City West €250+25 Freezeout May27/28

Pokerevents

This is a €45k guaranteed satellite event that feeds the 16 player only €100,000 Irish Poker tour final.
It is fully I.P.F (international poker federation) compliant
1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.)
Irish Poker Events(see pokerevents.ie)
2. The purpose of the event (charity, commercial etc.)
This is not a charity event, it's purpose is to give local players the opportunity to qualify for major international events.
3. Date and Location of event
May 27/28 City West Dublin
4. Registration and Start time of event.
17.30. Cards are dealt at 19.00
5. Any prerequisites (member of club, society etc)
Need to be member of pokerevents(can sign up on the night as long as you are over 18)
6. How can tickets be purchased & is there a maximum number (in advance, at the door etc.)
Tickets can be won at the Red cow satellite event next Thursday 19th May
7. Type of Tournament (Hold'em/Omaha etc Freezeout/Rebuy etc.)
8. Cost of entry and any subsequent rebuys/top-ups etc.
€250 freezeout. No re-buys.
9. Cost of registration
€25
10. % of entry fee/rebuys/top-up going into Prize fund
100% of buy in into prize fund
11. Any guarenteed prize pool.
€45,000 guaranteed
12. If applicable, Number of re-buys allowed and over what time frame/blind levels.
13. Starting Chips
8000
14. Rebuy and Top-up chip amounts.
15. Blind levels
25-50/50-100/75-150/100-200/150-300/200-400/300-600/400-800/500-1000/800-1500/1000-2000/2000-4000/3000-6000/4000-8000etc
16. Blind timeframes
40 mins levels
17. Places being paid and if any prizes are other than cash (free entry to other tournie, merchandice etc)
Top 18 in the money. Top three recieve tickets to Irish Poker Tour final(€6250each) Ticket value comes out of the prizepool
18. Are there going to be dealers - and their level of skill
Professional croupiers at every table and two running croupiers
19. Will there be a documented list of rules
Rules are documented and available on the night. Any rules not mentioned rulings will be made to IPF standard.
20. Is there a tournament director
Donal MacAonghusa-Director, Richard Neilson-Assistant director, Fintan Gavin-Tournament manager
21. How are disputes handled - who has final say.
In the event of any dispute the Directors decions is final in all cases.

More info see www.pokerevents.ie

Pokerevents

For those of you travelling City West Hotel number is 01 4010500.
Agreed special rate is €80 per single & €110 per double.

NickyOD

I'm all over it. Dealer's better be throwing me something better than 10-rag every hand this time.

Pokerevents

GL to ye Nicky, I'd be happy if another west of Ireland man reaches the final.

SODSS

Qualified on VC for this tourney so see ye there!(handy considering it only cost $3!)

Benglian

Does anyone know if the winners of the VC Pub Poker €10 games have won an entry into this? I won one of them and I seem to remember the guy telling me something about an entry to another tourney as part of the win, but of course I was so pissed by that time, I don't really remember!
Anyone?

Dr_Colossus

Pokerevents can you provide a little more information on the upcoming event. 1) The description states that it's on over Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th of May. Is it a case of the final table being played on the Saturday or will it be the final few tables on the Saturday. Do you have to finish the Friday session at a particular time due to the hotel management and if so what time is that going to be. Also what time is the Saturday leg likely to kick off.
2) The description also states that registration begins at 17:30 on the Friday with the cards being dealt at 19:00. Is there any way to pre-register because otherwise it would mean having to take an hour or two of work to get there on time.
Many thanks

Pokerevents

Hi,
Tournament will be played untill 03.00a.m first day Friday night Saturday morning, with 30 players approx resuming play on Saturday at about 13.00.
I estimate we will have a winner by 19.00.
Unfortunatley there is no way to register before the event without turning up in person on the day. Registration is between 17.30 and 18.45.

NORTH1

Hi

Having won one of the $3 sats. I have not received any confirmation of a ticket, I was just wondering what happens next?.

Regards,

BBoyle

Pokerevents

Hi BB

We have full list of all on-line winners, so you just need to register on the day between 17.30 and 18.45.

