Hi guys, as I said last week on here, adding an extra day 1 was a little tricky as Stars have press/bloggers/radio and all sorts of other operations stuff such as hotels, travel etc etc which had all been pre arranged for Thursday, however, they have now agreed to add Day 1 Wednesday and will PR that to all of their players later on today.
In terms of the £1M GTE, I believe that this is not the first time the Venue rather than the Organiser has gaurenteed the prizepool for a poker tourney, apparently a casino in Madrid did this recently with one of the many tours in Europe at the moment, just cant remember the name.
The basic reasons for this decision;
1. To justify adding the extra Day 1 to Pokerstars and give it the best chance of the Wed Day 1 being successful
2. We cancelled our April £500 to focus on the UKIPT, which was not a hugely popular decision after we had such a successful one in March, so we wanted to do something special for our players
3. Hosting a £1M prizepool comp has been on our "DTD to do list" and what better opportunity that this on the back of the last £500 and with 600 ish players coming through Pokerstars, we just need to generate 850
4. The gamble
No re-entry on UKIPT's. There are only 100 seats available for Friday Day 1a and 150 for Day 1b, (+ alternates for 6 levels), but 450 for Day 1a Wednesday . Pokerstars are having the rest of the seats for their qualifers, sponsored pros, FPP buy-ins etc etc, Stars will bring 500 - 650, anything less than 650 and we will make those seats available for general release, we will keep players informed, but I think Stars will bring 600, so max 50 extra might come available. So if you can only play Thursday or Friday, please buy-in through our shop ASAP
http://www.dtdshop.com/ and if you bink a satelitte in next 4 weeks, we can just refund you. If you have money on PokerStars you can buy-in directly through their client Events-->Special.
Not finalised the live club sats yet, will do this shortly, really would like to see one of our club players make it to final, so we will do as many as possible at the club as I know some of our live reg's don't play online (eg. Ali bag of 'ollocks etc). In meantime, here are the online UKIPT sats running at the moment on Dusk Till dawn
http://www.dusktilldawnpokerclub.com/satellites/pokerstars-ukipt, there are also loads of UKIPT satelittes running on PokerStars every day at different buy-ins.
Press release out later today from us and Stars, plus full weeks side events, opening times etc etc
Cheers Rob
PS. 450 a day ( 50 tables x 9) + 6 Levels of alternates (25-35 players) just about scrapes us to £1M, its not a miscalculation, we really didn't want to deal this comp 10 handed like last year, if that bites us in the xxxx then so be it...hate 10 handed
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