First off I'd like to congratulate all the CPF teams for a fine showing in the Pirana poker olympics. It was a well run event that was a lot of fun. It was a great prelude to the Royal Cup in a few weeks.
The top 3 finishers were all CPF teams, in a tough battle all the way to the finish. Not to Brag, but somehow GTA North aka the Pimps and Hoes managed to take it down. Special thanks goes to Miranda who was added as a late replacement for an original team member who had to cancel. Thanks for coming out, you played a great game.
Dan had a great day, but Easy I think was our team MVP, well done. By 34 points we edged out the Milton Rocks with their Poker Olympics MVP of Dr Larry. Congrats Larry you played awesome.
The Heart Break Whores..... I mean the Dirty Whores finished 3rd with a great final table performance from Al.
Great showing by all the CPF teams. I think we schooled the Piranas.....and certainly had an excellent showing.
Despite the obvious competition it was a great day of friendship and comraderie (sp?). Well done everyone.
PS Dr. Larry did you really have to beat my brother heads up? LOL.
Thanks to Craig of Pirana poker for putting on this event and we look forward to playing again. Well done.
The blinds got SOOOOOOOOOOOOPER aggressive quickly.. but I know I had a blast... congrats to the Toronto North, and the Milton Rocks... well played and earned.
Congratulations to the "Pimps & Hoes" for winning the first Poker Olympics. GTA North was third last after the first four events, but dominated the final group event, with Easy, Dan and Miranda all making the final six of the NLHE MTT. Each of the six members wins a seat to the Pirana Poker Tour Grand Championship, where I THINK first prize is a WPT Boot Camp overseas.
The silver medallists were the Milton Rocks, who each win a seat to the Pirana "Full House Frenzy" championship next month, where I think first prize is a poker cruise. Olympics MVP Dr. Larry won a customized hockey jersey.
The bronze medallists were the Dirty Whores. Other players who were awarded a medal were:
- compuease, who won the Omaha event over DrTyore
- Shaun P, from "Q-5 Offsuit" team, who won the Heads-Up event. This team (Pirana players mostly from north of Toronto) had a dominating lead after the first four events, but got overtaken in the final event.
- Bill S of "Table Dogs", who won the NLHE SNG over Itsame.
- Brent M of "Q-5 Offsuit", who won the 7-Card Stud event over stpboy.
Thanks to Craig and his Pirana staff for putting on a great poker event. Results were quickly updated, including displaying a graph of the standings. Within a minute after the end of final table, all the final scores were announced. The medals were awarded and the closing ceremony was fun.
Looking forward to the next special poker event....
Here are the official results as posted by the organizer Craig for those who don't have access to the Pirana site..
************* As posted on the Pirana forum *************
Congratulations to everyone for a great tournament.
I'd like to being by thanking the academy, oh sorry, wrong speach. I'd like to thank my team, Dawn, Joe, John A and Brent for their assistance during the events as well as transporting tables and equipment to St. Louis for the main event. Thank you to Chuck and Tirina for their help at Philthys and for running the regular game at St. Louis allowing us to concentrate on the Olympics. Most importantly, a big thank you to Mel who helped with the organization of the event, the running of the event and dealt with me being stressed.
Now the results:
Winners of individual events:
Headsup : Shaun P [Q-5 o/s]
SNG: Bill S
Omaha: Jeff C [Milton Rocks]
Stud: Brent M [Q-5 o/s]
Main Event: Larry L [Milton Rocks]
# Team Name Headsup SNG Stud Omaha Freezeout Total
8 Table Dogs 10 64 30 24 121 249
3 Eliminator 20 12 34 18 238 322
1 Whats wrong with this picture aka Neanea
40 4 36 10 245 335
7 Royal Cup Champs 0 24 50 36 252 362
4 Q-5 O/S 50 16 56 60 261 443
and taking seats to the Full House Frenzy
6 Milton Rocks 30 20 24 66 333 473
and the winner of the event and taking seats to the Grand Champsionship
5 GTA North 10 8 26 48 415 507
Amanda C
Aimee P
Joe R
Dan G
Maranda M
Bill R
The tournament MVP with a 4-1 record in headsup and winning the main event pulling his team through to a second place finish with Larry L.
