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Just ten days away from the start of the DTD Monte Carlo: £500,000 GTD

DTD would like to know

a) - if you are playing and if so Online/Live or both....

b) Whether you are playing or not, your predictions for numbers please.....


With 50 seats GTD Live and Online next weekend, and a number already qualified in the last few weeks, will DTD hit this latest ambitious guarantee?


All thoughts welcome

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Playing the online leg only.

Love the idea on an online leg for those who aren't near DTD / or working, and hopefully means more overall runners than just live legs.

Not thought about numbers, but, as Rob say....really important to get dam close to the GTD.

Playing Friday as part of Team Sky Poker, where I think (upto) 11 players will be participating.

Correct. 11 players. :)

No pressure everyone, but its always been won by a DTD local, blonde reg or both....

It falls to me the onerous task of reporting on the Sky 11 too. Or the Sky 10+ scotty "30 minutes" 77 as they should be more accurately named

I announced another Team Member yesterday. A young lady. That went down well.......

I'll have you know that it was at least 2 and a half levels before I had lost all of my chips yesterday!

Signs of improvement mate!

Am i right in thinking Monte's in the past have ran day1a friday and 1b sat, day2 sun and day3/final on the monday. This one doesnt cater for people who work, unless they play 1a online/ book a day off work. Numbers might be down abit due to that. In for 1a online. Think itll be close for the £500k.... Hope they get it and Rob puts on a £1m later on in the year

Hope I am wrong but think this gonna fall well short. With everything else going on its gonna be tough for even DTD to close to break even. I think if they do less than 50k overlay that will be a result. I know the ispt has left them short on time to focus on the monte carlo but even without this, a £500k gaurantee is mind bogglin really. They keep putting on these crazy guarantees and seem to jus keep on getting crazier and bigger so I guess there must be some method in their madness. I willl obv be trying to take advantage of the mega mega splendid crazy mega sattellites and hope to be playing the main. GUD LUCK and THANK YOU DTD  <3

I'm playing day 1 on the Friday. Think it will be touch and go in terms of the numbers at the event but likely to be some overlay in the satellites!

Hi tighty & blondes, yes i will be playing ;0).
           I think if they dont make it they will be very close 480-490. Also sorry to dissapoint everyone like sky players, bankroll supply etc but a DTD regular will TID ;0)

                             CORSE ITS GUNA BE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                  GL EVERY1 who plays this awesome event & a really big ty to Rob, Si & DTD team for once again putting there money where there mouths are & pushing the boundarys up once more.

 So every1 plz support this event!!

#teamblonde nandos?

Maybe initially, but there were way more postive responses.  Good to see someone picked for community reasons.  Far too many poker sites have picked people to represent them that previously barely knew the site existed.

Back to the rollcall.  I am probably playing day 1a online..

Obv depends on When paths cross with there been 3 x day 1s ..plus who makes day 2 etc

day 2 we can all go (even if busted)

sure...or beers on the Saturday evening  ?

Im playing Day1 A  on line ....and if I need second bullet Day1B , so Ill definitely be down in Nottingham Thursday or Saturday

ohh you're doing the online leg, check you out mr new school.

Sounds good though.

Not really new school....Its all about time management mate....Got the kids Wednesday night and girlfriends birthday Friday so can keep everybody happy this way  :)

Playing Friday, will try & get another seat to play online though.

Will be playing one of the live day 1's (unsure yet). Don't think this will quite make the GTE but numbers probably 400+.

I agree it may fall short, this is a really tough one to hit because ISPT Wembley has overshadowed it,  but if we do make the £500,000 - the next DTD Monte Carlo will be £1M, which has always been the plan, for the reason that DTD Monte Carlo Million sounds just sounds 'right', I remember an event called the Monte Carlo MillionS many moons ago, with that amazing hand with Paul Jackson and Phil Ivey. There is noway we miss this GTE if we don't take on the ISPT - al our marketing efforts have been directed at that, a little frustrating, we should have probably postponed the Monte Carlo to later in the year..I am sure everyone would have understood, .the word numpty comes into mind, anyway, too late now, onwards and sideways

I think you'll be fine. Id defo be taking overs on 450 anyway.

