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Slight change in that there will be NO freeroll this month, instead the freeroll seat will be added to the super sat, meaning that if the super sat runs, the top 2 will get a fully expensed seat to the EQUAL CHANCE MAIN EVENT which will take place on the 15th/16th May.

BUMP

Bumpage indeed .... first one tonight ... REMEMBER the Super sta will play for 2 seats !!


Dont miss out on a chance to get in cheap !!

These feeders need 8 to run, 8 runners will generate 2 seats to the super sat.

registerised

5 more needed pls, tyvm in advance

one more please, with fifteen minutes to go

we have a feeder, 2 seats gtd....ty

How many runners does the super sat need to run?

Sorry Gatso .......

sigh, 1st hand

GAME #-2055262511: Texas Hold'em NL Tournament 2009-05-07 20:30:33
Table EQUAL CHANCE FEEDER, 293978371, -1730324575 (Tournament: EQUAL CHANCE FEEDER Buy-In: $15+$1.50)
Seat 1: bpgatso ($2,000.00 in chips) DEALER
Seat 2: cdw2222 ($2,000.00 in chips)
Seat 3: TheWhisper1 ($2,000.00 in chips)
Seat 4: SfflkPunch ($2,000.00 in chips)
Seat 5: 5harky ($2,000.00 in chips)
Seat 6: newmanseye1 ($2,000.00 in chips)
cdw2222: Post SB $10.00
TheWhisper1: Post BB $20.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bpgatso [SJ SA]
SfflkPunch: Fold
5harky: Fold
newmanseye1: Raise (NF) $60.00
bpgatso: Call $60.00
cdw2222: Fold
TheWhisper1: Fold
*** FLOP *** [C10 H4 CJ]
newmanseye1: Bet $60.00
bpgatso: Raise (NF) $140.00
newmanseye1: Call $80.00
*** TURN *** [D3]
newmanseye1: Check
bpgatso: Bet $220.00
newmanseye1: Raise (NF) $540.00
bpgatso: Call $320.00
*** RIVER *** [DA]
newmanseye1: Bet $1,260.00
bpgatso: Allin $1,260.00
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4,030.00 Rake $0.00
newmanseye1: Shows [CQ CK]
newmanseye1: wins $4,030.00
iPoker Tournament Result: bpgatso came in N/A winning N/A

Congraulations to Sharky and TightEnd for the wins gaining places in the Supersat

Wp to cdw1111 who was unlucky in a see-saw battle, but scooped the $46 for third


Second feeder Monday night

LOL rigged.

pm me blonde bash venue and date as consolation.

thanks go to Kev for temporary use of lever tonight  ;scarymoment;

LOL @ congratulating yourself,wpwp

Feeder tonight at 8.30pm

Remember, these need 8 to run, and from those 8 2 will progress to the super sat ... where 2 seats will be on offer !!!


Get registered !!

3 in, 5 more required ....  45 mins left to register.

Still 30 mins ... I am expecting praying for a last minute rush

am in

Cheers Billy, thats 5 ... need 3 more in 5 mins

2 more needed...

Try again tomorrow for the last feeder ...


8.30pm , I am registering now.

TONIGHT is the last chance to get in to the super sat for $15 ....8.30pm start, 8 needed to run, which would make 2 seats to the super sat on WEDNESDAY.


It runs at the same time as the blonde league game ... 2 tabling is easy :)

this didn't run?


why not everyone, feedback pls

The Super Sat field was looking too tough imo

unfortunately i missed this tonight

Maybe you could start them earlier. eg 7 pm. I for one prefer to play live, playing in a sat at 8.30 doesnt give me time to do so if I bust out early
just a thought.
 Its a shame these sats are not supported as the Equal Chance comp is a very good one

The super sat is tomorrow at 8.30pm ... lets see if we can get a game.

My reason is simple. I can't afford to play it.

A few thoughts though:

1. The sats do not come with much expenses. I understand this is to entice more people but I would estimate 85% of Blonde either can't or won't pay the expenses needed to play in London.

2. The tournament itself is poorly structured, imo. It starts on a Friday night at 8pm - most of us have full time jobs and won't be able to get the Friday afternoon off at such short notice. IF we then make it to day 2, we have to play til 3-4am on the Saturday morning then get home (ridiculous taxi costs as extra expense), then back to EC by 2pm, so not enough chance to sleep properly. Yes, it might be 10000x3 chips, but structure wise DTD beats it hands down. If you choose to play one tournament of this size per month, DTD wins by a country mile.

No offence to Blonde, who have done a sterling job for months to get these off the floor, and we've had some good results over the time. However, if a Blonde member had to choose between this tourney and the DTD one - DTD wins hands down by a country mile.

Now, maybe...DTD sats? ;)

this for me.

I have played some of the 15$ ones and subsequent freerolls as a bit of fun but always intending to give the seat away should I fluke one.

TONIGHT 8.30pm is the super sat.

If we do not get enough runners for a game, then I will pick one name from all those that register for tonights super sat.

That person will get a free entry to the EC monthly comp with full buy ins and juice.

No other reason than that its too far away from me really, especially if say I qualified this week to make arrangments in 2-3 days...

 8) 8). very nice

but am in the sat and ready to play.

For me the reason is that i still get the message 'cannot connect to poker server', so for this reason i cant play either these or the blonde league games.

Some good points were made about expenses, however it is a catch 22 situation.  If there were plenty of runners each month then maybe $5 or $10 could be added on to each entry and given as expenses to the winner.  However, if Kev ends up giving the seat away like he might have to tonight due to lack of runners then Blonde presumably would have to foot the bill for the expenses.

