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Tal
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Quote from: dik9 on October 20, 2013, 01:05:45 AM
Quote from: Tal on October 20, 2013, 01:04:10 AM
Quote from: dik9 on October 20, 2013, 01:03:00 AM
I ran a £5 rebuy with 500 chips at Gala Brum, back in the day. Cardroom held 50 and used to plough through 45 rebuys a hand
Had a £2k GTE used to make £3k.
I remember it well. Self deal, right?
Absolutely unless we had a spare hanging around
I was new to holdem then. 500 chips at 25/50 was a raise-fold stack
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Consider it low stack training for future deepstacks
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Quote from: dik9 on October 20, 2013, 01:09:58 AM
Consider it low stack training for future deepstacks
Absolutely. Nothing's changed.
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I ran my first no limit freezeout there. It was a deepstacked 5000 chips on a 30 min clock. £30 entry no juice. The field was halved in the first 2 hands, players didn't get it at all to start with. And I upgraded from an egg timer to a laptop with actual tournament software lol, I was like a pig in shit.
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October 20, 2013, 10:24:06 AM »
Having 500 chips last hand before add on and raise/folding to 250 so can rebuy. Have 750 and take add on. This was in the £10 rebuys at galas.
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The Grovsnor in Cardiff use to run the 500 chip £5 rebuys as well, think it was around 2004 time. You would play I think 40 mins with the blinds 25/50 and then they went up to 50/100. Look back now it's quite funny how bad I played in those things. At the break the blinds would increase to 100/200 and you could add on for another 500 chips. I didn't like taking more than 4 rebuys back then.
Playing one now would be quite fun though, I wonder how many rebuys I would now burn through in a night.
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October 21, 2013, 12:47:09 PM »
Blinds: They were on the button, like a DC game.
Chip Counts: Tournaments would finish at 4.30 a.m., when if there were 2 or more players left a chip count would ensue. Fair enough, except the prize pool was distributed according to these rules:
The player with the most chips took first prize, second chip leader second prize and so on. If top prize was £2,500 & second £1,750 and player A had 350,100 chips and player B 350,000, then A gets top prize, B gets £1,750.
Farcical scenes would ensue, where players would want an exact chip count of their opponents stack every hand and would dwell for 2 minutes, knowing that in the time left they'd locked up first.
I explained this scenario in DTD a few weeks ago and people looked at me as though I was making it up, which I could understand coming from 20 somethings, but Julian gave me the same look and he was playing in those games.
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I remember first playing in Leeds Naps 7 years ago, was a tony space at the back of the casino, big enough for a bout 4 tables comfortably, there would be 8 full tables for the £20rebuy every tues and thurs without fail, 75% of the people smoking relentlessly, you got 1000 chips at 100/100 for 2hours of rebuys, action was POT LIMIT and after a while the chips stopped and you got these ballin' plaques instead!! If you made it to the final two tables you'd have a big pile of plaques was SICK
used to be £2.5-3k up top every time as well, amazing
Also when I first started playing cash games in Leeds the game was £2/£2 and £5/£5 Pot Limit Holdem but there wasn't a bb and a sb everyone just ante'd £2 or £5 and the action started from the left of the button, so you could open to £50 at £5/£5 lol not that anyone was EVER that wreckless oviously...
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Re: Remembering The Good Old Days
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Quote from: Karabiner on October 18, 2013, 08:15:59 PM
Quote from: AndrewT on October 18, 2013, 08:06:23 PM
Quote from: redsimon on October 18, 2013, 07:25:01 PM
Moving the short stack
I'm on my phone so searching is a pain but someone post a link to the 'move the shortstack' thread.
That was AdamM's finest hour.
Another cracking rule was that if you missed three consecutive hands you paid double the BB on each subsequent hand with it being doubled again for every further hand that you were absent.
Bearing in mind that all of the games were pot-limit and one table might have an extra ten BB's in the middle that might or might not be included in a "pot" raise according to the TD, it is not surprising that some arguments ensued...
Happy to have contributed
when I was the OP, i was sure there's be a link to that thread by the end of pg1.
sure enough, there it is
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Re: Remembering The Good Old Days
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I in a way quite liked self deal comps. It makes the game feel less formal.
I miss comps not starting you with stupidly high chip stacks.
I miss being new to the game and finding it fun whilst at the same time not really knowing what I was doing but learning.
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I can remember a £30 1000 chip re-buy tournament I held here in Norwich 2003/4, with over 100 runners, players came from all over the UK to play, there were numerous 10 All-Ins on a 10 handed table, there was £11k of re-buys in 2 hours, were have those days gone?
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Quote from: Ibuycars on October 25, 2013, 01:18:26 AM
I can remember a £30 1000 chip re-buy tournament I held here in Norwich 2003/4, with over 100 runners, players came from all over the UK to play, there were numerous 10 All-Ins on a 10 handed table, there was £11k of re-buys in 2 hours, were have those days gone?
Poker in most casinos now, sometimes 2 or 3 in small towns which dilutes player pool. OFC when you travel far for events like this then you need to keep on punting or face a boring drive home.
Every comp is a 30k chips for 20 quid etc
More people grinding online?
These rebuys sound fun. DTD set one up?!
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Re: Remembering The Good Old Days
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Quote from: Ibuycars on October 25, 2013, 01:18:26 AM
I can remember a £30 1000 chip re-buy tournament I held here in Norwich 2003/4, with over 100 runners, players came from all over the UK to play, there were numerous 10 All-Ins on a 10 handed table, there was £11k of re-buys in 2 hours, were have those days gone?
Haha, I remember knocking a few rebuys in at that one!
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Re: Remembering The Good Old Days
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October 25, 2013, 03:24:14 AM »
Your dad had a few as well Marky
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Re: Remembering The Good Old Days
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October 25, 2013, 03:27:44 AM »
Quote from: Marky147 on October 25, 2013, 02:51:33 AM
Quote from: Ibuycars on October 25, 2013, 01:18:26 AM
I can remember a £30 1000 chip re-buy tournament I held here in Norwich 2003/4, with over 100 runners, players came from all over the UK to play, there were numerous 10 All-Ins on a 10 handed table, there was £11k of re-buys in 2 hours, were have those days gone?
Haha, I remember knocking a few rebuys in at that one!
Great weekend
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