Regards

ionapaul

Fintan, will there be food provided for players at any stage? What are the options for those of us heading direct from work (most people I expect) and famished?

NickyOD

ionapaul wrote:

Fintan, will there be food provided for players at any stage? What are the options for those of us heading direct from work (most people I expect) and famished?

Food was served at the Cork and Galway events at the break and it was decent.

BigDragon

ionapaul wrote:

Fintan, will there be food provided for players at any stage? What are the options for those of us heading direct from work (most people I expect) and famished?

City West were Juan Kerrs during the Irish Open about food if I recall with players having to buy crappy sambos and ****ty tea etc from trolleys and a stand.

Fair play to PPP for coming up trumps with pizzas tho.

Fintan, anything in the pipeline re: this from VC.

Dub13

What is it with Paddy Power and pizzas....!!!

Imposter

Dub13 wrote:

What is it with Paddy Power and pizzas....!!!

I don't know but they don't seem to deliver to Austria.

Pokerevents

Hi guys,
full hot meal will be served at the interval which lasts for a hour and is 9 to 10 or at the very latest 9.40 to 10.40.
see u there

Dub13

Imposter wrote:

I don't know but they don't seem to deliver to Austria.

Thats scandalous...in fact its bordering racism,get on to PPP PitBoss about it.She is your only man.

ionapaul

Seems as though there will be huge crowd at this - is there a limit to the number of players? I imagine there will be a bigger field than tomorrows game in the Fitz, maybe even over 200? This could be a potentially expensive few days for us poker fiends, and equally potentially lucrative.

Pokerevents

Galway 250 had 150runners, Cork 250 had 180runners
We have more qualifiers and seats sold in advance for city west
I think we will hit our maximum of 220

Also there will be €100 s.t.t freezeouts starting every 15mins from 8.30 on Friday night and a limited amount running alongside final on Saturday.

willis

what will happen if you reach the maximum of 220 players and some players who have won their ticket havent already registered on the night. I won a ticket to this and with rush hour traffic etc, am just wondering if i happen to be late would my place still be held if event sold out. Not planning on being late but with dublin traffic you never know
Thanks

Pokerevents

players with tickets need to register in advance.
If you register before 18.30 ticketholders are guaranteed a seat, after that we are into the unknown.

Phil_321

Will there be any €50 stt's?

QuentinHapsburg

It's only fair to compliment pokerevents on this event so far. 241 runners, into the last 70 and I managed to blow the last of my chips at 1.30am, but have to comment that everything was very well organised, good standard of play and plenty of hot food for all players at the break. Joe O'Neill was chip leader when I left, won his big stack when he went all in with a flush draw, called by players with top pair on the flop and pocket bullets, he drew his flush tripled up and took command of his table.
Galway tournament on 17/18 is tempting now despite the €400 buy in!

Dr_Colossus

Played in this and busted out 45th when the blinds just ate away at my chips after a total card dead session. Went all-in on the SB with 22 when it was folded around and BB calls with 63 and took the pot. He pretty much had to call given the pot and the amount of my raise. Didn't have enough folding equity as I had let myself get down to 4 BBs with blinds at 2000, 4000 after a terrible run of cards.
They split the game at 3:30 with 33 left. Players of note remaining at that stage were Roy the Boy (chip leader I think), Joe O'Neill, Pat Crowe, Dave O'Callaghan, Ken Dogherty and Adrian. There were one of two other Fitz participants that I don't know by name but I didn't recognise most of the other players.
Have to say the tournament was well run but a bit disappointed with the blind structure missing a few levels. The 150/300, 400/800 and then the 1,500/3000 levels were skipped. Whatever about the smaller levels being skipped but skipping the 1,500/3000 just killed you if you were short stacked. A jump from 1,000/2000 to 2,000/4,000 is just ridiculous especially when there's a relatively large ante involved.

Hitman Actual

My thoughts on the event: very well run as expected. It started close to time, which is good for such a big field (approx 240 players); the dealers know what they're doing; good meal at break-time, etc.

The structure surprised me though. I was expecting there to be loads of play with 40min blinds and 8000 starting chips, but that only held true for the first three levels. After the break, a running ante started and there was no 150/300 level, which put pressure on anyone floating around the 10-15K mark. This was a stack size that was comfortable before the break, but now all of a sudden had to double up to keep in contention.

