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fresh off the back of final tabling the wsop $10k 6 max i am itching to play more big live events! so i'm going to ept barcelona next month and whilst i've decided to be a degen and take all of my main event action, i would like to sell for and play the €10k high roller later on in the week (providing i am not playing day 4 of the main). on top of that there are a few side events i will also (definitely) be playing and have decided to bundle them together as a package to provide a few more sweats and lower my buyins.

this is the first stop on season 9 of the ept and with there now being fewer stops, (but slightly longer individually) i expect this one to be big. all 4 tournaments should have 6 figures up top. being in spain it will be extremely soft.

things like this happen in spain lol...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKsV6oqZW38




the tournaments -

August 16th
Estrellas Main Event
€1,100
mark up 1.409
% sold 0.30
cost €465

August 18th
Estrellas High Roller
€2,000
mark up 1.317
% sold 0.45
cost €1,185

August 20th
Turbo 8 max Side Event
€2,100
mark up 1.25
% sold 0.40
cost €1050

August 23rd
High Roller
€10,300
mark up 1.151
% sold 0.70
cost €8,300

1 share = €110

i can accept payment via pokerstars, bank xfer, £ cash or € cash, listed in order of preference. note the package is for different percentages per comp. if my only cash is for €15k in the turbo, 40% will return €6k to the package. a €25k cash in the hr will return €17.5k to the package, etc, etc.

as you can see i've packaged this slightly different but the high roller is the priority i am trying to sell, so i am open to changing the structure of this if buyers would like me to, but not looking to sell the side events individually.

20 shares sold - 80 left

Am doing this quick so sorry if I've misunderstood, can I buy all the Estrellas main event action pls (465euros amiright?)?

5 shares please Chris.

Can you let me know the exchange rate (€ - £) & I'll do a bank TX immediately.

Really loved the Vegas sweat, & in case anyone is in doubt, I was fully paid up, in cash, within 36 hours of you cashing.

Good luck in this. 

yh you've misunderstood lol. i will not be selling any event individually except possibly the €10k if the consensus is that i should do that.

Yeh I've obv misunderstood, trying not to miss out again!

 4shares please, 440euro?

2 pls

thanks tikay. booked.

€550 according to xe = £431

lol np. and yes €440, thanks. booked.

thanks. booked.

haven't read thread, saw 110 euro = 1

i'll take 3. :D

Thanks.

PAID £431 by Bank Tx, it should be with you immediately.

I'll take 5 shares please Chris

lol thanks met. booked.

cheers shaun. booked. 61 shares left.

1 pls

sigh saw avatar and thought it was Keys...... rotflmfao

booooooked. thanks george.

lol. so i'll put you down for 10 now u know it's me amirite?

Will take 2 for now, more later if you don't sell out.

OP is missing links and your real name (if you ever take it out of your sig). Also, just to be clear, 10 'shares' would equal 7% in the high roller, 4% in the 8max, 4.5% in the estrella high roller and 3% in the estrella main, right?

Yeah - he's shit keys, he also hasn't detailed tipping strategy, exchange rates and how many massages / hookers he plans to have in Spain  rotflmfao

lol clown. yes that's correct. and booked thanks.

58 shares left.

2 shares please

YBA MET.

15 plz boss

Is there any way that we can have a bit of the Ept main too?

Just want to ask about the way its structured.

If I buy 1% how much of the ESPT main would I have? 0.3%? If so then I understand.

2 please

that's correct, 1 share is buying 0.3% of the espt main, 0.45% of the espt hr, 0.4% of the turbo and 0.7% of the ept hr. the package is dominated by the ept hr, with some extra smaller sweats added in.

booked thanks keith.


tyty tobias. booked.



booked thank you. 39 shares remain.

if possible would like 5 of the 10k high roller.

sure, lmk if u want to book it.

yeh will pay euro in barca.

2 please, will send on stars

glgl

booked ty

Sent on stars, gl

received thanks

craig mccorkell bought 7 shares, 30 shares remaining.

Pm bank details pls

pm sent.

still looking to sell another 20-30 shares of this.

3 shares please

pm bank details and price in £'s please

Pm me bank details please.

