Hi,

There will be a number of first time live players and we want the game to be a friendly game, therefore this rule is in place (as it was for the Las Vegas Team Challenge finals) so that it makes it a little less intimidating for newbies. As all the players taking part are used to seeing the exact pot size online, we use it so the experience is the same live.

hi Tighty are you improving the structures by making the tournaments shorter or longer?  I don't play on party much but if somebody was improving their dailies to finish at 12 or 1 I could be persuaded to start. 

The structure should be better because of the variable level clocks, so 12 levels at 8 minutes early on, 12 at 10 minutes mid and the rest at the business end 12 minutes.  This coupled with Late Reg being cut from 15 to 12 levels, should make it an all round better experience, it doesn't mean it will finish any sooner, but will mean those fighting it out for the big prizes get a much better experience.

Always open to more feedback, give them a play from tomorrow and let me know what you think, either here, or in the facebook forum.

Thanks

Gaz

Important & Rather Brilliant UK News!

Today we are making some exciting changes to the Daily UK Tournaments, and to our DTD, Pokerfest Live and other UK specific satellites. 

Please take a moment to read this post carefully...right to the bottom for news of a GREAT Promo!

New Guarantees / Reduced Buy-Ins!

As of today until Sunday 30th Aug 2015 the following changes will take place:

The 7pm Daily UK Major Nano will see the guarantee increase fourfold to $2,000! The buy-in remains at $1.10.  This $2,000 Guarantee includes 80 x $5.50 tickets, so the tournament needs 82 runners to start.  Make sure you register early!

The 7pm Daily UK Major Micro will see the guarantee increase to $5,000 every day, not just on Sundays! The buy-in remains at $5.50.  This $5,000 Guarantee includes 50 x $22 tickets, so the tournament needs 52 runners to start.

The 7pm Daily UK Major Mini will see the guarantee remain at $10,000, but it now has a new lower buy-in of just $22! The $10,000 Guarantee includes 20 x $109 Tickets, so needs 22 runners to start. 

Furthermore; the 1pm, 4pm, 10pm and Midnight Minis will also see their buy-in drop to $22, with no decrease in the $1,000 Guarantee.

Other Tournaments

The $1.10 and $5.50 tournaments we run will remain at that buy-in, the $27.50 tournaments will drop to $22, the $120 tournaments drop to $109 and the $550 tournaments drop to $530.

What about my tickets?

There will be a period of time this afternoon where we'll be swapping the tournaments over, and changing your tickets as follows:

Holders of $1.10 DTD Tickets - no changes
Holders of $5.50 DTD Tickets - no changes
Holders of $27.50 DTD Tickets - will receive a $22 DTD Ticket and a $5.50 DTD Ticket
Holders of $120 DTD Tickets - will receive a $109 DTD Ticket and 2 x $5.50 DTD Tickets
Holders of $550 DTD Tickets - will receive a $530 DTD Ticket and a $22 DTD Ticket (so gain $2!)

What about the UK Team Challenge?

There are no changes to points for the UK Team Challenge, the 7pm Mini and 7pm Micro generate Team Chips and the 7pm Nano is still the Booster Challenge.

Who you gonna call?

This process of changing the tournaments and the tickets is starting now and will last a couple of hours, so should be finished by approximately 6pm today.

If you have any questions or issues, and I am sure there will be a couple of teething gremlins knocking about, please alert us on this thread (please don't start new threads) and we'll deal with it.  Please be patient with us, good things come to those who wait!

Which brings me to...

Daily UK Majors: Community Cash Promotion!

We are also running a terrific value promotion for members of the partypoker UK Community Forum on Facebook. (So if you aren't a member - JOIN!)

Members receive extra prizes for the 7pm Daily UK Majors, you could win an extra $1,000!

7pm Nano - FT and win $25.  1st place to win $100
7pm Micro - FT and win $50. 1st place to win $500
7pm Mini - FT and win $100. 1st place to win $1,000

Those prizes are extra, in addition to, on top of what you win in the tournament. Prizes must be claimed in the partypoker UK Community forum and will take up to 72 hours to be processed, read all about it here:

https://www.partypoker.com/whats-going-on/tournaments/the-majors/daily-uk-majors-community-cash.html

Is there any way of checking individual progress on the booster chips....able to complete four out of six and have done two but wasn't sure which of the other two I need to complete or how far off completing them I was 

You are showing Pokerfest and Sunday Majors, however, they've not been updated since Friday, so I'll update you later today.

Got a couple of questions about this team event

To me the amount of chips awarded to the final table is unfair compared to say 40th to 49th (55000) its like half the total amount of 1st place (100000). But if you get to the final table you only get 1000 chips extra for each place. There seems to be an unbalance here imo you should get rewarded extra for getting to the ft.

So the table suggests that 40th will get 55000 chips in the daily major, now will this still be awarded if only 100 people enter or will there need to be 400 people to enter to activate the 40th to 49th places? Otherwise half the field are going to get a huge amount of chips compared to the ft % wise.

If this is the case 40th getting 55000 chips with only 100 people entering then i can see a lot of teams qualifying really quickly and the amount of chips being brought to the club is going to be massive. I know they get divided up but its still going to be a lot of chips in play, so i guess the blinds will be quite big at the start of the live event to counter this?

Here is the chip table, if its attached correctly never did it before

Thanks for the feedback, will take it away and review.

Will the points structure remain as advertised? I agree with the above feedback, will play either way though. Thanks

UK Team Challenge News!


