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After a few months of waiting and excitement for it op open, it finally is here.

The launch night looked like it got off great and the from the outisde it does look brilliant. The launch night saw some Emmerdale stars there and even the gold medal winning Ms Ellis there too.

For the Sheffield regulars, we are hoping for some quality to come out of it, as we have had to put up with the G-Casino not treating us fairly, but I suppose Naps at both Eccy Road and Hillsborough haven't been bad. I am actually hoping that they actually wipe the floor with G-Casino over the next few years for sure, after quite a few issues.

So for all of you regulars to a local Genting, what can we expect?

G casino is a joke. Do they train the dealers to be as slow and tilting as possible to make you spew?
Live poker is defo rigged lol

Definitely be making the short trip from Donny to this place.

Couple of questions to bother you with pls...

What's it like for parking round there?
What's gentings levels and structures like in tourneys?

Should be there tomorrow night to give it a spin, looking forward to it.

Cheers

I don't know answer to questions with sure answers.

Car parking? The casino is directly under a car park...

Structure - Look on wesbite? They have their schedule on website.

I've looked all over the website for structures with no luck, schedule looks ok I think there's sommat for everyone there.

Bars look pretty decent too, I might come on train instead!

might pop down tonight to see what the action is like

Being a regular at GentIngDerby I expect it to be awesome. If they get a good manager and dealers like we have then it should wipe the floor with anywhere your badly treated. I will certainly be making some trips up.

That area is swarming with armies of Chinese students whenever I drive past, assuming a fair few of them have rich parents, I see a chunk of the profits for the casino coming from that group.

Yes I noticed that this year, my missus works next to the University and she said there are loads this year. The new Genting even had a Chinese dragony show last night in the bar.

The casino is under a massive car park, no idea if you get cheap rates (its the most expensive car park in the city) but it is in an amazing location. I'll be popping down this week at some point.

its mid autumn festival on sunday hence the dragon show.


Also most chinese students are very rich and love to gamble and dont mind doing chunks!

lots of chinese in manchester hanging around in casinos cos there is nothing else fun to do.

 just hope I can become friends with them and introduce them to some poker :)

be nice to get a genting rep on here to say which cash games will be running on what days

They are running 24 hour, but of course I don't think there will be a game anytime before 5pm most days.

I'd suggest going down tomorrow at some point as they have one of the bigger buyin games on tomorrow. Cash games @ G-Casino have been starting at 5-5.30pm, would probably guess same.

Raf White is the manager and does post on here from time to time.

may pop down there some time in the near future!

on a side note if any1 fancies putting me in these games feel free as my BR is currently none existant due to life :(

lol, Tom.

Get a BAP out, I'll take a little.

just hope people keep there hands of the rake! ;)

Don't know whats gone off but load of windows put through Saturday evening.

I heard about the windows being smashed in, heard one story, so not sure if it is right. I saw the windows today too as I visited briefly, still not sorted.

It looks like a nice place, weird layout for me, but card room looks really nice. I got posting on Facebook and it looks already like half the regs that start a cash game at G-Casino are going to be playing at Genting, can not wait, they have treated the customers like garbish, so they deserve the boycott. I think Genting probably needs a little change to schedule though.

went to genting last night, a 1/2 game and a 50/1 game were running, nice cardroom, and good wifi is a bonus. Numbers weren't the best as the tourney was a freeroll, but were trying to sort out a 2-2/5-5 DC game for every thursday 10pm start

(http://i.imgur.com/4dxHN.jpg)

Not sure if this is a regular feature.

What happened about the windows? Saves me asking Barry :)

a ejected cutomer wasent happy got nicked

shall be paying a visit soon as only 5 min from my house .

dont think they will ever be as good as dtd for touniments maybe worth while for smaller ones in week

as for g well if we treated our customers like they do we all be on dole f??? g casino sheffield they will never get a penny out mny pocket

Don't forget to cash your points in though!

Popped down tonight, quite like the place. Nice looking venue, food looks pretty good, card room is very nice. The comps seem well structured, and if anything, a little bit too well structured for low stakes/week night tournaments (For those of us planning to work the next day). They managed about 40 today for the £17+1 re-entry deepstack, they got 28 last night for the £55 and 110 for the freeroll + £10 rebuys on Monday. Hope they can get a decent following, if nothing else it's tons better than the competition in Sheffield.

They have a £100+10 comp with 5k added on the 13th

5 GPS seats added too I here. Another £2200 if value.

Is cash rake free during October?

Hi,

A quick response as I don't want to step on anyone's toes but Simon has kindly agreed for me to come on and answer the questions.

Cash games - They are rake free throughtout October apart from (Sun 7th & Sat 13th), we've had a £1/£2 Texas running every night since we opened along with 50p/£1 every night apart from 1, we've also had a £5/£5 PLO on the opening night, we are setting up a regular DC game hopefully to run initially on a Thursday and Sunday

Launch tournament is on Saturday 13 October @ 5pm, £100 (+£10) with £5,000 cash and 5 x GPS seats ADDED, 30 minute blinds throughout and a 15,000 starting stack, it is a 1 day event.

Apart from that we've 2 restaurants and 3 bars, a big gaming floor and a luxurious card room.

Hope to see you all soon at Genting Club Sheffield

Raf

Raffle can you tell me a story about Wayne bentley pls

ha ha. I know about the last time Raf saw him.

Raf obv you are gonna be there for the GPS Sheffield leg but are you also TD or manager for the other legs. Everyone says how well you are running things.

spill please

Raf,

How many entries so far for the tourney on 13th?

And what's the max number of entrants?

Thanks

Im not sure i would guess 150 ish i dont know what the max capacity is as they could get 200 odd knowing sheffield

I read capped at 220 somewhere and reckon it will sell out

going down tommorow to buy in, ill buy in people i like if you are going

You can buy in online on genting site if this helps anyone i am in nottingham and was going to go into town but rang the club and seems i didnt have to!

oh sweet

broght in yesterday there is over 110 allready in they recon will sell out before sat

allthou there £50 + 1 reentry was very quiet 15 runners

I am going to at weekend; good excuse to see my niece who lives there, have ridiculous -EV football punts and sweats with Trigg and get pissed; a weekend up north where my ex's will be trebble the buy in...wwwiiiiiiiii

Also playing this one and the Genting tour leg next month, it's been a very long time since Sheffield has had proper tournament, I'm actually quite giddy.

Anybody know what time it starts on Saturday ?

Can't find anything on the site.

According to raf it's a 5pm start, but according to the pokersite when I registered it's a 3pm start with late reg for 4 levels which would make it late reg till 5pm.

So which one is it?

Rafs post on page 2 says 5pm

Found it through main site 5pm, cheers.

OK, double checked via the pokersite (ipoker skin) and it still says 1500 start time

so............

i rang the club and have been told its definately a 1700 (thats 5 in the afternoon for those non ex-military types)

see you there folks

Mick

 Just found out via Gentings Facebook that there is a cap of 210, buy in is available online or at the club, they're recommending to buy in ASAP as they expect a sell out.
 

The last I heard was that they still had plenty of spaces left.

I bought someone else in in the week as they wasn't sure it would or wouldn't sell out. I would assume you can buyin at other local Gentings.

Playing in this too and the GPS

Does any know about carparking, is it free?

Taken directly from their website....
We are also able to offer free and discounted parking to guests who play at the tables or dine with us,  however this is on a limited and discretionary basis. [/b]

Limited and discretionary suggests they won't be doing it for everyone.

