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Couldn't find an official thread for this anywhere so decided to start my own. 

UKIPT Galway festival starts tomorrow!

Heres the full tournament schedule and more details...

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/live-events/ukipt/festival-schedule

Including a England vs Ireland team event, the Irish Poker Championship, lots of side events and cash games and finally leading upto the UKIPT Main event with a 1m guarantee!

Running alongside Galway races should be a pretty awesome week :D

Satellites are still running on Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker so still lots of chances to win a seat.

Hopefully see some of you there.

Any questions of queries let me know and ill do my best to help.

Jake

Which airport are most people travelling to?

Really pleased to have been asked to be part of Team UK this weekend at the Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival Heads Up Event. It's a €1k buy in invite only and has 16 players from each country.

Here's a link to the first round draw http://www.pokerpalz.com/news/story/table-draw-for-full-tilt-poker-galway-festival-heads-up-event-rounds-1-3

I'm almost certainly part of the value but should be quite fun. I like the UK side better overall, think we've got this

sigh, missed this thread and started another one. Here's a link to the first round draw for the Heads Up event http://www.pokerpalz.com/news/story/table-draw-for-full-tilt-poker-galway-festival-heads-up-event-rounds-1-3

Any live streaming being done for it?

What's the point of it other than nonsense promotional rubbish and making people attend a festival a week before they need to?

probably not much point at all in the grand scheme of things, just like any poker tournament really


not sure, but they're bound to do some sort of coverage if only to get people to come to Galway a week early

Yes indeed, there will be a live stream and chip counts powered by EV Count... all available on Full Tilt Poker Blog on the day

Good Luck with the HU Jamie

Hi all,

Finishing touches have just been completed to the build and considering we have come from a derelict plot of land 10 days ago with no power, internet, sewers or building of any type it looks pretty amazing even if I do say myself.

I posted highlights in the DTD satellite thread so won't repeat post but safe to say we have a lot going on for the entire 17 day festival.

Question from the thread:

- Airports: Shannon and Knock are the closest and easiest at around a 45 minute drive. There is a regular coach service from these airports with a number of companies which is pretty good. We also have a deal with a local taxi firm for a flat rate of €100 which if there are 3 or more of you is really reasonable:

+353 (0)91 561111

Dublin is around 2 hours away by coach and again there is a direct service to Galway which runs very regularly.

For the UKIPT we are offering a free service from Dublin Airport terminal 1 at the following times on a specially branded Full Tilt Poker bus with complimentary beers and we are even working on having Sit & Go tournaments available throughout the journey:

Wednesday 7th 18.30 Coach bay Dublin airport terminal 1 Direct to Galway City Centre
Thursday 8th 13.00 Coach bay Dublin airport terminal 1 Direct to Galway City Centre
Thursday 8th 19.30 Coach bay Dublin airport terminal 1 Direct to Galway City Centre

Streaming - We will be live streaming the UK vs Ireland Heads Up, final table of the Irish Poker Championships and the entire UKIPT Main Event.

The entertainment area is pretty cool and has a late license until the early hours with free pool table, DJ, retro games area, Sky sports etc etc.

Hotel rooms can be pretty pricey at this time of year of here. We have bought up large block bookings well in advance to help accommodate everyone and our prices are around half what you would pay in the same hotels, particularly during the Galway Races (approx 250,000 attend the horse racing festival to give you an idea of the scale with the population of Galway at only 60,000).

These are available from UKIPT Hotels:

http://www.ukipthotels.com/

Promotions - These include a rake free happy hour on all cash games, a UKIPT Seaon 4 passport for the last standing FTP qualifier and added value to the Championship events:

http://www.fulltiltpokergalway.com/

I think everyone who came to the UKIPT here last year agreed it was the highlight of Season 3 (alongside UKIPT Notts) so hopefully see you all here (satellites on DTD, PS and FTP)!

Any questions please fire away.

