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DTD are trying a format that they have discussed before and has been suggested by players i.e. running a £500 Deepstack (£100K GTE) and a £150 Deepstack (£30K GTE) over the same weekend, extending the clock to 60 minutues on all days for the £500 and giving the players a better experience with an earlier finishes.

So October's Deepstack week will look like this and include 3 x CPP satellites, each with 3 packages GTE;

Wednesday 3 Oct

8PM £25 Freezout £1K GTE

8PM £50 £500 Deepstack Reload Satellite - 10 seats GTE

Thursday 4 Oct

2PM * £500 Deepstack Day 1A £100K GTE

8PM £25 Freezout £1K GTE

8PM £50 £500 Deepstack Reload Satellite - 10 seats GTE

Friday 5 Oct

2PM £500 Deepstack Day 1B

2PM * £150 Deepstack Day 1A £30K GTE

8PM £200 CPP Reload Satellite - 3 x £5K packages GTE

Saturday 6th Oct

2PM £500 Deepstack Day 2

2PM £150 Deepstack Day 1B

8PM £200 CPP Reload Satellite - 3 x £5K packages GTE

Sunday 7th Oct

2PM £500 Deepstack Final Day

2PM £150 Deepstack Final Day

3PM £200 + £24 CPP Reload Satellite - 3 x £5K packages GTE

8PM £25 Freezout £1K GTE

8PM £100 Freezout £5K GTE

* For the £500 and £150 Deepstacks, Re-Entry will be allowed into the folloiwng Day 1B only

blonde Poker will be updating Thursday to Sunday

Live streaming of the £500 final on DTD too

More information as it is announced

Disappointed that no day 1 available on a Saturday for the £500. As a recreational player this is a bad decision for me. Will have to make do with the £150.

This does seem strange. Will boost the numbers for the £150 tho as the usual suspects can have two shots at the £500 and still play the £150

In for the 150 unless i can bink a satty for the 500. Schedule looks great

It will be interesting to see how many can afford both.

looks good.  will try and get there for the 500.  also nice to see the CPP sats on all weekend.  cheers guys and girls :)

60min clock yay

Happy there is monthly biggy, shame however that it has to be run over 3 days :(

Whatcha want? A monthly 100k turbo..?

I don't see what was wrong with the previous monthly big deep stack tournaments. Whether they were the £300 or £500 ones. Spreading it over 3 days and making the day 1's w/t/f will stop me playing. I know I'm only 1 player but whenever I've been able to I've tried support the monthly ds.

I appreciate Simon, Nick and Rob are trying to improve DTD but I just don't see how this will work.

Edit: I'm just pee'd off that I can't play the biggie.

Ideally not over 3 days, clue was in what I said.

Players have asked for a 60 min clock, the comp takes 28-30 levels, its something we are doing for Oct.

We are trying something different after the £500k gte in sept. boredom sets in when we do the same thing every month with so much more choice available nowadays. It's a balance of course.

Over the year, there is plenty of variety at DTD, although its hard to please everyone, every day, every week, every month

We try :(

You do pretty damned good.

10 levels on days 1 & 2?

Hi David

10 levels max, possibly 9 with a lower field.

With 200 runners it could finish in 27=28 levels so 3 x 9 levels + breaks would work.

I will see how many we have in pre reg from satelittes etc and make a decision, so its 9 or 10.

Cheers Aces

When the £500 DS ONLINE sats are going to start?

We all know DTD tries hard to please with the comps.

Not sure if boredom is a factor for the players if the deepstack is the same each month, in fact if it's regular and familiar I think people appreciate that.

The old £300 used to be the same every month, and attracted lots of runners who knew it'd be run on the first weekend of every month, with the same satellites, etc. Obviously, things change and with the competition DTD can't remain stagnant, but some regularity in terms of the monthly deepstack will help improve numbers imo. Sometimes too much variety and too many choices can be detrimental. Maybe it's too much of a good thing, and people start taking it for granted?

With the £500 - hour levels are good, no Day 1 on Saturday isn't good for a lot of people who work mon-fri. But you can't have both.

Simon always performs miracles with these events but I do agree with Dan here.  I would imagine that the majority of players will have to take a day off work for this and am not sure they will do this. The majority of people playing the traditional deepstacks play the Saturday.

Please don't listen to the people requesting an hour clock making it a 3 day comp because these will be the same people who wanted the wsop sats. No one in their right mind wants to play a 3 day comp instead of a 2 day comp. The vast majority of your punters want to play over the sat/Sunday ainec.

