Best of Boards Poker Challenge @ the Poker Room Celbridge

zsoulking

Hello everyone,

As part of our Grand Opening we are running the Best of Boards Poker Challenge Tournament.
This tournament will be held at the Poker Room Celbridge on Friday 1st May 2009.
The tournament is for Boards members only.
This tournament will be FREE yes FREE to enter with the poker Room Celbridge adding €1,000 to the Prize Pool.
The field is capped at 80 players.
Players will start the tournament with 5,000 chips. Players will have the option of 1 Re-Buy 5,000 or a Top-Up 5,000 for €50 players are permitted to take the Re-Buy at any time up until the break.
We have chosen this format as we feel that it won’t exclude anyone from the tournament at the same time as top up the prize pool. I’m sure for most the title will be worth more than the money.
The Poker Room Celbridge will provide a trophy for the winner of this event plus some custom made Luck Box clothing with the winners Boards user name embroidered on it.
If anyone would like to order custom made Luck Box clothing with their Boards user name on it we will be offering a 20% discount on any orders placed on the day of the event.

Date of event - Friday 1st May
Buy In – Free
Starting Stack – 5,000 Chips
Re Buy/Top Up – 1 x €50 = 5,000 Chips
Clock – 20/25 min
Max Players – 80
Payout – 100% of prize pool
Added Prize Pool – €1,000
Approximately 10% of the field to be paid at Tournament Director’s discretion
Registration – On the day from 19:30h
Cards in the air – 20:30h
No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha Cash Games available all night long pots are raked at 5% capped.

Hope to see you at the Poker Room Celbridge soon,

John.

Please note:
This event is being run by the Poker Room and all events at this location are commercial unless otherwise stated.
“”We ask all players as a courtesy to each other to arrive at least 30min before the event to ensure a prompt start time.””
All players must be at least 18 and be a member of the club (its free and easy all you need in photo I.D)
All tournaments are No-Limit Texas Hold’em unless otherwise stated.
Structures and starting stacks are set in relation to the size of the buy-in and may be amended or changed at the tournament director’s discretion. (We always make an effort to give maximum value for all our players.)
All tables are dealt to the highest standard.
Card room rules available on request (amended TDA rules in practice in the club)
As normal practice the Tournament Director / Floor person’s decision is final.

Macspower

best of luck with this John. I hope to see you there..

btw I presume you mean 1st of May?

Ollieboy

hmmm, I'm sure your intentions are good but I don't think you'll get much interest in this. So I'll offer my 2 cent.

Change the day to a Saturday. Call it the Boards Grudge Match. Make the Entry fee 150 euro freeze out with 10k in starting chips and 40 minute clock all the way with all levels. Most boards players have no interest in playing a crap shoot with far to many chips in play.

Now use the 1k to run a private bus from the city centre to the game, also run a bus back into town at 10 and 12 that night. anyone still in after that time can pay for a taxi with the winnings. If any money left over from the 1k use it to provide wine with some decent food on the day.

Maybe get a local pub beside you to run a special for the day.

The boards games are more about the social day, i.e drinking with the lads than a game off poker.

Maybe I'm totally wrong but I'm sure other people will post there opinions. I think to get boards players out to Celbrigde from Dublin you'll have to offer more than you have in the above.

gl with the event.

KevIRL

Hi

You will need to post up all the points as listed in the forum rules. The thread will be deleted tomorrow if these are not posted.

FWIW, Ollie has made some good suggestions there.

DAMO72

Never mind the buse's crap and boardsies social events. It's an event in itself to get one of you guy's in dublin to go from one end of O'Connell st.to the other for a game without having to offer rainbows and pots of gold (Lazy bastid's IMO) LOL.
Now back to the matter in hand . The game looks great John and with 1k added you should fill this in no time at all , you can count me in anyway . Its only an hours drive from monaghan

tm2204

DAMO72 wrote: »

Never mind the buse's crap and boardsies social events. It's an event in itself to get one of you guy's in dublin to go from one end of O'Connell st.to the other for a game without having to offer rainbows and pots of gold (Lazy bastid's IMO) LOL.
Now back to the matter in hand . The game looks great John and with 1k added you should fill this in no time at all , you can count me in anyway . Its only an hours drive from monaghan

+1

I'm in too.

