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The blue Square sponsored Grosvenor Grand Prix qualifiers start in earnest this week. For those not familiar with this Annual comp, you can ONLY qualify by entering a £100 rebuy qualifier. The top 15% of ALL entrants go through. So if there are, say, 20 runners, then 3 seats are awarded. 60 runners, 9 seats, etc. That's ALL you need to do to qualify - finish in the top 15%. All the £100 rebuys go into the Main Prize Pool, for the Grand Final, which takes place at Walsall 15th & 16th October.

The Prize pool is GUARANTEED at not less than £250,000, & you can reckon on around £100,000 to the winner. I have enteted - & qualified for this - for the last 3 years, & I have estimated that the comp has an equivelant "hypothetical" entry value of somewhere in the region of £1,300 to £1,400, so it has to be great value.

This weeks qualifiers are at......

Today (Saturday) - The Vic

Tuesday - Huddersfield

Wednesday - Walsall & Liverpool

Thursday - Cardiff & Brighton

Friday - Online only, at Blue Square.com

We are trying to find out who has qualified so far - they started qualifiers last Sunday at The Vic, & Thursday at Ramsgate, & yesterday there was a Blue Square online qualifier, the third to date I believe.

What we want to do is keep a running list of qualifiers on blonde, so if you have already qualified, please let us know, & we will construct a running list. WE need LOTS of blondeites in this one, & then we can all hook up at Walsall in October.

The easiest Casino in whjich to qualify? I usually find Salford a doddle, though it's a rotten drive for me, across the peaks in the dead of night, & up the horrendous & never ending A6.

Those who attempt to qualify early tend to find smaller fields. The later you leave it, the bigger the fields, but that just means more seats. The last few nights of qualifiers have HUGE fields, as eveyone scrambles for a seat.

Don't forget - let us know if you have qualified, & where. And where & when you will be playing, so the blondeites can hook up.

I'm playing Walsall on Wed and Blue sq on Fri

So you already know you will not qualify on Wednesday then Red? That's realistic, if nothing else......

On that basis, I suppose Ariton will play all 45 qualifiers.

I would point out that I have always qualified for this in the past at my firstat tempt, but I might bok myself

BTW, bok is the Romany word for luck

"BOK" = Luck in Romany? There you go, we learn a little every day - you could not have told us that 3 days ago! Is there a whole Romany language?

What's Romany for "firstat tempt"......?

Yes, there is a whole language, but sadly, its dying, I speak less than my parents, my children speak less than me

The form most of us use now is called 'Poggardi Jib' (Broken Speech) because some of the old words are missing

Good Lord it's bright in here.

Not bright enough for me to understand that comment, Mrs red had to explain it to me

"Poggardi Jib". Really? What a lovely name! Is that where the word "jibberish" originates?

Oh, & can you explain the "bright in here" riposte? Me = thicko.

I keep waiting for Red-dog to say "Playing poker is like making love to a beautiful woman"

 ;D

Ok, going blonde really must have made me dumb, wtf are you on about now?

Someone please post a pic of Swiss Toni - or Swiss Tom as we will now rename him......

Swiss Toni!!


(http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38793000/jpg/_38793297_swisstoni_bbc150.jpg)

Wish I'd never asked

Hells bells - that IS Red-Dog!

Talking to Red is like making love to a beautiful woman.........(OK wise guys, finish the sentence)

Either way...your F**ked

Ooh-er........

By the way, I forget to mention something at the start of this thread.......

The thread is largely about Grosvenor & Blue Square, as it relates to the Grand Prix.

blonde have a commercial partnership deal with Blue Square which, amongst other things, helps, along with Rank Group, to facilitate blonde doing Live Updates at Grosvenor Festivals, especially those sponsored by Blue Square.com.

Essentially, they help give us facilities at the Venues, & we reciprocate by giving them a mention wherever appropriate. They also buy content from blonde, exclusively written for their website, for which they pay a fee.

It is very important for our credibility & integrity that you are aware of these things, & that you know where we are coming from.

No secrets here!

Hope some of you are going to Huddersfield to try to qualify. I'm having a day trip there on Tuesday. Come and introduce yourself to Yogi, before you come to Blackpool. I'll be a happier bear away from my cave.


