DTD New Year Special £150,000 GTD Deepstack: Day 2

[celtic]

Can't see how reducing the stack will make a difference. People can get 30k in on the first level just as easy as 20k.

12pm starts would be best. Taking the levels out would be a disaster.

[Yian]

Blind levels>clock>starting chips: as far as good structures go. And with the long late reg period, I think starting at 12 on a Saturday shouldn't be a big deal if that gets an earlier finish.

[littleindie]

Just put the guarentee to 100k or w/e you think is sustainable and people will come down to try and grab the value out of it once they realise the guarentee is broke every month (even though it seems they are getting value they are actually getting no extra value.) Put on entertainment in the big breaks, I am sure you can get lively bands etc from the local area and area's afar that would love to pay for a few hundred quid to have a possibility of gaining a few hundred more fans. Make it an event to be remembered and people will want to come back and play the event knowing they are going to be playing for above the guarentee and they are enjoying themselves.

Peace out.

[LeedsRhodesy]

while we are waiting for final - anyone have any suggestions on how we avoid late finishes like this in future, options are;

1. cap runners at the GTE ie. 500 max for £150K, turn people away above the 500
2. 12pm starts day 1 and day 2
3. take out 4-5 levels
4. reduce 40 min clock to 35 mins
5. reduce chips to 20k

etc etc

Cheers Rob

why mess with something if its not broken??  the club has been buzzing this weekend leave it how it is

[littleindie]

Thats my thoughts on sustaining a guarentee by the way.

[h]

Surely nothing needs to change? Looks like the final will start in the next half an hour. Finished for 2?

think the issue was getting everone in on saturday who wanted to play

727 total  264 friday and  463 on saturday

try to get more to play friday start friday 4pm ?

[robyong]

hi,

Thx for all the feedback. of course, we dont expect 720 runners for Feb, 500 will do just fine but our monthly deepstacks have been generally finishing late since we moved the start time of day 2 to back to 2pm from 12pm, so its not just this deepstack that I was referring to (this move back to 2pm on day 2 was for the benefit of our dealers to get plenty of sleep after working a late night saturday dealing cash games etc). we will have a chat next week and look at the feedback on here.

Few replies to questions on here;

- the next Grand Prix is in mid march
- next Chip Leader will be..erm....ask Nick
- we changed the £300 to £500 as a one off last Jan and we ended up getting into a mess with all the clashes, in 2012 we did £200, £150 and £500, there wasnt a lot of consistancy which was a mistake
- breaks have been reduced accross all comps including the Deepstack, we got caught a little this weekend with the 50% above than planned attendance so the breaks would have been a bit skewed depending on staff
- we only did 1 live sat because many of our regs get irritated when we cancel the normal evening comps, hard to keep every happy
- initially elec cigerettes were banned at DTD and we got LOADS of flack because other venues allowed them, hard to win on this issue

Lets see what time this finishes, we are over the moon with the runners but people that know us will know we want things to be as perfect as possible and a final table starting at 11.30pm is not perfect for anyone, but of course, not a lot needs to change and the world will go on even though we will have a late finish tonight

Cheers Rob

[MLHMLH]

Re the start times I agree that day 1B and day 2 should start at 12 noon (may be preferable for some for day 1A to start at 2pm, so could try leaving that alone).  I've never really understood why day 2 can't start earlier anyway.  As someone who travels to DTD and sometimes stays over, it's a real pain having to kill 3 or 4 hours after getting thrown out of the hotel room at 11am!  I always go and sit in a pub or restaurant or something day dreaming about how late it's going to finish!  For those not travelling too far and living locally, surely a 12 noon start isn't too difficult if they can make a 2pm start?

[Karabiner]

Surely nothing needs to change? Looks like the final will start in the next half an hour. Finished for 2?

think the issue was getting everone in on saturday who wanted to play

727 total  264 friday and  463 on saturday

try to get more to play friday start friday 4pm ?

But with it being a re-entry tourney the Friday will always be perceived as being more shark-infested.

[Yian]

Sounds like more dealers are needed to rotate so it accommodates for sleeping and breaks.

[BorntoBubble]

rob i agree runners were great no overlays anywhere as far as i am aware all sat's made extra seats!

Any plans to bring back more live sat's 10 seats guaranteed Wednesday Thursday Friday would be good for locals! (week before the deepstack)

[MLHMLH]

Also I've stopped playing the online satelliites, hate them, terrible structure, 1 rebuy, 1 addon, gets expensive.  Also the feeder tournaments into the satellites only get you your initial buy in.  Puts me off that I'll then potentially need to take a rebuy and an add on.  If you introduce some variety (some nights have the current sats, some nights have a f/o, some nights have an unlimited rebuy) you may attract more people.

[TightEnd]

Toghyan opens to 160,000

Lam shoves 480,000 otb

Freyplaying 2m folds 10-10 in the small blind, worried about the big chip leader who has opened

Toghyan calls from 9m with K-2o

Lam A-J

K on flop

K on turn

Gene Lam out in 9th


Live stream commentary is there...hopefully everyone can get it?

Link again is http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/live.php

[BorntoBubble]

not sure what filming from 9 handed brings to the party. espicallly when the feed is poor. Titghy commentating is good but im happy to wait until 8 handed for that!

[EvilPie]

Can't see how reducing the stack will make a difference. People can get 30k in on the first level just as easy as 20k.

12pm starts would be best. Taking the levels out would be a disaster.

Level?

Course it makes a difference. Main one being that there's only 14M chips to share between everyone rather than 21M

12pm starts would be terrible for me personally but I understand they're good for most.