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From Rob at http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/blog.php?profile=4&id=422

APOLOGIES

I looked at the Club web site and schedule for the coming weeks and it's BLANK! Sincere apologies that we have 'dropped the ball' a little in terms of updating our players on tournaments at the Club over summer - we do have plans to be in operation - honest! Of course, the ISPT has taken up all of our time - but we do need to get back to reality which means grass roots UK poker and getting the Club back on track - we cancelled the last 2 Deepstacks to focus on the ISPT which has lost us some momentum in a very competitive marketplace. Here is a quick update of whats going on, full details will be released next week, but after speaking with Simon earlier today, we felt it was important to get the word out ASAP.

£100 DEEPSTACKS EVERY WEEKEND OVER SUMMER

Last year, over the WSOP and summer holiday period, we did a series of back to back £150 + £18 Deepstack's, each with a £50,000 GTE - these were successful and we are going to repeat this over the coming weeks. However, many of our players have recently 'invested' chuncks of their poker bankrolls in the ISPT satellites and Day 1's, so we have decided to reduce the buy-in to £100 + £15, but still keep the GTE's at £50,000. This back to back series of deepstack tournaments proved very popular last year with players unable to make the trip over to Vegas getting a regular poker fix for a reasobale price.

 
DATES

Monday 17th June Online Day 1a 8.30pm

Tuesday 18th June Online Day 1b 8.30pm

Friday 21st June Live Day 1c 7.00pm

Saturday 22nd June Live Day 1d 5.00pm

Sunday 23rd June Live Day 2 2.00pm

(online satellites will start Sunday 16th June)

 

FORMAT

30,000 starting chips

Live Day 1's will have a 30 min clock

Online Day 1's will have a 12 min clock

Players will play down to 10% of the field for each Day 1

(The 10% of players making Day 2 will be rounded down, for example, with 104 players, 10 will make Day 2 and 4 players will receive their £100 + £15 buy-in back - same as the ISPT Day 1's)

Day 2 will have a 40 minute clock with blinds starting at 3000-6000, approximately 50BB average

All players will who make Day 2 will be in the money, the min cash will be £300

RE-ENTRY

Players can re-enter into any future Day 1's

There is no forfeit rule for playing multiple Day 1's, players can qualify through multiple Day 1's and their chip stacks will be merged together into their starting stack for Day 2

(example: player enters Monday's Online Day 1a and finishes in top 10% of field with 100,000 chips, he plays Saturday Day 1d and makes it through with 225,000 chips, his starting stack on Day 2 will be 325,000)

 

BACKGROUND INFO

Following requests from our club players, we have decided to experiment with running the Online Day 1's on Monday and Tuesday when the club is shut so that everyone has the same opportunuites to play, as you would expect, these are naturally our two busiest online days.

Allowing players to 'merge their stacks' from Day 1's may reduce 'shoving with any 2' when a player prefers to re-enter rather than take the stack through. The odds of making it through two Day 1's when only 10% of the field make Day 2 are small, therefore this has presented us with the opportunity to trial this variation of the re-entry rule.

Last Summer we ran 5 of these Deepstack's back to back, if they proves popular we could potentially run £100 Deepstacks up until the August Monthly Deepstack, when we hope to be back with a bang after the inevitable Summer downturn caused by holidays and the WSOP.

I hope to make an annoucement soon about the UK Poker Championships, which will hopefully be the biggest event that DTD has ever held at the Club and something we have intended to do since we opened.

If you have time, please could you spread the word about these £100 Deepstacks, Nicola is off till the 18th of June and we have a few other staff missing over the next couple of weeks, so any help is appreciated.

Cheers Rob