I have been twice now, on the opening night they ran out of tonic, and on Monday there was no valet or any draught lager. Lets hope they sort it out when they are expecting 200 players.

That's probably to stop people taking the piss and using the car park when they're not playing there.

I think the 3pm is the cut off for online buy ins

----------------THIS----------------

I bought in last night and there were 120 registered. There were 4 buy in's whilst I was at the cash desk so by saturday at 3pm it wouldn't surprise me if it were sold out.

really undecided whether to play this or not...

get in it you fish!

Free plenty spaces up stairs have to get a ticket from cash desk when you leave

I cant see them wanting to pay for everyone's parking. I work in town for a dentists and our customers get 1 hour free, but we pay Q park the fee. It would cost us a fortune if we paid it all.

i.e. 200 players most of which will be there 6-8 hrs plus....even if 50 drive it is circa £500!

Q Park prices
Up to 1 hour   £2.00
Up to 2 hours   £4.00
Up to 3 hours   £6.00
Up to 4 hours   £7.00
Up to 5 hours   £8.00
Up to 6 hours   £9.00
Up to 7 hours   £10.00
Up to 8 hours   £11.00
Up to 10 hours   £12.00
Up to 24 hours   £14.00
Overnight (18:00-09:00)   £6.50

I live just outside Sheffield, I am going to G for an hour first, then walking up! I will probably end up back there for cash anyhow unless I win.

Aaron 1867 was asking what to expect????

I have been a regular at Genting Salford for some 18 months. Your new card room manager Raf White, ran the card room whilst i was there.

Raf was, is and always will be a poker player. And I hate to admit it, but a bloody good one too.

He got involved in Genting Salford to help promote a new tournament and things just escalated from there.

He ran a hugely successful monthly comp called the Manchester Megastack. the comp was 2 days and had a 12 noon flight and an 8pm flight on day 1. It was £200 + 20 and always carried a guarantee of £20k for 80 runners. The comp was hugely successful and very well supported.

The weekday comps always carried a guarantee and Raf isn't afraid to try new things and welcomes positive suggestions about change. Always remember that you will be talking to a Poker Player when you approach him.

There will be at least 100 Salford / Manchester players making the journey this Saturday to support Raf and get him off to a flying start. This should tell you how highly he is thought of in this part of the world.

After Saturday, I suspect his focus will be the Sheffield GPS leg. After that i suspect that he will be ready to roll out some huge comps.

In terms of cash games, i think his games will grow to become the largest around.

Trust me, this boy really does know what he is doing. Salford's loss will definately be Sheffield's gain. Enjoy  ;hattip;

Sold out now according to Raf's Facebook

You going Cove? Hoping to add to your Southport title? *g Lol

:) Is that Martin? No I'm otherwise engaged.. Off to see some men batter each other in Liverpool. I believe it's an organised evening of violence as a pose to a normal night out in town. Better had be anyway at 25 quid a ticket!

Martin??? No it's Lamont. You paying £25 to see men in their boxer shorts? You're losing your touch kid lol

I've paid more.

Well I found it. Gl all blondes. See you on the ft for a 5 way chop!

Can anyone link me to the result plz?

Brummieboy chopped it 4 ways and got a bounty for knocking out AJ....

....me and Trigg sat downing VRBs and having massages on the rail while he sailed to victory. Not sure of any of the other Jason, a couple of older guys, one young lad

awesome. Wp Paul Nash

Cheers mate, 4 months off playing and chomping at the bit again now.

Nice was Paul. Well done bud

Congrats Brummie, nice one.

different class from brummie

Genting is still struggling to attract a decent crowd in and out of the card room unfortunately.

The cash games look like a non starter, some are still venturing down to G Casino in Sheffield where there is a rake charge, but NO rake charge at Genting throughout October.

Hope for a good improvement!

Only a matter of time IMO. The venue is much better, it is in a brilliant location, and as soon as the dealers etc have a bit of experience behind them it will blow the G out of the water.

The venue should be nice they spent ten million on it apparently. I question whether it is too big. Went in on Friday at 10.15 and the second gaming area wasn't even open. I had played cash at G and hit a few decent hands so thought I would go for a look and play no rake but there was only 1 table and it wasn't even full. Only been there ten minutes and they were dragging a guy up the stairs shouting his head off.

I think they have over estimated how many people they think they can attract from the surrounding areas like Doncaster, Rotherham, Chesterfield etc. G was still full even on Gentings opening night and I have hardly noticed any difference there, still all the same poker players I have seen since I started playing. There must be something that is keeping them at their regular club. Might go down to Naps tomorrow for the Bingo game and see how they are faring.

It has took nothing out of Naps to be honest. The only casino that the opening of Genting will have an effect on is G, because there is half a mile between them.

an awful lot of drunken idiots in genting at the weekends some real unsavoury characters

is minty in there. Last time I saw him the G door staff were putting him to sleep.

Edit : minty ain't a prick.


Is Barry about at all because he was doing his "I am gonna help Genting kill it in Sheffield" thing but he seems to be back into his football in a big way.

anyone know when sheffield leg of GPS is?

I was speaking with Barry on Sunday and he is disappointed with how things are going.

But I am 100% sure that the poker room will pick up come November.

Week beginning 19th November m8

cheers. Hope it really works out coz Raf is a great guy. Can't understand why peeps wanna pay rake as opposed to play rake free?

They don't have a cash table open anytime before 8.

Me, Barry, Craig, Mark and Chris was all waiting around on Sunday night for a cash table from about 7, nothing in sight.

You weren't able to start one with five of you already?

There wasn't anyone around to start one, that is for sure.

Me, Craig and Mark have all tried our best to get cash games started, but never nothing at this point in time.

They did say when all five of us was there, that there was a table open after an hour of being open, but by then Barry had lost some money and Mr, Craig and Mark are all pretty friendly enough with each other and I don't think our plan was to hustle each other.

I am sure that things will pick up though, just disappointing with slowness of course.

I have given up trying for cash games already and they have only been open what 6 weeks?

Grosvenor is still opening tables at 5pm and last week I was on one till gone 8am. They are even doing middle cash games so I can go in with a smaller roll. G have upped there game in the poker room and Naps are giving away free buffets like it is going out of style.

I said all along competition would benefit the players.

Drove past today was fire engines all over place around 12pm

Really? I was there at about 12:15 (The car park I'm not a degen) and saw nothing. There is a fire station a minute away, you sure it wasn't just those guys?

No honest they all over place at front door might being 12.45 ish

They now have a new schedule up, I think all the Sheffield regulars have made this happen by the looks of it!

Monday £10 rebuys

Tuesday £20 deepstack

Wednesday £15 Turbo Freezeout

Thursday 2 x £10 rebuys

Friday £10 Double Chance Freezeout

Saturday £30 double chance freezeout

Sunday Unlimited £50 rebuys - A Sheffield classic. GTD @ £10,000 with 50 players.

All the Sheffield regulars? To be fair there is not that much variation over G's. Just different days lol. They have just taken a month to realise that Sheffield is not a hub of big tourney poker players. As I said competition would be good as G are doing a Rake free offer in November. Signs went up yesterday but I think it is rake free for a certain time per night. Plus the points I got playing one night at Genting were almost nothing compared to Grosvenor.