Jamie

In b4 TLDR

Im flying Manchester-Shannon... then the bus to Galway, seemed like the easiest option

Flying to Dublin then bus to Galway

Well this sounds pretty good and flying to Dublin is cheaper. How do I guarantee myself and my friends a seat on this coach?

If its citilink I booked online a few days in advance online, bus wasn't busy though.

   Flying to Shannon on Wednesday afternoon 31st. Hired a car. If I see any degen poker types at the airport i am happy to give a lift to Galway.

How many runners did the Galway Cup get?

464 was the final number

Updates on the Full Tilt Poker blog below:

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/

That's not the full tilt coach though is it Mr ambassador?

The format for the "UK v Ireland" heads up is a bit strange..

Looks more like a regular heads up tournie to me!

4 x 16 matches would have been more fun surely?

Now it looks like they've tinkered with the structure to make it completely indecipherable!

 Wasn't going to post today - but just drawn Gus Hansen....happy to flick it in for that :)

This is a car crash:

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/uk-vs-ireland-heads-up/

Why didn't they just play it as team event?

Seems like the GB v Ireland match has 7 Brits and one Dane left!

Why didn't they just have a random draw, everyone plays 4 matches against different members of the opposing team.

64 total matches.

Each player puts in 1k, Pokerstars adds 18k - winning team gets 50k.

Simples!

I dont get the problem keith? It's abit of banter and gives the event some extra spice a marketing. If there was a HU sng tournament would it have got 64 runners? Would jake Cody, Matt perrins, Claypole and other big names go To Galway and be there for 10 days before ukipt started?


Great marketing IMO and banter seems fun as well.

Anybody out there know what the cash games have been like?

binked myself a seat, as said above how do I guarantee myself a seat on this bus for me +1?

Two tables of €5/€10 running tonight one that was five handed and another full ring.  Few Irish punters sitting pretty deep. I think then a couple of 2/5 and 1/2.  General view is will be quiet this week with a few Irish punters from races however will busy weekend when they have this accumulator comp and it's the busiest weekend of the year in Galway

Don't understand why it was marketed as GB v Ireland if it was a straight knockout tournament.

They was even a GB v Ireland score on the website. Which was redundant as all the Irish lads were busted out.

Could have been a great craic if it really was GB v Ireland as advertised, but as it was, it was just another tournament.

Cheers. Cant play the main, but may come over to play some cash next week.

Kieth:

Initially the plan was to have 3 "1st round matches" (would b 3x 16 match, all UK vs Irl) accumulating points then the top 8 progress to a KO format drawing as UK vs Irl as much as possible (might be 1 Irl vs Irl or Eng vs Eng or w/e) and points based on finishing positions for the team standings.

The it was pointed out that this would take ages so the structure was adjusted to a straight knockout comp, with points awarded to the team based on each players finishing position, and whoever got the most points would be the winning team and the players were playing for individual prizemoney. The draw was always adjjusted so it would be IRL vs UK wherever possible. There was a ton of banter going on between the matches, everyone was taking it pretty liberally lots of us were drinking pretty heavily lol and it was actually a great laugh. would have been better if more irish guys made it to the last 8 so we could sweat the team results, but still a good laugh..

congrats team England

I've played in a couple of team heads up events and the rail when the scores were close with just a 2 or 3 matches remaining was amazing.

Think probably teams of 16 were a little too big, but if you had two teams of 8, you could have had 32 heads up games (forget about this best of 3 malarky) and make them turbos - it wouldn't have taken too long at all.

Just seemed this format was making something very easy to organise too complicated.

But if everyone had a good laugh that's the most important thing.

This.


Good excuse to post this blast from the past.

Wow

11,7,4,2...

Lildave vs Gus in the final

The Great Dane v The Yorkshire Terrier

Hi,

Email ukipt@pslive.com to reserve your seat (FAO Jamie).