Monkeybonkers

I've just moved to Lucan so will probably head up to this as well. It'll be handy to have a club within reasonable taxi distance. Is this the opening night of the club?

fatguy

Hi John,

Where in Celbridge is the poker room?

gman127

DAMO72 wrote: »

Never mind the buse's crap and boardsies social events. It's an event in itself to get one of you guy's in dublin to go from one end of O'Connell st.to the other for a game without having to offer rainbows and pots of gold (Lazy bastid's IMO) LOL.
Now back to the matter in hand . The game looks great John and with 1k added you should fill this in no time at all , you can count me in anyway . Its only an hours drive from monaghan

Very well said, i will also try to get to this providing no clashes!

NuckChorris1

Hope to be playing the Blanch 300 that day but will defintely be up if I don't. Looking forward to the new place opening and best of luck with it John.

Ronan Gallagher.

zsoulking

fatguy wrote: »

Hi John,

Where in Celbridge is the poker room?

Hi,

It's a new building on the main street just as you come over the bridge. It is above Pat Toolin Bookmakers.

zsoulking

Hi,

This is the structure for the tournament.



Level-Small- Big--Ante-Time

1……..25……50……………...20
2……..50……100……..……..20
3……..75……150…………....20
4……..100…..200…………...20
5……..150…..300…………...20
6……..150…..300…..25……25
7……..200…..400…..50……25
8……..300…..600…..75……25
9……..400…..800…..100….25
10……600…..1200...100….25
11……800…..1600…200…..25
12……1000…2000…300…..25
13……1500…3000…400…..25
14……2000…4000…500…..25
15……2500…5000…500…..25
16……3000…6000…1000…25

zsoulking

NuckChorris1 wrote: »

Hope to be playing the Blanch 300 that day but will defintely be up if I don't. Looking forward to the new place opening and best of luck with it John.

Ronan Gallagher.

Hi Ronan,

The game in Blanch is on the next day that’s why I chose the Friday for this one,

Hope you can make it,

John.

ROONEYED BY 2/3

DAMO72 wrote: »

Never mind the buse's crap and boardsies social events. It's an event in itself to get one of you guy's in dublin to go from one end of O'Connell st.to the other for a game without having to offer rainbows and pots of gold (Lazy bastid's IMO) LOL.
Now back to the matter in hand . The game looks great John and with 1k added you should fill this in no time at all , you can count me in anyway . Its only an hours drive from monaghan

very well put wont be there but best of luck with this looks great, john:cool:

zsoulking

Ollieboy wrote: »

hmmm, I'm sure your intentions are good but I don't think you'll get much interest in this. So I'll offer my 2 cent.

Change the day to a Saturday. Call it the Boards Grudge Match. Make the Entry fee 150 euro freeze out with 10k in starting chips and 40 minute clock all the way with all levels. Most boards players have no interest in playing a crap shoot with far to many chips in play.

Now use the 1k to run a private bus from the city centre to the game, also run a bus back into town at 10 and 12 that night. anyone still in after that time can pay for a taxi with the winnings. If any money left over from the 1k use it to provide wine with some decent food on the day.

Maybe get a local pub beside you to run a special for the day.

The boards games are more about the social day, i.e drinking with the lads than a game off poker.

Maybe I'm totally wrong but I'm sure other people will post there opinions. I think to get boards players out to Celbrigde from Dublin you'll have to offer more than you have in the above.

gl with the event.