Monday      £20 Deepstack Freezeout - 20 Minute Blinds - Dealer Dealt - £1,000 Guaranteed With 40+ Players   Freeze Out   20   15,000 Chips   
Tuesday      Beat The Dealer! (knockout Bounties On Our Dealers) Dealer Dealt   Freeze Out   10   8,000 Chips   
Wednesday   £20 Deepstack Freezeout - 20 Minute Blinds - Dealer Dealt - £1,000 Guaranteed With 40+ Players Casino Added Mystery Bounties!   Freeze Out   20   15,000 Chips   
Thursday           The 20-20! £20 Buyin + 1x £20 Topup. Dealer Dealt £1,000 Guaranteed With 20+ Players.   Re-Buy   20   8,000 Chips 8,000 topup   
Friday                   £5 Rebuy Tournament. Optional £5 Rebuys For 80 Minutes £1,000 Guaranteed With 60 Players   Re-Buy   5    3,000 Chips 3,000 rebuy 6,000 Addon
Saturday           £20 Freezeout. £750 Guaranteed   Freeze Out   20   15,000 Chips (NEW)   
Sunday           £50 Megastack Freezeout - 20,000 Chips - 20 Minute Blinds - Last Entries 6pm   Freeze Out   50   20,000 Chips   
Sunday   Last Sunday Of Every Month Special. ! The Roast ! £50 Buyin + 1x £40 Topup. Late Registration Until 6pm. Dealer Dealt.   Re-Buy   50   10,000 Chips 10,000 topup   

What are the restaurants like in the club?

The main restaurant looks a little pricey, more than you pay in a lot of places in town. I can't comment directly as I have only ordered from the Asian. It seems cheap initially but you have to pay to add all your sides, also not great if you don't fancy Asian!

The reviews I have read about the main restaurant seem pretty good, but at £20+ for fillet it should be.

£20+ for a fillet steak is standard pretty much everywhere that has a health and safety certificate

lol +1

lol. And some of those places it ain't even fillet

Well yeah, the mark-up is always going to be roughly the same so the only thing you're logically getting for sub £20 'fillet' is a crappy piece of meat.

I've never been to a chinese where you don't order individual items, so that's all standard anyway and I love an asian :)

I can live with £20 for a fillet too, I take it you've never been to Vegas? Or just stick to McDonalds when you're there.... I'm in Sheffield for 3 days, so will most likely have a go at all of them anyway.

http://www.scoresonthedoors.org.uk/business/napoleons-at-owlerton-sheffield-58447.html

http://www.scoresonthedoors.org.uk/business/g-casino-sheffield-331280.html

Both Napoleons and Grosvenor seem to manage it!

Usually Casino food is quite heavily subsidised in terms of profit.

Arguably the best non-starred restaurant in Sheffield is Morans     http://www.moranssheffield.co.uk/Dinner.html    £25.95 even there. But you don't have to add sides at £3 each!


You can't play much if you are still paying for stuff in Vegas ;)

morans is my fav restuarant in sheffield. Last thursday in the month is a jazz night, its rly good night

Seen as Trigg bumped this, I'll update and tell you that the £50r tonight got £5500 from 33 runners, definitely not bad for it's first week and a few names missing too, very respectable. It will get even a bigger PP after a few weeks too for sure & lands decently enough for GPS in a couple of weeks.

Thought this would easily get 50 runners and make £10k.

Barry was doing a marketing job and pushing the comp so thought it would do it.

It is the first week & a few are at DTD, no chance it would have hit the 50 mark, in all honesty, don't think it does need to hit the 50 mark to get the gte.

You have to remember that Eccy Road the game never got off the mark & they was even adding £1k every week & it was by far the best game for some poker in Sheffield.

I'm sure with some persuasion they could add some sort of something like money or a couple of GPS seats to it? I don't know.

Haha, to get comped in the restaurants I eat in I'd need to be punting a lot more and a lot bigger than I do :)

I went up last Sunday and it only got 22. Looks like Genting can't do what Naps and G failed at after all. Lets just admit it, Sheffield players are all talk and won't front up for a bigger comp game. I can only see it getting worse as we get nearer Christmas and people are saving their money.

I was talking to Andy and G's new schedule will revert to being more competitive with added etc more like when they opened and went after naps. Due for launch in Jan.

It got 28 runners on sunday and the pot was around £4650.

Was suprised to see on Facebook Wednesday at Naps made the £10k gtd. was this correct and is it still £20 rebuy needing 80 runners?

I was only going to play if it made 50 runners so left when It didn't look like it was going to get close.....

if everyone has this attitude it will never make 50 runners! i really think they could get away with that guarantee at 40 runners tbh.

How many people in for the £400 next week do we think this will get mega runners? im hoping for 400 ish would be nice :)

I be in this next fri day 1b

Played the sun rebuy the no penalty for late reg in annoying as people all ready spent £££before they enter

this should be massive should it not. 470 my gestimate

I won a ticket ages ago which I haven't used, so making the monster trek up for the weekend.

the more the merrier!

I'd say it will comfortably get 400, there were about 300 for the money added launch event, most of whom travelled a fair distance. I'll be donating on the Thursday.

What's the best curry house in Sheffield?

Viraaj, which is in woodseats about 3 miles from town.

However Aagrah, which is 1 minute walk from the casino, is also superb.

1 minute walk for me is about 5, but sounds ideal and nice to have options :)

Shapla gets my vote but the walk down is a little more 'Gauntlet' than through town!

Was you expecting miracles on the second week of the tournament running?

PS - I would not listen to Andy, he tells you everything you want to hear, but never produces, he is just card room staff, not manager.


It is gtd at £10 with 80 runners, which it has got for the last couple of months. It has now removed the gte to 8k, after having to put more money in than usual. People say all sorts about Naps, but they have always been generous with offers and added value.


It will get nowhere near the money with 40 runners.

Regarding currys in Sheffield there's two that are excellent food

1st is mangol. On spittal hill about £5 in taxi from genting the fodd hear is outstanding although they do not sell bear

2nd is jaflong in crooks about £8 in taxi this is my frav although is very small and you may feel like you sat inside someone front room the food and service is first class

I wasn't expecting miracles, but going from mid thirties to mid twenties in only its first two weeks isn't great.

I think their card room manager has been a little mis-led in the power of some 'locals' dictating what they think they can achieve.

Andy said that G are looking at a £100 freeze with lower guaranteed players and a bonus add in to the pot from the Casino. Seems to make sense as all 3 places struggle to hit anything over 30 when the buy in is over £50.

Not short of curry houses then, so that's a bonus!

If they're struggling to get players for anything over a £50 why then look to set up a £100 comp?

I might be missing something, I only slept for an hour or so last night and puppy sitting is taking it's toll........

Possibly worth starting off with small guarantees, smaller buyins and looking to develop from there. Once you have built up the customer base, try and gauge what will help to develop things as time goes by.

I imagine it's an unenviable position nowadays though trying to run a card room, especially when it's so easy for people to sit at home clicking buttons in their pants and having a bunch of shots to win the same money :D

You don't really know much about the Sheffield poker scene do you?

"The Sunday Roast" at G Casino gets well over 30, the £50 buyin at Napoleons gets over 30, again comfortably, both was the only £50+ buyins until a couple of weeks ago.

PS - Again, because you don't seem to know about the Sheffield poker scene, the £50r never really got many runners anyway. It didn't often get over 40.

