£1500 European Poker Classic at the Vic - LIVE UPDATE DAY1A

[wsopin07]

Awful structure and pretty awful tournament in general

Good updates though

We'll never play here again, we'll never play here again...

get over here to the states so we can do some proper drinking and a little poker

[wsopin07]

John Gale, pictured here lamenting his exit, has exited, at the hands of "lemon" Woody Deck.  John had  ,  for Woody, and apparently most of it went in on the small flop with a couple of tempting spades on it.  A little discussion ensued here over whether that counts as a bad beat, but John certainly thinks so.

Captions, anyone?

just another lucky American Mr. Gayle, what can I say

[wsopin07]

Hi guy's,

 just got in from real work !!!!,  

 great update's , i might pop in 2morrow night for a coffee.

 Cupcake.

cup, u should be playing this one!

[ripple11]

 I played last night,...and being fairly new to this "live" stuff, I must admit I really enjoyed it ....until getting knocked out by AA of course

I would agree about the blinds ....we started on a 45 min clock!(not even an hour as my table were expecting)....then moved to 1 hour blinds....but yes on reflection , they then went up too fast.

On asking how many we were playing down too, they said until 4am!........surely you're looking to take a certain number into Saturday??, with a view to another certain amount to take onto the final on Sunday ??


Good luck to those playing today...I'm back on Sunday for  the  £300 nl ... . and revenge

[Micky147]

Great coverage all  ty

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[JaffaCake]

Played last night, the structure was an absolute farce...I just come back from the WPT in San Jose and it took a whole day to reach the blind leves we were at after three hours last night....and then they change the end of play time because they realsie they gonna have no players left, brilliant.

Anyway, have to pass on some tales of Mr Cool, who is such a nice guy he got himself blinded away in the omaha final when I rang to ask him to buy me into the main event last night (wish he wasn't such a nice guy now!).

Early on, Marc gets 66 on the sb. Button raises, Marc all in, bb thinks and thinks and eventually folds, passing 10 10, button calls with JJ....board 6(!) 10(!!) xxx, a lovely double up.

Bit later matey in early position raises, button all in , Marc all in on bb with QQ. Raiser has a dwell and passes, Marc flips over his QQ, button shows AA....and matey tells them he also had QQ! Aces boy tells Marc he's drawing dead, but Mr Cool cooly tells him, don't be too sure about that.

Board J28 10 9......lololol.

The hand with Skalie he told me because of the stupid chip colourings (the 100 chip is almost identical to the 5000) he thought Kal had 8k total, not 16 (he may be cool but his eyes weren't what they were), and I think after playing non stop in with the hi lo final then the omaha then the omaha final and the main event, plus the face his BPO heat is at 8am today (!!) he decided to gamble and the worst that happens was he gets his bed.

Best of luck Marc, a man bang in form

[Royal Flush]

He has a point the structure is, as per usual for the Vic, very fast for such a prestige event

It kills me, as everyone knows this, yet they STILL pay to play!

I said it last time,, unless the people who PAY to play start boycotting these events (in mass numbers) then nothing will ever get done.

Roll on the spring fest in Luton is all I can say - oh, and see you tomorrow! (well it was a satelite win)

grrr why play it then paul. It's possible to switch grovesnor packages.

The vic has always had fast structures, why player who prefer slow clocks still play there is beyond me!

I actually quite like the structure though! Less time for the rocks to hide!

[The_nun]

Are you still in James ? or do you play today?...I will miss out on the rest of the updates as it is my turn to sleep at the hossy... but good luck if you are playing .. Same to the rest of you who are playing ..x

[Royal Flush]

lol no i can't stand the Vic!

The worst cardroom for tournaments in the country! It's all about the cash there.

Thankyou anyway!

[portfolio]

He has a point the structure is, as per usual for the Vic, very fast for such a prestige event

It kills me, as everyone knows this, yet they STILL pay to play!

I said it last time,, unless the people who PAY to play start boycotting these events (in mass numbers) then nothing will ever get done.

Roll on the spring fest in Luton is all I can say - oh, and see you tomorrow! (well it was a satelite win)

grrr why play it then paul. It's possible to switch grovesnor packages.

The vic has always had fast structures, why player who prefer slow clocks still play there is beyond me!

I actually quite like the structure though! Less time for the rocks to hide!

mail blue square and let them know of your dissatisfaction too, they MAY be able to influence future events.

gl either  way.

[Nem]

M. Depala               26,875

It's actually N.Depala a good friend of mine.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO Nik!

[snoopy1239]

M. Depala               26,875

It's actually N.Depala a good friend of mine.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO Nik!

Definitely not Mick? 

[Eli65]

Great coverage all  ty

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 I'd like to know about more sources of information about "coverage". Thanks.

[snoopy1239]

Hi

All our live updates will appear on this board.

The next one we are covering is the Southampton Grosvenor Festival this weekend.

The update will appear on this board, probably titled something like, 'South of England Championships - Day 1'

Meanwhile, feel free to roam around our main site at www.blondepoker.com

The tournament diary is in the centre, with the ones we are covering soon denoted by a 'live update' label.

Also, you may want to check up our schedule for the year. This can be found by clicking the link below.

http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/471

cheers

snoopy