Gl

I will be playing if I can satellite in, if not I will be supporting by playing the cash.

Will be playing the online sat on Sunday night

YOU always say I'm gonna be fine, which means you're right about 51% of the time. However, it does give us the chance to try this 100 seat mega weekend, I have wanted to try this idea before to build bigger sats, where players win online feeders and have the choice to play a sat live or onlien the weekend before. <I've got 33 players qualified with 9 days to go>. Was asking Rich about u at weekend. Cheers Rob

Personally think it'll get very close to 500 runners.

Looking at the calendar, there isn't really anything to clash with it, and bar the GPS and ISPT, nothing particularly massive in May either and also there hasn't be an MC for so long thing that this will be an event that so many poker players will see as a must play. 

Plus there will be a number of people who will do multiple bullets!

Hope you are right scotty77, although the number of next day-rentries is very small a Monte Carlo, 11 players if i remember correctly last time, 60% of the field make it to Day 2 and 1k a a pricy re-entry for most!

Has the guarantee ever been 500k before?  Think that will increase the likelyhood of re-entries.

I can only play the Friday tho but if I were able to play Thursday I would be def taking 2 shots at this one. 

If the local well known regs all have a bad day at the office in the online leg/Thursday then the amount of reentries will be far higher.

Hoping to be there sat for live sat and online Sunday

Think the gukpt at £500 with only a £50 k guaranties won't get many runners

I recon minty will get 498 runners inc reentry

Garry

Whos in for some side bet action? :D

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I am playing ....not decided which day yet tho

Will be trying my best to play. Supposed to be away for the weekend with the wife. Looks like a new Gucci handbag is needed.

And what will you buy the wife?  ;)

I think you can rely on a couple of bullets from me.

 ;D

I hope to be in the area next week and gonna have a pop at the online sat this sunday - unlikely to enter directl as £1100 a bit too rich for me at the moment as tax man on me back  :(

I too have the taxman on my back, so im in. (Nothing worse than paying him with your own hard earned). I over predicted the gp, so a conservative 424 from me. Will of course be hoping for 600, and am having a number of hits at the sattys, in for Saturday, etc.

Hi Guys

MEGA SAT ROLLCALL TOO...

If you've won a £110 Token already and are yet to register via the lobby for the MEGA SAT you're playing (whether online or live) then please register to give us an idea how many players are playing live and how many online.

We need to ensure we have enough dealers etc at the club if lots of players are choosing to play live, if we know the split of tokens registered it gives us a good idea how many to expect on Saturday.

Cheers Nicola

i think the numbers will be around 450-500 i think its amazing value and will sure bring the numbers in :) like many have said have more than one go makes people who have to make the trip i.e from scotland etc worth the stay over :)

im playing the mega sat this saturday hopefully the club is buzzing, good side event too on weekend its on so place will be lively. i hope it gets 600 runners :)))) but i guess....468 hope im proved wrong

p.s the mini feeders are a amazing idea ive not had chance to play as many as id like. GL everyone who gets these tokens :)

maybe dtd could sell ispt wembley merchandise etc and clothing at the club? have a stand? just idea i know players will see posters but be cool to buy some stuff :)

Agree the mini feeder mega sats is a very clever and fantastic idea. Hope there is the poss to continue these or similar freezeout 1s for future big comps. Gud luck

513 runners

Will be playing one of the live day 1's (unsure which yet)!

444 runners, although I hope it breaks the 500 barrier for everyone.

playing the Sunday mega sat, then will make the trip from Scotland if I ship my seat from there.