Come on Ollie you know me I have a monthly deep stack game in the pipe line that you will love, better than anything I put on at the SE. (Full details to follow)
This tournament is intended to give everyone on here a chance to come in and see the new club plus we’re giving great value with €1,000 added to the prize pool.
You also know that I won’t allow the game to turn into a crapshoot so that comment was a little below the belt.
There will also be a complementary buffet for all players at the break as we have full kitchen facilities.
As far as your comment “I think to get boards players out to Celbrigde from Dublin you'll have to offer more than you have in the above.”
Celbridge is only 25 min from Dublin City center and not all people on Boards live in Dublin.
We are offering more than any other club or event on that weekend with a Free Tournament no registration, €1,000 added to the prize pool plus custom clothing and a trophy for the winner.
If I wasn’t working I would definitely be playing,

John S.

thechamp87

Ollieboy wrote: »

a crap shoot with far to many chips in play.

good bit of sense in that. i stopped reading after this.

tm2204

It beggars belief when you get a new club offering so much and still getting knocked for it.

Good work Ross & John. Keep it up & best of luck with the new club.

YULETIRED

Cool I live in Newcastle, so very close. I wish the place well.

Damo I can just hear yer mad accent as you typed that.

:D
Williec

Pabloh

Hi John - Not sure that I'll get time off to play this but it's good to see the room start off with a positive game like this. Best of luck with it!

Paul

Ollieboy

zsoulking wrote: »

Come on Ollie you know me I have a monthly deep stack game in the pipe line that you will love, better than anything I put on at the SE. (Full details to follow)
This tournament is intended to give everyone on here a chance to come in and see the new club plus we’re giving great value with €1,000 added to the prize pool.
You also know that I won’t allow the game to turn into a crapshoot so that comment was a little below the belt.
There will also be a complementary buffet for all players at the break as we have full kitchen facilities.
As far as your comment “I think to get boards players out to Celbrigde from Dublin you'll have to offer more than you have in the above.”
Celbridge is only 25 min from Dublin City center and not all people on Boards live in Dublin.
We are offering more than any other club or event on that weekend with a Free Tournament no registration, €1,000 added to the prize pool plus custom clothing and a trophy for the winner.
If I wasn’t working I would definitely be playing,

John S.

Sorry John no offence was meant and your tourneys were always perfect in the SE, I just reckon you could model this on the 200 we first ran for the SE which was known at the time as a Boards event.

I'm sure the idea of this event is to get as many boards players out as possible as these are regular poker players and you've added some excellant value already. But poker players are lazy and I would love this venue to be big as its very handy for me.

Also a lot of players found Maynooth hard to find, Celbridge is only another 5 minutes out the road, but I just felt a bus in and out of town would get the business you want.

As I said at the time it was only my 2 cent and a few ideas or feedback.

Ollie

Ollieboy

thechamp87 wrote: »

good bit of sense in that. i stopped reading after this.

you don't play much live poker than? short clock with loads of chips leads to slow action, but I'm sure you understood this.

Ollieboy

tm2204 wrote: »

It beggars belief when you get a new club offering so much and still getting knocked for it.

Good work Ross & John. Keep it up & best of luck with the new club.

never knock it, gave a few suggest to improve it a big difference.

tm2204

Ollieboy wrote: »

never knock it, gave a few suggest to improve it a big difference.

Ok, fair enough Ollie; just that your first post came across as a piece sharp especially you knowing John so well.

In these recessionary times I'd never knock anyone who wants to add value to a poker tournament.

Nothing personal; I respect your views on poker & read your blog regularly.

zsoulking

Ollieboy wrote: »

Sorry John no offence was meant and your tourneys were always perfect in the SE, I just reckon you could model this on the 200 we first ran for the SE which was known at the time as a Boards event.

I'm sure the idea of this event is to get as many boards players out as possible as these are regular poker players and you've added some excellant value already. But poker players are lazy and I would love this venue to be big as its very handy for me.

Also a lot of players found Maynooth hard to find, Celbridge is only another 5 minutes out the road, but I just felt a bus in and out of town would get the business you want.

As I said at the time it was only my 2 cent and a few ideas or feedback.

Ollie

No problem Ollie all new ideas and feed back very welcome,

John

Jayminator

GL with this John. I ll try give it a spin and best of luck with the club..

FWIW I ll most likely be driving with room for 3 more if anyone is that stuck for a lift.

