great canadian poker tournament at the docks
Well I just got back from it, i finished 15th overal, I am realy pleased with my self, in the public game i was very very short stacked heads up against a massive chip leader, and chipped away and ended up winning. That was teh greatest poker win of my life!!!! Grweat experience overall , and cant wait for the next one to come. Just wanted to tell everyone how i did.
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Any news from other Forum members?
JohnnieH
Round two I finnshed third at my table. roughly 40th I think.
Semi-finals 2nd hand in I am in the big blind I raise pre-flop to 1800 with 2 callers 1 being the small blind first guy folds small guy calls right away so I think he might have A K anyways flop comes 559 he checks I go all-in for 3700 he calls 3500 he turns over A 5 OS I flipped out I am left with 2 chips 200 I am the button goes all the way around the table then the blinds go up to 200-400 I don't even have enough for the big blind 3 other callers I quadruple up to 800 keeps on snowballing and now I am heads up with the chip leader with 6500 not to bad with 200 left in chips. 1st hand Q C 5 C big blind he limos in blinds are only 300-600 so I check flop comes Q J 9 I go all in with top pair he calls with you guessed it he had 10 8 I was done I win that round I go to the final table but know such luck.
It was good to see Acid Joe, Aimee, Dead Money, esool, compuease & The Prophet 22.
Cameron
WSPC
Getting back to the tournament, they could have used a few door prizes I think, that would have been cool, (instead of spending all kinds of bucks on leather jackets for themselves).
They were expecting 2000 people, at 11:00 am they had less than 800...
Informal poll time: what would yield a larger turnout:(A) Winner take all $10K (B) Winner $5K, with cash down to top 10%, or
(C)Your own formula here.
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Okay anyhow, the structure: Starting with 25 big blinds sucks, and while I understand why they had to hurry things, I think once they realized 400 people showed up instead of 2000, and so the semifinal started at least 3 hours early, they could have even started us with 50 big blinds, you know?
Why didn't anyone show up? Cause it was super early on sunday morning and I think people assumed they wouldn't get into the 880 players. They should have said "first 880 people get into the game", cause who wants to drag themselves out of bed that early to come down and then not get a seat and go right home? Also the winner takes all thing is dumb, yes, there should have been some cash prizes for everyone at the FT, but really I think these guys just had $10,000 and wanted to be able to go "TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS GRAND PRIZE". I mean, having a 10k grand prize is only semi-exciting on a televised tourney, if they had said "7500 grand prize!" it would have been even sadder. But yeah, winner takes all suuuuuuuuuucks, it sucks bad.
Does anyone know who wound up winning?
I would of slow played it for 2nd or 3rd but I figured it was pointless since you dont win anything for those spots.
I also made an ass of myself on tv lol. Where was all the damn cameras when I was taking people in the first 2 rounds?
Oh well.. I guess I shouldent expect much from a tourny that doesnt even have pin-hole cams on their final table at least. I mean christ, my buddy has pin-hole cams on his table for fun home games. I wonder what channel/time it will be aired on? probably be at like midnight on the rogers chan
I want to see who won too because as soon as I was out I headed strait for work (which I was 4 hours late for
Eighty-eight people pre-qualified and were already playing by the time they opened the doors to the public after 8 AM. Â The winner from each of the 11 tables advanced to the second round, while the ~77 losers got to play again in the public tournament.
Peter Gross, formerly of City TV, was among the people waiting to play. Â While waiting, people lined up a for a free hat but some people ended up leaving them behind. Â Around 9:30 AM, the first 220 people who had gotten a ballot got to choose their own table and seat. Â Each table was packed with 11 players plus a dealer.
The dealer in our table was pretty but ignorant about poker. Â With such a packed table, I was paranoid that the two players crowding me can see my cards so I took the minimum possible peek at my cards. Â I thought that my hole cards matched, and after the flop, I thought I had a set so I went all in, probably the first in the public tournament to do so. Â The chip leader had flopped a pair of Aces and called me. Â When we turned up our cards, I discovered to my horror that I did not have pocket pairs after all! :fish: Luckily for me, I still managed to win the pot and I had doubled to 10,000! Â
Unfortunately, my A-Q, 7-7 and A-10 all lost heads-up and I was the fifth player eliminated from the table.
