Great atmosphere and the place was buzzing. Should take Blueace's advice and nit up a bit as played a bit loose and went out quite quickly having got a bit over-excited with on a flop of (against pocket 8's). I wasn't the only one though. One of the Welsh contingent arrived late at our table, had bought into P3 at £100 and was out in two hands!
Would have loved to have bought back in but had to play cash instead but managed a decent score.
I play once a week in the £25 on a Thursday because that's all I can manage due to work/family/cost etc. and I play for the fun of it and to hopefully improve my game. I've only played the £50 once in two years of membership and donked a win to the tune of £1570 = happy days!
Some of the play in the £25 can be pretty mad and sometimes spoil the game - last week one guy went all-in about a dozen times on the run, half the time blind and yes, 90% of the time he lucked out. The only thing I learned was how to avoid the lunatic! The play in the £50 was a lot more considered but it's all part of my education.
I think this is a great format because it will allow me to play with supposedly better players that regularly play at higher levels for my normal entry fee. Being the naive optimist I am, I thinks it's sad that people are already discussing ways in which they can cheat in order to win. The secret is just get better at the game you sad muppets!
If you're one of the supposedly better players, stop filling your heads with all sorts of ICM computations and get out there amongst the fish - the water will be lovely!
Couple of suggestions :-
1) What about Rob, Simon and Roberto all playing in the tourney and with a bounty on their heads of maybe free entry to the next tourney but at the next level up? 2) Players level identified by them being given a DTD branded chip protector when they register. That way the travellers may take away some free publicity to their normal card room.
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on a flop of 
(against pocket 8's). I wasn't the only one though. One of the Welsh contingent arrived late at our table, had bought into P3 at £100 and was out in two hands!