WPT Montreal 2013 Roll Call
I've been asked by several people about carpooling or sharing a room at WPT Montreal, so maybe we can use this thread for a roll call, roommate and carpooling options. Forumers may be done as late as December 6 or as early as November 29, so some including myself could be looking for a different ride back to the GTA. A friend & I booked at the Holiday Inn Montreal as they were about to run out of the $99+/night rooms.
a) Blondefish: carpooling from Oakville in friend's car on Wednesday morning, November 27, and staying at Holiday Inn Midtown, until at least December 1. May need to hitchhike back!
b) The_Game: driving on Thursday from Mississauga to play the satellite(s).
c) SteveKerr: playing Day 1B from Orangeville.
d) DrCarl: VIA train from Niagara Falls.
e) xx23
a) Blondefish: carpooling from Oakville in friend's car on Wednesday morning, November 27, and staying at Holiday Inn Midtown, until at least December 1. May need to hitchhike back!
b) The_Game: driving on Thursday from Mississauga to play the satellite(s).
c) SteveKerr: playing Day 1B from Orangeville.
d) DrCarl: VIA train from Niagara Falls.
e) xx23
Comments
Playing Day 1b on Saturday November 30th.
I am either leaving Thursday November 28th around 12:30/1:00pm and plan on playing the 10 Seat Guaranteed Satellite that starts at 8:00pm.
If that does not happen then I will be leaving Friday November 29th in the morning.
Leaving from Orangeville, 10 south to 410 south to 401 east.
I am staying at The Holiday Inn Midtown same as BlondeFish, my room is currently booked to check out on Tuesday December 3rd, will extend if needed.
Once I am out of The Main Event, I will be driving home either that day or early morning the next day.
1) New planetarium (or Biodome/Insectarium)?
2) Restaurants such as Schwartz Deli, Vinnie Gambini, or Ristorante RIDI?
3) Play cash games at Montreal Casino or somewhere else with the lowest rake?
4) Gentlemen's clubs such as Kingdom, Cleopatra Cafe, Bar Downtown, or something better?
5) Anything else good to do in Montreal besides Vortex Racing?
Too cold this time of year in Montreal for my Jamaican blood
Personally I find the Indian Reserve poker rooms around Montreal pretty depressing, although I think Playground is the exception.
btw, did you make it yet? If you can get me a comp. ball cap from Playground, would appreciate it!
Have you ever been to Stardust, Playground, or VIP?
These places are nicer than any poker room anywhere in Ontario,
difficult?
When I went to McGill I used to do the drive in
Don't think they were around when I was there last. All I recall is this place is in the middle of no where and once you leave the poker room, there is nothing around but smoke shop after smoke shop. Its ok if you want to import some cheap smokes across the Quebec/Ontario border. Don't really like the ambiance of the reserve. Rather save my poker trips for Florida, California, Bahamas, Vegas, etc.
You choose:
Your opinion means nothing if you've never been......much like my opinion means nothing for Bahamas (been there, but not for poker) or Cally (ditto).
Montreal would rank #2 on my poker destinations list, Vegas the only one better for obvious reasons.
No-one stays on the reserve, it's much the same as driving through a small town. The poker rooms are top-notch...Playground ranking as the 2nd best poker room I've been too (Venetian on top imo).
And if you're staying downtown YUL....welllll, if you can't have fun there....u should just stay home.
PokerPro would be excellent, thanks!
Many of the decent players I've played in GTA casinos are now in Montreal. Here a couple more people to add to the WPT Montreal Roll Call:
1) Xuan Liu (xx23)
2) Royal Flush Girl & pokerJAH mistress Ivy Teves >:D
BTW as of today over 100 live satellite seats have been awarded with another 25+ tonight and sit-n-gos running all the time (6 in the past two days) there's sure to be some added value in the tournament.
Plus the poker stars are coming out in force - there's a Thanksgiving feast on right now for a bunch of poker orphans from all over the US, and the tweets are coming fast and furious as people descend on Montreal for the event.
Should be a ton of fun!
I don't think I can put you on the Playground list. I signed up for the cash games, $385+$35 & $220+$20 SNGs this morning, but missed them calling my name as I was distracted talking with your mistress Ivy Teves, along with RFG Angelique Velez, Catherine and Jen in the VIP Player Lounge. >:D PM me your cell phone & which hotel you're staying.
Baller lifestyle!
Does "Snakes" still have max $5 rake?
"Who plays in Playground, STAYS in Playground!"
Sent from my Dell laptop via Playground
Just like at the last WPT NAPC, I'm going to try to help coach my friends. One of my inexperienced friends had ~100,000 chips very early on and was probably the chip leader and increased it to ~180,000 just prior to the dinner buffet/break. Every time he won a big pot, he was literally shaking and wanted to sit out the rest of the day, so I took off my "Dan Harrington" hat and put on my "Jared Tendler" hat. Some of the qualifiers don't bother bringing a guest so they were talking about me being their guest if they win a package again, but my roommate said he wants me all to himself.
Just picking a single random table from before the bubble burst tonight, Gavin Smith (still good despite his antics), Victor Ramdin, David Barter and Guillaume Darcourt. Or How about Yann Dion (yadio online, won a big live tourney in Europe AND an online major in a single week last year), Eugene Katchalov, and Kevin Macphee together? Stephen O'Dwyer and Shawn Buchanan sat together with Amir Babakhani for a long time today as well - and oh yeah, Jonathan Little was also on the table. Sick sick sick.
As far as draws go, I usually get them about 45 mins to an hour after the day ends and put them up asap. For Day 2 of a multi-day-1 event it takes longer - I only got the results at 2:30am and was asleep at the time so I put them up at like 5am. I'm only up now because I expect tomorrow's draw in minutes.
As far as the number goes - I'm very happy with it. Last year was a novelty, and kind of blew up between Day 1a and 1b in ways that can't be reproduced. But 862 runners will be among the top-3 WPT tournaments of the year, most likely, and in Montreal, where realistically there was NO international-level poker until one year ago.
We're obviously also super happy about the amazing unsolicited tweets people write about it being the best poker room ever and stuff. No disrespect to our friends at other casinos, but no one goes to River Rock and writes "best run tournament I've ever played" and such.
I *am* biased though...
Anyhow - gotta go put up the draw for Day 3.
Few other Montrealers in the mix always posting results, including Spring Championship champ I think, repeats always a great headline...