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This weekend it is the latest £150 Deepstack, guaranteed at £50,000

starting Fri 17th August at 5pm with late reg till 8.15pm, same again for day 1b Saturday with day 2 starting at 2pm Sunday.

There will be no re-entry so Freezeout from the start requiring 333 players.

Each night there will be a £25 at 8pm and also a Super 50 guaranteed at £5000 at 5pm on Sunday.


There are two online mega satellites for the £150 on Tuesday and Thursday,

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/150-deepstack

20 seats GTD each satellite,  €10 Rebuy, 8.30pm

All sat winners will get a CPP Golden Chip and if a satellite winner binks the event, they get the £6,000 CPP package.


Let us know if you are playing, let us know if you qualify

40 seats up for grabs, we should get quite a few....

Hi Guys

Yay I've already given away 1 x £150 Deepstack seat via the CHIPLEADER! Congratulations to setalot who's now CHIPLEADER with a Golden Chip (from 20 handed) and has won a £500 Deepstack & £150 Deepstack seat!!! Nice work :)
 
Let's see how many £150 Deepstack seats I can give away, just win a 5, 10 AND 20 handed CHIPLEADER in 1 day to qualify :D
 
http://​www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/news/​chipleader-promo:-for-1-week-on​ly/2261

Cheers Nicola

Very well done Hugh!!!   ;applause; ;hattip;

Best of luck in the events   :)

Hi Guys

THESE ARE NOW IN THE LOBBY!!!

We have 20 x £150 Deepstack seats GTD Tonight at 8.30pm

Only €10 Rebuy & Triple Add-On

Find them in Multi Tourny (In maroon)

Cheers Nicola

Hi Guys

Starting in 10 minutes online....20 x £150 Deepstack seats GTD for €10 rebuy! Only 40 registered...currently 1 in 2 win a seat ;)

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/news/super-mega-sats:-40-seats--cpp-golden-chips-gtd/2260

Cheers Guys

Yup!! Got my seat! Happy Days :)

+2. Me and Specman both got one tonight. Really wanna go to St Kitts too so the golden chip is sooo sooooo valuable.
Playing Friday because I am looking after the boys on my Todd Saturday and promised to take em to the seaside again. They were so well behaved last time.

(http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/r631/smashedagain/60996A92-D62A-486B-8D09-9928B8323C2B-121-0000005BAD06A8D6.jpg)

Won my seat in the satellite also. Not sure which flight I'm taking as yet.

BA2157 ?

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus/flightStatusByFlight.do?&id=271834656

Lol arrived at V.C Bird int airport.

Hi Guys

The same again on Thursday night! 20 x £150 Deepstack seats GTD at 8.30pm for a €10 rebuy and triple add on!

We have also had 3 more CHIPLEADER Promo winners taking the total to 4 FREE seats I've given away in just 2 days...still Wed - Friday to win.

Just win a 5, 10 AND 20 handed Sit & Go...it's been proved it can be done!!

Also means that more Sit & Go's are running for everyone who's playing Chipleader too :)

Cheers Nicola

whats the structure for this please?

the satellite or the £150?

the £150 is 30,000 starting at 50-100, WSOP blinde levels. 30 min clock day 1, 40 minute clock day 2. Very smooth, playable and popular.

yup, thats great ty

Rich - it's a 45 min day 2

Both day 1's start at 5pm, late reg till 8pm, i would prefer we started Saturday at 2pm but we always get more runners for this level of buy in at a later start time, I'm interested in player feedback on Saturday start times, earlier is better for the club for cash games but we do our conkers on gtes in summer when we do 2pm starts

Cheers rob

The structure is absolutely perfect. Love that comp.

I so wish I lived closer to DTD :(

Same :( Just moved house. This new one is 15 minutes drive away. Was 5 minutes away before. FML ;)

Just the 3 1/2 hours for me..........

Still will prob see if the scooter can make it up the M1 for the £500k ;D

From a selfish pov I prefer the 2pm start on a Saturday. The later start won't stop me going to DTD it's just I'd rather tackle the 1+plus drive home earlier if I made day 2.

