Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival

mikelbylmikelbyl
in Brick & Mortar Casino Talk
Have people heard about this yet? A new poker festival hosted at Playground Poker Club and brought to you by Full Tilt Poker. Satellites for the $1100 Main Event are running every Saturday evening, and there's a Mega Overlay satellite (50 seats added to the prize pool) running from Aug 22 to Aug 25, three Day 1s).

Here's the schedule for the festival:


Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival

Schedule of Events

Event #1: No Limit Hold'em Re-Entry $135 + $15, 3 Day Event
$100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Day 1a: September 21, 12:00pm
Day 1b: September 22, 12:00pm
Day 1c: September 23, 7:30pm
Day 2: September 24, 7:30pm
Day 3: September 25, 7:30pm

Event #2: No Limit Hold'em Win the Button $70 + $10
1 Day Event: September 22, 7:30pm

Event #3: No Limit Hold'em Deepstack Turbo $60 + $10
1 Day Event: September 23, 12:00pm

Event #4: No Limit Hold'em Deepstack Turbo $60 + $10
1 Day Event: Tuesday September 24, 12:00pm

Event #5: Pot Limit Omaha Single Rebuy $100 + $10
1 Day Event: September 24, 8:00pm

Event #6: No Limit Hold'em Single Rebuy $50 + $10
1 Day Event: September 25, 12:00pm

Event #7: No Limit Hold'em Deepstack Turbo $100 + $10
1 Day Event: September 25, 8:00pm

Event #8: Main Event $1000 + $100, 5 Day Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Day 1a: September 27, 12:00pm
Day 1b: September 28, 12:00pm
Day 1c: September 29, 12:00pm
Day 2: September 30, 12:00pm
Day 3: October 1, 12:00pm
Day 4: October 2, 12:00pm
Final Table: October 3, 4:00pm

Event #9: No Limit Hold'em Big Ante $70 + $10
1 Day Event: September 29, 7:30pm

Event #10: No Limit Hold'em 6-Max $150 + $15
1 Day Event: September 30, 7:30pm

Event #11: No Limit Hold'em Freeze $50 + $10
1 Day Event: October 1, 7:30pm

Event #12: Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives $180 + $20
1 Day Event: October 1, 8:00pm

Event #13: Deepstack Turbo $60 + $10
1 Day Event: October 2, 1:00pm

Event #14: No Limit Hold'em Bounty $135 + $15 + $50
1 Day Event: October 2, 7:30pm

Event #15: No Limit Hold'em Single Rebuy $50 + $10
1 Day Event: October 3, 12:00pm

Event #16: No Limit Hold'em Freeze $50 + $10
1 Day Event: October 3, 7:30pm

Event #17: No Limit Hold'em Freeze $200 + $20
1 Day Event: October 3, 8:00pm

Main Event (Event #8) Satellites

Each of these satellites is a re-entry tournament. Re-entry permitted until the end of the first break (after level 4). Blinds levels are 20 minutes.

September 21, 7:30pm, $100 + $10, 5 Seats Guaranteed
September 26, 12:00pm, $50 + $10, 2 Seats Guaranteed
September 26, 7:30pm, $100 + $10, 12 Seats Guaranteed
September 27, 7:30pm, $100 + $10
September 28, 7:30pm, $100 + $10

View the complete schedule and festival details here: http://playgroundpoker.ca/ftp-montreal-festival
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Comments

  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    Looks good, would like to see online sattys including air and hotel.....not just main event entry
  • mikelbylmikelbyl
    I just checked in Full Tilt - some of the online satellites award packages (seat + $400) and some are seat only. As far as I can tell the path that starts with a freeroll is seat-only and the path that starts with real-money tourneys leads to a package. I'm trying to clarify this now and if I learn anything different I will add the info I get.
  • BlondeFishBlondeFish
    mikelbyl wrote: »
    Have people heard about this yet?
    I knew about this, but the big question for all players is has Full Tilt Poker made good on the previous Montreal tournament it sponsored? Hopefully jontm or somebody else would know.

    See forum thread or
    Full Tilt Poker Leaves Montreal Open Winners Empty Handed
    finalists_2011.jpg
  • GottagetGottaget
    View the complete schedule and festival details here: http://playgroundpoker.ca/ftp-montreal-festival

    Don't see the structures...can you post them please?
  • mikelbylmikelbyl
    We'll be posting them shortly. Probably early next week, though I am going to try for today.
  • AAAsWILDAAAsWILD
    Also very interested in more info on the mega overlay sat... all i'm reading so far on the site is,

    Win a seat in the $100 + $10 Full Tilt Poker Mega Overlay event (August 22nd – 25th). This event features three day ones, and in addition to the huge prize pool, Full Tilt Poker is adding 50 seats!
  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    mikelbyl wrote: »
    I just checked in Full Tilt - some of the online satellites award packages (seat + $400) and some are seat only. As far as I can tell the path that starts with a freeroll is seat-only and the path that starts with real-money tourneys leads to a package. I'm trying to clarify this now and if I learn anything different I will add the info I get.