If anyone is looking to book a last minute trip to the races/poker festival we have a great deal on The G Hotel for €150 per night double occupancy B&B for any nights between now and the 12th (anyone who has been to Galway this time of year will know how cheap that is).

PM if interested.

Jamie

at least we got beat by the eventual champ. Good to meet you Shaun, top bloke

Likewise Jamie, was fun....and at least SDWKDave as he is know known (stop drinking with kidneys Dave) did us proud. Very unlucky for the artist formerly known as Lil Dave, great effort.

Not sure words are necessary

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€1m guaranteed for the main event.

I've just checked - 119 qualifiers and direct buyins from FT and 184 from Stars.

Anyone know how many from DTD?

Anyone else running sats?

It's looking like a big overlay is possible (although Stars always seems to conjure up players at the last minute when overlays look like happening!)

I did wonder about the huge guarantee in a place tough  to get to (for most)

Might need to plan a last minute driving trip

I always underestimate the amount of runners for tournaments with a guarantee.. but surely a ceiling of 750 or so is likely.

250k overlay if so!

He was playing for England.

Think theyre at least a little worried as i see them trying to punt "cheap" hotel rooms all over the place

Squeaky bum time for sure!

Think you have missed the 43 package qualifiers from PS but your numbers are otherwise correct. Nothing like a challenge :)

We are trying to create something big here and rejuvenate the Irish poker scene so hopefully from our perspective the €250k overlay doesn't happen ;)

If you could rejuvenate the Irish economy while you're at it I'd be most grateful.

Kthxbai

This picture would be the best if they swapped drinks

no idea what the hell is up with my face!

I like this one better :P

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As much as I sound like a huge fanboy, playing Gus was amazing, he was just really cool and was looaaadds of fun to play. I was pretty drunk during the game lol would love to watch the stream back :D

Amount of money we have spent we are giving it a good go ;)

Anyone flying in on the evening Ryanair Shannon flight on Weds and:

1) Want to split carhire or

2) Want to split taxi/minibus??

Think last bus is like 9pm and flight gets in at 10 unless anyone knows any different bus companies!!

UKPN takes us through the first week's results from Galway

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2013/08/gus-hansen-wins-big-at-the-full-tilt-poker-galway-festival-m-11304.htm

Wish I coulda been there to see Dave vs Hansen. Seems epic.

Hi, I've made a bit of an error and double booked myself into two hotels for this trip and i'm past the free cancellation time. Before I cough up €119 for nothing I'm wondering if anyone would need a room at Flannery's from 6th Aug (Tuesdsay) checking out 11th August (Sunday). Here's their website http://www.flanneryshotelgalway.com/home.htm

I've paid £543.64 / €625 for that booking, if this looks alright to anyone who hasn't sorted their accom yet i'd happily take £500 / €578.

Cheers

Oh yea, it's a double room too

Anyone flying in on the Weds Gatwick evening flight to Shannon then?

nevermind, it's gone now

If anyone's looking for a cheap double room a few of my mates have a room spare. It's an appt with UKIPT regs, Owen Robinson, Kevin Williams, David Docherty and Chi Tsang. It's €150 till next Monday

Just stumbled across this thread. Amazing stuff!

Loving the old school photo of what I can only infer is the 1987 Ice Hockey and Poker Dual-Event Team. Wish there were more team events at festivals like that; the game can be so community based that there must be room for fun things like that.

As an aside, it reminded me of my 8ball pool days at uni, when I played in the University Pool Council event (essentially the British University Championships). This was from the 2005 event:

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I think some kid called Moorman made the All Star Team that year from a different uni. Never made it to the big time pool leagues tho AFAIK. Not sure what became of him.

