POKER FOR HEROES

[littlemissC]

Iin may Cheryl Routledge has oragnised a great tournament which dtd have kindly said they will host in houner of her son corporal Liam Riley.

There are loads of amazing added prizes on offer including an £8000 EPT package,GUKPT seat and lots of online entries just to name a few.The poker world have done a great job donating prizes so lets get as many people as possible to support this comp.

May 29th-30th at dtd
£125 buy in no reg

good luck to Cheryl and her family she has put her all into organising this I for one cant wait to play


http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=129859087085251
http://www.heronet.org.uk/event.php?event_id=1889



 

[The Camel]

Is the money raised going to Help for Heroes or Liam Riley's family?

It doesn't make it clear on the website.

[The Camel]

Also, am I right in assuming there are no cash prizes?

Again, no mention on the website.

All the entry money will go to the "cause"?

After the Poker4Charity farce, they should have learned they need to totally transparent with financial matters.

[dik9]

Hi Keith,

This is a totally different animal to poker4charity  (In hindsight maybe we should of called it something different lol)

I will try and answer any questions people have on this event.

Cheryl wanted to do something for helpforheroes in memory of her son, and asked knowing that my son was in the army if we could do something for h4h, as poker is her passion and mine it seemed natural to raise money via a poker event.

The money is going straight to helpforheroes and it is a registered event for them.

We have absolutely NO ADMINISTRATION COSTS.

The buy-in is £125 for a reason, originally we wanted an event that all entry money would be returned to the charity and the prizes would be the donations, however we expect a very high turnout. We wanted a £100 freezout but as there are no registration fees we decided to raise the buy-in to £125 simply to give us breathing space with the prizes. If it is a low turnout then the ALL the £125 will go to charity, but if for some reason 400 players turn up the extra £25 will be used as additional cash prizes to make at least 27 stepped prizes relative to the field.

I will answer any questions anyone throws regarding this.

This is a third party event at DTD, it just so happens that DTD have kindly donated the premises and the staff for the day.

Any questions regarding the charity itself can be answered here http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Cheryl has worked her butt off trying to get the pokerworld to come together for this, and I personally have never seen a poker event on this scale where the majority of sites have donated.

Fire away (if I don't answer straight away, forgive me (it is a deepstack weekend))

[The Camel]

Hi Keith,

This is a totally different animal to poker4charity  (In hindsight maybe we should of called it something different lol)

I will try and answer any questions people have on this event.

Cheryl wanted to do something for helpforheroes in memory of her son, and asked knowing that my son was in the army if we could do something for h4h, as poker is her passion and mine it seemed natural to raise money via a poker event.

The money is going straight to helpforheroes and it is a registered event for them.

We have absolutely NO ADMINISTRATION COSTS.

The buy-in is £125 for a reason, originally we wanted an event that all entry money would be returned to the charity and the prizes would be the donations, however we expect a very high turnout. We wanted a £100 freezout but as there are no registration fees we decided to raise the buy-in to £125 simply to give us breathing space with the prizes. If it is a low turnout then the ALL the £125 will go to charity, but if for some reason 400 players turn up the extra £25 will be used as additional cash prizes to make at least 27 stepped prizes relative to the field.

I will answer any questions anyone throws regarding this.

This is a third party event at DTD, it just so happens that DTD have kindly donated the premises and the staff for the day.

Any questions regarding the charity itself can be answered here http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Cheryl has worked her butt off trying to get the pokerworld to come together for this, and I personally have never seen a poker event on this scale where the majority of sites have donated.

Fire away (if I don't answer straight away, forgive me (it is a deepstack weekend))

That's great, thanks for answering my questions, I think you should update the page will all this info, just so everyone knows the score.

GL with the event!

[dik9]

Cheers Keith, will do.

[dik9]

For those without facebook

The poker community has come together for this fantastic cause, we have had donations so far from PokerStars, William Hill, Ladbrokes, Betfred, PKR, Grosvenor, Genting, Sky, Blue Sq.,PartyPoker, 888, Blackbelt, Broadway Casino, SPE and Redtooth.

Prizes so far include;
£8000 EPT Package (pokerstars)
Irish Winter Festival Package (William Hill)
Palm Beach Big Game Package (Genting)
Killarney Festival Package (Ladbrokes)
GUKPT Main Event seat (Grosvenor)
3 x $529 PKR Poker packages (PKR)
2 x GUKPT Goliath seats (Blue Sq)
$4,300 of Betfred online poker seats (Betfred)
Skypoker Grand Final seat (SkyPoker)
8 Live superstack seats (888)
Salford Mint Megastack 200 seat (IPE)
English Deepstack Championship seat (The Broadway Casino)
Super Poker Event Europe 2012 seat (SPE)
a full season of academy seats (Blackbelt Poker)
Sporting Memorabilia (Redtooth)

And £25 from each player, hopefully if we get 400 runners that is an additional £10,000

Dusk Till Dawn have kindly donated the premises and the staff for this fantastic fun day of poker.
10,000 chips, 30 minute clock using DTD's popular Super50 structure.
Hotel deals can be arranged.

Price of entry is a mere £125 no reg fee!

Buy-in on the day or through DTD's shop now http://www.dtdshop.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=296&category_id=17&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2

Registered event http://pokerforheroes.org/

[littlemissC]

was just trying to get the info thanks for doing it for me 

[paulhouk03]

is there gonna be 2 day ones?
also are there any other side events?

[dik9]

No Paul, it is scheduled to be a one day event. DTD's usual comps will be on the Sunday night.

[paulhouk03]

No Paul, it is scheduled to be a one day event. DTD's usual comps will be on the Sunday night.

ah i see just wondered cos op said it was 29-30th

[dik9]

Hi Jjandellis, I am sure some of Liam's friends from 3 Yorks will know about the event, and my sons mates from Tech Troop CLR know about it, I don't suppose you have any contact details for Soldier Mag. Would love to see a few fish squaddies play this! Spread the word please

[paulhouk03]

do you know what will be the main prize?

[dik9]

The biggest donation we have had so far will be the main prize, which will be a £5000 London EPT seat and £3000 spending money (donated by Stars), if we have to add more cash that still may be a possibility. It all depends on runners tbh, it may end up that 1st place has 2 prizes?

unless you can think of anyone that may donate a bigger prize

[dik9]

Cheers bud much appreciated