August Bank Holiday Weekend Festival at the Sporting Emporium

S.Emporium

Saturday 1st August.

The Main Event

€250 + €25 “No Limit” Hold’em Freezeout.

2 Day Event

Starting Stack : 12,000

Clock : 45 minutes.

Doors open at 6pm for a 6.30pm Start.




Sunday 2nd August.

3.45pm (Doors open at 3.30pm)

The Final Table of the Main Event.

4pm

The Monthly Deepstack Tournament.

€120 + €10 “No Limit” Hold’em Freezeout.

Starting Stack : 10,000 (plus an early bird chip of 1,000 if you are in your seat for the start of play).

Clock : 20/30 minutes.

7.30pm

€50 + €5 “No Limit” Hold’em Freezeout.

€1,500 Guaranteed Prizepool.

Starting Stack : 6,000 (plus an early bird chip of 1,000 if you are in your seat for the start of play).

Clock : 20/25 minutes.



Monday 3rd August

€100 + €10 “No Limit” Hold’em Double Chance Freezeout.

Starting Stack : 4,000 + 4,000 (plus an early bird chip of 1,000 if you are in your seat for the start of play).

Clock : 25 minutes (No antes)

Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm Start.




The Main Event Structure.


Day 1.

25 - 50 - 0 - 45 min clock
50 - 100 - 0

15 minute dinner break

75 - 150 - 0
100 - 200 - 0
150 - 300 - 0

10 minute break

150 - 300 - 25
200 - 400 - 25
300 - 600 - 50
400 - 800 - 50

10 minute break

500 - 1000 - 100
600 - 1200 - 100

End of Play for Day 1.



Day 2.

800 - 1600 - 200 - 45 minute clock
1000 - 2000 - 200
1500 - 3000 - 300
2000 - 4000 - 500
3000 - 6000 - 500



I will post the Structures for the other two Tournaments as soon as the dinner breaks are confirmed.

If you would like to reserve yourself a seat for any of the above Tournaments, you can either send me a pm or phone the Poker room on 01-7030679 between 8pm - 6am any day of the week.

The Tournament Director will have the Final say.

Please note that all players must be a member of the Club. If you would like to join on the day of a Tournament only a valid passport or driving licence will be accepted.

There will be Pot Limit Hold'em and Omaha plus No Limit Hold'em Cash games available all weekend. The Tables will range from €50 to €500 sit downs.

All Tables will have professional dealers.



Thanks

Alex

Pabloh

looks good Alex. Alas it clashes with Metallica on Saturday but I'll be sure to play the Sunday game.

Jayminator

Hope to make an appearance for this weekend.

Jay

bigbadpat

Alex - If I am still wearing sandals in August will I have a problem getting entry.

S.Emporium

Tuesday 28th July


Super Satellite for the Main Event.


€25 + €5 "No Limit" Hold'em.

1 x €25 Rebuy or Top-up.

Starting Stack : 3,000 (plus an early bird chip of 1,000 if you are in your seat for the start of play).

Rebuy/Top-up : 4,000.

Doors open at 7.45pm for an 8.30pm Start.



So far we have given away 20 tickets into this Satellite so hopefully around 40-45 runners which would mean 5 or 6 tickets for the Main Event.

S.Emporium

Big_Iain has just confirmed that all three Festival Tournaments will be Irish Ranking Events.


We have now given away 28 tickets for tomorrow night's Satellite. It's an 8.30pm Start, entry is allowed up until the end of the second level (9.10pm). There will be one table satellites and blind omaha available between now and the start of the Main Event. Just speak to a member of staff when you come into the Poker room.


If you would like to reserve yourself a seat for any of the Festival Tournaments you can either send me a pm or phone the Poker room on 01-7030679 between 8pm-6am any day of the week.

one ill cat

Looks great Alex, unfortunately I'm working on Saturday & Sunday but hope to be there for the tourney on Monday.

I imagine Rob will play the Main Event, hope it goes well.

Pabloh

I should be in for this now. Hope it gets a decent turnout.

El Stuntman

Pabloh wrote: »

I should be in for this now. Hope it gets a decent turnout.

I'd hope so too but I'd expect that it will get the usual 30-ish runners for a SE tournament of this nature.

the SE could always be a bit proactive in this and add some money\guarantee 15k or something. A standard 80 FO on Monday nights in the Fitz has been getting ~ 90 runners all month with 1k added - food for thought?

tylerdurden94

I shall stroll in for the satellite tonight and chance my arm at winning a seat.

hatedajacks

El Stuntman wrote: »

I'd hope so too but I'd expect that it will get the usual 30-ish runners for a SE tournament of this nature.

the SE could always be a bit proactive in this and add some money\guarantee 15k or something. A standard 80 FO on Monday nights in the Fitz has been getting ~ 90 runners all month with 1k added - food for thought?

