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Hi All

This is such a big announcement i thought it deserved its own thread.

To celebrate our first year we have decided to guarantee our £1000 Anniversary Cup at £100,000.

We expect demand to be high and you are now able to buy in at the club and online via DTD . In addition you can mail me and i will reserve you a seat strumper@dtdpoker.com

Using the WSOP Main event structure of 20,000 chips and 2 hour clock will make this a true test of skill.

All the best

ACES

sweepstake on how many 1k staking threads this spawns ;)
should easily surpass the guarentee,

I will be playing unless I am

A: Skint

B: Locked up

C: Pregnant.

That's sounds like quite an evening.

PMSl



Doubles on how long the mods take to move it to the right forum, my guess a while!!


So sick i can't make this comp it clashes with the gala 1500!

It's of wide interest, I am sure the thread can stay here on the board that gets the most eyeballs no problems.

We now have a link where you can register.

Already we have 87 players.

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/anncup_reg.php

Cheers

ACES

HOW MANY?

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Are they people who have bought in or who have just expressed an interest?

expressed interest..my names on there and ive not bought in....yet!!!

Are blonde doing updates on this comp?

is disappointing this clashes with the gala final

+1

What odds are you giving on C.

hope so yes.

That's the plan.

This isnt poker this is nut peddling. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i think it would be better off having a 1K comp with the GUKPT structure then run sats all next year for a £3-5k freezout with this strucure. Its too slow for a £1k event imo.

That's an elitist attitude.

If it's a good structure for a £3-5k event, then it's good for a £1k event. The only difference is how much the money means to you.

£1k is a lot to some peeps.

its a lot to me to. I just think that when this event is over what are DTD gonna do next. This is a great idea, but has come too early imo. What are they gonna have as a structure for the £2k+ fo's?  I personaly think the structure is too long for a 100 runner comp. Although ill prolly be donating

its a lot to me to. I just think that when this event is over what are DTD gonna do next


That just assumes that a cheaper event should have a worse structure for no other reason than it's a cheaper event.

yeah but there is less juice on a smaller event. So the players pay less to play.

So your argument is that players should receive as little as possible in return for their juice?

I think it's nice of them to give the 'average Joe' a chance to play a great structure like that for a good deal less.  If we weren't rolling up to the Christmas, I'd be doing all I could to get there.

I think it's nice of them to give the 'average Joe' a chance to play a great structure like that for a good deal less.

Absolutely.

If i ever stump up a grand out of my own pocket to play a comp, this is the one I would play.  If I am paying a grand for my entry fee, i want to be sure i am going to have a chance to play some poker without being pressured by the structure.

I just think its unnessary to have an event run over two days live for say £100, people have to go to work, stay in hotels etc... deep structures are widely available online. My main point tho tom is that you can only go so far with a structure before it stops becoming poker and becomes a cooler contest where people wait to see if they come out on the toasty side of an AA v KK coup

depends what u mean by 'chance to play poker'  is it a chance to splash about in pots and outplay oppos during the early levels, or be sure to find AA

if its the former than the £300 monthly gives plenty of chance for that

No. Because if that was the case you could steal every pot where someone doesn't have the nuts.

we will have to agree to disagree.

i think its very nice of them to make it 100k guaranteed once they know its gonna reach its  guaantee

I agree.

 people who put thier names down wont all make it, id expect 10-15% of the list to actually pay up and play.

take a look at the list i bet  you 30 percent or more play it

LOL.

Is it Me?

you can have 35% or more for £100?

big jump 10-15 to 35 m8

over 10 of em are qualifiers

35% of the final list ldo

ill have a bet nearer time when i see the final list

First you said


i think its very nice of them to make it 100k guaranteed once they know its gonna reach its  guaantee

Then you said

take a look at the list i bet  you 30 percent or more play it

Don't those two statements contradict each other?

   sorry i am guilty of not reading the whole thread and taking this as 87 paid in

the second statement was after i realised it was a interested persons list and was in reply to triggs 10-15 percent of ;ist will play post.

Hi , when we announced the event was to be £100,000 guaranteed just two days ago we only had 10 players bought in , since then we have been inundated with players wishing to register their interest and we are now up to 93 , by tomorrow we should be over 100 . Naturally some of these players may not play and if there is an overlay we will be delighted for all our supporters , however wouldn't it be great if we end up with 150+ players who were attracted by the guarantee , the structure and the venue and as a result an even bigger prizepool is generated.

Cheers

ACES

Snoops and I will be covering this.

Is the clash with the Gala 1500 event deliberate?

I really wish they'd started this at 2pm on the Friday. That would be so much better for people with day jobs.

Turn up at 545 after work and buy in but only lose 450 chips.

Play Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

If you get to the last day it's worth having a day off work because you're looking good for a nice cash.

Keep up the debate Tom and Trigg. It rocks.

Its obviously very unfortunate  it clashes with the Gala/Bristol final.........and for many of us online sats are the only realistic justification in playing either.....so to just have one weekly online final is a bit disappointing tbh, compared to Galas 3 a week (and similar fot the GUKPT).

Any chance of another sat during the week, in the final run up?

If they thought they'd get the runners for the sats I'm sure they'd have them on every night.

Truth is they clash with tournaments so people don't have a chance to play both.

Thursdays sat just about makes 20 runners so only just makes enough for the seat. It guaranteed so it's not a major problem but they need to be careful to not have too many overlays.

The proper sats where you're playing for 1 of 10 seats will hopefully start just before the event.

Michael Phelps is on the list. How about Rebecca Adlington? JP might turn up then.

At the moment the "online final"  is only on a Tuesday night.....but I'm sure if they guaranteed a seat on a Sunday night for example......it would get at least the 10 runners needed. (they are running £15 feeder sats every night...which is great)

Is the clash with the Gala 1500 event deliberate?
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Hi James

We opened on 28th November and ideally would have liked to hold our anniversary event that weekend but it clashes with the £3000 GUKPT final which will get a big field . So we moved it to the following weekend to keep it as close as possible , we knew it would clash with Gala but they only got 99 players last year so we hoped to get 100+ for ours especailly as we are offering the WSOP structure . We did not know that the GUKPT Champion of Champions was also taking place which will take up to 90 players out .

If our court case hadn't been delayed 5 months our anniversary wouldn't clash with either of these events !

Next year all our events are being planned to avoid GUKPT , EPT and Amsterdam and if neccesary we will move the anniversary event to avoid any clashes with the GBPT Final but this year we thought it would be nice to have the event and a party as close to our actual anniversary as possible.

Instead of questioning, how about applauding Robs balls in guaranteeing £100,000 with just 4 weeks to go and only 10 players registered which could have spectacualrly backfired with Lutons xmas cracker and the GBPT.

Cheers

ACES

I do applaud his balls for doing so, i would applaud his common sense even more if he had delayed it a week so a lot more of us could actually play it! I am tied in to play Gala even though i would much rather play DTD.

Gala got 99 last year but it was a much smaller tour and they had a silly buyin for their final, this year will be a much bigger field.