All scores have been posted under KW Regionals. Some of you got really close to qualifying for regionals so feel free to come visit again if you want a shot at the GC
Thank you to everyone for making this event a huge success. It was a pleasure to have you all take part.
I would like to add both my and my team mates congrats and thanks to all the players, organizers, hosts and most of all Craig and his crew of Piranas. This was a 1st rate day run in a class way. Hope both Royal (aka Ryder) and the Olympics can learn from each other and grow. They both have the potential of growing beyond our wildest dreams... Don't ever let the camaradie shown yesterday be lost.. Jeff....
I could not and am not gonna try and say anything. Joe, Jeff, and buddie, have said it all
Yesterday was a great day. I had lots of fun. Want to do it again.
Thanks to my teammates, for doing so freakin well. Thanks to Joe for being our team captain, and leading us.
As Joe said, Amanda, MVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for are team. whooohoooo Girl!!!!!!!!!!! you freakin played awsome yesterday. and Miranda, never mind about being better lookin then the guy you replaced. YOu freakin played awsome too.. And Dan the man, aka (Danmanda). Holy crap you guys... Joes brother Bill too. YOur all awsome and i luv ya all .. I hope we get to in the future do this again, and you will all play with us again,, We had a solid team, who instead of discussing what wings to order, talked game plan on how to help each other in the final event.. GOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD JOBBBBBBBBB!!
I guess this should have been first but, as usual i got carried away,
Great thanks to the Pirana's for having us out. Was awsomely done.
Lots of fun playing with new players.
good work Joe! glad to see we picked the right Captain for the Ryder Cup. Hopefully you won't bail on us with all the fame you now have Sounds like it was a great day. You can add that to your poker resume.
Since my post got deleted off the Pirana website, figure I'd put it here. Firstly, thanks for all the kind words. It was a tough event to put together but all in all, I think we learned a few things that will allow the next event to be even better [slower blind levels for instance]
However, there will not be another Pirana Poker Olympics because that was my last major event with Pirana. Due to a number of reasons we dont need to get into here, I've left Pirana to join a new league [Gator Poker] which launches its first season March 1st.
I expect we'll be running more events like the Olympics in the future tho and things like the Casino night and Battle of the Sexes.
If you're free, come to our grand opening launch parties this coming Thursday or following Sunday. We will also have locations in Milton and Cambridge coming soon. Check out the webpage and hopefully we'll see you all again soon.
Hey Craig, if you are coming to Milton, note that there is a very active private local group doing something similar, and Red Hot just came to town on Wed nights.. Jeff..
Straight from the pirana web site. The Milton Rocks qualified for the Full House. And the Pimp's and Hoe's (aka GTA North) qualified for the Grand championship.
PPT Full House Frenzy Championship
Date: Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Location: Dave & Buster`s in Thornhill
Registration at 12:00 PM Tournament Starts at 1:00 PM
PPT Grand Championship
Date: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Location: Hollywood on the Queensway in Etobicoke
Registration at 12:00 PM Tournament Starts at 1:00 PM
Gator is coming to town with 2 games on Sundays and 2 games on Wednesdays starting this weekend. I am giving players an extra 500 chips who mention they saw this post and come during our first two Milton days. Just tell Brent [your TD] that you saw this post and come see what Gator Poker has to offer! If you have any questions, please email me.
Sunday 2 and 5 pm games, Wednesday 7 and 10 pm games Charlie FitzWhiskey's 55 Ontario St. North Milton
Yep, 5 of us will be there tomorrow, and also for the event on Sunday after we all make the final 8....... We plan on winning the poker cruise and the WPT boot camp....
I'll be playing in championship tournaments elsewhere this weekend for a WSOP seat, but good luck to all the Rocks, Pimps and Hoes in the Pirana Poker Tour championship events. I look forward to a trip report.
Last fall's Season V grand championship was the best run yet, where they followed my suggestion of using the WPT blind structure. The winner won a WPT seat and made it past the first day. By the way, the WPT Canadian Open will be broadcast at least three times this weekend at CITY TV, including 8 PM tonight.