Jay

zsoulking

Jayminator wrote: »

GL with this John. I ll try give it a spin and best of luck with the club..

FWIW I ll most likely be driving with room for 3 more if anyone is that stuck for a lift.

Jay

Thank's Jay see you then.

John.

bigbadpat

This tournament looks inviting.

I hope to get a pass-out for this as I lived for many years outside Celbridge.

There are a number of ways of getting to Celbridge from Dublin
1. Dublin Bus No 67 to Celbridge at 18:20 or 18:50 Journey Time 70 Mins
2. Irish Rail train from Dublin Heuston to Hazelhatch
Depart 18:35 / Arrive 18:48 or 18:50 / 20:03
Hazel Hatch is a short 20/30 min walk from Celbridge Main Sreet.
3. Irish Rail - Dublin Connolly to Maynooth
Depart 19:05 / Arrive 19:35 or 19:10 / 19:50 or 19:36 / 20:15
then a 10/15 min taxi to Celbridge
This is my preferred route and it would be great if a 7 / 8 seater Taxi could be arranged to meet the19:10 & 19:36 trains from Connolly. Cost would be about 2 / 3 EURO per person.

John I hope this goes well for you.
You were always a joy to deal with at the SE.

It would be great if you could arrange for a 7 / 8 seater Taxi to meet at Maynooth station the 19:10 & 19:36 trains from Connolly. Boardies could indicate via this thread or text you which train that they intend to get. Also if you could agree a special rate with one of the local taxi firms for the trip from Celbridge to Dublin City Center (O'Connell Bridge). Suggest Taxi meter rate less a percentage of 10%, 20% OR 25%

BIGBADPAT

cuterob

zsoulking wrote: »

The tournament is for Boards members only.

how will this be governed?

tourney looks good by the way, i'll hopefully make the trip

The Poker Room

Additional added Value,

Hi just to spice things up a bit, We will be offering free poker massage at this event, (Our masseuses are very attractive, no extras sorry, they are good girls)

We will be giving away Luck box clothing to winners and losers and i will add an authentic Tag Heaur Watch to the Prize pool.

We also took more than 2000 photographs at the Irish Open, more than 100 of these will be displayed in the room, Large prints in nice frames and mounts (Similar to the sporting pics in the SE.) We will be giving away at least 6 of these on the night. Retail €125 each.

So to recap

Totally free sit down.
€1,000 added
Authentic Tag Heaur Watch added to prize pool.
Luck box Clothing given away.
Free poker massage
Large format Poker photographs added to the prize pool (best hand etc.)
Free Buffet (meat and veg.)
First chance to see an exciting new poker venue.( 4,000 sq ft )
Also you can put names to faces for boardies.

Hope to see you a week on Friday.
Thanks
Ross.

The Poker Room

We will happily pick up people at the Manooth or Celbridge (let us know and we will have a taxi waiting)

To play you need to be registered on boards. (you can register on Boards, on the night but we are not advertising this tourny anywhere else.) The official CLUB tourny schedule starts on Saturday.

DAMO72

Jayminator wrote: »

GL with this John. I ll try give it a spin and best of luck with the club..

FWIW I ll most likely be driving with room for 3 more if anyone is that stuck for a lift.

Jay

Yeah Jay thats great , I will wait for ya at the busted round bale of hay where old mcDonalds shed used to be , Its the 3rd lane on the left after the field with the bull in it . Sure it's on your way anyway:D:D

The Clamper

The Poker Room wrote: »

Additional added Value,

Hi just to spice things up a bit, We will be offering free poker massage at this event, (Our masseuses are very attractive, no extras sorry, they are good girls)

We will be giving away Luck box clothing to winners and losers and i will add an authentic Tag Heaur Watch to the Prize pool.

We also took more than 2000 photographs at the Irish Open, more than 100 of these will be displayed in the room, Large prints in nice frames and mounts (Similar to the sporting pics in the SE.) We will be giving away at least 6 of these on the night. Retail €125 each.