According to the Facebook page for Genting Casino, they already have 242 runners, so gte is already there.

There is always a massive walk up and according to those numbers, will probably approaching 450 runners. I am just not sure where they are doing to put players.

ive heard g are putting up 10 tables :P

anyone know if there is a dinner break on thursday at all?

6.30-7.15

tyty

They are using the floor area upstairs for the side events

Downstairs, the card room extends into the restraint and they also use the floor behind the bar   

Mangla i think. A+plus food for years and years

There is plenty of room in Genting Club Sheffield and the side events are taking place in the Nighclub area so you will even have your own dediacted bar.

From Raf...Genting poker mgr

What did tonights game get in terms of runners?

Wednesday 21 November
#1 £100 + £9 Rivers NLHE

I am in for tomorrow at this point, hoping there is enough space for me.

I have heard that Friday is going to be absolutely rammed, so glad I have decided to play tomorrow.

I in this know made 42 runners and 5reentrys so £4700 in pot 25 left in top 6 get paid
1st £1600
£1175
£795
£470
£380
£280

Just at end level 7

Heared there's 50 seats left for fri. I in tom

Thanks, do you know how many is in tomorrow Gary?

If you don't go and ask please :D :D

Hi arson there's 2 in me and you lol
No there's 136 for tom and 190 for fri

There must be something wrong somewhere then as they have said on Facebook they already have 260+ in total already :( :(

Good luck us all tomorrow.

I think that's 326 registered Aaron, not 326 spots left m8.....

Can't wait for the day you can just teleport places, looking forward to this weekend but not so much the 300mile drive :(

Latest Facebook update reckons they could see 500 runners.

370 regged, would expect a walk up of at least 130, not forgetting the RE's, just a worry if we can fit the tourists in.

I won't be RE'ing though.

Yeah a mate just said to pop over for the £100 tonight but will this even run aaron

Have they got a blog running somewhere or table draw?

I would  not expect it to get many runners, Jason, not to make it worthwhile journey, IMO.

165 in at the mo.

I left the casino without putting my name on the alternates list for tomorrow, have just phoned up and been told firstly that you have to be in the building to put your name on the list and then that they aren't taking any more alternates because they're "too busy". What?

They have 30-40 on the list already.

Casino is at max, so going to be an interesting day for those that are around tomorrow with how much of a squeeze it is.

Yeah got a mate to stick my name on the list. Pretty tilting phoning up and being told 'no chance', there's gonna be about 30 tables and 7 levels of late reg ffs, you can't have too many alternates.

I played in the £100 a few weeks ago with 230 ish runners, yes it was cramped but what was worst was the table balancing. My table went down to 6 while tables around us were playing with 10   

I'm playing today

Good luck Simon Higgins. Finished day 1 3rd in chips.

Bah, went down for the side event today which was listed pretty much everywhere as being at 2.30, the casino staff told me 2.30, bought in I'm advance yesterday and even my receipt said 2.30. Get there and am told it is actually at 7. Buggered up my day completely (had to instead go Xmas shopping with my wife, bah)

Looks to have been a real successful festival,

results?

pretty sure Baltic Blonde proviuded the best result of the festival

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8enDVXCYAA1_Gg.jpg:large)

nope neither do anything for me :)

It's listed as 7pm on the official genting series site

Sounds like Simon Higgins is gonna be chip leader tonight with over 2 million chips.

Over a million more than 2nd and 3rd place has 700k :)

He has been here before with 13 left at the Ept Grand Final. Hope he gets there this time.



Good luck Shola n PeeJay too

The Genting Poker Series Sheffield main event has reached its final days play in the South Yorkshire city. Only 29 players still have chips left to play with, and they will be lead into battle this afternoon by Simon Higgins and his monster 2,235,000 stack.

Higgins is one of only two players to bag up a seven-figure stack, the other being Hasmukh Khodiyara (1,214,000), and is now in pole position to take down his first major live title. According to his Hendon Mob page, Higgins has two live cashes to his name, one for €500 and the other for €70,000; the latter awarded for his 12th place finish in the 2011 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event.

Second placed Khodiyara is another man who has had a massive live score, but who is still to win an event. In April 2012, Khodiyara finished fifth in the record-breaking UKIPT Nottingham Main Event, a result that earned him £62,500.

Whoever does leave the Steel City victorious will do so with £50,000, with the runner-up taking home at least £31,750 for their efforts.

GPS Sheffield Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
Position   Name   Chips
1   Simon Higgins   2,235,000
2   Hasmukh Khodiyara   1,214,000
3   Stephen McGrath   770,000
4   Andrew Roberts   723,500
5   Ian Barnett   691,500
6   Shola Akindele   626,000
7   Danny Hook   624,500
8   Owain Carey   620,000
9   Michael Burke   516,000
10   Paul Jenkinson   481,000


http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/11/simon-higgings-leads-as-gps-sheffield-reaches-its-final-day-9558.htm

Simon just told me about this hand yesterday.

Obv want Simon to win but Tim Chung deserves 2nd

Hear goes day 2 of the £150 side event I on avg of 70 k got Jonathan gill sat 2 to my left on about 140k

Yessssssssssssssssssss Jgills! do a win

Chip Counts on dinner break

Shola Akindele 1,539,000
Hasmukh Khodiyara. 2,084,000
Matt Myford 2,074,000
Simon Higgins. 985,000
Stephen McGrath. 6,548,000
Rob Boon. 1,010,000

gl Shola!

Hasmukh Khodiyara £50,000 won this beating Stephen McGrath £31,750 HU

Simon Higgins 4th, Shola 5th

Hasmukh is a fine player, 5th in UKIPT Nottingham earlier this year and a Black Belter (if not now, he was)

well done to him

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photo from fb

I am not sure if anyone is interested, but I'll update anyway.

It seems Geting Sheffield is really struggling for poker custom by the looks of it. The numbers for some tournaments are not getting anywhere near the numbers that Hillsborough gets 2 and 3 times a week and the cash games are doing significantly better at G_casino, which is just down the road. Although I have tried to encourage those to go to Gentings, but to no success.

Napoleons at Hillsborough is still getting a decent amount of numbers. The £20 rebuy is still attracting 80-100 players each Wednesday and collecting £10k each week, so hopefully Gentings get on the case & sort the poker room out! It would be very good to see Getings have a decent game of their own, that gets decent numbers, and perhaps costs me less than the £200 each week at Naps!

PS - There is a Boxing Day special, £100 FO with £5k added.

I went to the G Casino last night and was speaking to the cardroom manager about the new schedule, seems not too bad to me for Sheffield.

Mon (7.30pm): £100+£10 F/O - £3.3K GTD with 30 / £5.5K GTD with 50
Tues (7.30pm): £10 x2 Chance - £400 with 30 / £800 with 50
Wed (7.30pm): £25 Deepstack - £1k with 30 / £1.5k with 50
Thurs (7.30pm): £20 x2 Chance - £1k with 30 / £2k with 50
Fri (7.30pm): £15 Deepstack - £600 with 30 / £1k with 50
Sat (4pm): £10 PLO x2 Chance - £400 with 30 / £600 with 50
Sat (7.30pm): £25 Deepstack - £1k with 30 / £1.5k with 50
Sun (4pm): £50 F/O - £1.75k with 30 / £2.75k with 50

Re-entries on all tournaments up to level 3.

Obviously its not the best schedule, and most of the tournaments are still bowl, but for Sheffield it seems like a decent schedule.