    Tks Mikelbyl, better than nothing, but $400 will cover a one way to YUL from the west. I would play all satty's if there was hotel +$400.

    Your competitor across the parking lot had a similar one with PokerStars last year, I think I ended up paying about 1.5k in air and hotel to play in an $1100 tourney....killing my ROI potential....

    I understand most players will be from the east, but I think adding at least a hotel to the packages would encourage more players to attempt to satty in.
  • mikelbylmikelbyl
    Yeah I know where you're coming from, but this is the approach that Full Tilt has chosen to offer. I suppose this is related to their assessment of the target audience for an event of this size in Canada.
  • actyperactyper
    I dunno why they would span a 1k event over 8 days, don't need that much play and the rest o the series isn't worth it for people to come down for. I'm glad there's a new series but this will prob be 95% Quebec players

    And sats should def be $2k. 1k entry plus incedentals
  • jontmjontm
    BlondeFish wrote: »
    I knew about this, but the big question for all players is has Full Tilt Poker made good on the previous Montreal tournament it sponsored? Hopefully jontm or somebody else would know.

    See forum thread or
    Full Tilt Poker Leaves Montreal Open Winners Empty Handed
    finalists_2011.jpg

    I would imagine after 2 years of waiting, these players got straightened out when Stars & Tilt collaborated to save a billion dollars or something like that.

    Looks like any USA players that may have cashed back then only need wait another year...according to CardPlayer Article floating around today

    Full Tilt fiasco near ruined a bunch of people so really they are dead to me. I unsubscribed from their emails and have not downloaded their software since Black Friday, even had friends on a tear offer to ship some stakes and turned it down for several of these reasons.

    Glad everything is back to be "peachy keen" though!
    Come on in an pick yourself a nice piece of the pie after you pissed on all the ingredients last time you were in town!
  • GottagetGottaget
    We'll be posting them shortly. Probably early next week, though I am going to try for today.

    Still don't see the structures posted anywhere...its been a couple of weeks...when will they be posted?
  • BlondeFishBlondeFish
    Unfortunately, some players never learn, just like from AP and UB, and will eventually get pissed on again.

    FTP should have changed its name so it won't provoke so much :rage: from members of the poker community like jontm and me.


    "The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour."
    Mark Twain
    jontm wrote: »
    Full Tilt fiasco near ruined a bunch of people so really they are dead to me. I unsubscribed from their emails and have not downloaded their software since Black Friday, even had friends on a tear offer to ship some stakes and turned it down for several of these reasons.

    Glad everything is back to be "peachy keen" though!
    Come on in an pick yourself a nice piece of the pie after you pissed on all the ingredients last time you were in town!
  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    I understand the hate for the name.......but if you peer over your tin hats, it's now owned by Stars....so it's not remotely connected to the old FTP owners/morons.

    And still the best software in the game.
  • jontmjontm
    It is hate for the name, plain and simple and I could write a book as to why on a personnel level, but it doesn't change how great the software is.

    I wonder where they would all be if they played by same rules?

    It's nice to see them jump into the market after everyone else has laid the ground work. Chicken shit, but smart.
  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    jontm wrote: »

    I wonder where they would all be if they played by same rules?

    It's nice to see them jump into the market after everyone else has laid the ground work. Chicken shit, but smart.


    are you shilling for another site?
  • GTA PokerGTA Poker
    jontm wrote: »
    It is hate for the name, plain and simple and I could write a book as to why on a personnel level, but it doesn't change how great the software is.

    I wonder where they would all be if they played by same rules?

    It's nice to see them jump into the market after everyone else has laid the ground work. Chicken shit, but smart.

    none of the poker sites play by the same rules...what do you mean by that statement?
  • jontmjontm
    T8urmoney wrote: »
    are you shilling for another site?

    Absolutely playing favorites
  • jontmjontm
    GTA Poker wrote: »
    none of the poker sites play by the same rules...what do you mean by that statement?

    Party left USA in 2006 and gave up their #1 spot. Stars & FTP stayed, continued to break law, then paid fine with profits. DoJ waited for them to restructure since they couldn't make deal with fugitive and both companies saved a billion in fines by this clever move. (Son taking over as CEO)

    Stars was aligned with Stardust prior to them going broke and now jumped into Playgrounds bed....where was the NAPT and Stars events (or FTP) last few years? Nowhere, cause they didn't give a shit about our piddly live scene.
  • GTA PokerGTA Poker
    jontm wrote: »
    Party left USA in 2006 and gave up their #1 spot. Stars & FTP stayed, continued to break law, then paid fine with profits. DoJ waited for them to restructure since they couldn't make deal with fugitive and both companies saved a billion in fines by this clever move.

    Stars was aligned with Stardust prior to them going broke and now jumped into Playgrounds bed....where was the NAPT and Stars events (or FTP) last few years? Nowhere, cause they didn't give a shit about our piddly live scene.

