Vale of Keswick? ;-)

Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick in the lake district

While I personally like the idea of a "shot clock" similar to how the Aussie Millions runs, I think this is a disastrous idea for "all" comps. I think the standard weekly comps will be hurt as it will be disliked by the many recreational players. I can understand it being used for the premium events like the monthly deepstacks and Monte Carlo's.... but not for the XXL25's and Super 50's.... we need to remember that poker is a fun night out for most players, and this rule is not a standard poker rule across all service providers. Recreational players that play elsewhere, and then come to DTD for their "fabourite" comps will be p***ed off imo, as they won't be having the same fun experience they have at other venues.

I'm curious as to why the need for this change. I can't say in my experience there is a lot of slow play. Like I say, I like it personally, as I consider myself more serious than recreational, therefore personally I think it increases my edge on the standard DTD field. But overall for the good of poker at DTD, I don't like it.

OK so a clock shortening seems appropriate then.... 10/12 mins clock?? what think ye???

I played, and I will play again.

I think it's a great concept. OK, it needs a few tweaks, but that's always the case with innovation.

On the whole, I thought the puses far outweighed the minuses.

Totally agree Tom.

So would you guys play it if the clock was removed and you played a certain number of hands per level equal to the average number of hands played live? Would that tweak work for you?

The only fair way to sync the online with the live event, is to give the online a set number of hands per level that is equal to the average hands played per level live. Once the number of hands played has hit that watermark the level goes up. Also remove the re-entry option for people who play the online day 1. This is the only way I can see it being fair, and also allows those with long ways to travel to play online. Personally I couldn't play this weekend so haven't entered at all. But if the online is run again without changes I DEFO will play the online as I think I have an edge there generally, and this format only accentuates it.

WP Rees!!!

I'm watching too!!! :-)

cumon Tommy.... get there son!!!!

thanks for the commentary Rob enjoy the fag and coffee... :-)

you guys can see hole cards now?

no

I'd go with "stone cold thief" Rob!!! LOL

Tommy looking really good FTW now....

We are now running the stream with zero delay, as no hole cards are being shown
Rob currently doing a bit of commentary regarding the streaming

This is brilliant and Rob's explanation about No Deals... 100% behind it!!! WP DTD... courageous and totally right for poker overall.

will this defo play to a conclusion? or is there a certain cut off time that they do an enforced chip count payout?

plays to a conclusion.

I double checked when it would go to a chip count, and was told it wouldn't

ty :-)