All of this. Sometimes less is more. Grand prix, Super 50, £100, £150, £200 super size, £500 high roller, Chipleader, CPP, £500 deepstack, etc etc, With so much on offer it is jus too easy to think "I dont feel like it today, but it doesnt really matter cos I can jus play somethin next week instead." so I end up not going at all.  My favourite time at DTD was the £300 when everyone new exactly when and what it would be. It was the highlight of the month and every one looked forward to it and felt they couldnt miss it cos it would be a whole month till the next 1. Fwiw I think 1 regular big comp per month alongside a set and rigid regular schedule with monte carlo or similar a couple times a year is perfect. People like familiarity and to know what their plans are. If it aint broke dont fix it. <3 DTD

Satellite details for the Double Deepstacks, exclusive! (ie they go up tomorrow!)

£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE on Wed and Thurs next week £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE every night from Sunday – Thursday - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 
Total of 20 seats live and 25 seats online GTD, so 45 seats GTD


£150 satellites

€6 re-buys every night – 5 seats GTE nightly - from Sunday

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



Both events are re-entry, one re-entry, into the next day one only

Reminder, satellites for both the £500 and the £150 start this Sunday. 45 seats for the £500 are guaranteed in Live and Online Sats

(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/images/promotions/134.jpg)

After 6 weeks of Trumps Travels and playing the EPO this week i have managed to convince Rob and Nick to try a 1hr clock on the £500 Deepstack, with 30,000 chips and our Festival structure it adds a day which means we need to do the day 1's...Thu / Fri starting at 2pm but as the GPS and GUKPT also do this i don't see a problem.

40 minutes is probably the minimum you need for a decent experience but having played the events above i believe 1hr makes a difference without the need for a huge starting stack.

Not everyone can afford £500 so we are also running a £150 Deepstack Fri to Sun alongside the £500, this will have a 40 minute clock throughout and use the same starting stack of 30,000 and festival structure.

There will also now be a 45 minute dinner break at 6.15.

The £150 and £500 both start at 2pm with late reg for 7 levels so 7.45pm in the £150 and 10.15pm in the £500.

Re entry will be available but only into Day 1b of each event.

£500 is guaranteed at £100,000 and £150 is guaranteed at £30,000

Full details can be found here, any questions let me know.

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/news/october-double-deepstack-weekend/2273

Cheers

ACES

I'll be interested to see how this pans out, and how the £150 affects the numbers in the £500. The good news for DTD here is the guarantees are good, yet unlikely to break the bank.

If I was playing (i'm not, busy) I would choose the £150. A bit more affordable and playing over 2 days is better than 3 as I have to travel.

(Simon, the website link says a 30 minute clock for the £150 as opposed to the 40 minutes you state here)

40 mins for the £150 is correct, from 30 when first announced.

30k starting stacks and a 1 hour clock is my favourite structure. It would be good to see this at least once a quarter.

I also think it would be nice to have a regular schedule, whatever that is. A monthly Deepstack is a must IMO.

In for the £500

Playing the £500 on Day 1b Friday, looking forward to playing nice long levels

Friday is gonna be far more popular than Thursday just as Saturday is more popular than the Friday on regular deepstack weekends. Can I ask why the 2pm start which means that people with jobs have to book a holiday or sick day this time. Obv I just need a pass out from the wife but 5 of the guys I travel with have  9-5's. :(


Edit. Just seen on the poshboy diary that the eureka team are in Latvia for this so you are gonna lose a few of the guys that are gonna ante up £500 on a Thuursday school day and then re enter too.  9/10 you get there but this has to be a scarey weekend. Need 200 for the £500 (which i think will fall short) and 200 for the £150 (which should easily get there).

A 1 hour clock means a 2pm start is a must, playing 9 levels + breaks unless we schedule players to play to 3am etc. However, people can late reg up to 10.15pm and still get 50BB, and more importantly for people who do not want to take a day off work, players who arrive up to 6.15pm will get at least 100BB and 8.00pm 75BB.

