Ontario Poker League is Starting its Season #5 Soon
To all serious poker players:
The Orangeville Poker League has gained a reputation around central Ontario as the place to be to play in WSOP-style structured tournaments, and a place to meet with and test your poker-playing ability with other serious players. This season, which strts on August 30th, will show some improvements as we strive to have the best structured poker tournaments in Ontario. Some of these changes include:
Better Structure:
We are now doing 40-minute levels and continue to follow the WSOP Blinds Schedule. This increases the Patience Factor to 17.24 and the Blind-Off Rate to 4.15hrs. The tournaments are expected to last over 10 hours. We will be starting with 4500 chips which is the same as any $1500-buy-in WSOP event. This keeps in line with our mission to keep our structure as close to the WSOP events in order to provide our members with the best possible low-cost training available anywhere. We will also be following the rules you will find used at high profile tournaments - the Tournament Directors Association Rules (TDA)
More Tournaments:
We are now running every Sunday at 11:30am from August 30th, 2009 to May 30th, 2010; except statuatory long weekends. This season will have 32 tournaments.
New Name and Location:
We have changed the name to Ontario Poker League - Orangeville to attract more players from other areas of central Ontario and to provide long-standing members with new faces to play. Our location has been moved from Orangeville to Belwood and Elora (mostly Belwood) which is located in the Fergus area. We are hoping this attracts more players from the areas west of Orangeville, such as Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Arthur, Mount Forest, Hanover, Walkerton, Woodstock and Stratford.
Higher Buy-In:
We will now be having a $100 buy-in so players that do travel a fair distance will consider it a trip worth taking if they make it ion the money. We've historically had between 60 and 120 players attend our tournaments and, should that trend continue, the prize pool each week will be huge! This will also attract more serious players who are either in it to improve their game, or are considering it as a profitable hobby.
We will continue to have dealers at the table and offer those dealers half the buy-in price to play, as long as they deal until they are busted out.
Our league tournaments have become known as one of the best structured around. You’d be hard-pressed to find any casino that would offer this structure at a buy-in this inexpensive. They simply cannot afford to pay their labour costs at any tournament that lasts 10-12 hours with charging a heavy rake that they tend to include in only the highest of buy-in events. Most casinos only run tournaments to feed their cash tables with players. Our league will continue to keep the running of a well-structured WSOP-style tournament as its main priority.
Please make it a point to improve your playing skill this year by joining our poker league and attending our weekly tournaments. You can log on and join us at:
http://www.meetup.com/Ontario-Poker-League/
Our first event is posted as follows:
Ontario Poker League Season 5 Opener
Sunday August 30th, 2009
Tournament starts at 11:30am; doors open at 11:00am
Elora Community Centre
60 David St W
Elora, ON
Buy-In: $100 (all of which goes to the prize pool)
Starting Chips: 3500
Players have the option to pay $15 to get 1000 extra starting chips (paying this money is NOT mandatory but will go toward paying for the food, hall, tables, chips, cards, website, etc.)
We will have a caterer supply food for this event
With 4500 starting chips, the Patience Factor increases to 17.24, with a Blind-Off rate at 4.15 hours.
Prize Pool: Top 10% (minimum 5 and maximum 10 players paid)
Blind Levels: 40 minutes and follows WSOP format for intermediate tournaments
This tournament will probably take over 9 hours to complete
Best regards,
Curtis
The Orangeville Poker League has gained a reputation around central Ontario as the place to be to play in WSOP-style structured tournaments, and a place to meet with and test your poker-playing ability with other serious players. This season, which strts on August 30th, will show some improvements as we strive to have the best structured poker tournaments in Ontario. Some of these changes include:
Better Structure:
We are now doing 40-minute levels and continue to follow the WSOP Blinds Schedule. This increases the Patience Factor to 17.24 and the Blind-Off Rate to 4.15hrs. The tournaments are expected to last over 10 hours. We will be starting with 4500 chips which is the same as any $1500-buy-in WSOP event. This keeps in line with our mission to keep our structure as close to the WSOP events in order to provide our members with the best possible low-cost training available anywhere. We will also be following the rules you will find used at high profile tournaments - the Tournament Directors Association Rules (TDA)
More Tournaments:
We are now running every Sunday at 11:30am from August 30th, 2009 to May 30th, 2010; except statuatory long weekends. This season will have 32 tournaments.
New Name and Location:
We have changed the name to Ontario Poker League - Orangeville to attract more players from other areas of central Ontario and to provide long-standing members with new faces to play. Our location has been moved from Orangeville to Belwood and Elora (mostly Belwood) which is located in the Fergus area. We are hoping this attracts more players from the areas west of Orangeville, such as Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Arthur, Mount Forest, Hanover, Walkerton, Woodstock and Stratford.