The standard of play was very mixed, I thought. I had Paul Lecky and another tough northern player at my first table... these northern guys can really play. But the other players were generally all over the place. Some calling stations, others who liked min-raising, players who liked crap such as QT etc. Generally a poor standard for a 275euro buy-in event.

My 16k after the break dropped to 11k when one such calling station hit a K on the river to make a straight, beating my two-pair AT, even though I played it strongly enough to dissuade a 'normal' player from continuing. Got moved to Dave Callaghans table, where he was doing well and was really owning the table when I left. I soon got knocked out with a hasty move when in the BB with about 10K (blinds at 200/400, antes 50). Five limpers, who all seem weak, so I push with ATo, expecting to pick up the blind/ante/limper money (about 3K). Get one caller, who has AK... and that's it. Ironically he was previously raising with AT, so I was surprised to see that he'd limped with AK. Still, not a good move by me, in fairness, but I'd decided that I wanted to double up before the levels went to 300/600/75.

Hard luck on going out close to the shake-up, Alan. It's great to see some of the Fitz regulars still in, but I hope the structure isn't too tight to allow them to play. And how the hell is Ken Doherty still in! He was down to 400 before the break, ffs!

BTW, anyone know if there will be SnGs running today? Planning to head out to City West today on my way down the country.

Shortstack

Full review is on my blog . Parts of this event were good, but there was an opportunity here to run a 'Poker' tournament. Whatever the facilitys and cosmetics the poker should be the most important.

Hitman Actual

Very good review, Mike. Spot on about the structure, it really killed the game. I played this for the same reason as you and most of the Dublin scene: 8000 starting chips and 40min levels; surely you can be gaurenteed some decent play. But that just lasted for three levels...

QuentinHapsburg

Good points made on the ante / blind structure. These were set to reach the stated objective I assume of having circa 30 players for day two. Maybe to improve the tournament the organisers should think about having a longer day two - plenty of room for 60-70 players for the second days play.

Dub13

so would you lot play it again...?

NickyOD

Very nice review Mike. It was actually my SnG I got raped in by some arrogant drunk card catching asswipe but ****e happens.

As for the main event, I really can't remember being so card dead in all my poker playing life. It really was incredible but these things happen, its just normal variance and I'm not unhappy with how I played.

I drew a very good table, apart from KPnuts on my left all of the table was weak except for one northern player across from me, but I'd played him in a cash game in the Fitz the night before and I wanted to get in pots with him. He's a good player and usually only came into a pot by raising but he had a BIG tell when he missed flops.

I didn't see a single flop for the first two levels, the most playable hand being 5-7 suited. Level 3 I saw some more playable hands but took pots down early. With my tight table image no one seemed to want to get involved.

The strong northern player raised 5BBs from MP on my BB and I want to see a flop with him with Q-2 suited. He does this with Ax a lot and I didn't put him ona big hand here but the player on my right came into the pot with him and I let it go. I wanted HU with the northern guy and didn't want to get seduced by the size of the pot 3 handed if I got a piece of it. Unfortunately the boards was J-2-Q-Q-x and northern chap jammed the flop and turn before giving up the pot on the river. I could have taken down a huge pot there.

On the last hand before the break I picked up my best hand. A-Q suited on the button. UTG and UTG+1 limped in for 150 and the pleyer to my right made in 2000 to go. WTF? "TWO THOUSAND?" I asked him. He only had 2400 left. I just knew he wanted to blow everyone out of the pot, figuring everyone would be happy to survive to the break and let him have it. No way was I folding this. He didn't look too comfortable with my grilling him, but I couldn't raise with so many players still to act behind me and one of the EP limpers had a habit of being cute with big pairs. I called and everyone else folded. The flop was low crap, he checked to me and I put him all in with my Ace high. He folded. What an ass!

I had axactly the same as Shortstack at the break, 10,700 and was actually feeling very comfortable after winning the last pot. I knew no one would get involved in pots with me without the goods now. After the break I stole the blinds 3 times with JQ, A-8o, and A-6 suited all from MP. but I never got my stack above 12,000.