Serious Poker in Sheffield is dead and has been since the end of 2005 .

Before that Napoleons Owlerton had a monopoly on poker In the North .I would play there often  with the likes of George Geary , Dave Smith ( RIP Both ) Mr Camel , Tikay ,CJ Law ,Thomas Dunwoodie, Lawrence Gosney, Devilfish, Jason Herbert ,Rob and Nick from DTD, Colclough,Thewy ,Wadey ,Greg Junior and the rest of The Nottingham lads , plus all the other usual suspects  turning up for regular nights and festivals.  Good times they were too !

Things were going great until the managements new policies totally pissed the players off (especially the ones that had to travel) . One of the main problems is that they wouldnt take registrations over the phone or let anybody else buy in for them unless they were physically on the premises.There was also no late registration ,so what happened is  people would drive for 2 or 3 hours to get there find that the tournament had actually started or delayed due to little or no interest ,the management would then eventually make a decision that it wouldnt go ahead due to lack of numbers .As a consequence people started losing the will to live and couldnt be bothered to travel anymore which in turn affected the cash game numbers and eventually the whole higher stakes scene died out.

Since then there has been the odd false dawn with £50 Sunday night game at Naps (Ecclesall Road) and G but again they just keep dieing off due to the lack of numbers.

As Aaron says there is  the Wednesday night £20 re buy which generates decent money for a lower buy in comp( and has done for years) and of course with the satelites , national advertising and momentum the £400 genting comp last month did bring the numbers in for the first time in seven years which was good to see.

As a Sheffield lad myself, I have hardly played here since its glory days , which is obviously a shame considering we are the 4th/5th biggest city in The UK . Maybe the Sheffield people are just too tight or they simply havent got the money in the present climate.. Who Knows ?

As regards the solution to get poker back on its feet here ?... Im not sure there is one which is a crying shame...still its only 45 mins down the M1 to my spiritual home at DTD.   
 

   

wtf ive quoted you before you wrote it

<--- psychic - should have my own tv show ;)

Lol don't know what went on there but was telling me new reply 3 times and nothing there

That schedule looks awful Tom!

Really  ?  Looks like The Nuts for Sheffiield

Yes its a shame. The wednesday night game at Owlerton still attracts players like Wadey, Ali Mallu, Gosney etc and has a reputation for having a £10k plus pot every week.

Genting had a big chance to build another game I think but they made little effort to make it work. They dont seem interested to be honest. They got 32 runners for a sunday night £50 rebuy but that dwindled. People suggested moving it to Monday nights and trying to attract players with added money in the short term but it fell on deaf ears.

I think people would come if the game developed a reputation for getting 50 plus players but that's down to the casino to make it happen. None of them want it.

Agreed. Maybe for elsewhere in the country it wouldn't be great but compared to some of this shit we have been getting around here its not half bad.

wish they would sort out at least 1 decent tounment

being there about 8 times twice touniments did not run and no cash games going played the 50 rebuy twice with less than 30 players.i will return but they need to sort these tounies out (((no rebuys,))

You see, the G-Casino do not know hot to organise anything poker wise, because they do not want to know. They do not even want to add more money & my view here is that the guarantees they are putting out are pathetic.

It is terrible shame that with Genting being such a massive company, that they do not want to add a little money to get the games going, they adda little money, then the numbers will come, because at the moment from what I can gather, the tournaments are not there & cash tables are not as busy as G-Casino. It comes to a point, where perhaps we are saaying that Napoleons has the best card room in Sheffield, when really it shouldn't be the case.

They can add a few rebuys, FO's and double chancers & they will be perfect for the schedule, which I don't think is upto much at the moment & that is the general feeling of the players.

What they could do, which a few choices:

Monday: 50 rebuy (5/6k unconditional gte for a few weeks) or perhaps a £50 double chance
Tuesday: £30 deepstack
Wednesday: £10 HH
Thursday: £10 double chance
Friday: Freeroll?
Saturday: Freeroll?
Sunday: £40 deepstack??

I would put it along those lines.

I would probably even try for a £30 rebuy in all honesty, would get some money in the pot!!! £15k gte at G, was good nights!!

The thing is about the £20/£30 rebuys in my opinion is that they are good loss leaders for the casino's the type of people they bring in are gamblers. They surely can add £1k/£2k to the pot if they can get a £10/£15K comp going in turn that brings bigger cash games bigger roulette etc etc seems like a win to me!

The issue is to me they don't seem bothered. G got a good thing going with the sunday roast and then they messed it up! Adding seats in freerolls etc is good for the game it means you can get 20/30 freeroll qualifiers in a comp and it "adds value". I think the sunday roast type structure £50 one rebuy/ one add  is definitely a comp that is missing on a sunday in sheffield mabye even £75 double chance etc.

If i were a card room manager i would be going with £20 rebuy on a wednesday with a £10K guarntee or £1000 added something like that. And then a £75 double chance on a sunday Guarnateed at £10K also. With Freerolls running Friday Saturday nights. with say 5 added seats to the Double chance on Sunday. Mabye the Monday and Tuesday Comps could also add £20 rebuy tokens in as well so you get more players for the rebuys on Wednesday nights. For example each player on the final table of the monday and tuesday comp gets a £20 entry into the wednesday comp or a £20 rebuy etc. etc!

The problem with giving away money is you have to give away money.

Do you think that casino's that (say) add £1000 to a comp that is already not paying for itself through the juice are really going to see that money again, either through the roulette tables or cash poker?

It's OK to try and add money to get a game going. then take it away again, but as soon as you do that, all your players go to the other place down the road that have started adding money.

The problem you have is that you seem to think that a Casino is reliant upon poker tourism. It certainly helps, but it doesn't really provide a huge boost to your revenue in the long run, at least to the degree that you might think.

Somewhere like DTD -needed- to do it because that's how they make their income, a casino generates income from the table games and poker players as a rule will avoid tables, not denying you get a little overflow but it's not anything significant.

It's easy to say, "But it's a loss leader" but the reality is that it's more a loss. The casino will probably have a large pool of gamblers that are going to spend huge money irrespective of poker.

So why do so many run poker rooms?

Think that casinos in general look down on poker players as customers. It really pisses me off.

Even if a comp gets 20/30 people extra in per day they're gonna make more money from alcohol/food sales. And unfortunately there's plenty of degen poker players who will play table games.

Like I said, it helps.

Doesn't mean they feel a need to throw money at it. Poker players are very transactional and generally have little brand loyalty, so the only way to benefit is to constantly offer up added/additional/guaranteed prize money.

The business benefits just as much by focusing on providing a sufficient offering to the local customer base, and the loyal players.

That's true to a point but lets take the current Genting plan for Boxing Day in Sheffield.

They are holding a tourney with £5000 added I believe.

What would be more productive, adding £5k for one tourney (when alot of people have family commitments), or adding £1250 a week for 4 weeks in say, a £50 rebuy on a Monday night?

If the will was there, Raf could really get the word out and aggressively push the Monday night game - if he attracted some of the Leeds/Bradford/Nottingham lads who go to Owlerton on a Wednesday for the £20 rebuy, he could easily get 50-60 players each week.

Makes zero sense to me what they are doing, but maybe its me that's missing the point?