Agree with everyone else, great comp. Must surely be the best tourney to play in the UK.

Remember the second Mega Sat is tonight

€10 REBUY 8:30pm 20 SEATS GTD

Every winner gets a CPP Golden Chip for this weekend's event.

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/150-deepstack


Let us know on here if you win one please, several blondes did on Tuesday.

2pm start on a Saturday is best for everyone I know who comes from Scunny ( half a dozen only ). It's about 75 miles which is just on the limit to drive home and return Sunday. Obv early finish is better for most people who live within this sort of distance.

I think it may just be coincidence with the overlays and early start times. Maybe we could get people to post who will not play Saturday 2 pm start but will the 5pm start and the reasons behind it. That might help you out.

Edit. Most of the people I talked to will play your comps no matter what time of day you start. Do what's best for the club.

Yeah 5pm is a good start time on Saturday, means I can get a load done before coming over for the start.  Best bit is if I get knocked out early (which happens quite a bit), I can prop up the bar and drink and spew on the cash table.  Mind u, I'm an early start early finish type of guy......

If i have the day free I play. Would prefer 2pm starts.

Edit just seen separate link asking views on this, delete by all means...

Hi Guys

Don't forget.....

TONIGHT ONLINE - 20 X £150 DEEPSTACK SEATS GTD FOR THE £50,000 GTD EVENT!! €10 REBUY AT 8.30PM :)

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/news/super-mega-sats:-40-seats--cpp-golden-chips-gtd/2260

Cheers Nicola

Made it on Tuesday.  Bit more expensive in terms of rebuys with the faster structure (unless you can get kings to hold occasionally) but obviously makes sense from DTD perspective and still a great value satellite.  Looking forward to my third bash at this tourney (including one £200 buy-in) as I've really enjoyed the previous attempts, despite crashing and burning on day 1 after chipping up early.  Bit jaded with online poker at the minute so hoping to qualify for these more often so I can start to #lovethegame again.

Day 1a tonight at 5pm, late registration until 8.15pm

Day 1b tomorrow at 5pm

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/events/150-deepstack/6675


Live stream of the final on Sunday evening, with commentary from yours truly and guests.

I thought both you and Rob were great on the last stream and worked well together. Must be about time Chippyman had his shot :)

Hi Guys

Please note: Our start time for the LIVE £500 Deepstack satellites over the weekend have changed to 9pm with late reg open until 10pm :)

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/whatsgoingon.php

Cheers Nicola

132 runners for 1a last night

Well done to EvilPie, wardy1984, Fraser and others!

Matt Russell    11    6    234000
Daniel Ward    13    8    226000
Harish Sahnan    12    7    218000
Calogero Morreale    12    6    198500
Luigi Sibilio    13    5    184000
Costas Constantinou    12    3    182000
Fraser Bellamy    11    3    174000
Ricky Cross    12    5    171500
Ian Roberts    13    9    171000
Ian Edwards    12    4    129500
Kuljinder Sidhu    13    4    128000
Di Farrell    11    9    121500
James Moult    13    7    121500
Richard Whiteley    12    2    120000
Mark Roberts    11    4    119500
Nicholas Shaw    11    1    110500
Steven Frew    11    8    108000
Jav Javed    13    1    103500
Greg Hill    12    8    100000
Zaheer Ahmed    13    3    93500
Stuart Kinghorn    13    6    86500
Yucel Eminoglu    11    5    70500
Duncan Taylor    11    2    38500

Day1b is 5pm today, late reg to 8.15pm

£50,000 GTD, of course

GL SteveF. TID sir.

Dan Ward well overdue a win

Hi guys

Day 1b of the £150 Deepstack today at 5pm (late reg 8.15pm) £50,000 GTD!!