I got nothing but total crap for the rest of the tourney and blinded right down. The ante structure is too steep. Considering this tourney is a 2 day event featuring the who's who of Irish poker it should not decend into 2 card poker. There's planty of time for a lot more play.

I pushed with 99 and took the blinds with just 5BBs left. Then pushed again a few hands later with K-Jo and walk into Aces. Flopped a King but didn't hit any of my 5 outs. Out with about 95 players left.

You have got to make plays for pots early in this tourney and do everything you can to get a stack to go deep. You need 40-50K to be any way comfortable.

I really don't know how I could have been any way more creative with the hands I'd gotten. I still can't believe I haven't seen Aces or Kings in any of the 3 supersats. I got past half way in all 3 but have never had the chips to go deep. Without a card rush its very dificult.

Only boards chap I know that was still in when I left was FatboyDim. He seems to have a real knack for the supersats. He's gone deep in all 3. Anyone know how if he is still in for today?

Hitman Actual

Dub13 wrote:

so would you lot play it again...?

Only if the structure is improved. I dont like paying 275euro for a game that turns into a bit of a lottery after 2 hrs. You can play any 20euro game in Dublin for the same experience (except that that's a crapshoot all the way through!).

In fairness, my only gripe was with the structure. There's hardly any point in complaining about the standard of some of the players, now, is there! That can only be a good thing; the problem is that the game gets too tight to allow the better players to progress. In saying that, a lot of the players left are some of the best in Dublin, but I'd imagine they had to win their fair share of marginal pots as well.

willis

To be honest lads unless someone else starts taking the initiative to organise tourneys like these and provide pokerevents with some competiton, then i cant see them changing the way they run their events. I was hugely impressed with the layout, however the structure was awful. Also the dealer at my table couldnt even shuffle the cards and one player, i think it was ivan donaghy asked the tourny director to replace him, i couldnt believe that he wasnt even once shuffling the cards.

Shocked to hear ken doherty still in there, he was at my table and was down to 600chips with blinds of 75/150 and we were all rubbing our hands t the thought of winning the bounty when he was suddenly moved tables. Fair play to him, amazing comeback imo.

Benglian

QuentinHapsburg wrote:

Joe O'Neill was chip leader when I left, won his big stack when he went all in with a flush draw, called by players with top pair on the flop and pocket bullets, he drew his flush tripled up and took command of his table.QUOTE]

Please don't credit Joe O,Neill with this, I was sat next to him, and on a flop of JT6, the AA moved in for 10k, was Raised by the KJ to 15k all in, and the Joe CALLED with the suited A7 on the flush draw.... rivered it of course. His only logic was the blinds were going up so fast he HAD to at least double up soon....and he had 12K...

And yes the blinds were crazy after the break, I just about held starting chips and was comfotable, then all of a sudden I am in trouble. Especially as the blind structure was posted here, and there was no mention of antes, and they missed a couple of levels....

Boo Hiss!

Dr_Colossus

Great review Mike. Very well writen and spot on about the blind structure, it totally killed the game and destroyed what was expected to be and what could have been a great tournament.
In relation to Dub13's question about playing it again, I would have to say that I probably would. My reasoning being that there are very little opportunites to play a tournament of this buy-in that attacts so many players. But when the choice comes between the Fitz end of month game and this again I know where I'll be going if they don't change that blind structure.
Maybe as poker tournaments becomes more organised and frequent players will have the choice to choose between the different tournaments on offer with their feet thereby forcing the organisers to provide better structure.

Doc Farrell

Shortstack wrote:

Full review is on my blog . Parts of this event were good, but there was an opportunity here to run a 'Poker' tournament. Whatever the facilitys and cosmetics the poker should be the most important.

Excellent report Mike. Did u bring a secretary? 'Make a note of that hand please, Miss Jones'.

Looking forward to your 25 rebuy game. Start it on time and keep the clock on a twenty minute for the full night. Give bonus chips if necessary to get it started on time. If you do that then the Europa/Rossnaree tournament could become the best regular one outside of Dublin. But if there's problems with the clock and blinds....well you experienced the more expensive version last night.