2 shares please.  PM me bank deets please.

bank deets pls

Right this is doing my head in. How come the best poker player in the country have not sold this package yet. I can only assume that some people are too stupid to understand the op.

Pretty simple give Chris €110 for 1 share (buy more if you want to make more )

For this you get

0.3% of the estrellas main event
0.45% of the estrellas high roller
0.4% of the ept 8 max
0.7% of the ept high roller

Easy money if you ask me. Hope I got this right or I'm gonna look the thick twat :(

Sigh you thick twat :D

Ffs are you levelling me, have I got it wrong. Can't even delete it now you quoted it :)

no level....try moving a decimal point :D

Fmel  rotflmfao where did the extra zero come from

1 share, pm bank details please.

Sent by bank

glglgl

sent on stars

gl

Sent

Shipped 1 share in euros over stars (Demonic16) If not booked just return, I might not see thread

yh booked cheers.

just 16 shares left people!

i'll take 5. Will ship later 2day on stars.

I'll take 4 more shares please, so 8 in total. Will ship tonight.

cheers lads. anytime before i leave on the 15th is fine.

now only 7 shares left

2 shares pls

 bank details pls.

shipped vbol.

1 share plz, shipped on stars glglglglgl

both booked thanks.

4 shares left

sent via bank

gl

REST

440 Euros = 543.70800 U.S. dollars

Sent $543.71 on Stars (Min-raiseFTW)

Can you message me on skype when you see this plz.

sent 440euro on stars

sold out!

440 EURO shipped on stars - glglgl

Just shipped another 110 euro as my maths is shocking lol

 ;slavedriver; Good Luck to you too Nigdawg. Lets have a couple of Brits heads up on the FT.

Good luck today, Chris!

any news?
updates?

drinking has commenced tis all

Lol. No mention of this event in op

Tilting day :(

Tried to buy into the 1k last night and was told we can ONLY buy in from 11am today (some stupid Spanish law??)

The casino doesn't open until 11am...and I had to meet the landlord to get the keys to our apartment at 11am also. Having sorted the apartment we got to the casino at 11.30 greeted by a queue of 100+ people ffs. 2 hours queuing later and 3 people away from the front the rather unhelpful casino employee tells us "tournament is full, you must leave now, tournament full"

Completely fuming and trying to explain to this woman there WILL be a waiting list and I would like to put my name on it, she refused and turned everyone away. Cutting a long story short we finally managed to speak to someone who had a clue and were put on an alternates list which eventually gave me a seat with 50 minutes of level 4 remaining (100/200 blinds).

It was not ideal but at least the tournament had over 1000 runners. Unfortunately it did not go too well. Table looked great and there were some very comedy hands. First important pot for us a big stack opened to 600 and a fish peeled the button. I peeled from the bb with A5dd and after the 842r one diamond flop went check, bet 1500, call 1500 I c/r to 4800 and folded when the first guy shoved :(

Picked up a couple callers when I had JJ but won the pot with a cbet. Then I won a small pot with AA when I 4bet a min 3bet and got snap peeled but he folded to a cbet too. Then I lost an annoying hand squeezing from the bb with AQhh and getting called by the short stacked sb who was clearly inexperienced/fish. Wish he'd just shoved pre to make it easier but instead he peeled with 1.5x pot left. KKJr one heart flop and he gave out a big sigh (lol) I took this to be he flopped it. 3h on the turn and he bet 1k into 4k, I called and folded to his 5k shove on a brick river and he triumphantly showed the K7o nh.

Coming back from the break not everyone was in their seats which left 2 dead blinds. I opened AQo from mp to 600 off of 8.9k and the hijack 3bet to 1375. Both blinds being dead made this a perfectly reasonable spot to shove imo ....but he had KK and we did not get there :(

Next is the 2k saturday the field should be big and hopefully we can play from the start hassle free!

Sounds like it was just one of those days, Chris - hope it goes better today, & you don't have all that silly queueing hassle.

Good luck you.

