Sunday Community Tournament

Good luck and enjoy !

Apparently not open for registration until late Saturday night.

Big hats off to Chippy whose idea this is and who pushed for it. 

Should be good fun and if we get a decent turn out we may be able to push for better prizes in the future.

See you all on Sunday!

good news, see you in the game

is there a password? 

Not at the moment. I'm hoping there's only 3 runners in week 1.

Thanx chip i will be in

Theres's the added value gone.

Nice one. Well done.

Just to confirm there is a $120 BF Live Qualifier ticket valued at $120 every week for the winner of this event.

Obviously the idea is that we get a few forumites live packages via this.

What time is it?

8pm Keith


Chipfire- the tournament has been set up as having a $120 ticket guaranteed as opposed to ADDED. So the first 12 buy ins will not win anyone a sausage more!

I saw the emailed instructions sent by BF PR and the $120 ticket is deffo additional to the prize/entry money.

Stewards Enquiry if that isn't how tourney is structured.

Yeah just checked the lobby and they have dropped a b0ll0ck. Day after bloody day.

are we still playing it in the vain hope that they send the prize money afterwards?

Thrappers emailed them earlier, doubt there will be anybody around to pick it up. There should deffo be $120 added, but no idea how we are going to work it. If only 12 of us play then perhaps top 2 should get a ticket instead of top one ?

I'll see if they can find a brewery in which to attempt to organise a p1ss up in before next week, but until then, I'm out

Problem is - cash will be credited to second placed finisher - so you probably have to Just ask Betfair to top up the difference for the second place and pay third place the balance.

Will try and get extra ticket for whoever finishes third if you could let people know.

Golden Levered

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T5-221181220-117
played at "Table #1" for USD TC from 2012-03-04 16:35 until 2012-03-04 16:36



Seat 1: Paige199 (3,685 in chips) 
Seat 2: undef4580 (3,470 in chips) 
Seat 3: chipfire227 (6,500 in chips) 
Seat 4: Mrs Keith A (3,200 in chips) 
Seat 5: VainoTiik (6,289 in chips) 
Seat 8: KeithAisGay (13,880 in chips) 
Seat 9: OrwellS (3,766 in chips) 
Seat 10: swindon 69 (3,210 in chips) 



ANTES/BLINDS
chipfire227 posts small blind (80), Mrs Keith A posts big blind (160),

PRE-FLOP
VainoTiik folds, KeithAisGay raises to 400, OrwellS folds, swindon 69 folds, Paige199 folds, undef4580 folds, chipfire227 calls 400, Mrs Keith A calls 400.

FLOP [board cards: 8S,5H,8D ]
chipfire227 bets 640, Mrs Keith A raises to 2,800 and is all-in, KeithAisGay folds, chipfire227 calls 2,800.

TURN [board cards: 8S,5H,8D,9D ]


RIVER [board cards: 8S,5H,8D,9D,6S ]


SHOWDOWN
Mrs Keith A shows [ 7S,7D ]
chipfire227 shows [ KC,KH ]
Mrs Keith A wins 6,800.

Lever reversal

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T5-221181220-125
played at "Table #1" for USD TC from 2012-03-04 16:41 until 2012-03-04 16:42



Seat 1: Paige199 (3,185 in chips) 
Seat 2: undef4580 (3,170 in chips) 
Seat 3: chipfire227 (3,400 in chips) 
Seat 4: Mrs Keith A (7,000 in chips) 
Seat 5: VainoTiik (2,289 in chips) 
Seat 8: KeithAisGay (18,280 in chips) 
Seat 9: OrwellS (3,766 in chips) 
Seat 10: swindon 69 (2,910 in chips) 



ANTES/BLINDS
chipfire227 posts small blind (100), Mrs Keith A posts big blind (200),

PRE-FLOP
VainoTiik folds, KeithAisGay raises to 600, OrwellS folds, swindon 69 folds, Paige199 folds, undef4580 folds, chipfire227 raises to 3,400 and is all-in, Mrs Keith A calls 3,400, KeithAisGay calls 3,400.

FLOP [board cards: 2C,9H,TS ]
Mrs Keith A bets 3,600 and is all-in, KeithAisGay calls 3,600.

TURN [board cards: 2C,9H,TS,4D ]


RIVER [board cards: 2C,9H,TS,4D,QS ]


SHOWDOWN
Mrs Keith A shows [ AS,AD ]
KeithAisGay shows [ AH,JH ]
chipfire227 shows [ TD,TC ]
chipfire227 wins 10,200, Mrs Keith A wins 7,200.

Me vs Keith A fan club...minus lever :

TEXAS_HOLDEM, NO_LIMIT, T5-221181220-170
played at "Table #1" for USD TC from 2012-03-04 17:22 until 2012-03-04 17:22



Seat 2: undef4580 (510 in chips) 
Seat 3: chipfire227 (11,380 in chips) 
Seat 4: Mrs Keith A (16,280 in chips) 
Seat 8: KeithAisGay (15,830 in chips) 



ANTES/BLINDS
undef4580 posts ante (25), chipfire227 posts ante (25), Mrs Keith A posts ante (25), KeithAisGay posts ante (25), undef4580 posts small blind (125), chipfire227 posts big blind (250),

PRE-FLOP
Mrs Keith A raises to 625, KeithAisGay folds, undef4580 calls 485 and is all-in, chipfire227 calls 625.

FLOP [board cards: 7S,6S,5C ]
chipfire227 checks, Mrs Keith A bets 1,125, chipfire227 calls 1,125.