On my way home, I stopped by one of the free bar tournaments. Â I later heard that two of the final 8 in the $10,000 tournament were players from the Pirana Poker Tour.
The company had press releases that they would air on TSN. It's weird they didn't have card cameras, but I guess it's not a super $$$ operation (although it should be since the company who runs it is public, which generally implies they have lots of dough). The clips on their website of some previous tournament they filmed as a pilot do look very slick, and better than the canadian poker tour, whose broadcasts I thought were very very amateurish.
5000 starting chips.
Blinds increase every 10 minutes.
100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800
500/1000
1000/2000
2000/4000
4000/8000
My second table was entertaining. Only half the players knew how to play and the dealer would not(didn't know how to?) keep the action moving. Players would take their time and ponder calls/bets, just like they see the guys on TV do.
Very little time to play poker.
For a free shot at $10k I can't complain.
For sure this is going to show worse than the degree game on TV.
Good to see you there. Aggression always pays in a tournament like this.
Might as well add my bust-out scenario:
Blinds are 400/800. No one out on my table yet (1st round).I have 4400 in chips after starting with 5000.
UTG limps, 3 others limp. LP goes all in for 700. I limp. Button folds. SB folds. BB checks. 7 players, one all in. Main pot is 5300. Side pot is 600. Flop comes down...
:ah :10c :6s
Checked to me. I bet 1500. BB folds. UTG calls. Everyone else folds. Heads up. Side pot is 3600. Turn card...
:7d
Now, BB bets out but only 500. "Perfect!" I think, "he's made his two pair with A-7." I raise all-in for 2100. BB goes in the tank and then calls 1600 more. Side pot is 7800 now.
I show :ac :10h         UTG has :7h :8c            Original All-In Guy shows :ad :7c
         88%                           10%                                       2%
LOVING THIS!!! I AM 88% TO WIN 13100 and be huge chip leader and take out 2 players at once. But, as my deity, Gamblor, smirks, sneers and then starts to chuckle, the river card appears like magic, materializing on the felt and sending me home...
:9s
I am very happy I got to play. I am very happy I played well. I am very happy for AcidJoe. I hate being sucked out on.
OUT
Wish I could have stayed to see you in the final. After you recover I need a straight up winner this week, have to have the pick in on friday.
See you Saturday riding the wave!!!!!!!!!!!
Brent
How many 1 table tournys did you win to get to the final table of 5 players, three?
Was the final table the same blind structure?
What time did the final table finish at?
I don't think the bank will ask any questions for $5k but if you want to play it safe just deposit the money two different days.
Cameron
WSPC
Same structure but blinds went up every 15 minutes instead of 10.Â
I have no clue. I don't wear a watch and what time it wasn't that important (unless it's the blinds clock)
I don't think the bank will ask any questions for $5k but if you want to play it safe just deposit the money two different days.
The bank did because the payout was all in 10's (yes 10's) bundled in $1000's wrapped in the bank of canada sticker.....
Brent how about a side wager for the player taking Joe out? Â lol..
I was at the the full table beside the table of 3 players. I ended up going heads up with a guy and we traded chips for a couple hands. Then on one of the hands that I was the short stack I went all in with K,10 and he called with K,Q. Flop, turn and river were all a bust.
It was a good experience I guess, but overall I think it was run very poorly. The tables should have been evened out when there were no shows. They should server refreshments to the players. The blinds were way to aggressive, if you play slow you'll get blinded out. Even if you go all the way to the final table, it is not a full day of poker and you really don't get a chance to gain a lot of experience and learn from big tourney play. At least the buy-in was cheap
What's with the DOCKS charging for parking?? !!!!! Since I was in the first game, I was there early. When I got back to my truck, there was a note on my truck to see the attendant on the way out to pay for the parking. yea, right, like I'm gonna do that.
I magic words were SEE ATTENDANT.
I waved as I drove by. :bs: