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Hi guys,

Just a quick update on a tournament that some of you may find interesting.

We are trialling at £250 + £25 UKIPT PLO Series at PokerStars LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino.

Details:

Day 1A - Friday 23rd May, 14:00
Day 1B - Saturday 24th May, 14:00
Day 2 - Sunday 25th May, 12:00

Structure: 20,000 Starting Stack, 30 Min Levels. Identical structure to UKIPT Main Event without the antes.

1 Re-entry is permitted into each starting day!

http://www.pokerstarslondon.com/tournaments/

We have daily NLH and PLO satellites on PokerStars 'Events > PSLive > London' tab.

Hope you guys enjoy something different :). As ever feel free to post or PM me any feedback or questions.

Many thanks,

Jamie

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Afternoon Jamie,

I came up to the Hippodrome on Tuesday to play the £110 Omaha, for which you were offering an added Free Seat to the Omaha Series. Unfortunately, it never ran, as only 2 of us Regged, bugger.

Will you be running any further Omaha Tourneys THIS weekend?

Shush you, this is for grown-ups only.

Hey Tikay,

We've found this tournament particularly difficult to get going on a regular basis in London's competitive market - we don't have any schedule for THIS weekend

We are not planning any other PLO sides for the weekend of UKIPT Series but we will have a PLO Live satellite on Friday evening into Day 1B:

May 23rd 7:30pm - 1R1A - 15 min clock, 5k Starting Stack

We will also have the regular NLH Sunday Deepstack at 14:30 on Sunday May 25th - £110 20k Starting Stack, 30 Min levels.

Many thanks,

Jamie

OK, thanks Jamie.

Sadly (for me) hardly anyone seems interested in Omaha these days.

Good luck with the UKIPT Series though, I'm sure it will go well. 

I attended the recent UKIPT @ DTD, first time I've ever been to a UKIPT, & I thought the whole thing was mightily impressive.

They are all running scared of you Tikay. 

sharks like you have killed the game. Your omahas equivalent of pleno

That would have been me and you then. The week before I was the only one :-(

I'm not sure that making it one re-entry per day rather than a double-chance is going to be attractive to anyone but high-rollers who are happy to fire four bullets if neccessary.

My personal opinion is that double-chance is the optimum format for PLO tournies.

Wow, wish I'd known you were there.

You had already regged, as there was one entry when I arrived.

I got talking to the guy behind the cash desk, he knew me from a sort of do I organised a few years back, & we both attended, for the launch of Sky Atlantic.

I hired a firm called Pokervision to provide me with 6 dealers, (he was one) as I had to set up a 1930's, "Boardwalk Empire" themed spieler.

The things we do to earn a living.....

This was my little spieler. I never got the gig again......


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Nice, I'll go to this.

Any other blondes fancy it?

Jamie, do I need to have a stars account or is passport and cash enough to buy in?

I might have to work on the Sunday, but if not, I'll see you there.

Oh my word, would LOVE you on my Table. Oh yes.

Don't dissuade yourself from entering one of the day 1's just because the final is on a sunday and you have work then. That won't matter at all. For you. :)

Hi,

Cash is fine on the day - you will need your passport to register as a member with The Hippodrome which takes about 30 seconds.

Cheers,

Jamie

Is there a guarantee for this comp?

Yes      .............      Tikay will not play a hand till level 9.

No, we have never guaranteed UKIPT Series events.

We can guarantee top level PLO staff and dealers from our GPTL staff who normally deal our EPT Events and a fantastic venue :)

We are running a couple of live satellites with ADDED seats for anyone interested with one tonight, both are £35+£5:

Tuesday 20th - 1 seat added
7.30pm
7000 stack
20 minute clock
1 rebuy


Friday 23rd - 2 seats added
7.30pm
7000 stack
20 minute clock
1 rebuy or add on


Jamie

I'll make the trip over for this again, hopefully will get more than 2 registered this week.

pretty sure me and Plintanon will be coming to this too.

hopefully gets some runners.

Any idea of how many are expected?