Galway Festival: Dwyer leads Irish Poker Open

Here are how the remaining twelve players will stand when they return to play down to the final 7 tomorrow:

Steve O`Dwyer United States 265,400
Max Silver United Kingdom 216,500
Thomas Hall United Kingdom 186,100
Christopher Day United Kingdom 154,700
Marc MacDonnell Ireland 152,200
Ian Gascoigne United Kingdom 111,700
Jason O’Toole Ireland 48,100
Peter Murphy Ireland 38,800
Elior Benjamin Sion United Kingdom 36,300
Paul Weekes Ireland 36,000
Trevor Dinneen Ireland 29,600
Jake Cody United Kingdom 22,000

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/galway-festival-dwyer-leads-irish-poker-open/#.UgCvHmmjups.facebook

Wowzers! Anyone know the blinds? Ian looks in great shape to provide some live stream check raising heroics!

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If they're following the usual UKIPT structure then it'll be 800-1,600 ante 200 on resumption as last level of the night was 600-1,200 ante 200.

Did tomsom lend his hoodie out?

Is Ian still in ? Can't find updates anywhere?

There you go, Pete.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60192.msg1821939;boardseen#new

 ;tightend;

Did tikay get whooshed or did I get doublewhooshed?

Almost certainly the former.....

   Have fun in Galway all you DTD qualifiers. You never know what can happen.

Apart from a couple of guys who wish to remain Anonymous, here is the DTD team playing UKIPT Galway's Main Event, 20 of them winning Satellite seats over the last fortnight on DTDPoker.com

Fraser   Bellamy
Shaun   Herran-Venables
STEVEN   GRAY
Alexander   Goulder
Peter   Evans
Jack   Young
Darren   Hodson
Jonathan   Gill
Vikrum   Mehta
Matthew   Baker
paul   mason
James   Tomlin
David   L'Honore
Michael   Brown
tim   slater
Adebayo   Odetoyinbo
jake   sharpe
jonathan   kalmar
david   ulliott
Rob    Yong
Simon   Trumper
Waheed    Ashraf


Looks very strong, and I will try to update this thread on progress over the next few days

Ok late decision to flick this in.  Am on the BA flight that leaves Heathrow at 6.45am and lands at 8am to Dublin.  Anyone on the same flight wanna chop a cab?

Edit:

Looks like will be too expensive for cab so coach or train or hire car!

Hi all,

231 for the main event today with 769 more players required to hit the €1,000,000 guarantee.

Disappointed with numbers but the place is buzzing at the moment so who knows what tomorrow holds.

Jamie

Can you buy in with cash tomorrow?  If I buy in on FTP will my stack go down at start with a seat draw or do I have to reg first with my PS Live Card

Hi Ryan,

Citylink coach from Dublin airport terminal one to Galway. Gets you there in two hours. Cheapest and best option.

ryan  taxi is 300 euros from dublin to galway whereas the train is 30 from euston station apparantly    bad signal apologies

late reg is 2 hours for the main and you can pay from ft or stars account but if you reg before your chips are live at the stary of play

hope this makes sense and see you when arrive

For travel today - Citylink is €16 each way and takes 3 hours.  The train is €35.99 each way and takes 2 hours 20 minutes, but you must add on additional time and money for a taxi from Dublin airport to Heuston station when taking the train.  

Those are online fares.  Citylink adds 50p if you buy in person, but not sure what's additional (if any) for the train when you buy in person.  

Normally I'd opt for train, but with all the added bs involved here, Citylink is the only way to go imo.

http://www.irishrail.ie/

http://www.citylink.ie/

I walked out of the Terminal at Dublin Airport recently to jump the CitiLink coach into town & the driver was APAT & Next Door stalwart "Cormach". What were the chances?

Ahhhhh, didn't know Cormach drove for them too.  Definitely the way to go.  Don't know about Cormach's driving, but were gamblers, so flip a coin.   :D

On the go bus with George!

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/full-tilt-poker-galway-festival-day-13-recap-ukipt-day-1a-high-roller/

UKIPT Galway burst into action today, the €1,000,000 guaranteed event enticing 231 eager runners to take their seats in one of Europe’s biggest tournaments.