So to recap

Totally free sit down.
€1,000 added
Authentic Tag Heaur Watch added to prize pool.
Luck box Clothing given away.
Free poker massage
Large format Poker photographs added to the prize pool (best hand etc.)
Free Buffet (meat and veg.)
First chance to see an exciting new poker venue.( 4,000 sq ft )
Also you can put names to faces for boardies.

Hope to see you a week on Friday.
Thanks
Ross.

SO MUCH ADDED VALUE, HOW COULD ONE RESIST

i suppose by the time the event is on, there will be even more added

Free, Free and more Free, these are my favorite words

please put my name down for this, I like Tag watches, massages, cash prizes and free food, oh yeah I like poker too

sounds like a fun day out, i will also add my name to giving lifts out there on the day, just pm me and i will put your name on a seat, room for 3 others, leaving from Swords

Derek

LuckyLloyd

**** the money, I'm playing for the watch!

Best of luck with this John, I hope this works out for you. You always did a smashing job in the SE.

SWAR

Best of luck with this John, would of loved to be able to make it but not going to happen unley Jay decides to fly out here to Abu Dhabi and pick me up!

Will definately pop in during the summer when I'm home...GL again.

zsoulking

The Clamper wrote: »

SO MUCH ADDED VALUE, HOW COULD ONE RESIST

i suppose by the time the event is on, there will be even more added

Free, Free and more Free, these are my favorite words

please put my name down for this, I like Tag watches, massages, cash prizes and free food, oh yeah I like poker too

sounds like a fun day out, i will also add my name to giving lifts out there on the day, just pm me and i will put your name on a seat, room for 3 others, leaving from Swords

Derek

Nice one Derek see you on the night

John

zsoulking

SWAR wrote: »

Best of luck with this John, would of loved to be able to make it but not going to happen unley Jay decides to fly out here to Abu Dhabi and pick me up!

Will definately pop in during the summer when I'm home...GL again.

Thanks John Boy,

Will have a 2/5 Deep Stack NL cash game built up and waiting for you just the way you like it when you get back.

See you then

John

Pabloh

Oh Dear - don't promise him that or he'll be over earlier. Actually hope to make this one now.

Lao Lao

Hi John,

You can stick me down for this, excellent value being provided, am really looking forward to it.

Brian

Jayminator

DAMO72 wrote: »

Yeah Jay thats great , I will wait for ya at the busted round bale of hay where old mcDonalds shed used to be , Its the 3rd lane on the left after the field with the bull in it . Sure it's on your way anyway:D:D

Did they move that shed Damo....bollox

jbravado

Good luck with this John. Great launch,always did a good job in the SE despite the genis best efforts.

El Stuntman

1st of May you say

added value you say

sure will try and give this a spin myself

tylerdurden94

If i could swing a lift out to this i would gladly play

Jaysoose

Hi john,

Sounds like a good tourny i will definitley spin out that way as celbridge used to an old stomping ground of mine.

Can fit two in the car and leaving from blanchardstown if anybody needs a lift.

Sirtoyou

I would like to reserve a seat in this tournament please.I will be traveling from Cork via Tallaght.I don't know where Celbridge is so any body in need of a lift from the Tallaght area is more than welcome I'll have room for up to 4.
Kieran Walsh.

Lady Di

The Poker Room wrote: »

Additional added Value,

Hi just to spice things up a bit, We will be offering free poker massage at this event, (Our masseuses are very attractive, no extras sorry, they are good girls)

Damn it!!;)

Sounds good, hope to make it!

charlesanto

Consider me there, sure it's short stroll from home !

The Clamper

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

If i could swing a lift out to this i would gladly play

WILL BE HEADING ON DOWN TO THIS , PM ME FOR A LIFT IF YOU LIVE ON THE NORTH SIDE

DEREK

Breifne

I'll give this a spin! Whats the story with reserving a place or is this considered reserving a spot.

Dave147

This tournament sounds excellent, would love to travel up from Cork but unlikely I'd say.. Best of luck with it, sounds great

tylerdurden94

Cheers Clamper will do.

maloney333

I'm just in lucan, so might pop up 2 this can reserve a spot 4 me!