The Day 1's late reg / bb at each level /time are;

2.00pm - 3.00pm Level 1 50-100 (300BB)
3.00pm - 4.00pm Level 2 100-200 (150BB)
15 min break
4.15pm - 5.15pm Level 3 150-300 (100BB)
5.15pm - 6.15pm Level 4 150-300 (100BB)
45 min break
7.00pm - 8.00pm Level 5 200-400 (75BB)
8.00pm - 9.00pm Level 6 250-500 (60BB)
15 min break
9.15pm -10.15pm Level 7 300 - 600 (50BB)
15 min break
End of Late Reg

We have tried to make this event as comfortable as possible, personally I would prefer to join a comp at 100BB, but everyone has different strategies, either way, the 1 hour clock allows people who dont want to take a day off work, to still get a very playable stack. It's a trial, I can't ignore the requests from players who have asked me for a 60 minute clock for the Deepstack, we did a huge £500 event last month, so this seemed like a good opportunity to try something a little different. We do not expect many re-entries, when we have restricted re-entry to ---> Day 1B only, its only  5% - 10% of the Day 1A field that uses the option to re-enter. One of the mail reason for my recent tour, was to get more feedback and suggestions outside of the Club which would give us new ideas to try and keep things fresh.

We have 50,000 members, we have do do different things to keep as many people happy as possible, we are different to another venue or a tour, we do poker events 52 weeks a year, I am sure we cater for everyone over thise 52 weeks, we certainly try to, if the Thu/Fri 60 min clock isnt popular, it will have tried and failed!

Cheers Aces

Sounds more than reasonable but I would counter that the 9-5 ers won't want to late reg a £500 tourney and just play the £150 on the Saturday. I think you lose more players than you gain with this change.

The thing I like about Dtd is that you and Rob like to look after all the players and listen to everyone's  opinion from the £10 tourney players to the hi rollers. It will be interesting to see how many of the players from your travels play Octobers deepstack.

 You always seem to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat so good luck again.

Don't 9 to 5 ers get holiday? If they play 4 of these a year that's 4 days holiday. Or 2 days if they can take half a day off.

However if day 1a was on Friday, day 1b on Saturday, day 2 on Sunday with day 3 on the Monday then everyone could play and only the lucky few who made day three would be inconvenienced by having to play day 3 on a work day. But they would probably be in the money by then or close to it. Just a thought.

Then you have to open the club on Mondays ???
 

Think the point is most people won't.

try imagining the phone call with your boss?

you - "so I'd like to take today off work please?"
boss - "why is that?"
you - "oh you see, I'm currently stacked on 1.9mirrion and there's like 80bags up top, there's this ukipt uber fish Bedi to my left but I'm going to crush him and then flip my way to Vegas"
boss - "sure you can have the day off.... next monday! This is far too short notice and I'm afraid you are sorely needed."
you - "well im actually feeling a little dodgy..."
boss - "uhuh..." (rustles P45 down phone)

Lol

What about........ Oh boss, I may need next Monday off. Problem is I won't know till next Monday Morning.
Boss....... No problem. You are such a good worker and invaluable to this company, anything to keep you happy so you don't leave!

cheers boss I appreciate that but if I win the £80k you can stick the job up your arse and me and your wife I gonna make a new life together :)

Double Deepstack weekend Satellites start on Sunday



£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE on Wed and Thurs next week £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE every night from Sunday – Thursday - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 
Total of 20 seats live and 25 seats online GTD, so 45 seats GTD


£150 satellites

€6 re-buys every night – 5 seats GTE nightly - from Sunday

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


Both events are re-entry, one re-entry, into the next day one only


(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/images/promotions/134.jpg)

Do the feeders give you the full set of buyins or just the first one?

Guessing just the one, but the feeders into the live CPP sats gave the full set....

Best forget Mondays then if it's going to break up marriages and ruin careers

shame they rebuys esp the 150 sats surly a £30 freezout would make the money + more seats if rebuys i out

lol, no.

Wish they was FO's though :(

The feeders win a €50 + €5 entry into the 8.30pm satellite and players start with 10,000 starting chips, blinds start at 25-50, therefore €50 only players can play them as a strict freezeout if they prefer. Those that either get unlucky or want to invest more to increase their chances have that option. A €50 freezout only gives players a 1 in 15 chance of winning a £560 seat, that is fine for 1 or 2 seat GTE's which are mainly made up of feeder qualifers, but when you are getting into 5 or 10 seats satellites and players are directly buy-ing in, there needs to be more money generated into the prize pool, over the last 2 months we have tried €100 Mega Freezeout Satellites and €30 Unlimited Re-Buys...................and guess what - we had players saying the freezouts were too expensive and the UL rebuys were bingo............so we have tried to please all bankrolls this month with a 1R 1A option, but with a freezout sized starting stack, and the same structure and clock.