Full Chip Counts from yesterday are at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxrimFRPN3ZPa2VldVI5Vndnd0E/edit

Hi guys,

This is actually incorrect. Late registration is open for 4 hours so until 4:30pm including breaks.

If you buy-in in advance your stack does not go live until you take your seat and you will receive a full stack as long as you arrive by the end of late registration (if you arrive after late registration has closed you will receive a blinded stack).

Many thanks,

Jamie

740+ runners already today..................... overlay smoverlay! As if, this is a stars event!

This is not true, I believe this is total players registered including yesterday. We do not have 740 seats for a start :)

Late registration has been extended to 6 levels meaning you are able to buy in and receive a full stack until 7:30pm, get over here!

Jamie

Eventually, with 630 runners yesterday and 861 total there was an overlay of €139,000

282 made day 2 from midday today. Updates at http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/galway-festival-day-14-recap-ukipt-day-1b-open-face-bounty-finish/

Chip counts, all the bust outs etc on a very good page at http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/ukipt-main-event-reporting/


With the final numbers in, the payout structure will be as follows:

1 €205,600
2 €131,800
3 €80,400
4 €62,000
5 €45,300
6 €30,210.00
7 €22,310.00
8 €16,500.00
9 and 10 €13,100
11 and 12 €10,670
13 and 14 €8,730
15 and 16 €7,000
17 to 24 €5,580
25 to 32 €4,850
33 to 40 €4,360
41 to 48 €3,880
49 to 56 €3,400
57 to 72 €2,910
73 to 88 €2,430

51 remain going into today

Pos   Players Name   Chipcount      
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1    Tim Michels   835000      
unch
2    Andrew Dwyer   813000      
unch
3    Dino Sabatini   755000      
unch
4    Tony Martin   583000      
unch
5    Jonathan Slater   578000      
unch
6    Daniel Wilson   533000      
unch
7    Barry Donovan   520000      
unch
8    Jack Salter   520000      
unch
9    Raul Paez   514000      
unch
10    Alexander Tikhoniouk   496000      
unch
11    Peter Murphy   471000      
unch
12    Max Silver   435000      
unch
13    Ryan Straub   434000      
unch
14    Paul Febers   428000      
unch
15    Ido Aboudi   415000      
unch
16    Mark Spelman   415000      
unch
17    Padraig Parkinson   397000      
unch
18    Dimitri Pembroke   387000      
unch
19    David Kolmberger   375000      
unch
20    Daniel Tighe   359000      
unch
21    Christopher Patrick Morkan   358000      
unch
22    Paul Delaney   355000      
unch
23    Dara Davey   348000      
unch
24    Richard Owens   321000      
unch
25    Simon Brooks   321000      
unch
26    Alan Gold   309000      
unch
27    Tomasz Raniszewski   304000      
unch
28    Dale Philip   293000      
unch
29    Benjamin Spragg   277000      
unch
30    Yucel Eminoglu   260000      
unch
31    Jack Young   239000      
unch
32    Christine Ann Dunn   230000      
unch
33    Steven Cheeke   224000      
unch
34    David Parkinson   206000      
unch
35    Paul Parker   205000      
unch
36    Stephen Ng   204000      
unch
37    Dominic Mahoney   200000      
unch
38    Gary Haggan   174000      
unch
39    Renee Xie   167000      
unch
40    Paul Glaister   152000      
unch
41    Anton Nesterenko   149000      
unch
42    Gary Fields   148000      
unch
43    Hakon Johansen   142000      
unch
44    Thomas Ward   140000      
unch
45    Gareth Hamilton   130000      
unch
46    Damian Porebski   126000      
unch
47    Miklos Soproni   109000      
unch
48    Euan Cameron   102000      
unch
49    William Colin   98000      
unch
50    Mackey John   91000      
unch
51    Adrian Tracey   78000      
unch

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/ukipt-main-event-reporting/ for the stream, updates and payouts

gl jack salter

Is that THE Paul Parker?

