WPT Satellites at Playground
Anybody want to take a road trip to Playground on a Thursday in March to play a $330 Satellite to The WPT Montreal Main Event?
They are guaranteeing 3 seats
Montreal Poker | Playground Poker Club :: Tournaments
They are guaranteeing 3 seats
Montreal Poker | Playground Poker Club :: Tournaments
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There is a few that are interested.
The plan is to leave Thursday March 7, 2013 around noon play the 8pm start satellite and come home ASAP on Friday by either driving straight home after we bust or crash for a couple hours somewhere and leave for home around 10am Friday morning. Be home in plenty of time to play OPT's WPT Satellite if there is enough players, currently 10 signed up need 14 to make it happen.
http://www.orangevillepokertour.com/events/88975022/
We can figure out who has the best vehicle for the drive and share driving duties if need to be and of course we all chip in for gas.
Will probably do another one of these trips in April.
If you are willing to use your vehicle for the drive and what kind of vehicle it is please let me know. Comfort is a good thing on a road trip don't you think?
Here are the details of Playground's Satellite
Players start with 20,000 in chips.
The blinds increase every 20 minutes.
Optional $5 dealer add-on for an additional 5,000 in chips
Max entrants: 80 + Alternates
Re-entry is possible during the first 5 rounds.
1 seat to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event will be awarded for every $3,300 in the prize pool.
3 Seats Guaranteed!
Ya I wish it was this Thursday as well but that don't start until March
The other event you may want to consider will be the PartyPoker Mega Overlay. It's a 3-Day-One event from March 21-24 and you may re-enter for each Day 1 if you choose (largest stack survives to Day 2 if you survive twice).
Buy-in is $100+$10 plus an optional $30 add-on with this money going to the Jodi Taiger Lazarus Fund for Hereditary Breast Cancer Research.
The prize pool consists of a number of $3300 entries in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship PLUS 15 entries added to the prize pool by PartyPoker.
The max players per Day-1 will be 250 plus alternates, so you can anticipate a LOT of seats being awarded on the 24!
http://www.playgroundpoker.ca/app/webroot/files/calendars/Calendar-2013-02.pdf
mikelbyl, can a PartyPoker Day 1 seat be pre-purchased? I wouldn't want to carpool for 6 hours to Kahnawake to find the 250 seats sold out.
That said, you really shouldn't worry about it too much.
Reasons not to worry:
1. There's LOTS of room. The advertised limit for each Day 1 is 250 players, and Playground always gets more players than the advertised number into big events. There will definitely be capacity to start with more than 25 tables if necessary. And there will still be lots of tables available for cash players as well!
2. Based on history, events that don't allow pre-registration generally have at least half of the seats still available on the day of the event.
3. If you're still worried because you're traveling (understandable), you should contact Playground a few days before the event and check on registration numbers. If it's getting close to the capacity we'll arrange something to accommodate you.
Now for the Thursday events ($300 + $30 Single Re-Entry satellites) the listed capacity is 80 plus alternates. Again, going by history, as long as you're here by the time the tournament starts you should have no trouble. But for these satties you can put your name on the list in advance by calling Playground (see the website for all details) or posting your reservation on Facebook on the Playground page where today's tournaments are posted.
Did you guys make it down to Playground?
How'd it go?
I'm thinking of going down later this month for the Mega Overlay....if anyone else is intersted in car-pooling.
At points of the final table the average stack was less then 10bb.
Started at 8pm with 33 players and 6 re-entries for a total of 39 players. Finished around 4:30am.
I can't make the mega overlay but I plan on another Thursday day trip on April 18 for the $330 satellite again.
Nice run....GL next time!!
Expanded info they posted on FB event page:
The Party Poker Mega Overlay is 2 day mega satellite event with 3 starting days and a guaranteed overlay of 15 WPT Canadian Spring Championship seats, courtesy of PartyPoker.net!
Buy-in: $100 + $10 - 10,000 chips
Optional Charity Add-on: $30 - additional 10,000 chips
Blinds: 30 minutes
Day 1a: Thursday March 21st @ 7:30pm
Day 1b: Friday March 22nd @ 7:30pm
Day 1c: Saturday March 23rd @ 1:00pm
Day 2: Sunday March 24th @ 1:00pm
15 Seats to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship will be added to the prize pool!!
wimps! All decisions can't be made on just $$$... Montreal is a fun place..
If there are exactly 750 total entries that works out to 22 seats plus 15 = 37. In that case there would be $2400 extra in the prize pool which would be paid to players who (in effect) bubble the tournament.
Keep in mind that in large tournaments we pretty much always go beyond the base capacity numbers (in this case 250 per day one) and get a bunch of alternates into the event.
I spoke with Jodi and her husband about their work last year when I was involved in an event benefitting this organization and I was very impressed by their goals and passion.
I don't know how anyone would want to try to hateraid this into rake. A donation to a charity is not vig.
Instead I will have to do the 1 day road trip again on a Thursday for their $330 Satellite. Maybe take the train this time
Yes it looks like I'm going to be taking a trip to Montreal this weekend.
This projects out to 44+ seats for the WPT to be won on Day 2 (Sunday).
If you are coming from out of town, there is a $100 + $10 rebuy satellite on Sunday night (2 seats guaranteed) and the regular $180 + $20 Saturday night freezeout at 8pm.