Playing festival poker in London in September?

[TightEnd]

Combined buy ins for the lot total £107,000!  WPT,WSOPE,EPT,WPO..

"World Poker Tour makes its first ever stop in the UK today, rolling into the Palm Beach Casino, London.

Day 1A of the £5,000 + £300 buy in WPT London Poker Classic main event gets underway this afternoon and runs until September 4.

It will be filmed for broadcast at a later date and will see a host of the world’s biggest poker stars take part including November Niner’s Matt Jarvis and Filippo Candio, Phil Ivey, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, James Akenhead, Alexander Kravchenko, Joe Beevers, Nicholas Levi, Erik Seidel, Dragan Galic, and Tony G.

The festival also features a £15,000 buy in high rollers event and Simon Tomsett of Genting Casinos said, “The tournament prize pool of the London Poker Festival events alone is expected to easily exceed £12 million from a calendar of over 100 events. London is the poker capital of the world in September and the place to be if you are a poker player wherever you are from.”


Thoughts on the sustainability of the top end of the live market? Is the Supply of events about to exceed the demand of players to play in these?

[Karabiner]

Odd that they schedule a WPT event in Europe to clash with an EPT event.

[DaveShoelace]

I think it might Rich. I have a feeling the numbers will be pretty low for the WPT event, it just seems the odd one out. EPT has such a huge online qualifier presence and the WSOPE are bracelet events. I think I would prefer the WPT to be some other time in the year, so it would be a massive deal.

[action man]

lot of people gonna go/multai/skint this month

[snoopy1239]

Rod's doing updates at the WPT today.

http://www.partypoker.com/blog/wpt-london/wpt-london-live-updates.html

(delete link if inappropriate)

[ripple11]

I spoke to Simon on Saturday and he had about 100 booked in for the WPT....he was hoping for nearer 300 to start in the planning stage.

Running one qualifer a week on Party with no guaranteed seats,that finished a couple of weeks ago!............was never going to get enough internet qualifers.
However the  daily shootout sats at the Palm Beach have proved popular....especially as you can buy in online for £230 instead of £330 !!.

[tikay]

When I left the Venue at about 2pm, 64 players had registered for Day 1a. (It started at noon).

Photos later, blurry as usual.

[TightEnd]

Rod's doing updates at the WPT today.

http://www.partypoker.com/blog/wpt-london/wpt-london-live-updates.html

(delete link if inappropriate)

JC reported yesterday

There’s a slight fixture congestion in the poker world at present with an EPT taking place in Villamoura and the WSOPE less than two weeks away meaning the turnout here, although brimming with quality is a little lower than expected.

As a result, the directors are rethinking the strategy of seven level days and the day might be curtailed a little earlier than expected, the current thinking suggesting they may finish up with 3 or 4 tables left depending on how fast things are playing out.

Tomorrow is expected to be a much busier day however…with late registrations allowed, enthusiastic EPT eliminees looking for action likely to fly over and play and a history of day being busier.

A total attendance of 250 is being tentatively suggested, which will create a juicy £1.25 million prize pool and mean the players are gunning for a cracking first prize.

[ripple11]

When I left the Venue at about 2pm, 64 players had registered for Day 1a. (It started at noon).

Photos later, blurry as usual.

or if you can't wait.............an interesting blog/photos are at the other place.

[tikay]

When I left the Venue at about 2pm, 64 players had registered for Day 1a. (It started at noon).

Photos later, blurry as usual.

or if you can't wait.............an interesting blog/photos are at the other place.

Whoops, yeah, I clean forgot the photos.

I might chat with Tighty in a bit, to see how he feels about a Link to the Blogs, if anyone is interested. They are mounted on a SP platform, but are 100% spam free. I'm sure some of the lads here will enjoy the fact that I got a photo of a rotund random mixed up with Chris Brammer.....

In fact, I managed to upset THREE people in composing just two blogs, only one of whom was Adebayo.

[TightEnd]

go on, post em.

Or I can pop the photos up out of the blog if you wish

[tikay]

Here's Chris Brammer.

[tikay]

go on, post em.

Or I can pop the photos up out of the blog if you wish

I'm not sure the photos make sense without the words - or vice-versa. Bear with me, head spinning here!

[tikay]

if anyone is seriously bored, there are three WPT London blogs here, about 100 photos, & 2,000 or 3,000 words. And one line of Spam.

http://bit.ly/9Rh743

http://bit.ly/aWp26g

http://bit.ly/cVb6G3

[snoopy1239]

When I left the Venue at about 2pm, 64 players had registered for Day 1a. (It started at noon).

Photos later, blurry as usual.

or if you can't wait.............an interesting blog/photos are at the other place.

Whoops, yeah, I clean forgot the photos.

I might chat with Tighty in a bit, to see how he feels about a Link to the Blogs, if anyone is interested. They are mounted on a SP platform, but are 100% spam free. I'm sure some of the lads here will enjoy the fact that I got a photo of a rotund random mixed up with Chris Brammer.....

In fact, I managed to upset THREE people in composing just two blogs, only one of whom was Adebayo.

I know one, who was the other? Hoping Ivey, maybe FullFlush.