Cancellation of Tralee Super Satellite

The World Series of Poker Super Satellite, planned for the Brandon Hotel in Tralee from April 25-27th, has been cancelled.

The proposed event, organised by Tralee ICG, in association with Paddypowerpoker.com and Munster Poker Tour, has not engendered sufficient funding to enable the organisers to successfully meet the requirements of the Guaranteed Packages for the winners.

We regret this announcement to all intending participants but no other option available to the organisers was viable. We thank you for your understanding.

That's a shame, I was banking on this for my seat;).

OilBeefHooked2

goodluck2me wrote: »

at least they did it in enough time to give people the chance not to go. Perfectly fine imo.

.

El Stuntman

'not engendered sufficient funding' :rolleyes:

I must have missed the Irish Open press release where PPP talked about 'not engendering sufficient funding for the guarantee'

for some reason this puts me in mind of Aer Lingus's PR blooper last week - don't know all the facts so this might be unduly harsh

BigCityBanker

El Stuntman wrote: »

'not engendered sufficient funding' :rolleyes:

I must have missed the Irish Open press release where PPP talked about 'not engendering sufficient funding for the guarantee'

for some reason this puts me in mind of Aer Lingus's PR blooper last week - don't know all the facts so this might be unduly harsh

for the avoidance of doubt, and this should be obvious from the post I made, PPP have not made or released a statement on the cancellation of this event. I posted a statement on behalf of Tralee ICG no ppp.

El Stuntman

BigCityBanker wrote: »

for the avoidance of doubt, and this should be obvious from the post I made, PPP have not made or released a statement on the cancellation of this event. I posted a statement on behalf of Tralee ICG no ppp.

sorry I assumed that a PPP employee posting an official announcement in a thread about an event part-organised by PPP might be posting on behalf of the aforementioned PPP

my bad , you're in no way to be compared to Aer Lingus

(Ryanair maybe :pac:)