I don't really get the logic with this tourney, considering there is no payout for first in the STTs

Sure, I can see how getting to the live final with a smallish stack and chipping up would be fine, but whats with the race to qualify for the £500 deepstack? By my crude calculations, without a payout for the STT winners, and taking into account a 30-40% win ratio in the 5 handed STTs (which is probably generous), you would likely have to invest €450 to win the deepstack seat which hardly seems worth it.

Surely this would be better if the winner of each sat won their buy-in back at least, with the remainder going into the prize pool....otherwise it seems very -EV

Although I may be missing something really obvious

someone needs to explain to rastafish what 'the nuts' means

Hope PJ takes this down. It may help him get results with all the talking, but personally I think he pushes into 'classless' territory a bit too much (like celebrating loudly yesterday busting a player) and he can be disruptive to other tables around where he is playing.

I'm sure it helps his results because it would tilt many, but so would constant farting and I don't see too many taking that approach...

Daft question perhaps, but is the seat draw for today published on DTD the actual seat draw, or is this likely to change before 3pm?

Do we know how many positions pay? And is there a payout structure chart for this?

Hope so Francis from China


1052 so far, 300 Friday, 250 tonight is my guess

1600 runners, 40k short. Hopefully a lot less

Anyone else have a prediction?

Don't forget Rich, if they get 1650 players , that means £165,000 ( in pounds ) and
the guarantee r in €€€ ( euros ) . So it's very close !!! Trust me , I seldom made mistake,
the only mistake I made us to learn to play this game !!! #WhatALife

Good point sir 1600 runners isn't a £40k overlay, its less. Need all your mates there though, and everyone else!

#HashtagOverloadFromTwitterNewbies

Its still £31k overlay, which is not to be sneezed at

Just read the accumulator idea on the blog from a point of view from a recreational player who travels 50 miles to get there I would definitely avoid playing any tourney where a chip leader from day 1 could potentially be short stacked on day 2 because he only wants one entry and has to work where as someone else could play 6 day ones and accumulate a stack. Being relatively new to the live game I am surprised at the lack of ideas across many casinos - for example bounty hunters and tourneys where each table plays to one winner and those winners then form the next round seem good ideas. The down to one player could be a two day with the first round on day one. Why not even a champion of champions where every winner of major tourneys play each other every so many months? 1% of the pot could roll towards it. Just my twopenneth for some thing else to try - the chip leader I think is very good and should prove popular again so well done on that one.

Cant see them implementin this, like u say not fair on those who only play 1 bullet. Might b worth considering allowin players to enter as many day 1s as they like but can only carry forward their biggest chip stack. Just a thought......

I've emailed Rob Yong direct, but in essence this is wrong!

My only concession to the issue of shortstacks would be to allow those with less than say 8BBs to sacrifice their stack and re-enter. Can't allow people to play with the safety net of already being through.

Why not?

Because it would completely change the tournament dynamic, and could put many off.

Imagine day 1g. It would be full of 100bb shoves where people who have already qualified try to get a massive stack with no real fear of busting out.

When I first heard the suggestion I thought it was a good idea too but the more I've thought about it, the more it's clear that it wouldn't really work in practice

maybe all day 2 returns could now be guarenteed a min cash?

just saying.....

Agree with this because it will likely pretty shallow already and everybody nitting it up for 2 levels will just mean the average reaches >20bb at the most important stages of the tourny

Not sure about nitting it up, at the last GP on Day 2 it was absolute carnage with all-ins and calls on the first seven hands of the day, on my table!

Is there a projected payout structure anywhere for this event? I don't mean actual payout values - but %'s paid and where the jumps are?

got to dtd about 3.30pm as doors were opening for 4pm, Firstly the big Grand Prix sign outside the club Had the wrong dates  on the poster, and there was a few people mulling around as they were sent an e-mail saying comp starts at 3pm, just thought i would mention this.

I noticed the error on the sign outside too.

I think a few things will contribute to lower numbers this time - the buy-in of £100 is okay but with it being a re-entry tourney, many will budget for £200 which is quite an outlay for many recreational players. The time of year with school holiday just starting won't have helped. Promotion seemed a bit patchy for this in my view, compared to usual and I - and this may seem a little thing, but I think having Simon Trumper building up the excitement beforehand and being at the event helps enormously. This time, with the WSOP beforehand and Simon playing at other poker rooms on the day, I don't think the event had the usual big build up although I could be imagining this.

I actually liked the re-entry format, as long as its limited to a single extra bullet each day (as this was).

Still expecting good numbers, but the guarantee does look like it could mean an overlay.

Perhaps the best approach would be to have six day ones, Fri/Sat/Sun across two weeks, with the Day 2/3 on the third weekend?

Will the blinds still be 2500/5000 A500 on day2?
Think it might be a different comp but I remember them knocking the levels back a few, also is it 40 min clock?

They wound the blindes back in the GP earlier in the year, but in the last one they didn't

Are the mid weeks not starting at 5 as well?

Maybe I'm wrong. 5 would make much more sense

And I am David Morgan, so numbers helped some more

Think numbers would have been better if it had remained at 50 quid, as I can't see the midweek games starting at 8 getting huge numbers due to people working. Yesterday finished at 2am and started at 5!

Made it through to Day 2 last night with 60,800 chips which was some way below the average

Question I have - In the January GP, the blinds were rolled back at the start of Day 2. Is that likely to happen again this time?

(apologies if this has already been asked somewhere else)

Thanks
Dave

Unlucky to Tim Blake. Had the pleasure of being sat next to him for about 6 hours on Day 1b and an interesting bloke.

I'm rooting for Maria now, given that I'm from Grantham although would be amused to see this mouthy geordie bloke everyone is talking about at the FT

gl all who still in

Long time blonde lurker (post on other forums) but as DTD is my 'local' club, this tie-up has caused me to register properly and come out of the shadows Seems like a good idea for both parties.