Live: WPT500 UK, C$1.8 Million Guarantee
I have four U$850 bullets for the partypoker-sponsored WP500 UK, or ~C$3900. The guaranteed prize pool is £1,000,000, or ~C$1,800,000!
10% - $390 (no mark-up; depends on conversion from British pounds).
5% - $200
3% - $123
1% - $41
0.5% sweat equity - only $21.
I will refund for any unused bullets. For example, if I have a huge stack for Day 2 on my first bullet, then I will try to transfer/sell the remaining three entries and refund 3/4 of the BAP.
The first place prize in the first-ever WPT500 was $260,000, won by a recreational player. As one example, an investor with 10% can win up to C$26,000 for spending as little as C$97.50 (if I win first place with only one bullet).
I accept payment via Paypal, EMT, or partypoker transfer. Deadline is on Tuesday night, November 11, as I plan to play my first bullet on November 12, 13:00 UK time.
Details (TLDR):
This event needs 2,222 entries to avoid an overlay. It has the most qualifiers that I have heard of, including >= 244 players that qualified through the local club, along with online qualifiers. As mikelbyl likes to point out, the more qualifiers, the better for winning players. Local celebrities will be playing, such as Nottingham boxer Carl Froch.
I have over $100,000 in live tournament winnings, including #1 by far at Casino Rama since my live return. I also have six figures in PROFIT in the much tougher games online.
If there is wifi, I will post a live update every break in a Facebook group, including a photo of the tournament screen and my tournament receipts, just like during WPT Philippines. For pokerJAH and those who don't just want poker, poker & more poker, I will try to do a trip photo blog, including the Euro Style Royal Flush Girls, partypoker models, DTD models, Player Party with DJ Spoony, Nottingham Forest, etc.
I expect to receive more poker swag at this partypoker-sponsored event than DirtArse and I did at WPT Philippines. The name of the poker club is "Dusk Till Dawn" which is the same as the movie with Selma Hayek and George Clooney. It is claimed to be the best card room in Europe, and seems to sell a lot of branded poker merchandise, including DTD playing cards. Investors have the option of receiving free swag from WPT UK, Dusk Till Dawn, and/or WPT Philippines.
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Reserve List:
5% - DirtArse (owe $150; requests WPT UK XL black shirt)
3% - PIRANHA (paid; gave XL WPT UK hoodie, wants WPT Philippines patch)
1% - UBetIFold (paid; cash chip reserved)
1% - lynx5 (paid; requests WPT Philippines white & WPT UK XL dark grey shirts, cash chip)
0.5% - Colin408 (paid; gave WPT UK hat, Dusk Till Dawn & Harrah's WSOP Poker Room chips)
0.5% - Beefylogs (owe $21; cash chip reserved)
0.5% - Hobbes (paid).
10% - $390 (no mark-up; depends on conversion from British pounds).
5% - $200
3% - $123
1% - $41
0.5% sweat equity - only $21.
I will refund for any unused bullets. For example, if I have a huge stack for Day 2 on my first bullet, then I will try to transfer/sell the remaining three entries and refund 3/4 of the BAP.
The first place prize in the first-ever WPT500 was $260,000, won by a recreational player. As one example, an investor with 10% can win up to C$26,000 for spending as little as C$97.50 (if I win first place with only one bullet).
I accept payment via Paypal, EMT, or partypoker transfer. Deadline is on Tuesday night, November 11, as I plan to play my first bullet on November 12, 13:00 UK time.
Details (TLDR):
This event needs 2,222 entries to avoid an overlay. It has the most qualifiers that I have heard of, including >= 244 players that qualified through the local club, along with online qualifiers. As mikelbyl likes to point out, the more qualifiers, the better for winning players. Local celebrities will be playing, such as Nottingham boxer Carl Froch.
I have over $100,000 in live tournament winnings, including #1 by far at Casino Rama since my live return. I also have six figures in PROFIT in the much tougher games online.
If there is wifi, I will post a live update every break in a Facebook group, including a photo of the tournament screen and my tournament receipts, just like during WPT Philippines. For pokerJAH and those who don't just want poker, poker & more poker, I will try to do a trip photo blog, including the Euro Style Royal Flush Girls, partypoker models, DTD models, Player Party with DJ Spoony, Nottingham Forest, etc.
