NEW AND IMPROVED TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE. BEST VALUE IN IRELAND.

The Poker Room

AFTER 3 WEEKS WE ARE NOW READY TO REVISE OUR NEW SCHEDULE. SO PLEASE READ BELOW AND GET IN TOUCH WITH QUESTIONS.

1. Every tournament 110% prize pool, money added. (best value anywhere in Ireland.)

2. Free Reg for Students and casino employees.

3. Cash only payouts, no tickets in the prize pool,
Cash, cash and only cash.

4. Always dealer dealt.

5. Free beer, food and refreshment for players.

6. Pay before the announced start and receive 1k bonus chip and 2k on Fridays (strict)

Schedule

Sunday 8p.m €40 + €5 Dueces Wild (very popular), 15 minute blinds, 7k starting stack, no limit holdem freezeout, Dueces are wild (Very fun game)

Monday 8p.m Free entry €10 rebuys for 90 minutes, 3k starting stack, 3k rebuys, €20 top up 6k chips. 15 minute blinds.

Tuesday 8p.m €40 + €5 round of each, 8k starting stack, 20 minute blinds alternate rounds of No limit Holdem and pot limit Omaha, Improve your Omaha skills and be the iron man or woman of poker.

Wednesday 8p.m €20 + €2 + €5 scalp. No Limit freezeout, 15 minute blinds
6k starting stack, 1k early bird bonus.(popular game 25+ runners) only €27

Thursday No Tournament - Usually biggest cash game of the week.

Friday 2p.m €55 + €10reg Deepstack no limit holdem Freezeout, 10k starting stack, 2k early bird bonus. 30 minute blinds, most levels.

Friday 8p.m €20 + €2 + €5 scalp. No Limit freezeout, 15 minute blinds 6k starting stack, 1k early bird bonus. (same as wed game) only €27 to play.

Saturday 8p.m Free, Free, Free Satallite for the IPO on the 17th of october (no reg, totally free) Guarentee 1 tick for every 15 players.
Totally free to sit down and no re-buys or add ons. 5k starting stack and 15 minute blinds. €175k est prize pool.

So changes on Thurs, Friday and Saturday.

With the 110% prize pool, free satallites, cash only payouts and free food and drink I truley believe we offer the best value for money anywhere in poker. We are also giving away a porsche and a 50" Plasma as a bad beat prize, nothing taken out of the pot, details to follow.

compliance rules,

1. The poker Room, Top Floor, Atari Expo, The Square, tallaght, dublin 24
2. Commercial
3. Weekly as stated above
4. reg and start time posted above.
5. Membership required, only a quick membership form and its free.
6. Tickets bought on the day of tourney
7. Type of tourneys are posted above.
8. All the costs of buy-ins are posted above.
9. Cost of reg posted above. Also free reg for students and casino employees.
10. 110% prize pool for every tourney. No gimicks money added.
11. No guarenteed prize pool, 110% of money taken
12. rebuys stated above.
13. starting chips stated above for each tournament.
14. Rebuy amounts stated above.
15. blind levels stated above for each tourney
16. Blind timeframes stated above
17. Only cash prizes top 10% of the field.
18. proffesional dealers on all tables.
19. WSOP rule as posted on their web-site.
20. Tournament director visable for each tournament.
21. T.D has final say in all disputes.

Thanks, all feed back is welcolme.

The Poker Room, Top Floor, Atari Expo, The Square, Tallaght Dublin 24.
Luas Stop 2 mins walk away. Questions 086-2301229 Ross.

tm2204

Great stuff Ross. This is without doubt the best value & structured schedule around. You have listened to your players and tweeked the schedule and the games accordingly.

Since the whole Blinkers debacle i've played a good bit in this club & I would recommend it to anyone.

Can't make the afternoon game today but I hope to get along to play the IPO sat tomorrow night.

Just one thing, could you explain how you qualify for the bad beat prizes (a Porche & 50" Plasma)? Are they for cash games only or do they also apply to tourney hands?

:D:D

The Poker Room

Hi t,

Not 100% ready to lauch it yet full details next week, It will be a bad beat for cash games only.

It will be a harder than normal criteria due to the value of the prizes.
Its my own Porsche super car, 944 Porsche turbo convertible 1992 and a new 50" plasma T.v bought this week. Nothing extra will be taken from the cash pots, just wanted to spice things up. Where else can you buy in for €50 and leave with a classic 300 Bhp sports car.

