WPT Single-Table Satellites in North York/Thornhill Area -- Interest???
If you are interested in playing single-table sng-style satellites into step 2 ($640) of the Fallsview WPT qualifiers then please respond in this thread with available dates.
There will be no rake to the house...(which is me), professional table, professional chips.
Satellites will be structured to last roughly 2-2.5 hours with the goal of running 2-4 a day/night depending on interest, we can play all night I don't care. Prizes will be paid as cash.
10 handed NLHE tournament.
Zero rake and self-dealt $80 buy-in, $640/$80/$80. Deals are acceptable.
Any suggestions as to buy-in or format will be considered.
Location -- Yonge and Finch,
Date...up to you...I am thinking of Saturday, August 5 mid-afternoon or early evening as the first date.
Please respond within the thread -- I would prefer to restrict this to forum members, but I am sure that I can find 4-5 other players who would be interested. It's really up to you guys as to what you want to play, so let me know and we can get it going.
SATURDAY AUG 5 2pm, confirmed (we need 10 confirmed for this to go...will accept up to 12 confirmations as we will be running at least 2 sats that day):
1. GTA
2. Acid Joe
3. Bill R
4. Garry C
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12. RiverRatJosh (tentative)
Please note, as there is no rake, this will be BYOeverything (other than chairs).
Please only sign-up if you can confirm the date as last minute cancellations will end up with the event being cancelled.
There will be no rake to the house...(which is me), professional table, professional chips.
Satellites will be structured to last roughly 2-2.5 hours with the goal of running 2-4 a day/night depending on interest, we can play all night I don't care. Prizes will be paid as cash.
10 handed NLHE tournament.
Zero rake and self-dealt $80 buy-in, $640/$80/$80. Deals are acceptable.
Any suggestions as to buy-in or format will be considered.
Location -- Yonge and Finch,
Date...up to you...I am thinking of Saturday, August 5 mid-afternoon or early evening as the first date.
Please respond within the thread -- I would prefer to restrict this to forum members, but I am sure that I can find 4-5 other players who would be interested. It's really up to you guys as to what you want to play, so let me know and we can get it going.
SATURDAY AUG 5 2pm, confirmed (we need 10 confirmed for this to go...will accept up to 12 confirmations as we will be running at least 2 sats that day):
1. GTA
2. Acid Joe
3. Bill R
4. Garry C
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12. RiverRatJosh (tentative)
Please note, as there is no rake, this will be BYOeverything (other than chairs).
Please only sign-up if you can confirm the date as last minute cancellations will end up with the event being cancelled.
Comments
We will tentatively go with the Saturday date. If we get 10 confirmations then it's a go.
Joe...time preference? 2pm would be the earliest possible start for me.
We will be going with the no dealer/zero rake format as I think that would appeal to more forum members.
1) Rake-free: self-dealing and BYOB is perfectly fine with me.
2) Use the same blind structure as the WPT, i.e., 25/25, 25/50, 50/100, 100/200 + 25, 150/300 + 50.
3) To get practice with the WPT format, have the same starting stack of 800 chips. The time for each blind level can be increased to 20-30 minutes to allow for a couple of hours of play.
4) The prize structure of $640/80/80 is good.
5) If there are ever 20 players, simulate the Step 2 two-table satellite, i.e., 2,000 starting chips with blind levels of at least 20 minutes.
Next time. Good luck with the satellites and all the potential WPT qualifiers.
If there is interest then I will hold these a couple of times a month.
Blonde -- are u in for Aug 5th?
thanx
Garry
PokerJAH
There IS interest. Keep me posted.
Thanks GTA
Thanks
Acid Joe, heck there should be a bounty on his head.......
I am comming for you Joe. Thats worth the 80$ all by itself......
I don't really have a time preference. 2-4 pm start time will work for me. I'll have to confirm if Todd is in to play.
If I make it to these single table satellites, you can count on it being a tough go. I have developed a move just for you.....
when you make your button raises with A 5 off.
hehe
PokerJAH
If anyone is heading to GBH I'll be there Friday and/or Saturday night.
Let me know when your next game is because I know about 2-3 people that live in this area.
Honestly, and I don't mean to come across as snobbish or whatever term people care to throw around, that would be too much time for too small stakes for me to want to host it. I was merely trying to mirror the stage1 sats at Fallsview, with a similar buy-in, no rake and a better structure.
I think that an $80 sat with an eventual target of a $10k tourney is pretty reasonable, but that is me and others may have differing opinions.
If enough interest builds and enough people want to play some sats, then I have no problem hosting, but for now it's not worth it to have only 5-6 players show.
this saturday is no good but if yuo do any other dates on a friday or saturday I am in
thanx
Garry