You can buy cheap washable felt in bulk from cloth suppliers. Does Noel Furlong make the stuff or is that carpet backing?

cheers, d.

ionapaul

Great report Mike. I was out within 2 levels after the break, my top two pair beaten by a straight. As I mentioned to a few during the break, the standard of play at my table was about that found in the Thursday freeroll in the Fitz - no joke. For four of the 11 players, Ax is a monster that is worth calling any raise with. If you have a drawing hand, no matter what is being asked of you, call call call until the river. Our dealer didn't have a clue. A player two to my left would look at his cards and promptly deposit them in his lap - the players across the table had no way of seeing them! The dealer didn't say anything for the first two levels, but even though I could see whether he was still in the hand or not, I finally had to insist he kept the feckin' cards on the table for everyone to see! Followed by 20 minutes of smoldering quiet anger from the agrieved gentleman!

At the same time, nice to see such a huge crowd out to play poker, right?

MadsL

I'd like to thank Pokerevents for organising this for one reason only;
The reduced field at the Friday game meant that I did't have to deal last night and after a 'feck it, why not' moment, grabbed 3rd in the tournie..

biteme

Mikes report sums up what i thought of the tourny. I got knocked out about 50th having played crap for the guts of an hour and throwing away too many chips. I truely thought the blind + ante structure was a total joke. When I pulled up Richard Neilson on why it had suddenly jumped from 300/600 with 75 ante to 500/1000 with 100 ante I was told we need to get it finished early and sure don't you have 40 minute blinds. The blinds really turned it into a crap shoot. The introduction of antes pretty much cut the 40 minute blinds in half with the dealers taking there time getting all the antes before each hand.

On the poker side of things I had two strange hands from the night. The first I blinds were 200-400 , I limped with TT after one limper. BB makes it 1000 to go , limper and me call. Flop is 893 , two hearts. BB bets 1000 , other guy folds and I make it 3500 pretty sure I'm ahead and he's missed his flop with such a weak bet. He thinks about it for ages and lays down QQ face up. I couldn't believe it. He was sure he'd done the right thing too.

The second hand occured later when the blinds were 500-1000. I limped with 9Ts after one limper. Chip leader limps in and late position player makes it 4k. Me and chip leader call. Flop is T87. I've and up and downer with top pair. I bet 10k putting the original raiser all in. The chip leader dies and the raiser calls pretty quickly with AKo. no flush draw , just too over cards and of course hits his king on the river

I don't know if I'd play the tourny again unless the blind structure was changed and it was possible to make fintin be quite for more than 5 mins, declaring "we have action" and proceeding to comment on the progress of the hand for everyone around the room. I just found it a little irritating. I only care about these 9 player why should I care about people on other tables..

BigDragon

lenny_leonard wrote:

...... But that just lasted for three levels...

Like me then. :eek:

Again, Mike said it all really.

Doc Farrell

MadsL wrote:

I'd like to thank Pokerevents for organising this for one reason only;
The reduced field at the Friday game meant that I did't have to deal last night and after a 'feck it, why not' moment, grabbed 3rd in the tournie..

oh thats gotta sting for our readers in empty wallet land!
sweet

Daithio

Just got knocked out in 22nd after making it throught the mayhem that was last night. I completely agree with Mike's post, the structure was madness. I don't see the point in having a tournament scheduled over two days with a forty minute clock when you are just going to skip so many blind levels like that.
In the end I went out holding AJ against K3. Costing 14k a round, I went all in with AJ for around 40k, only for the button to call me for half of his chips with K3!!!! "They were suited though." Needless to say a three came on the flop and I was out 3 places from the money.
Despite that most of the complete muppets had actually been whittled off by that stage and it had turned into a decent tournament with a bit of room for play (they chopped the blinds when we returned this morning).
I'll definitely be playing in the next one. You'll hear alot of people (including me) complaining about terrible calls and bad beats but there were also alot of good players there too, and in the long run you want to have a few of those idiots around.

Marq

did they reduce the blinds when you came back today?

If so it only makes the structure more unfair than it was before.

