Luton Main Event LIVE UPDATE

[tikay]

The 1,500 NLH Main Event concludes the UK Open Festival at Grosvenor Luton.

It's a 2 day jobbie, Day One starts at 7pm on Saturday.

blonde will be carrying a Live Update from start to finish, with djinn (200 NLH UK Open winner Jen) in the chair.

We hope you can join us - it's interacting with the blondeites that makes these Live Updates such fun. And no feedback makes it a pretty frustrating time for the Updater - luckily a problem we do not seem to have - last week's coverage of the Final at The Vic ran to 45 pages! And all blonde traffic stat records were broken, by a country mile, in no small part due to Jen's beautifully crafted posts. And since then, she's won the UK Open 200 NLH - she's FAMOUS now....!

Oh, & though it's a bit of a waste posting this news here, but we now have a Menu Button on the Home Page for Live Updates.

A great field is expected. Willie, Lord Lawrence Gosney, John Gale, (two bracelet winners & a WPT Champion there...), El Blondie, Joe Grech, Iwan Jones, Michael Thuritz, Legato & Ector from PokerStars (both Stockholmers), ActionJack, Camel, Thewy (fresh from his jollies in Spain - oops, just remembered, I was supposed to buy him in...), Bad Girl, Smokin Steve, Bushy, Carlo, Rob Yong, and way too many more names to mention.

Join in & enjoy!

[StacPollaidh]

I might come up for this event tonight, do you think I would
get a seat at about 6pm or is it likely to be sold out?
Also, are there any satellites this afternoon?
Cheers.

[tikay]

Hi Stac,

Yes, there IS a satellite - a super - plus some one table jobbies this afternoon. See

http://www.blondepoker.com/events/009010.html

Will you be able to buy a seat at 6pm? My guess would be yes, but thats just a guess. They had sold 82 seats at midnight Friday. Why not ring them to ask the score. The phone number is in our UK Cardroom Directory here...

  http://www.blondepoker.com/cardrooms/008000.html

[David_Capon]

just phoned up and the women said they had only sold 77..

I will try to make it there by about 6:30, doubt they will be sold out.

Anyone know starting chips and structure?

David

[tikay]

77 sold, PLUS however many get seats in the Sats.

10,000 starting chips, 45 minute clock. On each "day two" this week, when the blinds have begun at 1,500-3,000, they have moved the blinds BACK a level to 1,000-2,000. Which, if you are one of those folks who are always Billy Low Stack, is very helpful. I'm told.

[snoopy1239]

On each "day two" this week, when the blinds have begun at 1,500-3,000, they have moved the blinds BACK a level to 1,000-2,000. Which, if you are one of those folks who are always Billy Low Stack, is very helpful. I'm told.

Was that predetermined or decided at the end of the night?

[tikay]

No idea. I just know that when we returned (in my case, Tuesday & Friday aftenoons) they said "we have reset the blinds to 1k-2k" which was met with general approval.

[snoopy1239]

I only ask because with 20 left I think I may have chosen to be more patient if I'd have realised the blinds were going back down. I assumed they'd be up to 2-4 and therefore deduced that I needed to make my move.

Still, I think it's a gr8 idea. Helps stop the final day turning into a crapshoot. Any ruling that allows for more poker to be played is a step forward in my eyes.

High praise from snoopy. Well done Luton. 

[tikay]

Precisely. A big up to Luton.

By the way, our Live Update will be on a new thread, in the LIVE TOURNAMENTS section.