Good luck to him if it is, also to the udoubtedly maddest Turk in Galway.

Turk v Tighe heads up, please.

Tighe = gherkin, yes?

Q When is €1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool not a €1million prizepool?

A When it's a Full Tilt sponsored event!

Unbelievably tight of them to take the 3% for the dealers tip off the guarantee to make it a €970k prizepool.

After 831 x €100 reg fees and this 30k for the dealers, the overlay is actually only €28k.

GL Benji Spragg, local kiddy from Stroud.....get there sir!!!

Actually "unbelievably tight" should read "blindingly predictable"

Yep.

Gl padraig p and thomas ward

How many dealers were there? How much will they get each? 30k sounds very nice deal for them. I presume they get their wages + expenses so why are players forced to tip? Thought tips were supposed to be a voluntary thing for good service etc. Is this the norm? £30k sounds little excessive to me.......... IDK?

3% withheld for staff etc.

Common fare in the US to skim a percentage off the top as a service charge. I don't like it, but then I'm not supposed to; it doesn't benefit me, the punter.

I was told there was 80 dealers so nearly 400 each.

I don't begrudge them a decent payday because they are excellent but surely that is what the reg fee is supposed to cover?

But taking a percent from the pool leads to operators think they can get away with min wages and let the players take the strain.

I would absolutely tip a small amount if I cash if they didn't withhold. But asking me if I want to tip after already taking 3 p was taking the piss IMO.

Shorting the guarantee was not surprising but pretty cheap.

I've been on both sides of it.  Have worked for big events in Ireland where we get a percent of the tips and have also cashed in tourneys where they ask if you'd like to leave a tip - when they've already sliced off the prize pool for it.  Very few things in the poker world 'tilt' me, but that is very definitely one of them...despite the fact I would have been on the receiving end of the 'extras' at times.  So many levels of wrong (borders on bullying imo) to request tips from players as your walking them to the cash desk.

Another good thing about DtD is there was no pressure to tip in the mini deepstack last week, I've been pressured to leave something for the dealers even when I just about won my buy in back in some UK casinos (thin more than min cashed for once brag I know!)

Dtd do normally ask if you want to leave a tip for the dealers, on the deepstack comps.

The final chip counts come the end of the day were as follows:-

1 UK Alan Gold 4.05M
2 IE Daragh Davey 3.435M
3 UK Paul Febers 2.91M
4 IE Dimitri Pembroke1.915M
5 UK Jonathan Slater 1.6M
6 UK Benjamin Spragg 1.44M
7 PL Damian Porebski 695K
8 IE Christy Morkan 695K

Profiles of the finalists are at http://46.105.151.230/blog/galway-festival-ukipt-final-table-profiles/

Final today at http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/ukipt-main-event-reporting/

thin?

Rare to see "Vinni" & "thin" in the same sentence.

GL to Febers, xxcelticfcxx online and 1 of the first Scottish MTT grinders. Also if he wins this it'll mean the 1st 2 UKIPT season 4 winners are from Glasgow

To those of you who were/ are watching the UKIPT live stream, during the break, there is a kind of theme music/song  thats been played. Does anyone know what song is that??? Love the tune.....

Alan Gold won it, completely dominating the final

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"UKIPT Galway has played to a finish – Alan Gold besting his fellow competitors to pick up the trophy, the title and €187,494, defeating Paul Febers heads-up.

Gold came into the final as chip leader, and blitzed his way to the championship in under four hours."

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Ill stick to the bowl comps with steep payouts then :)

Hi All, Here is a scan i made of the racing post pull out review of the tournament. Its written by kpnuts who some of you degens will know from playing in Ireland and Kens visits here.

My pullout was published in Irish edition of last Saturday's Racing Post only. Thought it might be of interest to some of ye who were over for UKIPT Galway earlier this month so I asked Rounders to upload as I'm a technology fish!
Enjoy, KP