Daithio

Yeah they did. The average stack was 50k and a round was going to cost 20k so they had to do something about it. I know it's a bit unfair on the people who got knocked out last night when the blinds were bigger, but they were gone and I don't think it would have been fair not to reduce the blinds merely on principle.

ZZR1100

any1 got the results .. must be over by now

Fatboydim

My experience was much the same as everyone else’s. I lasted until 2.40 with the blinds at 2000 / 4000. By then I was down to 18000 in chips but had never risen above 26k. I found myself on a pretty good table with three female players who were all very good, including Andy Black’s girlfriend, and Lauren Szidak who finished second in the Fitz the night before and 5th in Cork, Billy one of the Belfast crew who was very tight and solid, and another gent to my right who got some great cards and knew how to play, The loosest player initially was “Crazy Dave” who I’ve played against before and could have almost anything, not afraid to bet or pack the pints in. I think so much in these Supersats depends not only on what cards you get and how you play them, but also who’s at your table and how the table plays as a whole… as such this was a reasonably tight table and nobody was really running away with chips the two chip leader’s being Andy Black’s other half [Sorry I don’t know her name] and the guy two seats to my right who kept getting pocket kings, and as a result built a nice stack and was able to take my blinds uncontested far more than I would have liked. So it seems to me you need enough loose players so that stacks can be built up, but not so many that the table becomes unstable. No wonder lights were crashing down.

One very early hand I was on the button with AJ – a player in mid pos raises to 400 blinds were 25 /50 this was folded around to the guy on my right and he re-raises to 800 – AJ is a great button hand but faced with a mid pos raise and reraise I decided to fold. Flop comes with an ace. First to act bets another 800, and gets called. Turn comes an ace. Both check… Now I’m beginning to wonder if either guy has an ace – I suspected AA, AK, AQ at least, but it doesn’t seem like a check raise to me… it seems like caution. River comes J and inside I’m cursing… I know now I would have won this hand –. First to act pushes all in. After a lot of thought he is called. First to act has Q8 I think it was… But it might have been Q 10 --- I was so stunned I nearly fell off my chair WTF? I don’t even think he had a pair. To be fair to the player he had probably guessed that there wasn’t an ace out and decided to bluff – but what he was doing raising with that crap in the first place is beyond me. The guy two seats to my right had kings and took the pot down.

After that it settled into a pattern of pretty tight play. I found AA once in early position when the blinds were 150 /300 and made the smallest raise… everyone folded. I found QQ when it was obvious that a double through would be needed as blind levels were being missed, and pushed all in but never got called… And that was the story of my night… I never once got to double up. I only made significant gains when I got to call. Such as playing pocket fives against a shortstack’s all in, I put him on any ace and he had A4os he didn’t hit his ace. My luck ran out when Joe from Galway joined our table… I know Joe and how he plays – he plays loose aggressive. Mostly either flat calling or raising all in, hardly ever an in-between. He was two seats to my left and I knew it was going to spell trouble for me. On my BB he pushes all in… we were at 2000 / 4000 It comes around to Mr Two Kings – He is thinking of calling I look at my cards and see AQs I’ve already decided to fold if Two Kings calls. I’m thinking of folding if he doesn’t… Eventually Two kings folds. But I’ve picked up that Joe isn’t that happy with his hand and as I know he could push with almost anything I reason that maybe it’s worth calling after all. I’ve got chips in already and I’ll still have over 6k left if I lose. I want to get to the final table of this tournament so it’s time to throw caution to the wind so I call him. He has AQos. Two spades on the flop and I’m drawing to a flush – but it’s a split pot. A little while later Lauren is all in and there’s three of us in a pot… none of us hit and the 35k pot is taken down by Ace high [The guy had A8 – ] Lauren goes out. The very next hand I’m on small blind and Joe is BB it’s folded around to me and I find pocket 7s I go all in. Without thinking almost Joe calls me. I have 19k he has 17k it’s all his chips. I’m surprised to see K9os… and he hits the king. The very next hand I’m on the button and once again I’ve got 77 all in for my 2100. Joe calls for the 4k blind. This time he has king ten and once again hits – I’m gone.