In addition to the UK Team Challenge Welcome Pack announcement today (see other posts), we've tweaked the Points structure for the online tournaments.  This was done to address several issues raised by you, the players.  Namely - on partypoker software, multiple players get awarded the same finishing position, thus a 200 runner tournament can only have 80 "places" recorded, thus loads of people would be getting the same, high points for not doing very well, so we've adjusted where the Min Points are and the number of places per jump.  Furthermore there was genuine concern from players about players late registering and getting an instant 50k points, which now can't happen.  A couple of players have asked how Re-Entry works, and I can confirm that a players 'best' finishing position will count.


Hope that clears up the issues, only a few days to go to get your team registered to claim the Welcome Pack! Don't delay, do it today.

[they]

Yeah that's the issue, the GP Tour leg at Old Trafford was originally booked for 10th & 11th at Old Trafford, confirmed, paid for etc.  Then they realised it was the Grand Final (they realised) so had to bump us as the massive suite we are using for the poker tour is going to be in use.  So the next available date at Old Trafford is 17th and 18th, which clashes with Team Challenge, so we've swapped them round.

Team Challenge Live Final - DTD - 10th and 11th Oct
Grand Prix Poker Tour Old Trafford - 17th and 18th Oct

Which also means we can do cool things with bounty prizes at the Team Challenge for the Grand Prix!

UK Team Challenge Announcement:

Due to a clash of dates with the Grand Prix Poker Tour and the Rugby League Grand Final, it is necessary to swap the dates for the UK Team Challenge Live Final. Therefore the UK Team Challenge Live Final will now take place on the weekend of 10th and 11th October 2015 at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham (one week earlier than originally planned)

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, but the changes enable us to run two very good tournaments back to back

 If you haven't registered your team yet please do on the link below:

https://www.partypoker.com/whats-going-on/promotions/team-challenge.html

(Live Final dates on website will be updated very soon)

[waldorfuk]

I am the bounty tonight.  My screenname is waldorfuk, I'll be playing both the Mini and the Micro, I have a $120 DTD Ticket bounty on my head for elimination from either.

Is open to DTD and partypoker UK facebook forum members....and to blonde poker forum members....obviously!

Good luck, see you at 7pm.

Got a couple of questions about this team event

To me the amount of chips awarded to the final table is unfair compared to say 40th to 49th (55000) its like half the total amount of 1st place (100000). But if you get to the final table you only get 1000 chips extra for each place. There seems to be an unbalance here imo you should get rewarded extra for getting to the ft.

So the table suggests that 40th will get 55000 chips in the daily major, now will this still be awarded if only 100 people enter or will there need to be 400 people to enter to activate the 40th to 49th places? Otherwise half the field are going to get a huge amount of chips compared to the ft % wise.

If this is the case 40th getting 55000 chips with only 100 people entering then i can see a lot of teams qualifying really quickly and the amount of chips being brought to the club is going to be massive. I know they get divided up but its still going to be a lot of chips in play, so i guess the blinds will be quite big at the start of the live event to counter this?

Here is the chip table, if its attached correctly never did it before

Thanks for the feedback, will take it away and review.

Richking hit 5 from 5 yesterday to win a seat in a £1,000 Game vs Rob Yong.  Super stuff.  He also wins a £330 Seat for his troubles.  The seat will be added to your DTD Club account, Nicola Veitch​ can assist if you wish to use it for an online Day 1.

The rest of you are now playing for those $550 tickets.  Well done Richking!

See the latest league table here: http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/news/ironman-challenge/2482

Things to note:
1. You do NOT need to opt in every week, only new players need opt in now, if you have already opted in, you are in for the whole duration of the promotion.
2. We've tweaked the rules on a first to 5 tie, see the T&C for details.
3. Any players who have won £330 ($550) tickets - they are held on your DTD Club Account at the cash desk, contact Nicola if you wish to use it for an online day 1.

The partypoker UK Team Challenge is now open for business!

Register your poker team at https://www.partypoker.com/whats-going-on/promotions/team-challenge.html

First tournaments start on 1st August 2015, and you and your team could be in line for a bumper pay day.  Full details can be found on the partypoker website, but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here and I'll answer them.

Here's that latest Teams Video, with the new additions in....

Good luck all!

Ironman Mid Week 1 Update:

DTDFish and Eilselnhoj completed the 5 Weekly Challenges on Tuesday, so they both win a seat in a 3 handed match up vs Rob Yong for a winner takes all £1k prize pool.  They also won a $550 DTD Ticket (they are in your accounts now gents)

Yesterday Richking and Mafiusu completed their 5, so they win $550 DTD Tickets (will be added within 24 hours).

There are a whole bunch of people on 4 Challenges, and they, plus everyone else still have 4 days to complete all 5.

If you want to check out the league table, or haven't yet opted in, do so here:

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/news/ironman-challenge/2482

did the dons make the final cut?

Not telling.....

Scratch that.  Reports came through, tables updated.

DTDFish and Eilselnhoj have completed their set of 5 Challenges so both win a seat Vs Rob Yong (3 handed) for a cool, smooth grand.

They also scoop a $550 DTD Ticket each.  Everyone else is playing for the $550 DTD Ticket this week. Good luck!

Due to maintenance of the tournament reports, the leaderboard will not be updated today, it will be updated with Tues 30th's Medals, and Weds 1st Opt Ins in the wee small hours of Thursday morning.  As a player, you know what you won last night, but if you have any questions, ask Nicola Veitch later, she can answer them, but don't bombard her!