Also read Rob's latest blog regarding his expectations for the £500,000 GTD £500 Deepstack 2 weekends time! http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/blog.php?profile=4&id=322

Cheers Nicola

Great comp, must learn to walk away at the start of level 15, glto James Moult. and the mad Italian Luigi, if Wardy manages to smile a bit he may go deeper

Hi Guys

So dissapointed, we only have 177 entries so far in our £150, need 333 to hit guarantee by 8.15pm currently £24,000 overlay :(

Spread the word and get down here .

Cheers

ACES

If you add the 132 who played last night does it look a bit more respectable Boss?

Think DTD should start looking at the sports calendar too when considering guarantees. They obviously have a bigger effect than you'd think. Today's overlay must be down to the first game of the season?

More likely a combo of weather and school holidays, Geo.

Good weather has a massive effect upon poker, both live and online. It does not matter what you do with Guarantees, hot weather wins every time, IMO.

The Olympics, of course, were a bit different to regular sports events.

Shit happens guys, we just have to take it on the chin, its not often we misfire this badly, 107 on Friday is bang on what we expect, but 97 today is a nightmare, as a rule of thumb, we generally get double + the runners on Saturdays than Fridays, so clearly today (weather, first day of football, shit loads more live poker available every weekend, etc, whatever) is the problem! I dont think the weather effects headline  events such as the 500 Deepstack coming up, but our general weekend stuff, it crucifies us. Our problem is that we are 90% pokercentric business - so we have to do half decent stuff every weekend, so we get caught a LOT more often that everyone else :( Even Alea in Leeds couldnt make a 15k GTE for £300 today, they got 30 runners and overlayed £6k, OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD OF DTD DOING STUFF 52 WEEKS OF YEAR (therefore simple answer = do less of course)

I'd have been there if it wasn't for work tomorrow :/

132 was my mistake, it included advance entries for today. 107 last night

And the guy still pushes the boundarys in Uk Poker well done Rob, i need a bandage for when the sign fell on my head at table 13 last night.

Forest at home, hopefully some will be down before 8.15pam from there

sorry pal :)

I still maintain that those people who get paid salaries at the end of the month (which will be a large majority of people) are back in their overdraft by the 2nd week of the month and can't just ante up the dough unless they win a seat.

You really shouldn't be sorry. It was hilarious  rotflmfao

Bad news about the potential overlay. How heavily do you think the number of runners would be affected if the guarantee was dropped to £25k? It's still a bloody big number and makes it worth the trip knowing you're in a pool of 167 ish runners.

I would think most people are playing it anyway whatever the guarantee. Sure you'll get a few value hunters come along for late reg when they see the big overlay but I'd guess you're not particularly targeting those anyway?

I'd assume that at this buy in level you're getting a lot of recreational players. I can't see them being overly concerned if it's £25k or £50k. Pros aren't going to make the effort unless they're local and the fact that they're local means they'll play it anyway.

I know the big guarantees look lovely but apart from the huge comps which attract pros and amateurs from further afield I can't see how they're overly necessary.

Kudos for sticking with them but I don't think anyone would complain if they were a bit lower.

+1

Yeah this as well.

well it made me play AK a bit different, prob why i went from 148k to zero lol, but she had a lovely Pair of Carribbean Coconuts

I think its a combination of stuff....

but one of the reasons has got to be there are just too many good looking comps to play, the working guy cant play every weekend

Certainly true for me. Would love to be playing £150 comps every weekend but more than one a month is asking a lot. Would at least need to run a lot better than I have been of late!

Also true that a two/day comp eats up the entire weekend and 3 or more of those a month isn't as appealing to those who have other things on.

Please don't take this as a rant. It's just like getting asked out on a date by all 5 of the Saturdays the same night you're due to see Sienna Miller. You know you can't complain but you have to make horrible sacrifices!

This is a very good point. It's often difficult for me to free up a full weekend for poker so I have to pick and choose which comps I'll play. I certainly can't play them all or I'd have no life outside of poker.

In this respect I'll pick the one which is most appealing to definitely play (atm the £500k guaranteed) and maybe play something else if I've got nothing else on.

Maybe one reason for the low turn out this weekend is that people are saving towards the £500k or doing their conkers trying to sat in?