Managed to register for the 2k the night before to avoid hassle on the day (someone saw sense and opened up reg for 24hrs on all comps now) but I did not last very long busting 10 mins into level 2 :(

Utg opened to 250 @50/100, 2 people flatted and Eric cajelias squeezed the cutoff to 1k. I had AKo in the sb and we were both playing around starting stacks of 15k. Pretty happy to just 4bet and win the pot pre if I can bt he shoved as soon as the action came back around to him. Not thrilled getting it in but I called off and did not win the 30k flip vs JJ, despite actually hitting an ace. Left me with 600 chips, I doubled next hand KTs>K7o but then shoved 1250 w/KQs into AA and that was me done.

Disappointed to not get any kind of sweat out of these first 2 events but they were just the appetisers for the rest of the week so there is still a lot to look forward to.

This casino is a joke. Today was the 2k turbo but having failed to reg last night because registration was apparently not open, I went down there today in plenty of time only to find the event sold out. I then found out the cap was 64 players lol. I would have still liked to play but being this small we haven't missed out on too much value IMO.

I have registered for tomorrows €2150 event which is a non-turbo 12k chips/50 minute clock/150 player cap jobbie. It will almost certainly sell out and should be good value but it was not in the original package. It will not clash with the €10k on Thursday and the only reason I did not include it originally was because I had hoped to make day 2 of the main event (I didn't :()

I assume investors are ok with this and i will just use the same cost price/% sold as the turbo to make it easy and swallow the difference myself.

Perfectly happy with that Chris.

Gran Casino Barca always did suck, what a shame things do not seem to have improved.

Good luck.

GL!

Sounds ridic tilting, glgl

Got off to a great start in today's 2k, Michael turiniec 4b/6b AJo all in vs my AA in the first level and I was winning pretty much every hand I played for the next 2hrs to get to 44k @150/300/25 from 12k starting. Then came a crucial pot...

I opened A8ss utg to 650 and both blinds peeled, flop  8c 4c 3c and when it checked to me I bet 900 into 2175. The sb then picked up some chips and kept adding to them in a kinda weak tell way before c/r to 3100. This guy was a spanish fish but not in a particularly crazy way just way too loose pre flop and a bit too cally post flop too. He'd shown a tendency to peel suited crap like J3ss, K5ss so I think in retrospect I should of just folded the flop and moved on to the next hand.....buuuut i felt pretty strongly he was just trying something on here and if he was I figured he'd bet the turn and then give up on river. I didn't think he would give me 3 barrels (he was a fish so I didn't think I'd get exploited).  Kh turn he bet 4700 and I called,  8h river and he snap shoved all in for 15,750. I guess my plan all along was to fold river and it shouldn't really change much, except I'm not so sure he just snap shoves a flush once the board pairs. I was also considering the times he has T8s/98s etc and now thinks his hand is good. Really thought he'd bet like 8k or something if he had a flush. So he kinda polarises himself to 33/44. He then called the clock on me (usually strength) and while I basically didn't feel comfortable either way I decided to be a nit and folded.

He promptly turned over  7s 2d for no pair no draw. Obv felt like a mug but this wasn't exactly something I expected to see. We had no history between us before this and he hadn't shown any bluffs before so I'm not sure why this happened lol.

You can just never trust them!

I won a small pot very next hand with KJ on JT664 repping tilt by potting river but after that I did not make the best hand once.

I lost 77 vs 88 blind vs blind for 25bb, lost basically the minimum with QQ vs KK after flatting pre (was trying to induce a squeeze all in from one of the 3 20bb> stacks behind but it didn't happen and came AxxxK), then lost KJ vs AA when he found it off of 9bb. Bust out hand, good/aggro btn min opened off 18k @300/600/75 and I shoved 15k in the sb w/KQo into his AQo.