The £150 Deepstack satellites are working well as cheap €6 UL re-buys, although I don't like the unlimited 1500 chip format except for the feeders, I think these £150 sats would be better as 1R 1A. Nick asked me to have a look at all of the online satelites recently, although players on my facebook and on here say they prefer freezouts, the min price to qualify/number of seats GTE seem to be the key factors. For example, the €3 re-buy feeders are more popular than the €10 freeze-out feeders, and the €20 RB feeder for the CPP gets the same/sometimes more direct buy-ins that the €50 freezeout even though it is only 1 seat GTE.

I think these €50 1R 1A satellites hit everyone, the feeder players can have a shot for a few euros, the freezeout player can just use 1 bullet, and the UL RB player can still have a gamble early on to accumulate enuf chips to bag a seat.

Cheers Aces

Satellites for the Double Deepstacks begin tomorrow night

(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/images/promotions/134.jpg)


£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE on Wed and Thurs next week £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE every night from Sunday – Thursday - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 
Total of 20 seats live and 25 seats online GTD, so 45 seats GTD


£150 satellites

€6 re-buys every night – 5 seats GTE nightly - from Sunday

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

Satellites for the Double Deepstacks begin TONIGHT

(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/images/promotions/134.jpg)


£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE on Wed and Thurs next week £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE every night from Sunday – Thursday - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 
Total of 20 seats live and 25 seats online GTD, so 45 seats GTD


£150 satellites

€6 re-buys every night – 5 seats GTE nightly - from Sunday

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

2pm start shouldn't affect it too much - 30k stack with AN HOUR clock, turn up at 6.30 and the level is starting 150/300 MAXIMUM right? Can't remember structure off hands.


Just the Thursday running late that would put off the guys and girls who have to work fridays?


Not sure which day playing yet, probably both.

Double Deepstack week

Wednesday 3 Oct

8PM £25 Freezout £1K GTE

8PM £50 £500 Deepstack Reload Satellite - 10 seats GTE


Thursday 4 Oct

2PM * £500 Deepstack Day 1A £100K GTE

8PM £25 Freezout £1K GTE

8PM £50 £500 Deepstack Reload Satellite - 10 seats GTE


Friday 5 Oct

2PM £500 Deepstack Day 1B

5PM * £150 Deepstack Day 1A £30K GTE

8PM £200 CPP Reload Satellite - 3 x £5K packages GTE


Saturday 6th Oct

2PM £500 Deepstack Day 2

2PM £150 Deepstack Day 1B



Sunday 7th Oct

2PM £500 Deepstack Final Day

2PM £150 Deepstack Final Day

2.30PM £150 Freezeout £7,500 GTE

8PM £25 Freezout £1K GTE

8PM £100 Freezout £5K GTE


* For the £500 and £150 Deepstacks, Re-Entry will be allowed into the following Day 1B only


Satellites

(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/images/promotions/134.jpg)


£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE on Wed and Thurs next week £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE every night from Sunday – Thursday - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 
Total of 20 seats live and 25 seats online GTD, so 45 seats GTD


£150 satellites

€6 re-buys every night – 5 seats GTE nightly - from Sunday

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

What time do feeder sats start into 500 cant c them anywhere? TY

Hi, just wanted to say the online structure for 500 DS at 8:30 PM is great! 1R+1AD. Even though there were only 20 runners yesterday ( 1st day), it was fun! Just pity that it didnt started a week before! just 4 more days left to qualify... will try again before Friday!

running now NEWY in the lobby DUSK 500 FEEDERS

good luck

The Live £500 Satellites start tonight

So to qualify into one of the Double Deepstack Weekend events:


£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE TONIGHT and Thurs  £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE both tonight and Thursday - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 


£150 satellites

€6 re-buy – 5 seats GTE tonight and tomorrow

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


(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/images/promotions/139.jpg)

If you want to qualfity into tomorrow, for either the £500 or the £150 that forms part of this Double Deepstack festival:

£500 satellites

10 seats GTD LIVE TONIGHT  £50 + 2 Reloads

5 seats GTD ONLINE tonight - €3 RB feeders and €10 FO feeders into €50 + 1R + 1A

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/satellites/500-ds-new
 

£150 satellites

€6 re-buy – 5 seats GTE tonight

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

Live today

£500 Deepstack (2pm, late reg 10:15pm, £100k GTD!), 147 needed to hit the GTE, updated on blonde

£150 Deepstack (2pm, late reg 7:45pm, £30k GTD!)

& £25 Leaderboard Comp continues