Will get full details on boards when I have them including pictures.

Very much appreciate your custom and kind words.

Thanks ross.

Sparks43

ive heard of people losing there cars in poker games but this is getting really silly imho:D:p


n1 ross ill pick the keys up soon:P

flushje

Well done, great atmosphere for a game, free food + beer. Were you there on Wedenesday Ross?

derek2222_ie

Hi Ross

Really enjoyed the game on Wenesday.

Just a quick question. Can you just confirm that the 150-300 and the 1500-3000 levels are now included in all your tournaments as the dealers were a bit unclear about this the other night.

Derek

flushje

derek2222_ie wrote: »

Hi Ross

Really enjoyed the game on Wenesday.

Just a quick question. Can you just confirm that the 150-300 and the 1500-3000 levels are now included in all your tournaments as the dealers were a bit unclear about this the other night.

Derek

Are you the bloke with the glasses that plays in JP's games?

derek2222_ie

flushje wrote: »

Are you the bloke with the glasses that plays in JP's games?

That would be me

I was sitting to your left in the Wednseday game. You done well to get away from that 333 flop.

Derek

tm2204

The Poker Room wrote: »

Very much appreciate your custom and kind words.

Thanks ross.

No problem Ross. Credit where credit is due, you are making a big effort here and I hope poker players see this and support your club.

The Poker Room

D,

We have added in 150-300 and 800-1500 to every tournament.

I think the 800-1500 makes it a better game than adding 1500-3000

It just makes it a lesser leap.

what do you think Derek.

I will make sure that all the dealers and T.D's know.

tm2204

The Poker Room wrote: »

D,

We have added in 150-300 and 800-1500 to every tournament.

I think the 800-1500 makes it a better game than adding 1500-3000

It just makes it a lesser leap.

what do you think Derek.

I will make sure that all the dealers and T.D's know.

Personally I think the 1500/3000 level is essential as unless your are mega stacked the leap from 1000/2000 to 2000/4000 in one go is too severe and makes the game too crapshooty. If time is not an issue then it's best to have both 800/1500 & 1500/3000 levels in.

The only time the blinds should get this steep so quickly is when you need to end the game quickly but it definitely impacts on gameplay and makes the game more crapshooty.

I allways hate this as it's exactly at this point that the money starts to kick in and you want some gameplay and not to be just in push/fold mode. If you have all the levels early on and then ramp it up late on it kind of defeats the purpose IMO.

Four of a kind

"new and Improved"....if its new then it cant have been improved, and if its improved then its not new!! :eek:

good luck with dude.

The Poker Room

Not opposed to adding 1500-3000 as well.

Want to give the most play possible and avoid the crapshoot

Kelso

If you're not too restricted by time constraints, adding in a 75-150 level would be a good shout

derek2222_ie

The Poker Room wrote: »

D,

We have added in 150-300 and 800-1500 to every tournament.

I think the 800-1500 makes it a better game than adding 1500-3000

It just makes it a lesser leap.

what do you think Derek.

I will make sure that all the dealers and T.D's know.

I personally agree with Tm on this. If you can have both the 800-1500 and 1500-3000 then all the better.

Just a quick example. When we were at the 1000-2000 level the other night there were five or six people left meaning with about 130K in play meaning the average stack was between 22K and 26K. Meaning the average stack had about 11-13 bb's. If this level then jumps to 2000-4000 then the average stack becomes 4-6.5 bb's. Just a leap too far in my opinion.

Just my two cents worth. Thanks for taking the time to listen to feedback

Derek

The Poker Room

Done.

So from now on we will have 150-300, 800-1500 and 1500-3000 blinds levels in all tournaments at the poker room.

Its important that the better players get the opportunity to use their skills to the maximum.

Cheers Ross.

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Just a reminder Dueces Wild Tournament at the poker room, Tallaght.

€45 to play, 20 minute blinds and 8k starting stack.

Also no limit cash games all night. (Really fun game, sometimes quads are no good.)