Judy P finished 3rd out of 170 yesterday, none of the rest of us made it through. She played great and really could have won it with one more winning hand... Not sure if you will recognize her. She will be there with her significant other Dave B. They both played at the Olympics and Dave played at the Ryder and I believe she played at Ryder 1 as a fill in with one of the teams. Look her up if you can. Good luck to you guys.. Jeff..
OK did you guys not think the blinds were a little insane.???
We know that guy who won the fullhouse frenzy. and Jeff you know mario (itsame). This guy makes him look like a tight ass player or how ever Joe said it.. As Joe said we stopped playing poker after, the first two hours, now its a crap shoot and i would rather roll dice then do this.
I was out pretty early, but had a great time watching Joe and Amanda play. Joe had a pretty big chip stack, and lost a few hands. Then he lost one huge hand to the guy next to him. Joe had k6 suited. Buddy beside him had k10o. I beleive the only reason the guy called joe was because he had seen his 6 when the guy dealing almost flipped the king and joes 6. I saw both clearly and beleive buddy beside Joe saw them too. I think buddy was puttin JOe on ace6 suited.. Joe lost large. next had Joe says to me I am gonna go all in. All he has left is enough for the big blind and ante. and maybe 200 left behind.He Gets 92 off.. gets three callers and wins with two pair.. triples up.. ok enough for now my keyboard is dying ... It needs new batteries.. lol Joe can tell the rest.......
Yup Drunken Matt from Bradford (Pokerjah will recognize him as one of the Bradford Calling stations) took down the full house Frenzy.
For all of Buddy's patience factor calculations he should really show them to the Pirana people. 25/50 for 30 minutes 50/100 for 30 minutes, then 100/200 for 20 minutes, then 200/400 for 20 minutes then 300/600 for 20 minutes, then 15 minute blinds for the rest of the tourney. I couldn't believe the blinds went from 500/1000 to 1000/2000 with 100 ante..... When we got down to 2 tables (and no clock stoppages during consolitations) I had 70,000 in chips the chip leader had 134,000, he had just over 6 BB at this point with the blinds at 10,000 20,000 with 1000 ante, this was the point I busted out, pushing with QT suited and getting called by AQ. I flopped an open ended straight draw but couldn't find my other card. I saw some pretty amazing calls for all the chips from people..... One guy called a raise and all in re raise for all his chips with J 2 off and took it down.
As Aimee said my 9 2 won a large all in with basically the ante and one BB left to get me back into contention. The poker stopped after 2 hours and the bingo started. I would have preferred 3 hours of flippaments than what happened. If this is the best they can do for their Grand Championship they really need to look at how it's run. I would have preferred 15 minute blinds all the way through and a more gradual blind structure. Introducing an ante when they did was very un poker wise. Ante's coming in as a norm at the 100 200 with a 25 ante would have been fine.
The highlight of the day was when Easy got moved to my table and I had position on her..... couldn't steal her blind but with her 2 people over I at least had someone to chat with.....
Most pirana's couldn't believe we played one event and got to the GC....
Zithal, you should really go and educate the pirana's on blind structure. And Buddy if this is the kind of tourney's you play in, you should never complain about blind structures again.
So how long was it beginning to end? The Frenzy didn't really seem that bad for a freeroll, it took just over 5 hours. Was the GC less? As for the guy that won the Frenzy, he was a gambler for sure, how did he do yesterday?
So how long was it beginning to end? The Frenzy didn't really seem that bad for a freeroll, it took just over 5 hours. Was the GC less? As for the guy that won the Frenzy, he was a gambler for sure, how did he do yesterday?
LOL I outlasted him then drove him home. 5 hours we were at the final table. We left before the final table was done, but it wasn't going to be long before it was over. As we left there was a 3 way all in going on, blinds were 15,000 30,000 with a 2000 ante I believe with a top chip stack of under 200K.
There was no such thing as a meaningful raise so I just pushed if I was going to play. I was shocked at the people who would limp, call an all in. If I am willing to call an all in I am entering with a raise.
