Gala Poker Tour Grand Final: Day 1A - Interactive

[b4matt]

I paid in At 1pm today turk cos they said u had to buy in BEFORE the event started and they would accept no day 2 buy ins.

[NoflopsHomer]

snoopy  can u actually ask  relevant people   that  if they r accepting any entries  tomorrow just in case they changed their mind  thanks m8

Snoops isn't here!

There is a reserve list for tomorrow, and if anyone is thinking of signing up for tomorrow, you will almost certainly get in, or so I'm told.

[Benjo]

Great updates Snoop 

[MadTurk]

snoopy  can u actually ask  relevant people   that  if they r accepting any entries  tomorrow just in case they changed their mind  thanks m8

Snoops isn't here!

There is a reserve list for tomorrow, and if anyone is thinking of signing up for tomorrow, you will almost certainly get in, or so I'm told.

thanks  thats great  i will be there

[NoflopsHomer]

News of Dave Maudlin please

I'm afraid he's OUT. Rob Sherwood said he raised and got 4(!) callers. The board came and one of the players, Mika Ollila, was holding and hit the turn which is when all the chips went in. Ollila looks to be the chip leader at this point with around 41k.

A few other chip counts:

Joe Beevers -- 20k
Jamie Gold (who seems a really pleasant chap and not the swearing machine that I observed at the World Series) -- 13k
Rob Akery -- 25k
Roland De Wolfe -- 12.5k
Richard Ashbu -- 16k

[jambo22]

Great updates Snoop 

Wish Andrew Feenan all the best,

[Karabiner]

another problem   they do not accept  late entries as some people want to play tomorrow and buy in  like my self well it s their lose

Why are they not accepting late entries?

I suppose it's because if they let peeps buy in for tomorrow they could have 50 runners for day 1 and 200 runners for day 2

More likely that Gala do not yet allow late entries or alternates at any of their cardrooms.

[TightEnd]

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=650.0

remember guys and gals, pop across to Jen and Dana's Amsterdam update by clicking the link above

2 for the price of 1 all weekend on blonde (or not on blonde!)

[Mango99]

Any news on "Pedro" Pete Singleton?...

My sponsored players have had a good week so far, with Pete 7th, Lucy Rokach 4th, and Paul Munday 3rd in the £1000 event.

I'm playing tomorrow btw - decided that as it's my local casino I might have some home-turf advantage lol

[snoopy1239]

Great updates Snoop 

Thanks, Benjo, I'm here all week. 

[NoflopsHomer]

On a board, Roland De Wolfe c/raises Carl Eglintine's 600 bet to 1,975 board. Eglintine calls and then bets 3,000 on the turn, Roland moves all-in quickly for another 8,000 or so and is equally quickly called.

Roland:



Carl:



River:



Roland doubles through then, almost blissfully ignorant of that increase in chip stack to 25k, immediately starts a conversation with Joe Beevers about how much each of them weigh...



Meanwhile on the turn of a , Ian Woodley check/raises John Tabatabai's 1,300 bet to 3,000. Herein follows an exchange, of, "I know you have nothing," "Well I know you have nothing," "Well your nothing could be even less." The WSOP-E runner-up though, decides in the end that discretion is the better part of valour and passes.

"He didn't have nothing..." says Barny Boatman, referring to Woodley.

[julian]

So whilst Jen and Dana are hurrying around Amsterdam chasing the 400+ players or so in the Master Classics. (Shouldn't it just be the Amsterdam Masters, or Amsterdam Classic, why do they have to be greedy and have both?). We are down here in Bristol to cover the Grand Final of the Gala Poker Tour with it's chunky £2,500 buy-in. Originally, it was going to be held at the same time as the EPT Dublin event, but they wanted to avoid the clash and instead chose to send it up against Amsterdam instead. This clash however may have actually turned out to be a worse one because of the more comparable buy-ins between Amsterdam and Bristol since at the moment there are only 52 runners, though that could well change before the 2pm start time on Thursday. Also, Amsterdam already has one of the best reputations around meaning people are naturally going to go to that event and not even think about possible alternatives. Perhaps though some people playing in Amsterdam today may bust out early and decide to come back to play Bristol tomorrow?

A few of the names who are playing, however, will no doubt surprise you, as they include Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Robert Williamson III, Jennifer Tilly and 2006 WSOP Champion Jamie Gold. But this addition of 'star talent' hasn't seemed so far to galvanise people into coming to play with the big names, though we won't know this before the event starts. Obviously, if the field isn't huge, then where is the problem stemming from? Is it down to putting the tournament up against another very popular event and coming off worse? Is this another case, like Dublin, where there is simply too much poker going on and the buy-in is too big with people just deciding to wait for a better option? Or has the additional of glamorous US stars actually hurt the competition and people have seen the toughening of the field and thought they would be wasting their money?

Either way, the tournament will start at 2pm and we'll be here to bring all you all the action.

hey chris,
i enquired last week about the possibilty of reserving a seat in case i busted from the masterclassics early...was told no dice, had to show up in person at a gala & hand over the lolly.
fair enough, i know gala have some very sticky rules about buying in, but really, if they want to encourage players to participate in their flagship event then they need to be a little more flexible given the nature of the chocca-block poker calendar.

[NoflopsHomer]

Hi Jules, if you wanted to play tomorrow, you could probably get in. Gala's managers are reading this thread I believe, so hopefully they'll take all the players concerns on board for the future.

[julian]

well tx chris,
but i think i've been pencilled in for babty-sitting duty...what cheek!

[b4matt]

So whilst Jen and Dana are hurrying around Amsterdam chasing the 400+ players or so in the Master Classics. (Shouldn't it just be the Amsterdam Masters, or Amsterdam Classic, why do they have to be greedy and have both?). We are down here in Bristol to cover the Grand Final of the Gala Poker Tour with it's chunky £2,500 buy-in. Originally, it was going to be held at the same time as the EPT Dublin event, but they wanted to avoid the clash and instead chose to send it up against Amsterdam instead. This clash however may have actually turned out to be a worse one because of the more comparable buy-ins between Amsterdam and Bristol since at the moment there are only 52 runners, though that could well change before the 2pm start time on Thursday. Also, Amsterdam already has one of the best reputations around meaning people are naturally going to go to that event and not even think about possible alternatives. Perhaps though some people playing in Amsterdam today may bust out early and decide to come back to play Bristol tomorrow?

A few of the names who are playing, however, will no doubt surprise you, as they include Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Robert Williamson III, Jennifer Tilly and 2006 WSOP Champion Jamie Gold. But this addition of 'star talent' hasn't seemed so far to galvanise people into coming to play with the big names, though we won't know this before the event starts. Obviously, if the field isn't huge, then where is the problem stemming from? Is it down to putting the tournament up against another very popular event and coming off worse? Is this another case, like Dublin, where there is simply too much poker going on and the buy-in is too big with people just deciding to wait for a better option? Or has the additional of glamorous US stars actually hurt the competition and people have seen the toughening of the field and thought they would be wasting their money?

Either way, the tournament will start at 2pm and we'll be here to bring all you all the action.

hey chris,
i enquired last week about the possibilty of reserving a seat in case i busted from the masterclassics early...was told no dice, had to show up in person at a gala & hand over the lolly.
fair enough, i know gala have some very sticky rules about buying in, but really, if they want to encourage players to participate in their flagship event then they need to be a little more flexible given the nature of the chocca-block poker calendar.

You stay at home looking through car catalogues... Fancy a curry mate? Korma for you floppy??