Garry, we have a decent Wednesday game, without rebuys, we are not getting into the money, I think you should know better than me that Sheffield poker wise is a rebuy city. If you want your FO's, then Sheffield and Nottingham are not far away. I agree that freezeouts in Sheffield should be around, but not sure I agree with the fact you are saying there is no game, Naps and the £20 rebuy is making decent money.


The £20/£30 rebuys are not loss leaders, Callum.

If Gentings, Grosevnor or Napoleons want to add a £30 rebuy and with enough marketing and word of mouth, they can become a success. Gentings are a £40 billion company and taking a loss on a £30 is a drop in the ocean, if they make a decent loss week on week, stop it. But they need to get some sort of bigger game going in the long run. I would personally guarantee a £30r on Sunday/Monday at £10k, run it for 2 weeks and see what happens, it will get nearly £10k, I am sure of that. The problem when G-Casino ran it, was that as soon as they made the £15k gte, the next 2 weeks, they assumed it would make the money LOL.

I am sure you know I am an expert on anything internettings & Twitter/Facebook each day and week, will see a possible £30r work.

A double chance that you mentioned would not be bad though.

But here, we get to understand why G-Casino are failing so much at poker.... lol.

G casino opened up in Teesside. Our excitement was similar to yours, but they have 4 nights a week of lol bowl comps and a monthly £100 f/o. They've tried 3 schedules now and still not guaranteed anything. The players have asked several times for various things, we've had people talk to managers, arrange games on fb, all sorts, but they still continue merrily along averaging 20 people for £20 tournaments forever. Ridiculous. Cardroom managers aren't given enough time to do anything and have the pressure of immediate results. They moved the original guy after 6 months of preventing him from doing anything to get the cardroom going. Its such a shame, its such a nice room but won't ever get going imo and i can imagine Sheffield ending up the same.

Sheffield intrigues me, I spy on with interest, might pop down in next three or four weeks for a friday night session. What's cash been like so far?

Do you not get the feeling that the actual CRM in G-Casino's are not actual managers though? I've been to a few Grosevnor's and they seem to not be in charge of their actual card room.

As for cash in Sheffield, decent at G, not so much at Gentings at the moment.

The first cardroom manager had a fantastic cv with experience in several British casinos and Vegas casinos. He moved from the Gala to G and we tried to have a few games there. One night he was the only dealer capable and dealt the majority of our session from 2am to 9am, having started at 8pm. We let him have breaks and it was a fairly fun and relaxed game. He got many compliments from us to senior staff. I had a twenty min conversation about future plans/promotions etc and he was somewhat quiet. I found out from a friend that deals there that he had literally no right to organise any sort of promotion or guarantee, its pathetic. Just some sort of corporate title.

Strangely enough i asked the Gala Teesside cardroom manager what was happening with the casino tournament league there, unfortunately he couldn't tell me until the new General Manager was appointed... At least he can organise some sort of promotion himself though!

Andy has no power in G Sheffield. Its pretty obvious. I was asking him a few months ago why he didnt sort the schedule out and apparently they have a budget of amounts they can have worth of overlays...etc per month / year (cant remember the exact number but i can remember thinking that it wasnt alot). Also he said he had to come up with new schedules but they had to be approved by some other managed in the casino and if they were against it, it was a no go.

Sunday's £15(5k)+£15(10k)  which makes it effectively a £30 made over £1400 last week. Third week in around 4 that it's been north of £1k.
Cash tables are improving too I believe.

Monthly game got best numbers yet this month and should go from strength to strength.

Rumours of a GUKPT seat being played for over the first quarter of 2013 too

Yeah for sure, and I'm sure part of my frustration comes from the G not suiting my needs as a player. Its just my personal opinion that the people in the £20 f/os don't give a lot to the casino in the form of spending power on food/gaming. I'd be very surprised if a pool of 50 £20 rebuy players didn't dominate 150 £20 f/o players.

£100 finally got going after 3-4 months of two day £100 40 player comps lol. So glad they fixed it, not a bad idea but terrible in practise.

guys, i first started playing poker in sheffield in 2000 and the players are still the same, most of the tourney fields are made up of businessmen, people who like a gamble. Not discerning poker players who want to play a well structured tournament. Has been like that for 12 years and will continue to be like that. Sheffield didnt adapt during the boom so why should they now when poker is in a recession? If the casino was struggling to meet target profits then maybe they might look at the poker side of things, but in every uk casino poker is merely something the casino offer rather than it being fruitful endeavour for them.

Do Vegas casino's make money from poker?

It's easy enough to criticise, but speaking as someone that stands on the other side of the fence, I can assure you that it's really not as simple as you believe it.

I ask, if guarantees and added monies were a sure fire way to ensure a revenue boost, why isn't everyone doing it?

Do you think, perhaps, that it is because the industry recognises on the whole that it isn't financially viable? Sure, perhaps we're all absolutely clueless but I think you know better than that.

The card room at Luton didn't have a single guaranteed tournament when I took over, and we're at the point where practically everything is guaranteed including our festival main events, so the supervisor can make a difference.

Not going to say it was an easy road, mind. Heartache and tears, more so.

Probably, in the volume that they get poker in.

I would assume that the only really profitable pokler venues are the central London poker rooms that see a lot of cash. Empire, Hippodrome, Victoria etc.

You have to also take in mind that poker is taxed up to 50%, and it's taxed based on takings.

id love you to think about the 2nd line you have written there George.

Confident that I am not far wrong.

I would not be surprised to know that most poker rooms are around a break even point, but you're only going to get a room that makes money in a highly populous region or uncontested business.

I could perhaps expand to encompass a few more poker rooms. Birmingham Star City/Broadway  (not sure which is the thriving room in the Midlands any more), Manchester Bury New Road and central London.

I am sure there a few venues I don't know about that enjoy thriving cash action and small overheads, but I can't name any in this region.

Those, and of course all of the illegal tax dodging venues.

Just seen this on their Facebook page.

Still prefer cash, but it looks like they are trying to out do Genting and Naps with fully dealer dealt, variable guarantees and early bonus chips...Could be tempted for the Monday comp if it gets many runners.

From January 2013.

CASH GAMES
Our Fully dealer dealt cash games are open 7 nights a week from 5pm – 6am.
Blinds are:
50p/50p -Minimum sitdown £10 -maximum sitdown £50
... ... £1/£1 - Minimum sitdown - £20 Maximum sitdown £200
£1/£2 - Minimum sitdown - £50 Maximum sitdown £500

MONDAY (2 Tournaments)

Tournament 1

“The Hot £100”
£100 Buyin and £10 registration fee
Freezeout
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Guaranteed £3,300 with 30 players and £5,500 with 50 players
15,000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 1,500 chips
Fully dealer dealt

Tournament 2

“The XL Deepstack”
£25 Buyin and £3 registration fee
Freezeout
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Guaranteed £1,000 with 30 players and £1,500 with 50 players
15,000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 1,500 chips
Fully dealer dealt

TUESDAY

“Beat the dealer”
£10 Buyin and £3 registration fee
1 optional rebuy or addon
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Our dealers play and if you eliminate them you win £20
Guaranteed £400 with 30 players and £800 with 50 players
8000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 800 chips
Fully dealer dealt

WEDNESDAY

“The XL Deepstack”
£25 Buyin and £3 registration fee
Freezeout
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Guaranteed £1,000 with 30 players and £1,500 with 50 players
15,000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 1,500 chips
Fully dealer dealt

