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Good stuff Dollie, will Update the list later today.
PS - well done on Saturday.
Last night's "Semi" result;
That would be nice
Will get plenty of hassle from the Mrs but i think it will be worth it.
The Vegas list as of this morning.
Qualified on Sky Poker so far......
Barrie26
hhyffghhjjhhgg
Ian "MacMonster" Senior
Dollie, aka OAPGordon
AdamBromley
TheOtherBromley
Neil Channing
First time in Vegas? Good Lord, you'll be blown away by the place, it's incred.
Another UKPC Champ is going too - Fraser Bellamy.
Can't imagine Alex Spencer, the third UKPC Champ will go though, minimum age for gambling in Vegas is 21, he's about 7 years shy of that by the look of him, not even shaving yet.
Have replied.
Don't think Alex will be there though, he's only 13.
James, aka DTM, asked me elsewhere about Sky Poker's plans for Las Vegas this year.
With 35 qualifiers, it'll be quite an exercise, though it's not a school outing, & players won't be expected to show up for Assembly every morning or anything like that. Someone from Sky Poker will be around if needed though.
It'll work something like this.
Base Camp Palazzo
At least one Serious Suit, maybe more, will be at Palazzo in a pre-arranged location at Palazzo Hotel every morning between 28th June & 14th July, to cover both waves of Sky Poker Qualifiers (30 x £3,200 & 5 x £10,000). It's possible they may head home before 14th July, but as long as one of our players is still in the WSOP, someone from Sky Poker will be, too. Not sure who it will be, but you'll have met them at the recent UKPC in Notts for sure.
Base Camp Rio
Dan the Man, who runs Sky Poker TV, will be at the Rio Hotel (home of the WSOP) with a TV camera for, roughly, the same dates as above. He will be filming our players progress for immediate You Tube Uploading, & gathering a reservoir of material for Sky Poker TV to help take them through the Autumn.
I will be his deputy, to help with the interviews, "player finding" & pieces to camera. I'll also be responsible for running the Community Live Update, following our players in the WSOP.
We will both be based in the Media Centre, which is right opposite the cardroom areas, & we will be there or thereabouts every single day between 9am & close of play, which is roughly midnight. Any of our players who needs any guidance on anything can come see us there.
Personally, I'm hoping to be there on my own account from the end of May until "work" starts 28th June, playing all the funny 4 & 5 card games at Rio, Venetian, Golden Nugget, Binions etc., except for a week or so mid-trip when I'm having some private time away from poker. All being well, I'll be sending home a "Las Vegas Blog" most days.
That's the plan, anyways.
i am pleased that you are going to be there, tikay. it will make all the difference.
What with all the palaver, it's been quite an unsettling three months for many of us, & this arrangement was not confirmed until very recently, the last week or two iirc. In fact, it was only finalised in a Meet yesterday afternoon, though I expect the Business had made their decision a while back.
I was going on my own, anyway (fingers crossed), but planned to return home before the Main Event, as a player, I'm not really bothered about NLH, I just play the funny games these days. So we came to an agreement that I'd do some Sky Poker blogs, not daily, but as often as possible, on behalf of the Business.
Then it was confirmed that Sky Poker TV would go along, too, so at that stage, I was asked if I minded staying on, which of course I was delighted to do.
A lot of stuff is happening very quickly behind the scenes, "transition" (from Sky to our new owners) is a momumental task, & it clogged up the decision making process for a while when we were sort of betwixt & between, but the new peeps have the office keys now, so it's all systems go, SIG.
Now you just have to qualify........
There is usually a "Daily Rio Deepstack" series, too. These get monster fields. Last year's $235 Rio Daily Deepie averaged over 1,500 runners per day. Matt Bates cashed in a few, as I recall, as did MacMonster.
The Rio usually run 3 of these every single day, as follows....
3pm - $235
6pm - $185
10pm - $135
These are stonking value if you enjoy that kind of thing.
They play pretty fast at the sharp end (I'm told....), but hey, it's a 1 dayer, with 1,500+ runners, so they are bound to. Think they usually have about $35,000 to $40,000 up top.
Thanks
Barrie
Sounds like a good plan. Ill just bink a main AND side event package and spend most of June and July out in Vegas
Barrie
We now have TWELVE Sky Poker players who have won £3,200 packages to Las Vegas.
Well done to all of them.
Team "We are going anyway, so there" includes.....
Barrie26
hhyffghhjjhhgg
Ian "MacMonster" Senior
Dollie, aka OAPGordon
AdamBromley
TheOtherBromley
Neil Channing
Meanwhile, in the £10,000 package, 5 more "Final" seats were won last night to the big jobbie on May 24th......
It is still some 7 weeks until the BIG Final, so I would suggest it is best to wait & see how many qualify, & then it can be made known in advance.
Well done on qualifying - now get the job finished.
This has now been clarified, I had a long chat with the Suits yesterday, & they already had the matter sorted.
The £10,000 Viva Las Vegas will NOT have more than 50 runners.
So there will be no surplus cash or seats.
Once it reaches 50 runners, it will be CLOSED to further entries.
Even if it reaches 50 with weeks to spoare, that's it, no more qualifiers.
If, say, it got to 49 with weeks to spare, a qualifier with one seat will run, just to ensure that no more than 50 runners play the Final.
I've no idea what they would do if someone declined the package, or got disqualified or whatever, but I don't think that matters really - the Final will have 5 (FIVE) packages on offer, & will be maxed at 50 runners.
We had the UKOPs seat giveaway thing recently that cost you a couple extra prizes (thanks for mine!), but I can't imagine you being able to give away an extra 5 packages!
Edited now, thank you.
Yeah, I doubt I could sneak THAT one through without them noticing. That might be terminal......
"So, Mr Kendall, about that 50 large you just gave away".
How did you get on last night - did you cash? What about dakin & Aussie?
i played well, up until i didn't.
Quite enjoyed the new structure. Always felt way too shallow before, where if you lost a key hand early doors then your demise felt imminent. Now you have a bit more wiggle room, can splash about a bit. The added levels gave it a good flow I felt.
Appreciate that this might make it a longer tournament than people ideally would like to play, but if you're in the money and hunting a top prize of £1,500 +, I'm sure the average player doesn't mind losing an hours kip for this chance