I can't complain for a free roll, but organization isn't there strong point. I gave a few of my own suggestions on here and I"ll probably post them on the pirana site as well.
I gave a few of my own suggestions on here and I"ll probably post them on the pirana site as well.
Yes, forum members here who played should post and email their feedback/suggestions there. There is no shortage of bad blind structures with casinos, clubs, home games and freeroll tours, but only if enough people complain will there be hope for improvement. I do agree with compuease that a 5-6 hour FREEROLL tournament is much better than the $100+ tournaments that have similarly low "Skill Levels."
If forum members want another fun Poker Olympics to qualify for their championships, be sure to let them know. I have rarely played there this year, but from what I heard, their Poker Olympics will be replaced by a NLHE-only format where only the point leaders from each region will be allowed to participate.
If forum members want another fun Poker Olympics to qualify for their championships, be sure to let them know. I have rarely played there this year, but from what I heard, their Poker Olympics will be replaced by a NLHE-only format where only the point leaders from each region will be allowed to participate.[/quote]
Wow, Good way to get more people involved in your pirana poker league.
Or maybe a few noses where bent outta shape because the forum members from here came in and cleaned house. I find that most of those players when asked us where we played and how we got to this tourney yesterday where very shocked that we all only played one event. But we earned it just as they did. Only we did not have to spend weeks and nights on end in a bar playing for a seat.
I dont see the pirana poker lasting long if that is how they are going to treat people. Beside if i was going to play poker every night of the week I had best be winning some kind of money, not spending, money on food and booze to help the bar that this is held in. But if that is how these people want to go and play poker so be it. and i guess it works for them. But at least, be polite to new players and treat them with some respect..
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The top 3 finishers were all CPF teams, in a tough battle all the way to the finish. Not to Brag, but somehow GTA North aka the Pimps and Hoes managed to take it down. Special thanks goes to Miranda who was added as a late replacement for an original team member who had to cancel. Thanks for coming out, you played a great game.
Dan had a great day, but Easy I think was our team MVP, well done. By 34 points we edged out the Milton Rocks with their Poker Olympics MVP of Dr Larry. Congrats Larry you played awesome.
The Heart Break Whores..... I mean the Dirty Whores finished 3rd with a great final table performance from Al.
Great showing by all the CPF teams. I think we schooled the Piranas.....and certainly had an excellent showing.
Despite the obvious competition it was a great day of friendship and comraderie (sp?). Well done everyone.
PS Dr. Larry did you really have to beat my brother heads up? LOL.
Thanks to Craig of Pirana poker for putting on this event and we look forward to playing again. Well done.
The blinds got SOOOOOOOOOOOOPER aggressive quickly.. but I know I had a blast... congrats to the Toronto North, and the Milton Rocks... well played and earned.
I'm still wearing my medal.
Mark
The silver medallists were the Milton Rocks, who each win a seat to the Pirana "Full House Frenzy" championship next month, where I think first prize is a poker cruise. Olympics MVP Dr. Larry won a customized hockey jersey.
The bronze medallists were the Dirty Whores. Other players who were awarded a medal were:
- compuease, who won the Omaha event over DrTyore
- Shaun P, from "Q-5 Offsuit" team, who won the Heads-Up event. This team (Pirana players mostly from north of Toronto) had a dominating lead after the first four events, but got overtaken in the final event.
- Bill S of "Table Dogs", who won the NLHE SNG over Itsame.
- Brent M of "Q-5 Offsuit", who won the 7-Card Stud event over stpboy.
Thanks to Craig and his Pirana staff for putting on a great poker event. Results were quickly updated, including displaying a graph of the standings. Within a minute after the end of final table, all the final scores were announced. The medals were awarded and the closing ceremony was fun.
Looking forward to the next special poker event....
************* As posted on the Pirana forum *************
Congratulations to everyone for a great tournament.