Thanks

Macspower

While you advertise best value in your tournaments you cash game rake is :eek:

Last Friday I sat into the cash game and it went 3 handed with stacks of 35 and 65 and my 120 . After a few minutes I questioned the rake which seemed very very high to be told that it was 80 per hour which included 3 handed.. i decided to leave and the decision was made by one of the dealers to reduce the rake to 1 euro per pot...

and then he offered us an hourly rate of 20 per hour "the same as the fitz he said" I explained very nicely to him that the fitz and other clubs all charge 8 euro per person per hour an dhe insisted I was wrong...

Fair enough....... no more cash for me there....

Can you clarify what your rake should be? and what it was that day?

dbs_sailor

The wednesday/friday 20+2+5 scalp games sound good. Anyone know how many runners these games generally get?

Thanks,

Conan

The Poker Room

Yep, I will clarify.

On the day in question it was peter (pedros) first day in charge as both Ollie and I had other commitments so we couldn't be there on Friday. He obviously is not as well versed as maybe he should be in rake formats in other clubs so sorry about that.

The clubs rake is 5% of the pot. If its 3 handed unless a descion is made by myself to change the rake its still 5% of the pot.

As per usual, people are going to say the Fitz, sports etc is better value at €4 per half hour per player. Which maybe depending on the size of the game you are playing. (if your drinking beer and eating food then we would def be better value)

We don't rake pots under €11.

Our rake is the same as Dust to Dawn in the U.K. They are 5% with a £15 cap.

In saying that, it would be niave to believe we can run a tournament on a Friday at a €300 loss then let you play cash for free. We still need to pay rent, Taxes, Bills, drinks, food and beer that we offer and off course the staff.

I believe we have the best freebies off any other card club and if you qualify for V.I.P status at the cash tables with 120 hours or more we have the very best V.I.P benefits anywhere.

So to answer the question the rake is 5% and we cant do it for less when offering the servisces we offer. We have also recently added a bad beat to the cash table with no additional money getting taken out of the pot.
Hope this helps with your questions and i will have a talk with Pedro.
If this means that you come for the tourney and don't play cash then so be it.

Thanks Ross.

The Poker Room

Conan, we usually have 20-35 runners for the €27 games

tm2204

conanm wrote: »

The wednesday/friday 20+2+5 scalp games sound good. Anyone know how many runners these games generally get?

Thanks,

Conan

They are good games. Good starting stacks and even though they are only 15min blinds you get all the levels and plenty of play.

Very enjoyable.

dbs_sailor

cool. i'll check it out on friday with a few mates.

dbs_sailor

is there much cash action there during sunday afternoons??

belgo27

Sorry if you have already answered these questions...
How many runners would you get for the wednesday tourny?
What time would it usually end?
Are you showing the liverpool match?
cheers

The Poker Room

We usually get 3 fullt tables on Wednseday

Good game it is usually all done by midnight.

The Champions league will be on the plasma.

Thanks Ross.

trishakids

Hi Ross, have you still got sat's for the IPO going?

Trisha

The Poker Room

No the IPO is sold out i think.

The Free Sats on Saturday night are now for the Winter festival.

There is a thread on it so please read that for details.

Thanks Ross.

Sparks43

took a trip out on monday night to have a look and i have to say i was impressed very freindly staff great atmospere and a well set out card room


ill make a return thats for certain and would encourage others to do the same


also €3 a drink in captain americas on a monday with some good music and a bar open till 1 am:D

dbs_sailor

whats on tonight?

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Round of each tonight at 8p.m. Only €45 to enter.

Its €40 + €5 and we add 10% to the prize pool.

One round of no limit holdem and then one round of pot limit Omaha.

8k starting stack and 20 minute blinds usally a very good game and a good way to learn Omaha for not a lot of money.

Sport on the Plasma and free toasties and drinks inc beer all night.

Tuesdays cash game is usually meaty mostly two tables all night. 1/2 no limit with a live straddle.

Thanks hops to see you tonight.

The Poker Room

Great game tonight at the Poker Room,
€20 + €2 + €5 scalp.

10% and a €75 ticket to UFC added to the Prize Pool.

5k starting stack, 1k early bird chip before 8p.m

Good structure, 3 additional blind levels added.

Boxing on the plasma and beer in the Fridge, great way to spend a Friday night.

cuterob

the tourneys look good

how many runners do you usually get for the 10k stack 30 min blind tourney on friday at 2pm?

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cuterob wrote: »

the tourneys look good

how many runners do you usually get for the 10k stack 30 min blind tourney on friday at 2pm?

2 tables.