Love the analogy as well :D

generally, not exactly, but on average a typical month at DTD would be:

Week 1 - £300 or £500 Deepstack
Week 2 - One day event £100 ish ( we close Sunday)
Week 3- £150 Deepstack 2 day event)
Week 4 - Third party event, Sky, Blackbelt, Redtooth or we have a Grand Prix/Chip Leader

then every few months something bigger, Supersized event, or WSOP (hmmmmmmmmmm) event

then once a year - Monte Carlo / CPP type stuff

Generally we have 26 weeks spare a year to do £150 Deepstacks or £100 one day events, sometimes we get stungs - sometimes we dont, today was OUCH and very wierd as Friday was on par with our expectations.

Because we run so much poker stuff, the law of averages says we will come unstuck, at least it goes to the players and thats what DTD is about really, no matter what our knockers say, we pretty much chuck everything we make of reg fees back to the players and then the gaming we have pays our gaming tax bill.

When our headline events screw up, like the £500 or the CPP, thats a serious body blow, when our weekly stuff goes wrong, its like a bad beat rather than getting knocked out the comp, so annoying but the show goes on - thanks for support :) Rob

Manchester megastack usually 100/120 runners every month only 55 .

Really shouldn't scrap re-entries completely IMO. That and late starts are two of the only gripes I have....Sorry make that 3; those horrible bits of sticky black stuff on some of the chips. 

24 got through 1b as follows, from 128 runners

Colin Marks    11    8    753000
Nicholas Hemming    11    7    412500
Richard Akka    11    9    324000
Graham Aimson    13    6    282500
Barrington Nicholas    12    4    217000
Andreas Kyriacou    12    1    211500
Timothy Chung    12    7    168500
Sywin Mooc    12    8    149000
Deborah Rawson    13    8    144500
Chris Procopiou    13    5    139000
George Plarkou    13    4    121500
Stephen Jakes    12    5    106000
Tina Ainsworth    11    5    103500
Robin Watkins    13    9    98000
Gerald Mcinally    11    2    95500
Jeremy Cook    13    3    84500
Matteo Parlato    13    1    72500
Carla Goddard    12    9    62000
Duc Thanh Nguyen    12    3    59000
Gary Hewitt    12    6    57000
Brett Pinder    11    1    50500
Nigel Ventre    11    3    49000
Richard Wong    13    7    41500
Daniel Brown    11    4    32000

Unfortunately the event only got 235 runners overall, and overlaid £15,000 for the various reasons expressed in this thread.


The final will be live streamed on http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php

Someone who is commentating is going to be on the M1 today earlier than he had planned

Rick Whiteley has had 2 final tables in the last 5 comps and cashed the other 3. He had a golden chip so about time he won one.

753k!!! WAL

Hopefully all wil be paid today :-)

Go dan ward

OVERDUE

Unfortunately I was on the receiving end of the "maniac" AKA Colin Marks.

He's got around 400k, raising every unopened pot and calling any raised pot. And flopping the world 90% of the time.

The last hand of level 14 (2k/4k) before we go on a break before coming back for the last level of the night. Ive got around 180k (2nd in chips on our table) Maniac raises 9200 (as normal) it gets flatted by ABC player in mid position. (Im a bit wary because everybody is being cautious about playing an hand with the maniac) it gets to me in the BB and Im holding AKs. I just call. reason for this is;
1; I want to keep the size of the pot small as possible.
2; Wary of the mid pos ABC player.
3; OOP.
4; No matter what raise I put in maniac is calling and has position on me.

Anyway, flop runs out K 9 2 rainbow. I check, maniac leads out for about 12k ABC player passes (he was my only concern) I now re-raise to 35k and Maniac goes all in. (seen this move several times) My tournament life now at risk. 380k potential pot if I call. Chip average at time was 140k. Ive now fallen below this if I pass. Blinds 2.5k/5k when we return leaving me with 27bigs, again if I pass. Taking all this into account and how Ive seen the maniac playing. . . . . . I CALL.
Maniac tables KJo. . . . . I start praying to the poker gods.

