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Hopefully if this is during the summer (after my May exams).....any golfers or cricketers could have a long weekend holiday as no weight restrictions on ferry routes from pembroke or fishguard to Rosslare, County Wexford. 1 hour by bus to Dublin.
Wexford is the sunny south east of Ireland. (I moved here in 2006)
Anyone interested or need info nearer the announced date...just give me a shout.
Looking forward to playing my first sky poker tour event !!!!!
PS I'm a mature business student not just an old geezer
Leonard
does anybody know when the six max will be on the sky poker channel, I really wanted to go but missed it because of work?
I thought I'd give you a heads up that the highlights from the recent SPT 6 Max event @ DTD Nottingham will be shown first at 7pm on Friday 26th October!
It's not an anti Scottish, or anti Welsh thing (as Cardiff/Swansea is not on the rota this year either) at all
The Scottish market has been extremely tricky to hold third party events. Indeed some tours hire hotels, using casino licences, to host their Scottish legs, but that is not a cost effective option for the SPT. I know of a venue that is not suitable because of disabled access. I know of another venue which is 100% self deal and couldn't bring in dealers at acceptable cost to Sky for an SPT event
As for the Alea, where I have now done four events, lovely casino, good staff (dealers and Cardrom manager good) but both the SPT events were not to the standards we wanted. The first event encounted significant problems and delays in running over two floors, the second had lighting that was way below what was required for a major poker tournament
There are only 5 or 6 SPT legs a year
Its not the SP"UK"T either, not while I've been doing it and Dublin ( Sky Poker operates and is licensed in in the ROI) has been on the list to visit for some time and Sky Poker has many Irish clients too
As to the Coventry or Broadway choice, both would have been fine. The Broadway now holds 200 in one area.
So this year it is Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Dublin and Nottingham
2014 I am sure will see some new venues, and certainly a different mix, assuming the SPT goes well in 2013.
For a venue to be right for Sky
- the venue has to be willing to host (some aren't in the market for external tours)
- to host at an acceptable cost to SkyPoker
- to be geographically suitable for qualifiers to access easily
- to have acceptable facilities (size of venue, and quality, plus catering, car parking etc etc)
- to have sufficient experience (management and staff) of running large third party events
- schedules have to work
literally just read about the tour coming to dublin, fantastic news. i qualified for one of the first tours in Newcastle but was during the really bad winter weather and couldnt travel over was gutted. and never bothered tried to qualify again since. 2 and a half hour drive up from belfast ill hope to make it this time.
as stated the nightlife is wonderful and it wouldnt be the worst thing to get knocked out early for those never over before cos youll be assured of great craic if you are to venture outside of the casino!!!
in temple bar expect pints etc to hinge around the 5 euro mark
The Refurbed Grosvenor Cardroom is a bit small and Les Croups signalled that they were not so keen on hosting us, going forward (down to resourcing and their costs, not down to a dislike of Sky Poker)
So, it can be trickier than it seems....
As soon as I have a release date will let you know
I've heard that it is about £7 a pint in Ireland.
Is that true!