Higher Buy-In:
We will now be having a $100 buy-in so players that do travel a fair distance will consider it a trip worth taking if they make it ion the money. We've historically had between 60 and 120 players attend our tournaments and, should that trend continue, the prize pool each week will be huge! This will also attract more serious players who are either in it to improve their game, or are considering it as a profitable hobby.
We will continue to have dealers at the table and offer those dealers half the buy-in price to play, as long as they deal until they are busted out.
Our league tournaments have become known as one of the best structured around. You’d be hard-pressed to find any casino that would offer this structure at a buy-in this inexpensive. They simply cannot afford to pay their labour costs at any tournament that lasts 10-12 hours with charging a heavy rake that they tend to include in only the highest of buy-in events. Most casinos only run tournaments to feed their cash tables with players. Our league will continue to keep the running of a well-structured WSOP-style tournament as its main priority.
Please make it a point to improve your playing skill this year by joining our poker league and attending our weekly tournaments. You can log on and join us at:
http://www.meetup.com/Ontario-Poker-League/
Our first event is posted as follows:
Ontario Poker League Season 5 Opener
Sunday August 30th, 2009
Tournament starts at 11:30am; doors open at 11:00am
Elora Community Centre
60 David St W
Elora, ON
Buy-In: $100 (all of which goes to the prize pool)
Starting Chips: 3500
Players have the option to pay $15 to get 1000 extra starting chips (paying this money is NOT mandatory but will go toward paying for the food, hall, tables, chips, cards, website, etc.)
We will have a caterer supply food for this event
With 4500 starting chips, the Patience Factor increases to 17.24, with a Blind-Off rate at 4.15 hours.
Prize Pool: Top 10% (minimum 5 and maximum 10 players paid)
Blind Levels: 40 minutes and follows WSOP format for intermediate tournaments
This tournament will probably take over 9 hours to complete
Best regards,
Curtis
Comments
Lots of chips to start and time per blind level.
I, too, highly recommend playing this event.
Quick question.....
When will this food be served? Noon or the dinner hour?
Just need to know whether to eat before going or not.
Overcame a nasty hand at the beginning of the second level (flopped trip Jacks with TK just to get runner runner flushed). Played very solid poker for the next 7 hours highlighted by flopping a set of J's and turning quads against villians rivered flush.
Had about 12% of the chips when down to the final 2 tables and over the next couple levels a couple bad plays, couple bad beats and a couple nasty coolers put me fairly short stacked. 6 handed with a stack of about 8500 and blinds at 800/1600 raised half my stack preflop with A10s UTG+1, called by a hum hawer on the button. Flop comes AAQ two spades....get the money in and he shows AK to end my day. Finish as bubble +1 boy. Hope for better luck next time.
As I recount I think I was more in the 8 BB range (12000 or so) but still 6 of one half dozen of the other. Everyone knew the rest was going in after the flop. Sometimes I think that players will play tighter against a standard 3X raise than shove.
Won $860
Congrats on your 4th place finish. What were the payouts for the event as I will probably try to get out to a couple of these in October. Also in the cash games what stakes do they play?
1st - $2580
2nd - $1720
3rd - $1032
4th - $860
5th - $688
6th - $516
7th - $430
8th - $344
9th - $258
10th - $172
At one point there was 4 rake free cash games going not sure what they were all playing but usually 1-2 with a $200 max buy in
Ah, well done sir. It was kind of justice for the earlier hand that you folded to my check on the river. I can say I've never seen that before.
1. Collin Ridge (chop) 16.2426 pts 1,770.
2. Teri Cobean (chop) 16.2425 pts 1,770.
3. John Waechter (chop) 16.2425 pts 1,770.
4. Steve Kerr 8.9959 pts 860.
5. Colin Campbell 7.4966 pts 688.
6. Adam Rossien 6.4256 pts 516.
7. Jim Ellis 5.6224 pts 430.
8. Dave Norder 4.9977 pts 344.
9. Breal Bidan 4.4979 pts 258.
10. Kyle A. 4.0890 pts 172.
If you want to see how the points are calculated please go to:
http://www.tourney.co...
The player with the highest points at the end of the season will win the Player of the Year award
The next event is scheduled for Sep 20th at Elora
Thanks for the help
Doors open 11:00a and tourney starts right at 11:30a
$100 buy-in
Again this was well run, good buffet meal, super structure and some good poker.... Had some luck today when I beat one ladies KK with my AK allin preflop, with an A on the river.... Another big hand I have KK in late position, mid position raises perflop, I re-raise, he calls, 3 small spades on the flop, he goes all in, I call with the K's one of them the K spades. He also shows KK, turn blank, river Ace spades and I freerolled to a big stack. I'm such a lucksack.. Got hurt at final table when I doubled up a shorter stack, approx half my stack, when my 99 ran into his QQ. Can't remember where I got the rest of my chips to make the money but I'm sure I never bluffed..
With this sort of structure, don't see how it could fail...