Could you let the floor staff know - just arrived and I'm told the only sat is on Friday.

That'll be a no then, cancelled with 2 registered.

sigh

guess i wont be turning up then

cant see this getting runners

Think you may be right :-(

We did manage to get a 456 Omaha cash game running.

Number of direct buyins for 1A = 0. The number registered for 1B isn't any higher. They don't know how many, if any, have won seats on Stars.

There are 28 runners in a 'winners' freeroll tonight with 1 seat up for grabs.

How many ukipt Omaha events have you had?

Seems like a mistake not to even put a small guarantee on the comp which would've attracted some players.

Correction. There were 28 tickets awarded to the freeroll. 6 turned up. 2nd and 3rd won a seat in a £40 sat, 1st won the seat.

<thin>
I've regged for 1A.

The number of live PLO comps I've played can be counted on one hand so it might just be me but the satellite tonight and the main event follow the UKIPT NLHE structure and have antes.

Is it me or is that, err, unusual?

PLO should never have antes.

OK not just me then - was a genuine wtf moment when the dealer asked for antes.

Not antes in the UKIPT Series structure, otherwise it follows the same structure as a normal UKIPT.

Hope to see some of you later and that this is successful. We often have requests to provide 'low' buy-in alternatives to NLH on the UKIPT so we were hoping this would provide something to build on.

Jamie

Good to hear, looking forward to it.

About 16 runners to start, playing 10 levels or down to 5.

25 entries by the first break, 21 left. Have 21.4k from 20k - ripping new ones for fun.

30 runners at the close of late reg.

Any more arsehole rippage to report?

If we were playing Badugi instead I'd have been been golden. As it was I was nitty mcnit all night winning a couple of pots and bagged up 39BB as one of the 12 returning for day 2, average is 55BB.

Was an entertaining table to be on; wildrick from the old Laddies days was there so we were chatting about the Daddy comp and the like and how easy it was back then compared to now. I recognised a few other faces; Sam Grafton and a female British pro whose name escapes me.

Good stuff, and all the best tomorrow mate!

42 played 1B. Prize pool is £17,460, £4.8k FTW. 11 paid.

23 left, ave stack 31bb, I'm nursing a short stack.

Good luck!

In the final 8.

Threads better than a tikay rail😀

Glglgl

Very best of luck sir.

Martins Adeniya Spins Shortest Stack into First Pot Limit Omaha Trophy at UKIPT Series

London, UK - 25th May

Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Martins Adeniya has won the first ever UKIPT Series Pot Limit Omaha event at The Hippodrome Casino, London, taking home £4,800 from a total prizepool of £17,560. He started the day firmly in last place in chips, but turned a tiny stack into a victory, proving the old adage that all you need to win a poker tournament is “a chip and a chair.”

“I was going to come back [for Day 2] with less than half my starting stack,” reminisced Adeniya, “So I watched the Champions League final and played online until 7am.” That was not, however, a pre-final tactic he recommended. “I wasn’t planning on making the final – I just turned up to see what happened. But I wasn’t going to punt it off; I can play short-stacked Omaha.”

The £250 + £25 UKIPT Series PLO event was held May 23rd-25th, continuing the Series’ paralleling of the UKIPT with affordable buy-in, deep-stacked events held at PokerStars LIVE in the heart of London.

Day 2 began with Sidney Oppong, the only player to have amassed more than 100,000 chips during either starting flight, comfortably leading 29 survivors – some, including Adeniya, very short-stacked. Three levels in, however, Pot Limit Omaha had proven its reputation for swings to be well-deserved, as a new chip leader emerged in the form of Stephen Pearce. Pre-bubble, dangerous players like Wesley Oudshoorn, Louis Schwartz and even Oppong himself found themselves on the rail, as the vagaries of tournament PLO took their toll.

The bubble period was cagey, but after the elimination of Full Tilt Poker Ambassador (and Day 1a’s chip leader) Sinem Melin in 13th place, a flurry of action finally saw off an unlucky Marc McFadden in the last cashless spot.