I'd like to being by thanking the academy, oh sorry, wrong speach. I'd like to thank my team, Dawn, Joe, John A and Brent for their assistance during the events as well as transporting tables and equipment to St. Louis for the main event. Thank you to Chuck and Tirina for their help at Philthys and for running the regular game at St. Louis allowing us to concentrate on the Olympics. Most importantly, a big thank you to Mel who helped with the organization of the event, the running of the event and dealt with me being stressed.
Now the results:
Winners of individual events:
Headsup : Shaun P [Q-5 o/s]
SNG: Bill S
Omaha: Jeff C [Milton Rocks]
Stud: Brent M [Q-5 o/s]
Main Event: Larry L [Milton Rocks]
# Team Name Headsup SNG Stud Omaha Freezeout Total
8 Table Dogs 10 64 30 24 121 249
3 Eliminator 20 12 34 18 238 322
1 Whats wrong with this picture aka Neanea
40 4 36 10 245 335
7 Royal Cup Champs 0 24 50 36 252 362
4 Q-5 O/S 50 16 56 60 261 443
Taking the bronze medals:
2 Dirty Whores 0 28 48 40 330 446
and taking seats to the Full House Frenzy
6 Milton Rocks 30 20 24 66 333 473
and the winner of the event and taking seats to the Grand Champsionship
5 GTA North 10 8 26 48 415 507
Amanda C
Aimee P
Joe R
Dan G
Maranda M
Bill R
The tournament MVP with a 4-1 record in headsup and winning the main event pulling his team through to a second place finish with Larry L.
All scores have been posted under KW Regionals. Some of you got really close to qualifying for regionals so feel free to come visit again if you want a shot at the GC
Thank you to everyone for making this event a huge success. It was a pleasure to have you all take part.
Craig....
I could not and am not gonna try and say anything. Joe, Jeff, and buddie, have said it all
Yesterday was a great day. I had lots of fun.
Thanks to my teammates, for doing so freakin well. Thanks to Joe for being our team captain, and leading us.
As Joe said, Amanda, MVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for are team. whooohoooo Girl!!!!!!!!!!! you freakin played awsome yesterday. and Miranda, never mind about being better lookin then the guy you replaced. YOu freakin played awsome too.. And Dan the man, aka (Danmanda). Holy crap you guys... Joes brother Bill too. YOur all awsome and i luv ya all
I guess this should have been first but, as usual i got carried away,
Great thanks to the Pirana's for having us out. Was awsomely done.
Lots of fun playing with new players.
Thanks
Our team had some ups and down, but in the end, we came out pretty good. Big Al was MVP, hands down.
Big "huzzah" to the Piranha guys for a great day of free poker, I'm looking forward the next one.
Lastly, thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes and beers. I love this community.
Johnnie
However, there will not be another Pirana Poker Olympics because that was my last major event with Pirana. Due to a number of reasons we dont need to get into here, I've left Pirana to join a new league [Gator Poker] which launches its first season March 1st.
I expect we'll be running more events like the Olympics in the future tho and things like the Casino night and Battle of the Sexes.
If you're free, come to our grand opening launch parties this coming Thursday or following Sunday. We will also have locations in Milton and Cambridge coming soon. Check out the webpage and hopefully we'll see you all again soon.
www.gatorpokertour.com
Good Luck with your new league.
Out of curiousity did the GC and full house "prizes" get deleted with you?
No, those are still being honoured by Pirana. Win it for me!
PPT Full House Frenzy Championship
Date: Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Location: Dave & Buster`s in Thornhill
Registration at 12:00 PM Tournament Starts at 1:00 PM
PPT Grand Championship
Date: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Location: Hollywood on the Queensway in Etobicoke
Registration at 12:00 PM Tournament Starts at 1:00 PM
Gator is coming to town with 2 games on Sundays and 2 games on Wednesdays starting this weekend. I am giving players an extra 500 chips who mention they saw this post and come during our first two Milton days. Just tell Brent [your TD] that you saw this post and come see what Gator Poker has to offer! If you have any questions, please email me.
Sunday 2 and 5 pm games, Wednesday 7 and 10 pm games Charlie FitzWhiskey's 55 Ontario St. North Milton
Good luck everyone!
www.gatorpokertour.com.
I believe it's an individual event not a team event Jeff.
