Charity Tourny Report
Hello everyone,
Last night we had a very successful fund raiser at our club held by Bill Wood (esool). I would personally like to congratulate Bill on another amazing tourny, and not to mention chopping first place in it.
I would also like to thank everyone else that took the time to come out and support this cause. Was a pleasure meeting somemore players from the forum, and finally nice to start putting some faces to everyones handles. I hope everyone had a great time and any forum members that did attend and have any feedback for our club or Bill, both positive and negative we would love to hear your opinions.
Hope to see everyone again at the next event.
Shane
Last night we had a very successful fund raiser at our club held by Bill Wood (esool). I would personally like to congratulate Bill on another amazing tourny, and not to mention chopping first place in it.
I would also like to thank everyone else that took the time to come out and support this cause. Was a pleasure meeting somemore players from the forum, and finally nice to start putting some faces to everyones handles. I hope everyone had a great time and any forum members that did attend and have any feedback for our club or Bill, both positive and negative we would love to hear your opinions.
Hope to see everyone again at the next event.
Shane
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Shane, I will email come Sunday as I have a feeling I am ging to be wiped out when I get home tonight. Hope that is ok.
Prophet 22
Only a couple of comments to make though:
1) GET HOTTER CARDS!!! What a cold streak I had last night.
2) NEVER LET CAM SIT NEXT TO THE DEALER AGAIN!
Seriously, had alot of fun, and it was great to see everyone again.
Even know I went out 1st in the Tourney with the best hand 2 pair Q J on the flop with 2 big bets pre flop raise flop raise all in on the turn for a guy to hit runner runner to make a flush on the river with 1 spade on the flop just cracks me up hey but that's poker. Â
For going out 1st I was able to get a $50.00 gift certificate to Gretzky's restaurant and a watch as well. Thanks Bill for all your hard work.
Shane and Graham another great night great crowd and friendly people and the Dealers were awesome. I was able to make it a successful night with making close to a $1000 for the night, was well worth it.  LoL after the first session played waiting around for Shopsy Brent and I decided to get back in the first hand I have I raise $6 preflop couple of callers flop was rags I bet $12 Brent raises it $20 more I go all in total a $100 Brent calls I Turn over QQ Brent turns over 10 10 everyone starts laughing because they new we were brothers they said you do that to you own Brother I said YUP everyone went into an up rore laughing. Forum players out there you need to check this great place out it is well worth it. PM Shane to get the details for this great place.
Come on AJ it was good to have a great laugh right all night, yes the cards were good to me.
Cameron
I had a great time (although finishing a little higher would have been nice) and hope everyone else did too.
The tourney went very smoothly and there was a really good vibe in the room the whole night. Most of the players seemed to have a good time, even after being eliminated. Only one player that I noticed stormed off in a huff but even he had a smile on his face.
46 players attended with the top 19 receiving prizes or cash.
-Cam/Blazin72 got the chump prize for being the first eliminated. Wayne Gretzky's $50 restaurant certificate and a mens watch.
-Enzo received pokerroom.com cuff links and a deck of cards for the first bad beat of the night.
-Aurthur got $20 and a poker room money clip bounty for eliminating Graham.
-Eleanor received the England soccer jersey bounty for eliminating the previous champ, bigChrisE.
The rest of the prizes went like this:
19. Tara, poker shirt/cards
18. Gary, poker shirt/money clip
17. Allan, $40 WSPC tourney entry
16. Tampa, $50 cash game chips
15. Dan     "    "    "    "
14. Joe, $60 WSPC tourney entry
13. Jas, $60 Airport Club tourney entry
12. Ed, $75 online poker credit
11. Nichelle, Ripzone snowboard jacket
10. Imran, clay poker chip set
9. Shopsy/Jeff, poker chip set
8. Al/AK*1, MP3 player
7. Spaghetti, $125 WSPC tourney entry
6. Adam, $150 online poker credit
5. bigChrisE, $220 Woodbridge tourney entry
4. Jivan, $260
3. Aurthur, $400
1&2 chop, Eleanor and myself $1050 each.
Once again big thanks to the Airport Club, dealers as well as Angelo for helping me out. Of course a big thanks to all the players that attended and made this tourney so much fun. The people playing the game is what makes something like this a success. There was no complaining or negative incidences that I saw, just a great group of people playing some poker for a great cause.
Thanks to all the sponsors that donated the great prizes. Having so many players walk away with a prize or cash lightens the game up a lot.
It may seem like it is easy for me to say all this because I hit the money but hey, even a blind squirrel can find a nut some days.
Thank you everyone for supporting this great cause!
Bill
Pics here,
http://www.ontariopokergames.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=50
Big thanks to the club folks and Mr. Esool for the efforts and hospitality.
Of course, none of that helped my donk-style moves in either the tourney or the 1/2 game after for me.
Plus, for the record, I lost a last longer bet with the host.
Well done.
It seemed like everyone was in a great mood too....good vibes all around.
hope to see you guys on Sunday
Great tournout for a worthy cause.
Good to see so many new faces.
As mentioned at the tourney, I will be having a Charity Tournament Saturday April 29th @ 1pm at the Airport Club
- Charity: Toronto Alzheimers Society - Forget me Not Fun-Raiser ( http://www.asmt.org/ )
- WSOP format, $10K in Starting chips
- we have plenty of corporate donations including MP3 players, Bags and backpacks, Video games and accessories, hats, shirts etc (enough that almost EVERYONE will leave with "something")
- $220 buyin with a Bounty option
We will post the details/flyer on Pokerforum and Poker Meetup ( www.poker.meetup.com/43 ) later this week once all details are finalized but we know we will have a huge turnout and support from all the great poker-rooms in the GTA as well (Airport Club, Pockets, NutHouse, RiverRoom2-the sequel, The Unit, PokerSeries-06/Steve, ReRaisepoker.com, etc) *Special bounty on these pokerroom mgmt players to be posted on the "WANTED - dead money or alive" list - TBA
Look forward to seeing you all there!
N
Thanks to the Airport Club for hosting another well run event, even though the dealers refused to give me anything playable in the last 2 hours. It got soo bad that I was calling for the suck-outs the entire last hour, and alas, I ran into some big hands at the wrong time.
Lastly, thanks to Chris and Elanor for giving me the soccer jersey of my beloved home nation team. I tried to win it off Chris fair and square, but it wasn't meant to be. But now, when Rooney, Lampard and Gerrard lead England to our first world cup title since 1966 - I will be kitted up in the proper gear.
P.S. Now - what about the WSOP satellite we were talking about Bill? Almost 50 made it out on Friday, I think we could get similar numbers to put up $100 each, with the winner(s) getting airfare + hotel + buy-in for the $1,500 tournament. Hopefully the Airport Club would be willing to help out for this game. Summer is fast approaching...let's make this happen.
Ca-ca, I won't be able to make it as I am running a stag that night for a buddy.
I have posted this info on my calendar and as soon as you have your details finalized I will post them as well..
Mid May.. More details as I bother to figure them out..
Date has changed to Saturday MAY 6th @1pm - details to be posted here under seperate cover.
Even worse for me.
I will delete the previous info from my site and wait for the new post.