With a payday guaranteed, just one 30 minute level passed before the final table was set:

Clifford Jacobs, United Kingdom, 206,000
Martins Adeniya, United Kingdom (Full Tilt Poker Ambassador) 294,000
Deborah Rogers, United Kingdom, 101,000
Grant Mason, United Kingdom, 68,000
Patrick Hudson, United Kingdom, 393,000
Stephen Pearce, United Kingdom, 162,000
Samuel Welbourne, United Kingdom (PokerStars Player) 140,000
Richard Wild, United Kingdom (PokerStars Player) 57,000

There was action from the first hand, with Adeniya feeling the sharp end of no fewer than three early double ups. His chips went to Deborah Rogers, Richard Wild and Grant Mason – although the latter went on to bust first from the final (8th for £655) – not bad for a freeroll qualification at The Hippodrome Casino. One-time chip leader Stephen Pearce soon followed him in 7th, when his pre-flop all-in with single-suited eights went the way of caller Samuel Welbourne, whose overcards ended up bringing him a full house.

Half a level later, a slow-starting pot between Richard Wild and Welbourne escalated into an all-in situation on a Qs-Js-5h flop, Wild’s set of jacks failing to hold, in the end, against Welbourne’s straight wrap. Down to five, with the average stack remaining relatively short (as it had been all final), Clifford Jacobs took the plunge preflop but fell to ever-more-comfortable new chip leader Patrick Hudson.

Deborah Rogers was the next player to run out of room to manoeuvre chip-wise – down to just three big blinds she took her chances against her previous chip donator Adeniya, but this time failed in her double-up goal and had to settle for 4th place and £1,720.

There followed a tussle for the chip lead between Hudson and undisputed comeback champion of the day (if not the whole UKIPT season 4) Adeniya. The crucial hand, from which Hudson never recovered, saw him match up a similar hand with Adeniya (Ac-Ks-8c-7s vs. As-Kc-8d-2c, all in preflop) but Adeniya’s seven made a second pair for him, giving him the boost he needed to bust Hudson in 3rd (£2,235).

Heads up, 30 year old professional poker player Welbourne cut in to Adeniya’s chip lead, starting their first two-man break with an almost even stack. On their return, fewer than ten minutes passed before the final hand – a wrap for Adeniya vs. Welbourne’s overpair - gave Adeniya his first live Pot Limit Omaha title.

Regularly to be found playing $5/$10 PLO online, Adeniya has up until now not even cashed in a live Omaha event, and will be using this tournament as a warm-up for World Series PLO events. Of the game itself, which certainly demonstrated its capacity for upsets today, Adeniya said, "I like the swinginess - when it's going my way!"

• For full details of the major hands, and other crucial action from the final table, visit the PokerStars Blog.

Full payouts from the £250 + £25 UKIPT Series Pot Limit Omaha event:

1st. Martins Adeniya, United Kingdom (Full Tilt Poker Ambassador) £4,800
2nd. Samuel Welbourne, United Kingdom (PokerStars Player) £ 3,415
3rd. Patrick Hudson, United Kingdom, £ 2,235
4th. Deborah Rogers, United Kingdom, £ 1,720
5th. Clifford Jacobs, United Kingdom, £ 1,360
6th. Richard Wild, United Kingdom (PokerStars Player) £ 1,065
7th. Stephen Pearce, United Kingdom, £ 840
8th. Grant Mason, United Kingdom, £ 655
9th. Toran Nicholls, United Kingdom, £ 500
10th. Axel Briend, France, £ 435
11th. Adam Owen, United Kingdom (PokerStars Player) £435

While the next UKIPT Series event returns to the No Limit Hold’em format (August 8th-10th at The Hippodrome Casino, London), the next stop on the UKIPT is its holiday jaunt to Casino Marbella as part of the PokerStars Marbella Festival. The €1,000 + €100 Main Event (in association with the ESPT) runs from June 11th-15th. Visit ukipt.com for details. Qualify now for as little as €2 on PokerStars.com.