THURSDAY

“The 20-20”
£20 Buyin and £3 registration fee
1 optional rebuy or addon
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Guaranteed £1,000 with 30 players and £1,500 with 50 players
10,000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 1,000 chips
Fully dealer dealt

FRIDAY

“The XL Deepstack”
£15 Buyin and £3 registration fee
Freezeout
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Guaranteed £600 with 30 players and £1,000 with 50 players
15,000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 1,500 chips
Fully dealer dealt

SATURDAY (2 Tournaments)

Tournament 1

POT LIMIT OMAHA TOURNAMENT
£10 Buyin and £3 registration fee
1 optional rebuy or addon
4pm start/ last entries 5pm
Guaranteed £400 with 30 players and £800 with 50 players
10,000 chips
If a player registers before 3.30pm they receive and additional 1,000 chips
Fully dealer dealt

Tournament 2

“The XL Deepstack”
£25 Buyin and £3 registration fee
Freezeout
7.30pm start/ last entries 8.30pm
Guaranteed £1,000 with 30 players and £1,500 with 50 players
15,000 chips
If a player registers before 7pm they receive and additional 1,500 chips
Fully dealer dealt

SUNDAY

“The Roast”
£50 Buyin and £5 registration fee
Freezeout
4pm start/ last entries 5pm
Guaranteed £1,750 with 30 players and £2,750 with 50 players
20,000 chips
If a player registers before 3.30pm they receive and additional 2,000 chips
Fully dealer dealt

0114 2757433 for further details

Looks good may have to come up for a week for a Poker holiday in the new year. Love Sheffield.

It would appear Genting have been forced to react already. There has been significant imrovement in G's schedule and Genting have reacted apparently. There has been a noticable increase in the amount of players in just the last week with knocked out tourney players then migrating to cash (where I can out fish them for a bit :)  )

You would have thought the new player in town would be trying to lead, but it appears they are followers. Not even any added or guarantees for their regular tourneys, which to be fair is what most people play.

http://www.gentingcasinos.co.uk/club/sheffield/poker/

I said that competition would help, but it seems Genting throwing money at us in September did nothing to gain any regular business. I am sure Grosvenor are happy to lose customers for one big comp a month a keep the players for the other 27ish days of the month.

Poker Tournaments
Date Name  Start Time Game Type Type Buy In Chips  Guarantee/Added 
Tuesday 8th January  Tuesday £20 Deepstack  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Freezeout  £20+ £3  30000  - 
Wednesday 9th January  Wednesday £15 Turbo  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Freezeout  £15+ £3  15000  - 
Thursday 10th January  Thursday 1st Chips Free + Unlimited Re-Buys  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Rebuy  £0+ £3  5000  - 
Friday 11th January  Friday £10 + 1R/A  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Rebuy  £10+ £3  7000  - 
Saturday 12th January  Saturday £15 + 2 £10R/A  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Rebuy  £15+ £3  7000  - 
Sunday 13th January  Sunday £50 Bounty (£30 Pot/ £20 Bounty)  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Bounty  £50+ £3  15000  - 
Monday 14th January  Monday 1st Chips Free + 2 Re-Buys  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Rebuy  £0+ £3  5000  - 
Tuesday 15th January  Tuesday £20 Deepstack  20:00  NL Hold 'Em  Freezeout  £20+ £3  30000  - 

Genting is holding a £200 FO in Sheffield guaranteed at £40,000.

I think it's towards the end of next week.

ssshh

Is it not a short term view to have a comp not hit its guarantees? i would rather see a club make its guarantee and go for bigger guarantees. Like DTD do. If this comp flops on its arse then genting are not going to support future comps there.

This is a club that is wanting to hold GPS grand final's there i imagine a comp like that is going to suit a player like yourself rather than a £200 freezeout. It has to have support and meet guarntees otherwise they are never going to go bigger.

exact date?

Callum there is no point in going over the subject of "bigger games" as it's just not going to happen.

The Genting big ones have done well, but they just do not want to retain it with a local bigger game.

G Casino again failing with Monday night poker too.

PS - It's Thursday and Friday of next week Jason, I have just checked for you.

Think me and Adam are going up on Thursday night to play. What are the cash games like? 1/2 game running in Genting? Really don't wanna go to G. It's awful in there

They get decent cash games on when there is a decent comp on.

Raf just sent me the details. Looks good.

Liam which Adam?

Cash game Adam.

oh right that helps me no end. Guess its not an Adam I know then :(

starts on thursday like a mini gps details are


Thursday 21 Feb 8pm    ((((8pm start i think)))
 £75 freezeout with unconditional guarantee of £5,000
 
Friday 22 Feb
 Main Event Day 1A 4PM
 
Saturday 23 Feb
Main Event Day 1B 4pm
 
Sunday 24 Feb
 Main Event Day 2 4pm
 
Main Event - £200 (+£20) freezeout with an unconditional guarantee of £40,000
 30,000 chips with a 45 minute clock
 
Sunday 24 Feb 8pm
 Normal Bounty Tournament
 £50 (+£3) - £30 Prizepool / £20 Bounty

also they have a last man standing for people byeing in online last man gets a 440 seat.

the thursday touniment should be a good one £75 freezout i recon will get about 130 runners

http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/141219822703048/

hope this smashers all gaurenties as want better and bigger tounies in sheffield

p.s. i know i carnt smell i mean spell

cheers for that info Garry...keep posting mate..It doesnt matter about the spelling etc....its not the end of the world ..lot more important things to consider 

Ps... dont listen to rude fellow Sheffielders that dont think before they post     ;)

ty realy gets to me when i try to contobute to things and get these people niggeling me over spelling its not just on here but other forums

i not let them get to me

Bald head, large build usually plays 1/2 at weekends. You prob not know him.

The other Adam you know, young lad...from Lincoln. Think he's taking a time out from poker. He needs to be able to handle te beats and stay away from blackjack. Which prob tough at 19

ha ha. Played with Adam Cook and his mum this weekend. He may have been annoyed with me in a hand we played but he is a a stylish young lad. He had the Mod look going on with the Fred Perry polo and a Parker.

Adam's on here as well. Rarely plays comps though, so unlikely you'll have crossed swords Herbie.

ok dan no worries.

Haha I think everybody has annoyed him at some point Herbie haha

Bump...

£200 FO, £40k gtd - Day 1a and 1B are Fri and Saturday.

Cash games are £3 rake max.

According to Raf White, this could make well over the guarantee this weekend, such a shame I am not around.

Looking like a £50k pot at the minute.

G in the north west have been getting 280+ players for their 25 25 tourneys(25k chips 25k guarentee 200+20)

so I could imagine them getting 300+

Is it the arranged Midland Monster this weekend too?

Went apeshit at me once because i heroed him down. I just sat there giggling like a girl.

#didntknowwhoiwas

Help please  Blondes.

Sheffield here I come next Weds 28th!

My lad has had offers from some Universitys and yours is one of them. This week we had Warwick and Birmingham so stayed at the Ricoh De Vere for £50 and played the £20 deep n steep at the G Coventry for some father/son bonding. It was a good laugh and he outlasted me in his first live event so I am up for revenge next week. Warwick Uni is top of the pops at the moment but he has heard computer science at Sheffield is also an excellent course and then the last one is St Andrews in Fife next month.

So next Weds night, which casino has the best value tourney for us with a Premier Inn nearby so I can have a few beers and drive back on Thursday?