Never going to happen but yes it would be nice!

5starpool

I'll try to make it in for this if I am not still pissed off with poker at the weekend.

a147pro

5starpool wrote: »

I'll try to make it in for this if I am not still pissed off with poker at the weekend.

tm2204

hatedajacks wrote: »

Never going to happen but yes it would be nice!

Maybe not €15k but putting a €10k guarantee on it is not sticking their neck out too far & should boost numbers.

tylerdurden94

Never really got going in this but 4 tickets were given out congrats to all who scooped.

hatedajacks

Thankfully i will be playing this weekend now after a perfect night. I go out out on a good drinking session with swar and pabloh and my girlfriend wins a ticket in last nights SE sat and gives it to me to play. Job well done!

tylerdurden94

Rigged if you ask me :pac:

mick84

Any satellites on tonight? If not what’s running tonight ?

tm2204

mick84 wrote: »

Any satellites on tonight? If not what’s running tonight ?

€50 + €5 DC (3k + 3k + 1k early bird), 20 min levels, good game.

tylerdurden94

mick84 wrote: »

Any satellites on tonight? If not what’s running tonight ?

Satellite was on Tuesday gone, i was thinking of a blind omaha tonight before the game tonight for a ticket to the main event on Saturday if people are interested.

Plus tonights game is a nice little tournie.

Wreck

Anyone any idea how many runners this is likely to get?

Amigomenor

Alex, how many tickets have been given out for tomorrow night? Plan to play this myself and looking fwd to the good structure.

tylerdurden94

A couple of tickets given out for this, numbers wise i would like to see it get a good crowd, Alex reckons it should be in around 35-45.

mikser

I'll be there too. Good tourney for a bank hol even if a guarantee would help - hopefully it gets the support.

RockRory

How many runners did this get. Any updates anywhere ?

hatedajacks

RockRory wrote: »

How many runners did this get. Any updates anywhere ?

29 players. just out,never got going really,out in 11th i think. think they will finish tonight,mickste anj jayminator both still in with big stacks.Pabloh also still there

S.Emporium

29 runners. The 8 players left are just on a quick break.


Total Prize pool : €7,250


1st : €3,100

2nd : €2,050

3rd : €1,300

4th : €800


Mick Stephens, Vera Duffy (Chip leader), Paul Kehoe and Andy Ryan are a few of the names left in.



Sunday 2nd August.


The Monthly Tournament.


€120 + €10 "No Limit" Hold'em Deepstack Freezeout.

Estimated Prize pool : €8,000.

Starting Stack : 10,000 (plus an early bird chip of 1,000 if you are in seat for the start of play).

Clock : 30 minutes for 5 levels, 40 minutes from then on.

Doors open at 3.30pm for a 4pm Start.

Entry is allowed until the end of the second level (5pm).



The regular €50 "No Limit" Hold'em Freezeout will also be running at 7.30pm.


Starting Stack : 6,000 (plus an early bird chip of 1,000 if you are in seat for the start of play).

Clock : 20/25 minutes.

Entry is allowed until the end of the second level (8.10pm).



Cash Game Bad Beat Jackpot : €8,601.


Sundays are Double Hours on the Cash Games.



www.thesportingemporium.com

BigCityBanker

any update on this?

mickste

6 left. Starting back at 6 tonight. Vera still there as well.I'm chip leader at the moment but long way to go.

BigCityBanker

good luck mick.

Wreck

Good luck Mick

S.Emporium

The Main Event is down to the last 3. Mick Stephens is chip leader.


26 runners for the Monthly €120 Tournament. Pabloh is one of five still in.


33 runners for the weekly €50 freezeout. Just gone to the final table.

tylerdurden94

Mick Ste heads up with randomer, Paul H and Nick (vegas nights) still in the monthly deepstack when i was leaving.

Got uber donkeyed out of it, guy was hitting like a mofo knocked out minimum 8 people of the 27 started.

Rory Keogh kindly offered up a weekend for two at The Arlington Hotel Temple Bar as a prize to the €275 game and Alex decided to give it out as the best hand of the night, nice touch i thought.

tm2204

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

Mick Ste heads up with randomer, Paul H and Nick (vegas nights) still in the monthly deepstack when i was leaving.

Got uber donkeyed out of it, guy was hitting like a mofo knocked out minimum 8 people of the 27 started.

Rory Keogh kindly offered up a weekend for two at The Arlington Hotel Temple Bar as a prize to the €275 game and Alex decided to give it out as the best hand of the night, nice touch i thought.

It was; Rory's a good lad.