Hoping to play the online sattelite it's pretty much AK vs KQ atm, will try my best tho, GL all blondes would be good for a regular on here or club to win it imho

Reckon about 460 runners.  Playing live sat at the club this weekend to bink the 461st seat :-)

So who has won seats to this weekend's Live or Online 50 seat Satellite seats this week?

Same again tonight: £10 rebuy feeder into the Mega Sats: 50 seats GTD into this weekend's satellites


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Just won a seat in Sunday's mega sat with 225 chips left :)

Nice! Grats buddy

Won 2nd bullet for the online sat tonight. The sats this week were just ridic valuewise, so much overlay

+1

Hopefully I'll be drunk punting on Sunday.

Strange final hand too. I had 33 in bb and sb limped he checked down the hand despite flopping a straight. Even if he had bet I could see from lobby that 51st had busted so would have folded so hope no accusations of collusion.

Colluder!

;nanana;

yep got me 2nd bullet

Hi Guys

Rob has put on ANOTHER 50 x £110 seater MEGA FEEDER online Tonight at 8.30pm!!!

Remember you can win your reload for the online MEGA SAT tomorrow at 8.30pm with 50 x £1,100 seats GTD worth £55,000 for the £500,000 event!!! All you need to do is take the reload (starting stack or less) so best to take straight away, and I will refund you £110 cash after the satellite :)

Today is the LIVE £110 MEGA SAT, it's like an Incredible 100 with DOUBLE the Prizepool!! £55,000 worth of seats to be won!!

We have ADDED another 50 seats GTD £10 1R 1A tonight online at 8.30pm!!!!

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Good luck to all Blondes playing!

Cheers Nicola

In for friday.

looking like a busy one online with 222 know and at least another 60 to join

In for tonights mega sat having got both bullets earlier in the week. Already playing online day 1 but need a backup plan.

Think the gtd will get smashed, I'd predict around 739 runners for this event, £100k + to the winner, someone is gonna have a wicked Vegas!

will someone book that lady :)  an appointment. seriosly thou, we will have qualified 280 players, so we have to have half a chance even with the ISPTqualification just around the corner. what do people think about the Day 1 numbers, these are my targets;

Day 1a Online 75
Day 1b Club 125
Day 1c Club 300

I'm interested in players views on their Day 1 splits, our Monte Carlo record was 313 players where we qualifed 100, there is argument to say the recession is worse now that 2 years ago.

Woman* - ty

Lets put it this way, I think u will get minimum 600, and max 750, so anywhere in between those figures. It's the best comp of the year in the UK IMO, big enough for all the Southen hotshots to travel for, and not too big for the avg pro player. There are 2 prolific staking company's in the u.k ATM, that I think would have selling this tourney to there players too.

oh, if i thought we were gonna get 750 i would have skipped the sats! damn, hope we get 501 - we will have beat the gte and needed to invest in the sats, we are in for £32,450K exactly on the sats and promos for far , but we are happy with results. cool to see 284 and DTD and 413 online

Think the online number could be pretty low but still fully expect you to pull it off and get 500+, I'll go 537.

Hoping the weekends a assive success Rob and you smash the guarantee, will be a great event and genuinely gutted to miss ths being in Macau.

quite a lot of people have told me they're going to play the online leg, think it could be pretty interesting

tough to say the numbers.

Day1a: Online, is tomorrow night

Same as a Deepstack Day 1, it gives you the opportunity to play Day One from your sofa, not take time off work/save money on exes if you live a distance away from the club

then qualify and return for Day 2 on Saturday...

17th Apr 8:30pm

£1000+£100 Buy-In

Online Day 1: 24 min clock, 30,000 starting chips, playing 11 levels

Late reg is until 10.30pm

There is re-entry into the subsequent Day ones if you need it

Would be really interested to know who of you are

a) definitely playing the Online leg

b) contemplating playing the Online leg

c) Only playing live

whether you have won seats via the Megas or are buying straight in, doesn't matter

ty

I think this year it will be won by somebody under the radar, probably a regular player who's face is known but maybe not their name.
With a little bit of luck I think the numbers across the three days will be tipping the 650-700 mark

I will be playing the online day 1, I won a seat in Sundays mega sat

The satellite structure has definitely opened this event up for all players ....Ive never seen so many non regs clambering after a seat. This event could be quite an eye opener where numbers are concerned......lets hope that 500 + happens!