Turn & River. . . . . . JACK, JACK. . . . . . . Damn u poker gods!!!!!!

I will be astonished if he makes the final table with his playing style but if he runs like he was doing then he will just rollercoaster it.

Ive just run thru the hand in question again . . . . . . . I should have pushed pre flop and took the 20k+ pot down there and then taking me over 200k. Hindsight eh lol

33 left here at DTD

Sadly Fraser, Junior and bookiebasher out

Dan Ward and Matt Russell well placed

Over £15,000 up top

Periodic updates if you wish?

Final table commentary later. If I am really unlucky, rastafish will still be here to join me in the booth.

In the money, including..

12    4    Matt Russell
12    6    Daniel Ward
14    1    Richard Whiteley
14    2    Stuart Kinghorn
14    3    Timothy Chung

Chill out take it easy n watch the footy. Odd updates are much appreciated tho.

Go Luigi

Whiteley 21st

Ward 14th

Russell short with 13 left

Tim Chung one of two big chip leaders

Matt Russell doubles through Tim Chung with Tens full of Sixes to go to 600/- at 5-10k

12 left

Go on Matt!!

Would love to see Matt win this.

Completely forgot about this..

Gooooooooooooooooooo Matt.

 ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Gl Matt!

The Evil one!!!

UL Dan!

Ooh, Matt, good luck

12    1    Luigi Sibilio 500,000
12    2    Ian Roberts 300,000
12    3    Colin Marks 400,000
12    7    Robin Watkins 800,000
12    8    Duncan Taylor 200,000
12    9    Harish Sahnan 700,000

14    2    Deborah Rawson 70,000
14    3    Timothy Chung 2,200,000
14    4    Jeremy Cook 200,000
14    6    Matt Russell 600,000
14    8    Gerald Mcinally 400,000
14    9    Zaheer Ahmed 250,000

One Golden Chip left

blinds 10-20k

Live stream at 8 left at http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php

Matt out 10th to Tim Chung

Bugger, but well played Tim.

A Russel win would have been the perfect boost to the East Midlands Poker Economy.

Chung 2.6m of 7m, 9 left

fyp.

ul matt

Ul Dan and Matt

Tim Chung won this outright for £15,372 beating Robin Watkins and Ian Roberts

Roberts entered the final as the only remaining CPP Golden Chip winner. He came close, but finished 3rd

Chung entered the final with 2.7m of the 7m in play and really was at no risk throughout. The class of the final table field and he did not put a foot wrong

Two key hands shaped the result

With seven left and three stacks at 10-15x bb two of the bigger stacks clashed

Each playing around 1m Harish Sahnan found Kings in the small blind, to a button raise from Jeremy Cook with Aces. All in pre-flop, Sahnan spiked a King on the turn.

The short-stacks laddered, and all extremely happy to do so, and Sahnan moved to second in chips

Whilst I waited back to see the short-stacks shove, Sahnan then found Queens in the cut off

He limped, no doubt hoping to catch a short-stack

However Chung found Kings in the blinds. He 3-bet, and Sahnan limp shoved

Ouch.

Kings held, Chung was up to 5m of the 7m and really never looked back

Watkins made a remarkable recovery three handed, first doubling through Roberts then finding Kings in the big against sixes on the button

Beginning Heads Up 2-1 in down chips down there was some minor skirmishing but Chung prevailed when both hiut a King on the turn, Chung K-8 v K-5. Watkins check shoved the river, was called and finished second

Chung is frankie's horse right?

Not in this he wasnt, although Frankie was railing... Enough to put the poor lad off! :-)

Used to be and dont think he has been for a while now AFAIK.

he left me ages ago george. hes generous though after he won it.. he bought me into the £560  for DAY1C ..

thanks him very much... btw i giving him a sweat

Nice touch!

Tim's a great lad and has a sound analytical approach to NLHE.
Did the £500 deepstack commentary with him a few months back
which was a thoroughly enjoyable 4/5 hrs.

Pretty sure anyone who knows Tim will say this is due.

 ;mexicanwave;