    Seems that these were/are business decisions that any site could have made. I don't see an uneven playing field.

    I do see uber scumbags at some sites past and present, but that is not the same thing.
  • jontmjontm
    Mostly it's the leaving the community hanging and then just jumping back in under different ownership and acting as if nothing ever happened.

    Oh yeah, and as an affiliate of sorts I never seen the money they owed companies that owed me that Stars said they wouldn't cover as debts when they took over.
  • GTA PokerGTA Poker
    jontm wrote: »
    Mostly it's the leaving the community hanging and then just jumping back in under different ownership and acting as if nothing ever happened.

    Oh yeah, and as an affiliate of sorts I never seen the money they owed companies that owed me that Stars said they wouldn't cover as debts when they took over.

    Like I said, they are scumbags but I still don't get your point about different sites playing by different rules.
  • jontmjontm
    Not sure I have one. FTP= Douchy IMO
  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    jontm wrote: »
    Not sure I have one. FTP= Douchy IMO

    I think you really mean to say Stars = Douchy.....as they are the new FTP


    This thread is about a new tourney in Canada, and you coming in here hatemongering FTP which I find a little tilting (I do tilt easy obv).

    Why don't you talk to your Party pals, and tell them their MTT schedule sucks azzz, and their software is even worse.
  • jontmjontm
    T8urmoney wrote: »
    I think you really mean to say Stars = Douchy.....as they are the new FTP


    This thread is about a new tourney in Canada, and you coming in here hatemongering FTP which I find a little tilting (I do tilt easy obv).

    Why don't you talk to your Party pals, and tell them their MTT schedule sucks azzz, and their software is even worse.

    I don't believe you tilt that easily T8. I'll knock it off though
  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    jontm wrote: »
    I don't believe you tilt that easily T8.


    I have chat bans to prove it
  • BlondeFishBlondeFish
    Why don't all of us players get along and agree that FTP is douchy,
    & Party has been douchy to regs like me since the bwin.party takeover,
    but not as &^%$#@! scumbags as FTP/AP/UB, OK? ;)
    T8urmoney wrote: »
    Why don't you talk to your Party pals, and tell them their MTT schedule sucks azzz, and their software is even worse.
  • mikelbylmikelbyl
    OK the structures are all approved but getting the final versions together to publish - esp considering everything has to be done in both FR and EN for our customers - is taking some time.

    But... here is the Main Event Structure.

    For Event 8 (Main Event)

    Starting stack: 30,000 chips
    Blind Level Length: Day 1 45 mins, Day 2 60 mins, Day 3+ 75 mins.
    Day 1 play for 11 levels. Day 2 play for 9 levels. Day 3 play to 27 players. Day 4 play to 10 players. Day 5 Final Table (starts at 10).
    Day 1 will start 10-handed but move to 9 as quickly as practical. Day 2+ for sure 9-handed. Final table starts 10-handed.

    Levels
    [HTML]
    Level SB BB A
    Level 1 50 100 0
    Level 2 75 150 0
    Level 3 75 150 25
    Level 4 100 200 25
    Level 5 150 300 50
    Level 6 200 400 50
    Level 7 250 500 75
    Level 8 300 600 75
    Level 9 400 800 100
    Level 10 500 1,000 100
    Level 11 600 1,200 200
    Level 12 800 1,600 200
    Level 13 1,000 2,000 300
    Level 14 1,200 2,400 400
    Level 15 1,500 3,000 500
    Level 16 2,000 4,000 500
    Level 17 2,500 5,000 500
    Level 18 3,000 6,000 1,000
    Level 19 4,000 8,000 1,000
    Level 20 5,000 10,000 1,000
    Level 21 6,000 12,000 2,000
    Level 22 8,000 16,000 2,000
    Level 23 10,000 20,000 3,000
    Level 24 12,000 24,000 4,000
    Level 25 15,000 30,000 5,000
    Level 26 20,000 40,000 5,000
    Level 27 25,000 50,000 5,000
    Level 28 30,000 60,000 10,000
    Level 29 40,000 80,000 10,000
    Level 30 50,000 100,000 10,000
    Level 31 60,000 120,000 20,000
    Level 32 75,000 150,000 25,000
    Level 33 100,000 200,000 25,000
    Level 34 125,000 250,000 25,000
    Level 35 150,000 300,000 50,000
    Level 36 200,000 400,000 50,000
    Level 37 250,000 500,000 50,000
    Level 38 300,000 600,000 75,000[/HTML]
  • mikelbylmikelbyl
    Events 1 and 8 (Main Event) are the only multi-day tournaments in this festival. The structures for the one-day events are designed to start in the early evening and finish by 3-4am.

    All will be posted ASAP.
  • ReefAquariumReefAquarium
    Is the rake for the cash game still 10% max $14?

    I'd consider going to Montreal if the rake wasn't so high.
  • GTA PokerGTA Poker
    $14 is sweet.

    In before free food.
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