Im afraid my tourney aspirations for this MC have come to an end.

Tried a few sats to no avail and although contemplated a few more cant make the dates now for business reasons, so looks like Ill be following your noble reporting efforts on here.

Looks like Rob and DTD have tried their very best to get this close to the guarantee and as Im usually a positive person hope numbers are in the region of 520.

Good luck to all blondes playing.

Cheers

Has the move to ipoker made a big difference to your sat winners? I think you'd get 100+ for the online leg...I'm gonna go for 564 :)up

Will play twice live if needed

50/50 as of yet about playing online

Defo playing online leg..... Only playing online leg...... Would be playing live leg if i could get time off work..... Cant, so glad online leg option is there, although i imagine live day1s will be considerably softer :(

+1...only playing it because there is an online leg, and need to work.

Playing 1b. Stu is playing 1c. See you there!

Bagged a 2nd ticket for this. Deffo playing online day1, if I mess that up then will be there for the Friday day 1. As far as numbers go I reckon it will be close but probs just making gtd given all the extra sats.

In for Thursday & I think it's looking good for 550+ runners

oooooh seee you there!

I'm down tomorrow and am vaguely expecting >£600k in the prize pool.
What's my best option to buy in? Could pay cash at the desk, call ahead of time and pay by debit card, or use my DTD account?

Cash at desk an option

Buy in through DTD Online account also an option, each day is in the lobby...


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Much more likely to be a) than b).  Can't play the live day 1s, though I expect they will be softer.  In for £1500 when I do :(

Playing just the live days.

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LOL standard online poker.... deposit, win, withdraw, get told i need to verify my age. complete bs. guess i'll be regging tomorrow morning (will there definitely be space???) and never playing on DTD again.

dont see the issue with them wanting to verify your age before you withdraw. I imagine they will be checking other things also along with your age.

Not sure if serious....

Age verification is a good thing DUCY?

It's pretty obvious the point he is making is age verification should take place after you deposit not depending on whether you withdraw. And it's obviously a good point as all sites make it hard to withdraw but easy to deposit

Il add all gambling sites do the same not just poker sites so its a problem across all sites not just dtd

Its standard across many sites.

When you come tomorrow find Nicola on the desk just inside the club and she'll be able to take a copy of your ID and do the verificiation process for you there and then

There is also a "cash out at the club" facility, see http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/cash-in-cash-out.php

A many runners did online get?

THIS
As usual Dubai hits the nail on the head

55 so far with late reg open for 8 levels

Hi Guys

22 of the 69 in Day 1A online made it through to Day 2....Chip counts...

279,420
241,336
169,881
135,254
109,616
106,521
99,542
94,396
93,306
77,349
77,295
76,441
74,656
74,280
73,921
70,198
57,383
51,004
35,651
31,385
25,497
15,668

Players return on Saturday :)

To join them you have 2 last chances to qualify:-

ONLINE tomorrow 8.30pm - £100 1R 1A - 10 x £1,100 seats GTD (£10 1R 1A at 7.30pm with 50 x £110 seats GTD)
LIVE tomorrow 8pm - £50 Turbo Rebuy - 20 x £1,100 seats GTD

Players will win a seat for Day 1C of the £500,000 Monte Carlo :)

Cheers Nicola

I don't really care whether it's an industry standard (I don't remember stars doing it but I regged with them like 8 years ago or something so maybe), it's pretty deplorable. I see it in bookies sometimes - a young-looking guy walks in, plays the machines or makes a bet, wins, and then gets told he can't cashout because he doesn't have ID on him. It's pretty deplorable behaviour from the gambling industry.