+1

 >:(

I can't make EC this weekend, but will play the sat tonight if I don't go out, presuming I can take cash instead of seat?

I have pulled out any remaining strands of hair I had left over these sats, whatever we do, we cannot seem to get them to run every month ... I thought doing away with the freeroll and adding the freeroll seat to the super sat would have been a good draw ... seems I was wrong.

Equal chance give us 1 free seat a month (Value £380) in exchange for us hosting their section on blonde, they also allow us exclusive rights to online sats for their monthly event.

The first prize in the super sat is $540, once the entry fee is paid it leaves little or anything for expenses.

The feeders are priced so that with 8 runners, 2 players will make the super sat, 3 feeders mean at least 6 people should sat in, leaving 4 spots for people buying straight into the super sat.  Obviously I hoped that the feeders would get more than 8 runners meaning the super sat would run without the need for anyone to buy in directly.

But we struggle to get 1 feeder out of 3 to run, and the main super sat very rarely runs when around 8 players are required. I dont know the solution, I really dont ... we make it clear that if you win and cannot play the event, you can get someone else to play it on your behalf ... either on a % deal or whatever, thats up to individuals to sort out.


I accept that distance/expenses is a big deterrent for those that live miles away from Walthamstow, but as has been said previously, If i upped the buy in to cover some expenses, would that get more people playing, or would it price them out of the feeders.

I will be speaking to the guys at EC later in the week to try and get them to push the online sats harder in the club ... surely that has to be the place where we need to get runners from, as they will be playing the event anyway, so it must make sense for them to play a sat or 2 for it.


I hope tonights sat takes place and we get 2 people at EC from blonde ... but going forward, I am really at a loss on how to make this work.

No cash alternative is available, see my post above for other options ;)

ah OK.  tbh I can't afford to play it on that basis, but will deffo play in months I can make the final.  Hope it runs tonight.  FWIW I agree that pushing it in the club is probably the way forward. Not sure on the etiquette, but might also be worth spamming it on London based poker forums (if there are any).

I don't understand your thinking here kev. how did you think that removing added value from the feeders would make them more attractive to people?

The main complaint from previous inquests was that it was a winner take all sat and that was putting people off.  so someone suggested adding the freeroll seat to the supersat, meaning that 2 seats were on offer.

4 in for tonight anyway, here's hoping

I genuinely think Kev is a bit damned if he does damned if he doesn't here, with regard to what to do with the free seat, whether to add expenses or not

The answer is of course for the club to promote it more

I must've missed that then

fwiw I prefer the way you've done it this month, much better, I just don't think you should be surprised that it's resulted in less people in the feeders

do EC not have a mailing list of their members that you can hit with some good old fashioned kevspam?

For some odd reason I couldnt login last night otherwise I would have played.

I dont normally play the supersat unless I qualify as its a bit out of my price range but with the added value I will give it a bash.

5 in 5 more needed.

here is the real problem for me. I like to travel and play tournaments in different places. I enjoy trying to qualify for the deepstack at DTD, and other events. I would like to have a go at this tournament as well, but

Problem 1 - The tourney is in London, which is a fair distance away. This isnt too much of a problem if you have enough time to organise.

Problem 2 - The actual tourney will start 36 hours after the end of the Sat. This is not enough time to organise

Problem 3 - it starts on a friday. If it was a saturday it would be more popular.

running these earlier and allowing a week from the super sat to the event is an easy fix.

I will make sure i do that for next month

I cant do much about problem 1 & 3

that would be a big help. I would be interested to know why they play it on a friday though, not  saturday.

7 in so far, 3 more needed.

Still 7

 3c  3d  3h  3s more..... :'(

I'm in now I've seen how soft the field is

12 mins to get 2 more players.

 Go on then i will play to make up the numbers

Nice one Rhodesy,


1 more needed.

where flushy??

booooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!

Lets play some poker!!!!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


we have a game !!


No spite unregisters please LOLOLOL

lets try for 15 gogogogogogogogooggo

5 more please

SO is it the top 2?? when is the next game??

LOL good luck guys

ermmmmmmmmm I got lucky first hand  ;ashamed; ;ashamed;

lol 2 outs!!!

Thanks to blonde for the added seat and well played DarkShark44

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Good luck at EC Mark, and DarkShark.


Win the lot please :)

The time issue is a thing for me,since you know you will have a seat for next month why even wait till the week before to run them why not run a sat next week and the week after for next months thus giving people a few weeks to sort travel out,i only haven't played as i've been out but am interested in playing sats for this just 3 days is no good for me gl to both who qualified on nice one getting it to run

Was there a deal made with final 3 for a % for cdw? Just curious as I watched it till there was 3 left and there didnt seem to be any mention.

Yes, cdw has 10% of me.

OMG, Ray must be off the booze!!!

Good post sir and linked to Laz's, highlights major probs for most blonde members, smaller and more sats spread over the month do seem like the best idea.

I have played a few of these, always knowing there was little chance of making it to London and happy to have a stake in someone (thanks Celtic)

The month I did make it to London, I ended up in one of the best run cardrooms playing a great comp in a great atmosphere.

Agree that we should be encouraging the club to try to encourage some of the locals to participate.

Geo

It really is a great place to play at,not so sure about the booze bit tho :),tbh with enough notice london is easy and cheap to get to and i'd defintly like to play there again

I am returning for day 2 with 57k in chips. Average is about 72k with approx 24 runners left. 9 paid.

GL mate!

;goodluck;