UKIPT Coventry thread

[Laxie]

Good luck to all of you playing in this!

[EvilPie]

Hey Tighty! Playing day 1a with Nigdawg (Bramm)

Therefore, I will be playing day 1b 

Anyone know if u can still buy in via stars? I had a quick look yesterday and the only one i could see for online buy ins was listed as 'full' ?

You sure will.

I rang last night and there were only seats left for today apparently.

is there a lot left?

No idea mate. Might be worth a ring before you drive down though.

Numbers on the link in OP. Just ask for cash desk.

[NigDawG]

Might win this time

[easypickings]

They just took one over the phone for me really easily, so worth a try.

Not convinced they know what they are doing!

[Mitch]

Deffo full for 2moro.

I rang up to buy in and was told only places for today before 4pm. rushed down then found out you could buy in until 5.

From my pretty short time in the comp, sigh, there are so many little things that just remind me why i hardly play anywhere other than DTD. Some of the dealers are obviously pretty unexperienced or just not very good, letting people take their own change from other peoples blinds, not picking up on raises etc etc. Also 10 handed squashed up tables tilt me

Anyway, Good luck to everybody still in / playing 2moro.

[Mitch]

Oh, and also just wondered what u all think about this.

I turn up towards the end of level 2 and buy in (as a late reg, not somebody who is just late) and am given a seat card. Get to my seat and theres another persons name and player card there with the stack that has been sitting there since the start.

I ask if i get a fresh stack and am told i have to use this guy who is not turning up!? how can that be right? what if my table has been 3 handed and hes been through the blinds 20 times before i get there. Somebody asks what would have happened if i bought in and there were non of these 'un used stacks'

Apparently they have a way to work out how many chips you start with.  Course you do.

Dont know whats wrong with just taking a big and small blind from each level.... surely the only fair way to do it!?!?

FWIW I lost 625 chips instead of 225.

[Doobs]

I don't think that can be right at all.  I haven't seen it happen before anyway. 

What happens if that fella shows up 10 minutes after you, does he end up with a fresh stack?  And presumably they are only doing it as he hasn't showed for 2 hours.  They wouldn't have done it if it was just half an hour, would they? 

Or say the latecomer was Hellmuth, bet they wouldnt pass his stack over.  Just screams of an inconsistent/bad ruling.

[dino1980]

LeKnave and George2Loose both finished the day on 60k+ putting them top 10 or thereabouts. Mike Lacey is second in chips at end of day 1a on a toasty 110k.

[Sweetman]

Had a very nice first table, and got involved in a few hands with David LaRonde, eventually busting him, chipped up through levels 5 and 6 and peaked at 71k, then bled away 14k after the table broke in level 8 and got moved to a table sitting next to Nigdawg with Mickey Wernick also in attendance.

Was happy to get throught the day with an above average chipstack, looking forward to coming back on Saturday with 60BBs and a new seat draw.

Good luck to all the other remaining blondes in the field.


Ben.

[TightEnd]

Day1a


191 started, 72 remain


amongst them

Player   Country   Status   Chip Count
Alex Jackson   United Kingdom      116100
Mike Lacey   Ireland      110900
Dave Mobbs   United Kingdom      73600
Chris Brice   United Kingdom      70500
Anthony Kennedy   United Kingdom      68600
Dimitrios Ermogenous   Cyprus      67300
Michael Broschek   Germany   PokerStars qualifier   67200
Ben Dobson   United Kingdom   PokerStars qualifier   66200
Rajesh Verma   United Kingdom   PokerStars qualifier   62000
Rupinder Bedi   United Kingdom   PokerStars qualifier   61300
Dave Jones   United Kingdom      61100
Robin Morris   United Kingdom      58400
Peter Charalambous   United Kingdom      53500
Joe Grech   United Kingdom      52700
Stephen Devlin   Ireland   PokerStars player   50400
Dan Carter   United Kingdom      46300
Corwin Cole   USA   PokerStars qualifier   45300
Dan Owston   Wales   PokerStars qualifier   42800
Michael McCool   Ireland      36600
Chris Brammer   United Kingdom      23600
Jerome Bradpiece   United Kingdom      23400
Mickey Wernick   United Kingdom      16900


gl to the day1bs tomorrow

[TightEnd]

chip leader Jackson is a local student

Amongst the exitees: Julian Thew


pic below Ben Dobson (is that you Sweetman?) and NigDawg, Chris Brammer from www.pokerstarsblog.com


then chip leader jackson

[Sweetman]

chip leader Jackson is a local student

Amongst the exitees: Julian Thew


pic below Ben Dobson (is that you Sweetman?) and NigDawg, Chris Brammer from www.pokerstarsblog.com


then chip leader jackson

No, confusingly.  I was sitting the other side of Chris (Ben Sweetman 56,700)

Ben Dobson could have had finished the night on around 120k if he'd won a big pot with his slow played against on board

[action man]

was on your table before 22<44  then nitrolled by JJ vs my AQ if i had a stack think we would have had a few battles. gl

[Sack it off]

Jon Lundy and Milo "MBN to have daddy own a big sports brand" Mckenzie FTW!!!!!

[Highstack]

Oh, and also just wondered what u all think about this.

I turn up towards the end of level 2 and buy in (as a late reg, not somebody who is just late) and am given a seat card. Get to my seat and theres another persons name and player card there with the stack that has been sitting there since the start.

I ask if i get a fresh stack and am told i have to use this guy who is not turning up!? how can that be right? what if my table has been 3 handed and hes been through the blinds 20 times before i get there. Somebody asks what would have happened if i bought in and there were non of these 'un used stacks'

Apparently they have a way to work out how many chips you start with.  Course you do.

Dont know whats wrong with just taking a big and small blind from each level.... surely the only fair way to do it!?!?

FWIW I lost 625 chips instead of 225.

Hi Mitch

I actually don't think this is an awful ruling (sorry). What should have happened as a late reg at that stage is that you should have been an alternate and only been able to enter when someone was knocked out (with as you say a bb and sb for each level passed removed from your stack). However, as played, I think it's right to pay bb and sb from the stack at the table however long the game has been running for te other players at the table. Whether you should have been allowed to take that stack over is another question entirely.

Fwiw I'm playing this afternoon, but going straight from work, although  only losing 625 for two hours and still remaining with a 14k+ stack and blinds still low at 4pm, I'm tempted to go home and get some rest in first.

Also, whoever it was that said it was sold out at 4pm yesterday has been wrongly advised too as I went along at 7.30 and paid in directly at the cash desk.

Good luck to all still in from yesterday and those of you playing today.