Amanada, Dan, Miranda, Aimee and myself qualified for the GC.
Compuease and his band of rocks qualified for the full house frenzy.
Last fall's Season V grand championship was the best run yet, where they followed my suggestion of using the WPT blind structure. The winner won a WPT seat and made it past the first day. By the way, the WPT Canadian Open will be broadcast at least three times this weekend at CITY TV, including 8 PM tonight.
We know that guy who won the fullhouse frenzy. and Jeff you know mario (itsame). This guy makes him look like a tight ass player or how ever Joe said it.. As Joe said we stopped playing poker after, the first two hours, now its a crap shoot and i would rather roll dice then do this.
I was out pretty early,
For all of Buddy's patience factor calculations he should really show them to the Pirana people. 25/50 for 30 minutes 50/100 for 30 minutes, then 100/200 for 20 minutes, then 200/400 for 20 minutes then 300/600 for 20 minutes, then 15 minute blinds for the rest of the tourney. I couldn't believe the blinds went from 500/1000 to 1000/2000 with 100 ante..... When we got down to 2 tables (and no clock stoppages during consolitations) I had 70,000 in chips the chip leader had 134,000, he had just over 6 BB at this point with the blinds at 10,000 20,000 with 1000 ante, this was the point I busted out, pushing with QT suited and getting called by AQ. I flopped an open ended straight draw but couldn't find my other card. I saw some pretty amazing calls for all the chips from people..... One guy called a raise and all in re raise for all his chips with J 2 off and took it down.
As Aimee said my 9 2 won a large all in with basically the ante and one BB left to get me back into contention. The poker stopped after 2 hours and the bingo started. I would have preferred 3 hours of flippaments than what happened. If this is the best they can do for their Grand Championship they really need to look at how it's run. I would have preferred 15 minute blinds all the way through and a more gradual blind structure. Introducing an ante when they did was very un poker wise. Ante's coming in as a norm at the 100 200 with a 25 ante would have been fine.
The highlight of the day was when Easy got moved to my table and I had position on her..... couldn't steal her blind but with her 2 people over I at least had someone to chat with.....
Most pirana's couldn't believe we played one event and got to the GC....
Zithal, you should really go and educate the pirana's on blind structure. And Buddy if this is the kind of tourney's you play in, you should never complain about blind structures again.
LOL I outlasted him then drove him home. 5 hours we were at the final table. We left before the final table was done, but it wasn't going to be long before it was over. As we left there was a 3 way all in going on, blinds were 15,000 30,000 with a 2000 ante I believe with a top chip stack of under 200K.
There was no such thing as a meaningful raise so I just pushed if I was going to play. I was shocked at the people who would limp, call an all in. If I am willing to call an all in I am entering with a raise.
I can't complain for a free roll, but organization isn't there strong point. I gave a few of my own suggestions on here and I"ll probably post them on the pirana site as well.
Yes, forum members here who played should post and email their feedback/suggestions there. There is no shortage of bad blind structures with casinos, clubs, home games and freeroll tours, but only if enough people complain will there be hope for improvement. I do agree with compuease that a 5-6 hour FREEROLL tournament is much better than the $100+ tournaments that have similarly low "Skill Levels."
If forum members want another fun Poker Olympics to qualify for their championships, be sure to let them know. I have rarely played there this year, but from what I heard, their Poker Olympics will be replaced by a NLHE-only format where only the point leaders from each region will be allowed to participate.
Wow, Good way to get more people involved in your pirana poker league.
Or maybe a few noses where bent outta shape because the forum members from here came in and cleaned house. I find that most of those players when asked us where we played and how we got to this tourney yesterday where very shocked that we all only played one event. But we earned it just as they did. Only we did not have to spend weeks and nights on end in a bar playing for a seat.
I dont see the pirana poker lasting long if that is how they are going to treat people. Beside if i was going to play poker every night of the week I had best be winning some kind of money, not spending, money on food and booze to help the bar that this is held in. But if that is how these people want to go and play poker so be it. and i guess it works for them. But at least, be polite to new players and treat them with some respect..