The comp had 260 runners in the end and I saw probably 4/5 of the most stupid hands I've ever seen not including any I was part of. People literally gave their chips away in this tournament. Shame the 72o guy didn't show some aggro craziness before that hand to give me a better reason to call :(

Made day 2 of the high roller with 76k going back to 500/1k right around average chips with 75 ish players left and 12 paid. 1st place is €360k

Practically doubled up within 20 minutes today with 2 huge donations from the same French guy lol. Unfortunately when the 2 fish busted in the first level (despite rebuying - rebuy gives you a new table draw) my table was pretty tough all day, filled with good regs like brynkenny, dan smith, Kevin macphee, kriustalis andrulis. I played a lot of pots throughout the day but probably value cut myself too many times. I found myself getting most of my small bluffs through though so it wasn't all bad until I lost KK<AKo vs andrulis for 40k pot all in pre/xxxxA which would of given me 110k going into the last level of the day. Had a bad 15 minute spell where I 3b folded twice and raise folded a couple times to go down to 55k before winning 99>AKs all in pre vs dan smith; a tough man to beat in a flip ;)

With 5 hands remaining I played a big pot by peeling a 3bet in position deep w/87ss, called cbet on 664r and turned the mega draw when the Ts hit. Was pretty confident he had AA/KK/QQ so would of been nice to hit the river there but it bricked and i had to fold but then won 3 of the remaining 4 hands to finish on 76k so I'm happy :)

Some run good tomorrow hopefully

glglglglgl

Pokernews are updating this tournament btw if any is interested following tomorrow

Best of luck with it Chris

Nice one Chris, hope it continues today. 

Internet was down last night so couldn't update but I busted the 10k like 56th place or something 90 mins into day 2 :(

Never got above the 76k I started the day with which was frustrating. Early on I peeled an open with 99 vs a good german online player and flop Q93sss, he bets I call, turn J he check calls 7k into 13k then leads 13k on 8s river leaving me pretty handcuffed and I folded. Won most those chips back by squeezing A9s pre out the bb and cbetting in a couple other pots before the table broke. With 72k @600/1200 my new table looked decent despite being oop to 2 good players. I lost a pot vs Saar wilf where I opened A3o from co and cbet real small on AT4r, which he c/r after thought. I called thinking his vrange was very thin (44/A4/AT) and that my small cbet may have induced him. Turn Q he checks with a puzzled look on his face and calls my 1/6th pot bet I figured he had like KQ/QJ etc then river card J means I don't beat much at all. I considered bluff shoving him in for pot on the river when he checked but decided against it and checked thinking my hand could never really be good. He had ATss. Maybe coulda saved myself 3.5k by just checking back turn and folding rivers, and like I said maybe could bluff shove river to try make him fold 2 pair but I'm not sure if he would or not.

Lost another hand vs big stack old French guy splashing around playing too many hands where I 3b his mp open from the sb with KJs an made a bad cbet on 543hh. Flop like this I should just c/f vs him because he is too loose to only fire 1 cbet against and I do not really want to barrel off with no equity vs him either. Good player was in the bb so I'm completely fine with 3betting pre for value but yeh cost myself 7k by bet folding flop, sigh.

Bust out hand, I open 77 from utg+1/mp 7 handed, good player flats co, fish flats btn, fish flats sb and with 12k in there peter jetted squeezes the bb to 11.2k. We were both playing 48k and I think this is an excellent spot for him to squeeze. I'm sure he would realise this too although being a cash player I'm not too sure of how often he actually DOES squeeze. With the way the stacks are I just can't do anything except shove or fold any hand (hence why I think it's a good squeeze). Standing to win 22k by shoving I figured it was ok to shove 77 here, expecting no1 else to call behind ever, and the bb to call with like 99+/AK-AQ giving me like 35% equity or something when he does call. Given I will have that much equity I don't think he needs to be folding all that often to make the shove good. He called with AA though which didn't end too well.

Don't think im playing my best right now so I apologise for that, but I really was looking forward to this week and I've come away pretty tilted. Taking a few days off for a family holiday (even missing Sundays lol!). Thanks for the stake.

Nice report Chris, & very honest.

Enjoy the holiday, & thanks for the reports, which were excellent as always.

Enjoyed the honesty in your reports. There is not much i can say really, thanks for the updates, get the lot soon, we both know its coming!

Only thing i would say with regards to the squeeze is hes less likely to be light when 2 fish peel pre. Not sure what teh blinds are but it looks pretty big aswell.

Unlucky on the package and enjoy the break :)