DTD February £150,000 GTD £300 Deepstack + Online Day 1A Special!

[LB44]

Were you stringbet George? Who was that guy called every one of my open's, making it perfect for you to 3 bet me a treat haha sigh. wp see ya sunday

[George2Loose]

Yeh was me mate GL see you then

[aaron1867]

So, someone has got 800k?

[LB44]

Yeah but it's only Ben Vinson haha :|

[smashedagain]

Guess I am driving down with Specman Saturday now. That's if he dares show his face.

[UAREDEAD]

i looked on the online game and it shows three players all sat out.. one with 2.2 m one with 97k and another with something else... are these the three making the final day?

[smashedagain]

i looked on the online game and it shows three players all sat out.. one with 2.2 m one with 97k and another with something else... are these the three making the final day?

the comp was meant to stop after level 16. Tom from Dtd did come on and say they were taking a screenshot of the chip counts. Of course no one believed it was Tom especially paranoid Batey and no believer Bedi

[outragous76]

Guess I am driving down with Specman Saturday now. That's if he dares show his face.

Ha! Is that Richard? Explains alot

[robyong]

hi guys, comments are;

- very happy with 85 runners for the first time we have tried this format

- 9.4% of the field got through, I expected 10% ish so no massive surprise there - we played an extra level plus players can re-enter so are more inclined to gamble - just the same as they do on Fridays. I expect c13% friday and c17%% sat, that 16th level should get rid of an extra 3% of the field, so ideally an overall average of 15% into Day 2 (75 out of 500). There is always a higher % get thru on Sat as most of our satellite qualifiers choose Sat and they plays a little more conservatively, plus players cannot re-enter so there is less gambling

- I don't read anything into Ben's chip leader stack, you don't get bigger chips because its online cards, we have had players get these size of stacks live, especially with Ben's conservative style of play You only have to look a the Chip Leader results to know its rarely the big stacks that pick up the big money so i don't think this should deter anyone from playing friday or saturday

- we have recorded various data for all levels/hands/players left etc etc that we will compare to this weekend's live Day 1's, so any adjustments to future online day 1's can be made to get them as close to live as poss

- yes, agree the software should pause after 16 levels but its been repeatedly marketed (and marketed again) that we are playing 16 levels online, but of course, we need to try and find away of stopping the comp (same as a live day 1!)

- we play 16 levels on fri and sat, should finish around 2am

- for those of you that made Sunday day 2, please remember its a 1pm re-start as part of the aim to get an earlier finish for travelling players

thanks for the support guys, when we try new stuff its risky, and we can't do it without your support and feedback

Overall: I think this online day 1 has some legs, everyone has worked hard at DTD to get it off the ground, so lets see how the rest of the weekend goes, it would be nice to keep getting 500+ runners each month

cheers rob

ps. You can expect a few very important announcements about DTD in next 14 days, I will post them on here first of course

[action man]

hi guys, comments are;

- very happy with 85 runners for the first time we have tried this format

- 9.4% of the field got through, I expected 10% ish so no massive surprise there - we played an extra level plus players can re-enter so are more inclined to gamble - just the same as they do on Fridays. I expect c13% friday and c17%% sat, that 16th level should get rid of an extra 3% of the field, so ideally an overall average of 15% into Day 2 (75 out of 500). There is always a higher % get thru on Sat as most of our satellite qualifiers choose Sat and they plays a little more conservatively, plus players cannot re-enter so there is less gambling

- I don't read anything into Ben's chip leader stack, you don't get bigger chips because its online cards, we have had players get these size of stacks live, especially with Ben's conservative style of play You only have to look a the Chip Leader results to know its rarely the big stacks that pick up the big money so i don't think this should deter anyone from playing friday or saturday

- we have recorded various data for all levels/hands/players left etc etc that we will compare to this weekend's live Day 1's, so any adjustments to future online day 1's can be made to get them as close to live as poss

- yes, agree the software should pause after 16 levels but its been repeatedly marketed (and marketed again) that we are playing 16 levels online, but of course, we need to try and find away of stopping the comp (same as a live day 1!)

- we play 16 levels on fri and sat, should finish around 2am

- for those of you that made Sunday day 2, please remember its a 1pm re-start as part of the aim to get an earlier finish for travelling players

thanks for the support guys, when we try new stuff its risky, and we can't do it without your support and feedback

Overall: I think this online day 1 has some legs, everyone has worked hard at DTD to get it off the ground, so lets see how the rest of the weekend goes, it would be nice to keep getting 500+ runners each month

cheers rob

ps. You can expect a few very important announcements about DTD in next 14 days, I will post them on here first of course

100% its got some legs rob. A slight difference obv being that tonight we played periods 5 and 6 handed which the live guys won't but when online numbers grow this wont be a problem. 12 minute levels (esp) with no timebank will mirror 40 min levels perfectly imo.
maybe have a sat online to the £300 that you must play day1a)? to increase day1a  players? great innovation think we touched on it in san remo day 1 iirc

[mondatoo]

Think it's a really good idea, I only get to DTD a couple times a year but will be looking to play this a lot more regularly.

[smashedagain]

Guess I am driving down with Specman Saturday now. That's if he dares show his face.

Ha! Is that Richard? Explains alot

yes Richard Norfolk, loves the game and will be re entering.
Richard Whiteley wants it pointing out that he is Rick117.

The online experiment was definatley a success and should stay IMO. You 100% need to reduce the clock but you probably know this. It is not just the amount of hands played but also the way people play online. You are always gonna have carnage when people get to half a million in chips and think "fuck it, that's not enough. I'm just gonna roll my face on the key board for 3 hands and see if I can get to a million".

All eyes will be on Ben with the 700k best of luck to him. He is a class act

[Vinodh]

If you bust online day 1a and you renter today for day 1b and again you bust, can you still renter day 1c?

[TightEnd]

Live Update of 1b from 2pm

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60224.msg1710814#new


More ways to qualify into 1c tomorrow:

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[DTD-Nick.W]

Hi ALL

Still working on the full player list but we are really happy with 85

unconfirmed results are:

madone05   730834      Ben   Vinson
LB44   501660      Liam   Batey
stringbet   312897      Rupinder   Bedi
Eclipse001   281098      Philip   Hughes
vans2   254715      Fangzhou   Liu
cairnsy949   230425      John   Cairns
josephic   162262      Joseph   Icarangal
degsy   76109      Wahid   Patel


See you all today for day1B