This is not a mega bender really as he does not drink a lot and I am meant to be responsible. So no Lil Dave style antics this trip but would def have a few beers with any of you if you fancy. The wife was not over impressed with me semi degening him the other night on our very serious midlands Uni fact finding trip.

Also need a good Chinese or Indian eaterie for pre poker.

Would appreciate any local help.

Thank you.

Alex

I've only been to the Genting casino in Sheffield for the GPS, I ate chinese a few times during the weekend and I thought it was very good.

Wednesday night the £20 rebut I believe is still the best comp in Sheff. Positives are it gets a good prize pool. Negatives, it's bingo, can get expensive, starts and finishes late. Not sure what comps are on at genting or g. You will get a cash game at g I imagine from like 6 loads of hotels in city centre have a look on late rooms I got a Hilton for like £30 last time I checked. If your in the city centre most things are pretty close g will be a £5 taxi town you can walk to genting. Naps £20 rebut might be £15 for a taxi depending on where your staying!

I think a 20 r is a bit much for my lad. Reading the thread the G £25 15 k stack is perfect. Does it still happen?

Hey.

Unfortunately the only place to be on a Wednesday is Napoleons and the standard of play is poor & there isn't much poker. However they do offer free food and vouchers for the night & I really do enjoy the food at Napoleons. As for other games elsehwre, not sure if they really get off the ground to be quite honest, you are guaranteed 80+ runners at Napoleons and near enough a £10,000 pot.

If you fancy cash, best place to go for that is G-Casino, but food is no good and quite a distance from other places too, well apart from McDonalds.

According to Raf this will be run again. Good news.

I don't think it will be on monthly basis though.

Every Wednesday   01/01/2013   01/04/2013   Xl Deepstack -------- Guaranteed ------------------ 30players=£1,000 50players=£1,500   Freeze Out   £ 25   15000 chips

Is the game on Grosvenor G's website.

Cash as Aaron says is the strongest in Sheff at Grosvenor, also if you enter the tournament you get 50% off bar food ordered before 9. Aaron often bangs on about the food there but I think he wants Michelin star for Mcdonalds prices! I eat there at least twice a week and loads of the cash players eat too i rarely see any problems with it. They have even started some Wetherspoons style offers but I am not sure what Wednesdays current offer is.

As people have said it all depends where you stay.

Jurys Inn/Travelodge/ and loads of Accor hotels are in the city centre. A taxi to G will be circa £5, taxi to naps nearer £10-14. Or you could possibly walk to Genting though there wont be many poker players there. I have eaten upstairs in Genting and it is pretty good, the Chinese leaves a bit to be desired. Better off going to somewhere like Wong Ting also right in the middle of town.

Raf has just added a another Sheffield Festival, but I don't think he has fully checked the dates as it clashes with Monte Carlo at DTD.

The next festival is on 18-21 April.

Told Raf and he changed it.

#influence

Grosvenors new Schedule from Sheffield Poker Scene Page....

Went to Genting because of snow on Friday as it is nearer the train station, ended up getting a cab to G as they couldn't get a 1/2 game even going before I left at 9pm.

From Monday 1st April


Monday
THE BIG £20
£2,000 GUARANTEED
20,000 CHIPS
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 5
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 9PM
£20+£3
7.30PM start

Tuesday
BEAT THE DEALER
£300 GUARANTEED WITH 20 PLAYERS
1 REBUY/ADDON
ELIMINATE OUR DEALERS TO WIN £20
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 5
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 9PM
£10+£3
7.30PM start

Wednesday
THE XL20 DEEPSTACK
£200 ADDED
20,000 CHIPS
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 5
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 9PM
£20+£3
7.30PM start

Thursday
THE XL40 DEEPSTACK
£10 ADDED PER PLAYER
20,000 CHIPS
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 5
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 9PM
£40 +£3
7.30PM start

Friday
THE XL15 DEEPSTACK
£750 GUARANTEED
20,000 CHIPS
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 5
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 9PM
£15 +£3
7.30PM start

Saturday
THE BIG £25
£2,000 GUARANTEED
20,000 CHIPS
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 5
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 9PM
£25+£3
7.30PM start

Sunday
THE BIG £15
£1,000 GUARANTEED
20,000 CHIPS
REGISTER BEFORE 4PM TO RECEIVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 2,000 CHIPS!
1 RE-ENTRY AVAILABLE TO THE END OF LEVEL 9
FULLY DEALER DEALT
LAST ENTRIES 7PM
£15+£3
4PM start

Sunday night
POT LIMIT OMAHA
£50 UNLIMITED REBUYS FOR 90 MINUTES
£10 ADDED PER PLAYER BY THE CASINO
7,000 STARTING STACK
7,000 CHIPS FOR REBUYS/ADDON
FULLY DEALER DEALT
REGISTER BEFORE 7.30PM TO RECIEVE A HALF PRICE BAR MEAL VOUCHER AND ADDITIONAL 3,000 CHIPS!
FULLY DEALER DEALT
9PM LAST ENTRIES
£50+£3
7.30PM start

Genting Club Sheffield New Poker Schedule

Commencing Monday 22nd April 2013

Monday Weekly Big One
£75 + (£5)
Guarantee - £5,000 unconditional
15,000 chips (3,000 bonus)

Tuesday XtremeStack
£25 + (£3)
Guarantee - £1,500 unconditional
30,000 chips (5,000 bonus)

Wednesday First Chips Free
£0 + (£3) plus £5 Rebuys
Guarantee - £500 w. 40 players
2,000 chips (500 bonus) plus 4,000 chips per rebuy

Thursday Rebuy
£10 + (£3) plus £5 Rebuys
Guarantee - £1,000 w. 40 players
3,000 chips (1,000 bonus) plus 3,000 chips per rebuy

Friday Fever
£30 + (£3)
Guarantee - £1,500 unconditional
35,000 chips (5,000 bonus)

Saturday Storm
£10 + (£3)
Guarantee - £500 w. 25 players
20,000 chips (2,500 bonus)

Sunday Showdown
£20 + (£3) plus 1 x £10 Rebuy
Guarantee - £1,500 w. 30 players
10,000 chips (2,000 bonus) plus 10,000 chips for rebuy

All tournaments start at 8pm
One re-entry on all tournaments apart from Weds & Thurs
Early Bird Bonus if registered before 8pm
All tournaments allow late registration for 2 hours
Cash Games Available Daily

Thank you all for the info.

We ended up doing a flying visit to Sheffield. Loved it too. Uni and the City. I think he is gonna plump for Warwick though.

Sheffield was the 5th Uni we visited on our tour and won the best looking girl students prize by miles. How the hell any young men would get any work done is beyond me. It was like an audition for The Saturdays.

Both Warwick and Sheffield have reputations as top unis.  What course is he looking to do?

Does either the Genting or the G get much cash action on Saturday afternoons? About 3-ish?

Got a mate coming in to town who fancies a game before he goes to watch snooker in the evening.

Nope, deffo not around that time.

Also the £75 FO with a £5k gte starts tonight.

     Much love to the dad helping son select University based on the tournament schedules of local Casino's.

Reminds me, I forgot to ask if you fancy sending me to do an MBA at The University of Nevada...?

The £75 game made just under £7k but Raf White kindly rounded it up to £7k, just like he added value last week also.

Genting, always giving.

WAL

The 888 super stack comes to Sheffield on the 29th June at Genting club.

Buyin - £150+£15

Date - 29th June.