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

[TightEnd]

Will Jones raises to 135,000 on the button

Martin Henderson shove 300,000 total big blind

Auto call with any two, Jones calls with 5-2 suited

and is happily against A-Ko

Ace on the flop though doubles Henderson up

[rfgqqabc]

C'mon Mad Marty!!!!

[TightEnd]

blinds now 40-80k

Break

Average 1.6m

12    1    Gene Lam 700k
12    2    Will Ross-jones 650k
12    4    Anthony Martin 450k
12    6    Martin Henderson 700k
12    8    Martyn Frey 1.7m 2.1m
12    9    Dinarte Araujo De Sousa 1.1m

14    1    Vikrum Mehta 2.4m
14    3    Salim Jangarwala 1.2m
14    4    Anthony Kirkham 1.7m
14    6    Alex Clark 600k
14    7    Hamid Toghyan 6.6k
14    8    Neil Ryder 2m


Mr Toghyan has basically torn a strip off table 12, applying maximum pressure for a level or two. I hardly saw him play a showdown pot! Then, with the last exit... he got moved out of the big blind to the other table

Not a happy bunny at this turn of events, onto a tougher table with more stacks to fight against him with



and as I write

Martin shoves blind 9-2 off

Frey in the big blind calls with A-9

Frey holds up and knocks Martin out in 12th

[Killer River]

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

HI rob

First off congrats on the high numbers this weekend, good result just after crimbo. I think a must is to start at 12 pm makes so much sense and to cap the number of players would be such a bad move. As some others have said, shorter breaks could be an idea maybe cut by 5 mins. stack size at 30k is spot on, the levels are really good also. Lets hope the rest of the year will just be as good for dtd Any idea when the next grand prix and chipleader tourneys are going to be anyone?

[ruud]

12pm starts defo best option

Oh and please ban those pathetic electric cigarettes!

THIS!!!

[Aimee-Q4]

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

I'd Say 12o'clock start & Reduce The Clock To 35mins However the turnout this weekend was obviously Great for you an the club!  

[Tal]

12pm starts defo best option

Oh and please ban those pathetic electric cigarettes!

THIS!!!

Yes those electric cigarettes use huge cables to the power outlets.

Electronic ones are the future.

[TightEnd]

Lam



Jones



Henderson



Frey

[MLHMLH]

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

I would say leave day 1's maybe play an extra level and then start at 12 on the Sunday. Shorter breaks would also work. 20 min breaks are too long in my opinion have 5-10 min breaks and that is more than sufficient. I believe the breaks are 20 mins now and there are 4 on day 1? so making these 10 mins long would save 40 mins and would allow for an extra level? Starting at 12 on the Sunday and having shorter breaks mean that even with 700 odd runners it could be finished by 2-3 which in my opinion is not to late

Personally I hate the 20 minute breaks but I understand completely why they have them.

There's a bunch of dealers working at the place who all need a break as well. No way this can change much at all unless they risk bringing in loads of extras so they can be rotated.

Breaks were 15 minutes this time, think they have already dropped from 20.  Am I going mad?

20-20-15-20 right? Or something like that 1A, 1B it certainly had 20 min one first...

The breaks on day 1B were 25 mins (end of level 3), 25 mins (end of level 6) & 30 mins (end of level 8 to change up the 25 chips).  Not sure about after that I went out in level 9 & left the building!  These breaks seemed unnecessarily long, unless they were to accommodate staff breaks required by law.

[TightEnd]

De Sousa



Mehta



Jangarwala



Kirkham

[cambridgealex]

@Doobs

Taking out levels would be really terrible - they make a massive difference definitely aren't superfluous.

Can't see the downside in the 12pm starts. Perhaps 25k starting stack too if that makes a decent difference.

[TightEnd]

Alex Clark



Hamid Toghyan



Neil Ryder

[ElRazorX]

Hi
I don't post too often but great stuff Rob and Simon bringing back the 300!!! It's pitched just the right level for a lot more of us to come and play this fab deep stack event!

Great work from all the dealers, overrun valets and tighty of course .

I agree with most of these posts earlier start on the Saturday and if need be Sunday

Catch you all soon!
Razor

[smokynuts]

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

12pm starts please Rob, if the staff can manage it

Many travelling players for Day 2 are out of hotels by mid morning and waiting for the club to open


Don't think the other options are too palatable for players

I'd agree Richard 12pm start for all days rather than touch clock,chips,money they are great as they are

[TightEnd]

Down to 10

Clark open shoves 6-8 off

Toghyan calls with A-J off

K-Q-A-10-2


Alex Clark out in 11th