DTD Xmas Grand Prix £250,000 GTD 12th-18th December

[BiloxiDesire]

1pm's just been pulled due to lack of runners by the look of things?

[arbboy]

Must have been close.  Was 90 runners when i joined it 10 minutes before kick off.

[BiloxiDesire]

Yeah I saw it at 95ish a couple of minutes before so can't have been far away.

[GPPT Jamie]

Yeah I saw it at 95ish a couple of minutes before so can't have been far away.

It auto-seats players with 3 minutes remaining - if it doesn't hit the minimum numbers it cancels the tournament at that point.

Minimum tournament numbers is set to one more than than the number of seats guaranteed but it cannot start with less as it auto-pays out a seat to everyone.

[ForthThistle]

Live Blog can be found here

http://gppt.poker/live-event/dtd-grand-prix#11

[Longines]

Just arrived to play the 7pm flight, first time I've seen the car park completely full.

[GPPT Jamie]

IMPORTANT

We have a number of unused tickets for Grand Prix Dusk Till Dawn Nottingham in players accounts which expire tonight.

If you have an 'Entry to Grand Prix' Ticket in your account it will expire tonight unless you have already made Day 2 of GPPT Nottingham.

You have a couple of last chance options. Play the 7pm Live Day 1 at Dusk Till Dawn or play in the Player's Choice online at partypoker at 7pm & 9pm. If you progress from the Player's Choice into Day 2 you can choose any venue on the Grand Prix Poker Tour to utilise your Day 2 stack, including Dusk Till Dawn tomorrow.

[EchoEllis]

If you make day 2 then play another day 1 and don't make it you don't lose your original place do you?

[GPPT Jamie]

If you make day 2 then play another day 1 and don't make it you don't lose your original place do you?

Yes you would. Unless you play a Players Choice in which case you would not forfeit your stack.

[LonOhRay]

I've just played the 7pm leg, just seen it was a "Players Choice" after reading here - I want to play tomorrow - do I have to state my preference anywhere or is it automatically entered tomorrow?

I assume you could only choose a different venue through this leg if you had already made a day 2?

[arbboy]

Full details of the frist event have been released

a comprehensive summary is on

http://dusktilldawn.poker/live-event/dtd-grand-prix

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£60+£10 Buy-in

    Online buy-in only
    £60+£10 or use your $109 DTD Tickets

£250,000 Guaranteed Prizepool

    Online payout
    1st place guaranteed at £35,000
    10% of total entries paid
    Min cash £210
    Payouts include a $109 DTD Ticket
    All Day 2 players are in the money

Freezeout Format

    All Day 1's are freezeouts
    Players can play multiple Day 1's
    Players making Day 2 will forfeit their Day 2 stack if they enter another Day 1
    Blinds are rolled back 2 levels of Day 2
    Uses WPT Structure

How can you gtd to do both the above?   Pay 10% of total entries and pay all day 2 players?  What if more than 10% of total entries make day 2?  What happens?

[DropTheHammer]

I think they probably should have said roughly 10% paid because I'm sure they'll pay the (up to) 15% who cash. The small 1st place prize in comparison to the prizepool indicates this intention, I reckon.

I'm up there at the moment and 29 got through from the 225 starters in the 4pm live D1.

[arbboy]

Going to be a lot of no shows i would imagine tomorrow from shorties who were just hanging on to reach day 2 with tiny sub 10 big stacks for the last 2 or 3 levels when they would normally be gambling hard without the safety net of a gtd cash on day 2.  Would be amazed if any of these bothered to turn up tomorrow given how shallow the GP pay outs are usually.  Even the big stacks on my table were time banking which was very odd.  Weird dynamic on my table online last few levels.  There is virtually zero incentive to travel an hour+ to play sub 10 bigs.  £210 locked up anyway and say 500 punters go back you will probably have to finish 100th to get £300 if the payouts are the same as previous GP's.

[KarmaDope]

Min cash AFAIK is £210. £140 cash and a $109 ticket.

[GPPT Jamie]

I've just played the 7pm leg, just seen it was a "Players Choice" after reading here - I want to play tomorrow - do I have to state my preference anywhere or is it automatically entered tomorrow?

I assume you could only choose a different venue through this leg if you had already made a day 2?

Please email rachel@dtdpoker.com to confirm you would like to play tomorrow.

This is absolutely fine to play tomorrow. Correct you can choose somewhere else if you had qualified for Day 2, or indeed, even if you haven't.