In any case I barely play online at all anymore and I recognize that this is much more likely to be iPoker than DTD and I have nothing but good words to say of my experiences with Rob and Simon and the club and am looking forward to the comp today, apologies if I got up anyone's backside about this. About to jump on a train in an hour.....

Another satisified customer FFS. Goodness me - and on THIS thread where we have added £45,000 so far to this Monte Carlo qualifers and you are going to use words like deplorable and DTD in the same paragraph - and youre still gonna turn up to my club today and play? It takes longer to come on here and whine /post a few times than to just verify your age, everyone knows we are just a skin and dont set any of these rules. I have to remember you are the minority, 99% of those than know us support and trust  what we do - and wouldn't think we would do anything deplorable, however people that do not know DTD, especially potential new customers through all the ISPT marketing - well they may be put off by your negative comments.

Hi, finally bagged a seat and gonna play today but I cant get to the club till after 6. What is best course of action to late register using my online token so as to not get blinded away in earlyt levels. Can I just reg at club using my online ticket? Ty ......... PS @ wazza it is an inconvenience at sending ID etc but that is all it is, and yes it prob wud be better to ask for it before they take deposits etc but its not DTD fault who cudn b more helpful and as Rob says u overreacting is not gonna help. GL I sure it will b sorted asap.

Can confirm this isn't the case at all (with all major ones at least). I used to work in a bookies and we were really strict with ID. As soon as someone who we suspected was underage set foot in the shop they were snap called over to show proof of age. Can possibly imagine is being the case with independent bookies tho.

I have instructed the card room that online qualifers and online DBI's recieve their full 30k stacks when they arrive, whatever level of late reg that is. This is the same as a non online late reg player. Your chip stack will not be blinded away - relax Newey:)

Yawn wazz. Aren't you supposed to be relatively is school? How can you even be like this??

Does this mean I should reg online before I turn up late and just collect my chips when i go to my seat?

Just turn up and ask for Nicola mate

Will do. Thanks

If you can log in and register your token online then that will be a great help, then come to cash desk when you arrive and we'll only put your chips in play then.

Cheers Nicola

ok will do that

Hi Guys

Tonight ONLINE & LIVE we have our VERY LAST CHANCE MEGA SATS to qualify for the £500,000 GTD Monte Carlo....& Play 1C tomorrow LIVE at DTD...

LIVE 8pm (LR 9.50pm): £50 Rebuy - 20 x £1,100 seats GTD
ONLINE 8.30pm (LR 10.10pm): £100 1R 1A - 10 x £1,100 seats GTD

Win your £110 entry to the online MEGA SAT in our £5 feeders running all day or £10 MEGA FEEDER with 50 x £110 seats GTD at 7.30pm!!!

Full details - http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/news/last-chance-monte-carlo-satellites---110-seats-gtd/2333

Cheers Guys

I will be easing (slightly) DTDs pain by buying direct tomorrow.

Please dont ignore the 2nd half of my post Rob! I recognize that its not DTD that sets the rules in this regard.

Okay okay Wazz, but see my point aswell please and we are even,

Hi Everyone,

So the numbers are a little behind our targets going into the home straight tomorrow:

Day 1a Online 69 runners (target 75)
Day 1b Live 113 runners (target 125)
Day 1c Live  runners (target 300)

Because we are 18 runners behind target, we now need 318 players tomorrow, to put this into context, the record for a previous Monte Carlo is 313 runners over 2 Day 1's, so we have to exceed that - but all on the same day. Currently we have 183 pre registrations for tomorrow, so need 135 players to stump up £1K tomorrow.

Once you go into the £1K mark, direct buy-ins a whole different ball game, that is why we have always been cautious not to GTE more than £250k (250 runner) for the previous Monte Carlo's. However, we felt we wanted to have a punt at getting the Monte Carlo up to £1M so we are punting this week and are not million miles away - would love to hit the number going into the ISPT launch next week, will give us a boost:)

Cheers Rob