Overall I would play again – I keep reminding myself that if you play correctly eventually you’ll win out. I played in all three Supersats and only once was I knocked out by a better starting hand when my AQ in Galway ran into KK. My criticisms of the events would be that it rewards the bad / loose players when the rules are changed part way through. Had I known that blind levels would be skipped I would have started a little more aggressively – maybe playing that AJ – I thought this was a marathon and not a sprint, so at the break I thought 12k was fine. After the dinner break the game play changed. In some respects IPT are victims of their own success – the event was very well subscribed – and money is made running side games – costs are high because it is a touring event and dealers venues etc cost - so if we want more of these events they need to make money – and if players aren’t being knocked out quick enough … it’s a catch 22. But I think Fintan, Donal and Richard are good listeners and I’m sure they’ll read this and other comments… So get those suggestions in. Personally I’d rather pay a little more in buy ins and registration fees and have a published adhered to structure that each player gets when he registers – so everyone knows what the blinds are and how they have to play. I think we will get it one day – The EPT events come close and I wouldn’t be surprised if Poker Events deliver a serious tournament one day too.

Shortstack

Pokerevents wrote:

This is a €45k guaranteed satellite event that feeds the 16 player only €100,000 Irish Poker tour final.
It is fully I.P.F (international poker federation) compliant
1. Who is running the event (organisation, society etc.)
Irish Poker Events(see pokerevents.ie)

15. Blind levels
25-50/50-100/75-150/100-200/150-300/200-400/300-600/400-800/500-1000/800-1500/1000-2000/2000-4000/3000-6000/4000-8000etc
16. Blind timeframes
40 mins levels


More info see www.pokerevents.ie

Here we go, I was too tired to notice this today. No mention of antes. There were enough people around with the confidence to use a microphone and announce they were skipping advertised levels and adding in antes from as early as level 4. Bad form Fintan & co yet again.

Another minor irritation I forgot about was the chip colours of the 25's & 1000's, with all the colours of the rainbow available why make them so similar ?

It may sound like I am a whinging MF but these are important issues for a lot of players and need to be addressed. As usual it is the fact that Fintan is not up front about anything whether it be capped prizepools, structure changes or the difference between a double chance & a rebuy event.



Congratulations Madsl for getting 3rd.

SavageBeat

I must say that I enjoyed the event. It was very well run, the dealers I had knew what they were doing. The standard of play was average, sure arn't we all human Even though right towards the end of Friday night, Roy the Boy doubled up nicely on my table when this idiot called Roy's all in even though they knew they were behind?? (Roy consquently went out early saturday when he went all in with pocket 6's with most of the table to act and he walk into a monster, K's. Needless to say he didn't hang around)
I must admit the blinds did put me under pressure a few times during the tourney, I don't think I got great cards at all, but must have had something as I ended up going out in 10th place just missing the final table. Taking home 800 euro. Not bad considering I qualified on vc for $3.
I will play again as I won a ticket to the connaught cup.

Fatboydim

Well done Savage - good for you. 10th place is a great result. Maybe see you in Galway.

SavageBeat

Fatboydim wrote:

Well done Savage - good for you. 10th place is a great result. Maybe see you in Galway.

Thanks. Cool, If you make it there, track me down. I would like to put a face to any of the boards players. BTW Real name: Jim Neary. Later.

NickyOD

Nice one Savage. I'll most likely be playing the Connaught Cup. Anyone got the full results and the breakdown of the payouts?

Hitman Actual

SavageBeat wrote:

Thanks. Cool, If you make it there, track me down. I would like to put a face to any of the boards players. BTW Real name: Jim Neary. Later.

Good result, Savagebeat. I was acting the railbird 'til about 4oc yesterday; which table were you on: Joe O'Neills', or Pat Crowes'?

There were 12 players left when I headed off. Pat Crowe got knocked in 13th when he went all-in with Q5s, and met AQs. Adrian Walshe was knocked out in about 17/18th, and Joe was the only Dublin regular left that I knew, but he was fairly short-stacked with about 100K and blinds at 10K/20K/2K.

Edit: Hard luck Daithio, I heard about the crazy call from yer man!