SpencerJames

Well done Mick. sorry i missed your txt, out drinking!! good scoop

El Stuntman

wp mick, one for the good guys

tylerdurden94

I will take it by the congrats that Mick took this down, well done Mick.

thenutpeddler

wp mick, wd pablo in the side

YULETIRED

WP Mick, I was going well in this (well thought I was playing well) I lost half my stack with QQs, I had to lay down on the turn after a dwell, guy said he'd KK but didn't show. After that I made a silly player based call for most of my remaining chips and finally lost another race agianst 22s to exit. (can never win rces agianst 2s for some reason) I'd went out 6th in the scalps the previous night when KK was dogged by A 10 and was convinced I would do well in this, but again another laek in my game surfaces, back to the drawing board.

Thought Mick would take it down WP (no offence to others)

rag2gar

Wd Mickste!

doke

Nice one Mick, well played.

Amigomenor

Finished 3rd. Well deserved win for Mick who played well throughout. Though the structure great and the SE put on a good spread.
Would have liked to have seen 40 entries at least but aside from that really enjoyed it.
It was good to see the room reasonably busy with 3 events in play. In my opinion the SE is the best environment for cards but its hard to go against the numbers being generated in the Fitz.
Cheees Alex,Jeff and all involved.

Amigomenor

YULETIRED wrote: »

WP Mick, I was going well in this (well thought I was playing well) I lost half my stack with QQs, I had to lay down on the turn after a dwell, guy said he'd KK but didn't show. After that I made a silly player based call for most of my remaining chips and finally lost another race agianst 22s to exit. (can never win rces agianst 2s for some reason) I'd went out 6th in the scalps the previous night when KK was dogged by A 10 and was convinced I would do well in this, but again another laek in my game surfaces, back to the drawing board.

Thought Mick would take it down WP (no offence to others)

Think you made a good laydown, any hands he showed later on indicated he did have KK

mickste

Cheers everyone.Thanks to the se for a very well run tournament as usual.

Willie as mentioned above that was a good fold against said player. He took the same line numerous times later on.

Pabloh

Really good to see the SE run a couple of decent tournaments back to back. Numbers aside the structure for both the Saturday and monthly Sunday games were great with lots of play. Congrats to Mick for a well deserved win. I ended up 3rd in the 4pm Sunday game and it's one that definitely deserves more players in the future. Hope to see some sort of guarantee for this.

Well done to Alex and the guys for a very enjoyable weekend and giving a two course dinner to the 6 finalists who made day 2 was a nice touch.

GG

tm2204

How many runners did last night get?

Was gonna play but couldn't make it in the end.

tylerdurden94

Pabloh wrote: »

Really good to see the SE run a couple of decent tournaments back to back. Numbers aside the structure for both the Saturday and monthly Sunday games were great with lots of play. Congrats to Mick for a well deserved win. I ended up 3rd in the 4pm Sunday game and it's one that definitely deserves more players in the future. Hope to see some sort of guarantee for this.

Well done to Alex and the guys for a very enjoyable weekend and giving a two course dinner to the 6 finalists who made day 2 was a nice touch.

GG

Congrats Paul.

Was chatting with Phil the other night about how he felt the tournaments had been going, and he mentioned something about getting a guarantee for the monthly sunday game, hope this gets implemented

bigbadpat

Well done Mick - Well played.

Missed this because I was at the races in Galway.

Played a few games in The Eglington - still prefer the Sporting Emporium but just wish they would update their website with the tournament results as they do in the Eglington -
http://www.theeglinton.com/PokerClub/Results/tabid/70/Default.aspx

bigbadpat

tylerdurden94 wrote: »

Congrats Paul.

Was chatting with Phil the other night about how he felt the tournaments had been going, and he mentioned something about getting a guarantee for the monthly sunday game, hope this gets implemented

All very well getting a guarantee but they need to decide this well in advance so that they can promote their tournements at least starting three / four weeks in advance and promting comment on Boards every week.:)

mikser

Well done mick. I'm the "randomer" you beat into second (I'm a regular for the bigger tourneys but don't play whatever the requisite nights per week are to lose the "randomer" tag).

Mick was head over heels the best player on the final table ... at least on this occasion (no offence to Vera et al) ....

SE deserves support. We were VERY well looked after. It may be horses for courses, but for my money the SE is a quality place with the atmosphere, a good man in Alex, a good team in support, and there's a good spirit among the players ....

At least one big tourney every 2 to 3 months (even for 30, 40 runners) wouldn't go astray - a carefully pitched guarantee would help, as would a bit of networking to stoke up the numbers ...

Jayminator

WP Mick in taking this down. Also WP to Paul in the side event.

Was playing well in this but went out 9th to a brain fart when I decided to play flops with the Mickste with AQ soooted. Sure he only had da Aces.....

Really enjoyed this tourny and the structure was first class. Well done to Alex and crew for an enjoyable game.

Jay