Whats Happening this weekend at Atari Poker Santry (Guaranteed Prize Pools)

TheTD

Hi everyone,

As so many people were away last weekend and there was so much on I have decided to run the opening weekend schedule again.

Friday’s tournament will carry a €1,000 guarantee and include a special prize for our first place finisher.

Saturday’s tournament will carry a €2,000 guarantee.

And there will be a special prize added to Sunday’s tournament.

(I am waiting for the special prizes to be delivered and when they are I will post pictures.)


Friday 19th Feb 2010
Tournament: Buy In €25 + €5. Starting stack = 4,000 chips, 1x Re Buy or Add On €25 = 6,000 chips. Clock 20/30 min
Start Time: 20:00 late entry for 4 levels.

Saturday 20th Feb 20100

Tournament: €100 + €5 Freeze Out. Starting stack = 13,000 chips/15,000 chips if preregistered and paid before start of tournament. Clock 30 min.
Start time: 18:00 late entry for 3 levels.

Sunday 21st Feb 2010

Tournament: €50 + €5 Double Chance Deep Stack. Starting stack = 7,000 + 7,000 chips.
Start time: 17:00 late entry for 3 levels. Clock 20/30 min.

Structure for Saturday 13th Feb.

LEVEL ANTE SMALL BLIND BIG BLIND
1 50 100
2 75 150
3 100 200
4 150 300
5 25 150 300
6 50 200 400
7 50 300 600
8 75 400 800 CR25
9 100 500 1,000
10 100 600 1,200
11 200 800 1,600
12 200 1,000 2,000
13 200 1,200 2,400
14 300 1,500 3,000
15 400 2,000 4,000 CR100
16 500 2,500 5,000
17 500 3,000 6,000
18 500 4,000 8,000 CR500
19 1,000 5,000 10,000
20 1,000 6,000 12,000


Structure for 12th/14th Feb

LEVEL ANTE SMALL BLIND BIG BLIND
1 25 50
2 50 100
3 75 150
4 100 200
5 25 150 300
6 50 200 400
7 50 300 600
8 75 400 800 CR25
9 100 600 1,200
10 200 800 1,600
11 200 1,000 2,000
12 200 1,200 2,400
13 300 1,500 3,000
14 400 2,000 4,000 CR100
15 500 2,500 5,000
16 500 3,000 6,000
17 500 4,000 8,000 CR500
18 1,000 5,000 10,000
19 1,000 5,000 10,000
20 1,000 5,000 10,000

1. Who is running the event (Atari Poker)
2. The purpose of the event (Commercial)
3. Date and Location of event (Friday 19th/21st Feb at Atari poker in the Atari Casino Santry)
4. Registration and Start time of event. (Various)
5. Any prerequisites (member of club)
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (100 players max pay in advance or on the day)
7. Type of Tournament (No limit TexasHold'em)
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc.(as above)
9. Cost of registration (No registration cost)
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund (100% paid out in full)
10a. Is any money from the prize fund held back for future tournaments, if so, how much. (No)
11. Any guarenteed prize pool. (No)
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels.
13. Starting Chips (As above)
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts. (As above)
15. Blind levels (As above)
16. Blind timeframes (As above)
17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (Approximately 10% of field)
18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill (Fully dealer dealt)
19. Will there be a documented list of rules. (TDA rules in use)
20. Is there a tournament director (John Scanlon)
21. How are disputes handled - who has final say.(John Scanlon)
22. Are there any cash games offered, if so, please outline the rake for each limit offered. (5% capped at €10)

bigbadpat

John

Great to see the Guarantees

If you guarantee they will come !!

I hope to play Friday & Saturday to add some value having spilt some blood there last weekend

TheTD

bigbadpat wrote: »

John

Great to see the Guarantees

If you guarantee they will come !!

I hope to play Friday & Saturday to add some value having spilt some blood there last weekend

Great Pat should be a great weekend,

John

TheTD

Hi everyone,

If you are popping down for any of the tournaments this weekend please let me know so that I can arrange to have enough staff, and arrange for food. I don't want to be caught short.


John

TheTD

Hi,

The prizes have arrived,

Video recording sunglasses with built in 2GB memory.

Now you can record your entire poker session and look back and analyse where you went wrong or right.

I think it's a really cool prize,

John.

johnfk

what's the address please John?

Jayminato

Hi John,
Have you any plans for Irish Open satelittes in the near future. Would you be considering any ticket guarantees.

cheers

Jay

HelloJellyFish

I will try and make it up tonight.....:D:D

TheTD

Jayminato wrote: »

Hi John,
Have you any plans for Irish Open satelittes in the near future. Would you be considering any ticket guarantees.

cheers

Jay

Yeh looking at doing satellite very soon, probably guarantee two tickets,

If players are interested they should let me know,

John

TheTD

johnfk wrote: »

what's the address please John?

The Atari Casino is in the corner of the Omni shopping center beside the Chinese Buffet place.

John

Jayminato

TheTD wrote: »

Yeh looking at doing satellite very soon, probably guarantee two tickets,

If players are interested they should let me know,

John

Im deffo interested in an Irish Open sat John. Particularly if you are guaranteeing a ticket or two. Let me know when you are planning to have it. A nice Sunday afternoon might be good

TheTD

Hi all,

Final table in progress,

19 players this afternoon so €100 overlay.

Remember early start Sunday 6pm

Sega sunglasses added to the prize pool.

John

bigbadpat

Just in from a profitable weekend of poker in Santry.
Was in a dilemma earlier on Sunday evening whether to head into SE of go to Santry.

On Friday made the heads up with a 5 to 1 chip lead at 1:30. I offered a chop the money for 1st & 2nd but I would take the two other prizes (Sunglasses & 55 Euro Buy-in for Sunday). He agreed but wanted to play 3 hands for the 55 Euro buy in which I felt was unfair and declined.

Shortly afterwards I was elated for 30 seconds when I checked (with Aces) & he called all-in with K 8 but then I knew things were not going to go my way when he made a straight with the 8. I lost the next 3 races in a row even though I was ahead pre-flop. That’s the Poker Gods for you.
Finished up around 2:30

Saturday was knackered – should have stayed home – 3rd person eliminated

Sunday made heads up slightly behind in Chips, Agreed equal chop of money for 1st & 2nd and played one hand for the glasses. Lost another race when my pair of 7s failed to beat A J when A J X appeared on the flop.

Still an enjoyable weekend of Poker - Thanks to John & his staff.

TheTD

Thanks Pat,

Always a pleasure having you round for a game,

Your in great form at the moment I'm sure you will win the sunglasses next game that I add them to the prize pool.

See you soon.

John.