EPT season 5 - Dublin scrapped

BIGMICKG

pokerstars has released the schedule for the ept 5 and unfortunately the dublin ept has been scrapped. an awful pity for irish poker imo. must be because of the poor turnout at the last 1. also they have dropped the buy in of most of the other events from 8k to 5k.

CHD

this is really old news isnt it??
PPP have replaced it with a festival i think

thechamp87

Is the PCA seperate to the EPT schedule? I thought it was an EPT event, but I could be wrong...

DBC2007

BIGMICKG wrote: »

pokerstars has released the schedule for the ept 5 and unfortunately the dublin ept has been scrapped. an awful pity for irish poker imo. must be because of the poor turnout at the last 1. also they have dropped the buy in of most of the other events from 8k to 5k.

not surprised. but the fact that the buyin has dropped should be good news

Conbro

I heard this news some time back from an interview with John Dulthie. No great loss imo, last years event was a national disgrace. I spoke to numerous visitors from overseas who insisted that they would not return after the fiasco they had to endure in the cattleshed of the RDS

davidgti

hear some rumors here and there ...so whats the story with it!

Requiem4adream

Conbro wrote: »

I heard this news some time back from an interview with John Dulthie. No great loss imo, last years event was a national disgrace. I spoke to numerous visitors from overseas who insisted that they would not return after the fiasco they had to endure in the cattleshed of the RDS

Stall the ball there! national disgrace?! steady on. How does organising a poker tournament badly have anything to do with anything in terms of coming back to ireland?! (i take it you mean to play poker :rolleyes:)

A key problem for Ireland is always gonna be a venue, we dont have any supercasinos like in Barcelona or Dortmund (the only 2 ive been to). CityWest runs a really good big tourny. Imo a 5k EPT event there next year would go down very well. 8k buy-ins are counterproductive. I'd prefer to see it at a uniform 4k myself.

eagle eye

Conbro wrote: »

I heard this news some time back from an interview with John Dulthie. No great loss imo, last years event was a national disgrace. I spoke to numerous visitors from overseas who insisted that they would not return after the fiasco they had to endure in the cattleshed of the RDS

Well the Regency was terrible as well. Two bad venues in a row was enough I suppose.
It was the only venue to have less players in 2007 than the previous year. I think the Regency really killed it.

Conbro

How does organising a poker tournament badly have anything to do with anything in terms of coming back to ireland?! (i take it you mean to play poker

Yes obviously I meant to play poker at the EPT Dublin

Requiem4adream

tossed in a few questions during a sng with John today:

ROONEY_DIVES: john is EPT dublin permanently off the agenda or just next year
Dealer: HARPER69, it's your turn. You have 12 seconds to act
Dealer: Regular time for player HARPER69 has expired, TIME BANK has been activated
John Duthie: prob permanently
Dealer: HARPER69, it's your turn. You have 12 seconds to act
John Duthie: sadly
Dealer: HARPER69 has timed out - hand is folded
Dealer: Game #18268445529: John Duthie wins pot (75)
ROONEY_DIVES: hmm i think it could be a success @ 5k but you're the man in the know!
Dealer: Game #18268473513: gabyalp wins pot (30)
Administrator: LAPT-Punta del Este: $22+R sat to $530 Qual. begins in 5 minutes. To register see T92137874 under the Events/LAPT tab.
Dealer: Game #18268480145: parachuting wins pot (210)
John Duthie: Not so much me, Paddy Power have pretty much tied up all the major events
Dealer: Roshchin, it's your turn. You have 12 seconds to act
Dealer: Game #18268491842: John Duthie wins pot (525)
Dealer: Limits going up: blinds 25/50

CHD

Feckin Paddy Power!

sickpuppy

I blame that cheese eating hoor Noel Hayes

5starpool

He does like his cheese alright.....

Ollieboy

firstly, is this Dan's way in telling us he's move up levels after his big win...lol. Dont burn all that cash too quickly mate...

I think what John is stating is that the local market doesn't have the money in it to have two major international events at that level of buy-in and I totally agree. I think Dan is right, 5k would be better, but they should try to get back to 4k and have the bigger fields, but the pro's don't want this. The pro's are there regular market, but the others would make up about 80% of there business I would guess. I think the EPT have it wrong here and you only have to look at the WPT in the states which might be heading into its last year of business. Once value at 1 billion and today at 27 million or something like this.

The answer is:

4k buy-in
1000 starting fields.
5 day event
1 hour blinds
10k starting stack
with 90 minute blinds from 18 players down.

RoundTower

lol yeah that would make it an instant success, why didn't they think of that?

BiffoBeater

RDS was terrrible idea as well:mad::mad:.

Compare a big cold industrial hall to a plush hotel with 2 golf courses. I know which tourny im playin anyhows.:D:D

NickyOD

Requiem4adream wrote: »

Stall the ball there! national disgrace?! steady on. How does organising a poker tournament badly have anything to do with anything in terms of coming back to ireland?! (i take it you mean to play poker :rolleyes:)

A key problem for Ireland is always gonna be a venue, we dont have any supercasinos like in Barcelona or Dortmund (the only 2 ive been to). CityWest runs a really good big tourny. Imo a 5k EPT event there next year would go down very well. 8k buy-ins are counterproductive. I'd prefer to see it at a uniform 4k myself.

Dan it has nothing to do with not being able to find a suitable venue. There are plenty. This years EPT Prague was held in a hotel conference centre and they got nearly 600 runners almost none of whom were locals. Dortmund EPT 3 was one of the worst EPTs ever but Stars put the effort in to make it a much better event in the exact same venue in Season 4, but with Dublin they just didn't do their homework or put the effort in.

Also it seems obvious that the majority of European tournament donks prefer to play elsewhere. The Dubin EPTs reputation was left in tatters after Season 3 in that diaboical pink airport hotel and I'd imagine a lot of players either didn't want to come back or were put off coming to Ireland by players that were there.