Yogi

no way i want to goto huddersfield if lesley has the 2nd biggest set of norks there they must all be small ladies

Said b4 .... lucky for me i can not try to qualify due to me already qualified in a package tourny...but if i am outof the blondite tourny i will pop down to c u  :-*

going back to the original purpose of the thread, i can confirm that the following blondeites have qualified:

1. Junior (thats me)
2. Foxy

We both did it on bluesq.com. The more blondes the better.  Lets see if we can get 20!

just remember its pot limit on bsquare

Dont no why,

Is it pot limit on the live events?

got busted last night by not being able to knock a guy of his hand  with ak against aj and 99

99 stood up.

ive got a schedule from walsall and on there it says pot limit i thought it might be a mistake but obvoiusly not

Thats why I love this event more than almost any other, it's so rare to be able to play in a big PL comp.

Anyone going to Walsall on Wednesday, dont forget you can vote for your commitee member whilst you are there.
Havent got a clue who the nominees are though   ;) ;)

Show us your manifesto

greek John
greek steve
greek andy
greek dave

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Elios
Tony
Theo
spiros

Dont forget Craigios

Afraid not.

It's the Broadway £100er.

Will attend the next 1.

Re: Blue Square online sats. Are the prizes just the entry into the GP at Walsall or is any hotel or travel exes included? Might play one of the Friday 'uns as unlikely to be able to play a live one.

Plus is Grosvenor/ Blue square updating a list of qualifiers and prize pool?

I have asked Blue Square to keep us updated with a list of who qualifies, & we will post it here, progressively, if they do. Will find out about the "package" Simon.

no expenses, just the buyin

Every participating Grosvenor should have a list up of how many qualifiers to date, and prize fund which is 250,000 at the moment. They should have how much each qualifier has made so far on display too.

I will post up on here tonite the current totals when i get in.

Yogi

Thanks Yogi, that's EXACTLY what we need. If you can persuade other Grosvenor CardRoom managers to do the same, we can keep the list of qualifiers updated on here, & see how the blondeites are doing too.

Top man you.

Thats me


Now unfortunately Blue Square havent gotten around to giving us the figures for their second and third Qualifiers.

So officially we have 15 people qualified for a total prize fund of £250,000, that has been guaranteed by Blue Square. As and when I update the figures I will endevour to do so on here, or let my trusty rusty assistant do so. HEHEHEHEHE

Yogi

i met your assistant boo boo in blackpool i think they call him danny

New to the site, but qualified at the Vic last Saturday. Suprised at only 14 entries, it was played by most as a freezeout.

What?? they arer actually running qualifiers at The Vic to become a Blonde member..

i am not surprised at only 14 entrants to become a blondite though they are boring in the vic

And most still think CD players are brand new technology

I miss Den and Angie  ;D

Unfortunately, we are unable to disclose the names of players who have qualified unless they have signed a publicity form.  So, we will have to rely on Blondeites owning up to having qualified.  However, the screenames of players who have qualified online are not subject to this, so, from the three Blue Square qualifiers to date, the 9 qualifiers screenames are (real names listed if already in public domain):

1st Qualifier

thepianoman - ?
foxystu - Stuart Fox
alexkong - ?

2nd Qualifier

CHIMPER - ?
Riverrroe88 - ?
fish4nits - Greg Hill

3rd Qualifier

Jailbird1 - ?
Dmobbs - ?
TheDoors - ?

Obviously I know all their real names but I'm not at liberty to say, but if anyone else can fill in any of the blanks, be my guest...

P.S. Spotted that I'd typoed Greg's screename and laughed so much I thought I'd leave it as it is rather than correct it to fish4nuts...

is fish4nuts pokergirlie?

i no some of them!

I came 6th in it the other night... no nick gibson was still in but looks as tho he did'nt qualify!!!

John i'm getting some of my money back today on Bluesq

Prob what i put on in last few days lol!

Ian

fish4nuts is me!

come on blodeites, get yourselves in - its a great comp!!

Greg, did u get my PM earlier?

yes, thanks Jon.  Mashing up a turbo wcoop on stars at moment.  will respond soon.

Good luck!

AlexKong is err...Alex Kong (plays as KingKong1 on PokerStars, been on LNP too)...

Yes, bit obvious that one really. Hehe.