I expect to receive more poker swag at this partypoker-sponsored event than DirtArse and I did at WPT Philippines. The name of the poker club is "Dusk Till Dawn" which is the same as the movie with Selma Hayek and George Clooney. It is claimed to be the best card room in Europe, and seems to sell a lot of branded poker merchandise, including DTD playing cards. Investors have the option of receiving free swag from WPT UK, Dusk Till Dawn, and/or WPT Philippines.
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Reserve List:
5% - DirtArse (owe $150; requests WPT UK XL black shirt)
3% - PIRANHA (paid; gave XL WPT UK hoodie, wants WPT Philippines patch)
1% - UBetIFold (paid; cash chip reserved)
1% - lynx5 (paid; requests WPT Philippines white & WPT UK XL dark grey shirts, cash chip)
0.5% - Colin408 (paid; gave WPT UK hat, Dusk Till Dawn & Harrah's WSOP Poker Room chips)
0.5% - Beefylogs (owe $21; cash chip reserved)
0.5% - Hobbes (paid).
Comments
GL , ship it!
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I'm going to be there on the 13th at 8pm I'm going to show up an hour or so early and have dinner at the rail and mentally prepare for battle. Are you playing any of the satellites? Thank you kindly for the chip
GL TO US.
The buy-in for my WPT500 Event #2 is four times as much, so it's possible the overlay may be even bigger. This means that the £1,000,000 guaranteed pool will be easier to win with a low fewer entries, and the value of each entry can go up by 23% or more.
You're welcome. The final table for WPT500 UK won't be until November 16. Since I know the November 19 GBH tournament will sell out as usual, I have already bought an entry. As soon as I'm done with that tournament, I plan to drive straight to Playground and grind the WPT Montreal satellites.
Well good luck in London Buddy looking forward to the updates
1A, Sunday: only 199 entries
1B: only 102 as of Level 8 (there were already 159 as of Level 6 in 1A)
With an overlay, it means that it is worth it to fire more than one bullet. My goal is to have over 130,000 chips for Day 2.
I'll try to get into the Live Updates. Here is the link for the official photos.
I'll be looking for a plug adapter so I will be able to recharge my iPad and continue posting updates on Facebook, etc.
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I will play the cash game with 5% rake at some point, and get a Dusk Till Dawn chip for beefylogs, UBetIFold and Milo.
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can cash for all six Day 1s, this UK version will only take your "best stack
forward" into Day 2 and all your shorter stacks will be worthless.
The huge advantage of this event is my predicted overlay. I would have been
willing to keep re-entering as long as there is an overlay. The disadvantage of
having a BAP is that it gets too complicated if you have made a Day 2 but want
to keep re-entering with the overlay to get a much bigger stack than what your
investors have a stake in.
I will play my final bullet on the final Turbo Day 1G.
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If you're in day 2 already, playing extra bullets with no value other than getting a bigger stack seems terrible. You're essentially killing the overlay yourself.
I assume you have a very small stack moving forward?
Assuming you made Day 2 with an average stack, your chance of winning is x.
For an extra U$850 you have P chance of increasing your chance of winning to y
X = your stack / chips in play x your edge
Y = your new stack / chips in play x your edge
P = the chance of acheiving Y
For simplicity, lets say that your new stack is double the average, so Y = X * 2
So U$850 gets you equity X
And U$1700 gets you equity (Y * P) + X (1 - P)
Therefore, to be +EV, P must be greater than ____. (TBD!)
I'm on my phone and this excludes a lot of things, such as the overlay... But I think the chance of getting a double stack needs to be pretty high for it to work and I just dont see that happening often enough.
Theres also a good chance that I'm missing something or that my math is off. Thought I would throw it up here anyway as at least a starting point!
I can see if you won the entries and can't transfer them you don't have much choice but this is not much solace to bap investors, is it?
= no overlay
How much is a min cash?
Quick math says he's used about 3k worth of entries for about 3k worth of ev. If he can get in there with a double stack then I guess it is worth the extra entries but that is a pretty big IF.
That plus he's GIVING ev to those who got to day 2 on 3 or less bullets. Just seems un-Buddy.
Now I'm going shopping for One Direction merchandise, so my daughter will let me back into Canada!
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