TURN [board cards: 7S,6S,5C,9H ]
chipfire227 checks, Mrs Keith A bets 14,505 and is all-in, chipfire227 calls 9,605 and is all-in.

RIVER [board cards: 7S,6S,5C,9H,QH ]


SHOWDOWN
Mrs Keith A shows [ 8C,8D ]
undef4580 shows [ JD,9S ]
chipfire227 shows [ TH,8H ]
chipfire227 wins 1,555, chipfire227 wins 21,740.

Opening community league for Wednesday game won by.... KeithAisGay

Opening Sunday community game won by.... KeithAisGay

Anyone detecting a pattern here?

Looks to me that our intrepid ambassadors have been given a golden lever.

Hah, hah, very modest of you. Stacks were 24.5k and 19.5k in your favour when we got to heads up and I said I'd rather have the cash than the ticket and dumped you 19.3k.

We both know I'd have kicked your lily white butt heads up.

I've sent a request for BF to compensate Mrs Keith who finished third in the absence of there being any added prize money. Presumably an oversight. They may want to tamper with the stacks/levels. 15 minutes seemed a tad long, and 2000 stacks a tad short.

2500 or 3000 and 10 minute levels perhaps ?

For the record BF have agreed to pay the missing 120$ from last night to the players as per what we agreed at final table, meaning money for the person finishing third.

The added prize money I'm assured will be in place next week. There will also be a slight tweak to the timings on the blinds down from 15 mins to 12, to ensure an early enough finish for those up early for work on a Monday.

Had a couple of people querying the buy in of 11$ saying its too high for a Community Game, would be interested to hear other peoples opinion, as theres also one or two initially wanted it higher to generate a bigger prize pool.

Is it running next Sunday 11th and at what time? And well done for BF coming through for the $120 added.

I cannot think why I did not enter other than it appears I had 8 MTTs open on Betfair and Stars and had no way of squeezing a 9th onto my small screen. Either way I missed it until seeing the posts after 8pm.
Get that late registration sorted! And teaches me to run deep on a saturday night tourney.

Whilst I went to pub to watch the Spurs v Man U match earlier it was strictly beer free as I had a fasting urine/blood test this morning - ironic that when i got there I was told it did not have to be fasting. Thats really taking the p***

$11 sounds fine. Equally happy to play at $5.50. and blind tweak sounds reasonable. Those wanting a longer blinds can play GSOPs too.

Playing in APAT on-line stars too. That starts this sunday 11th. $11 too. 5000/15

Winner of the last Weds community league game - Mrs Keith A

Winner of the last Klup 27 challenge - Mrs Keith A

Anyone detecting a pattern here?

I'm tempted to play APAT again now its switched to Stars.

Dont forget tonight at 8pm Community tournament and this week with the $120 live satellite ticket added!

Have you got what it takes to defeat the reigning champion?

Thanks

In a word-yes.

Don't bottle it this week Chip!

I haven't got the dog this week, so can play for more than 2 hours.

I'm in, Still no cash from last week?

Limited bankroll but I'll give this a go, deposit if I have too (gasp, bite the bullet)

Keith, BF PR sent me an email saying he was sorting it and you would deffo get it, then went off on the sick with his wisdom tooth. Will chase him again first thing tomorrow.

Only 1 prize?

Poor structure for an added prize pool imo.

winner takes all - wtf?

Another c0ck up presumably.

Bubbled 2nd. 4hrs. Fk.

UL Nick. Bit of a shambles again, no idea why they have it down as a winner takes all tourney . If they cant get it sorted out for next week, we might as well knock it on the head.

UL Nick, I hated the winner takes all and totally cnanged my game.

Benefit of an added tourney should be to spread the added cash and encourage more to play.

I too won't play this again unless the prize structure changes.

Its amazing how they manage to c0ck things up so regularly.  Its not rocket science to set up a simple MTT like this is it?

Probably explains lack of numbers.

Lasted longer than in GSOP $54 mini and the 5.50 3 min blind rebuy.
Ran Aces into 67 in the 1900 rebuy as well just as stack sides were becoming interesting around the same time crashed out here. Shame that never held up either.

Thanks for getting it going but can we try and get it right next week.

Not knocking the winner who deserved it.

With the midweek game a lot of people complained about the sports related prizes, so I specifically asked if we could have a poker related prize for this one. I suggested a league table with a Live package at the end of it, but they didn't want the hassle of running two leagues a week, and they also wanted to gauge how many would take part on a Sunday before committing a load of cash to it. This is understandable.

The suggestion they made is that it run as a normal MTT, but that each week the winner would get a $120 Betfair Live Satelitte Ticket. Obviously the aim is that eventually we will see some Forumites qualifying for decent live events via this route. If a sat ticket is given away every week, then I believe this will start to happen.

Obviously last night the top 3 should have got a payout and the winner the added ticket. For some reason it became winner takes all and as has been said people adopted a completely different mindset. I know I certainly did.

On a personal level I've done this BF Forum Rep "job" for about 9 months now and at this precise moment in time I feel about as cynical about the whole thing as I did at the start. For every step forward we take we seem to then be taking 2 steps backwards. The last Q and A Meeting was early December, and there doesnt appear to be another one happening anytime soon, though I did ask about it last month. Given all the outages, the inability to run a Leaderboard, the continuing ineptitude of the Helpdesk, or the ability to do any of the basics required to run a poker site, I suspect they aren't happy to get round a table and discuss things.

whydont theyset it up as a normaltourney with normalpayout structure and manual add the ticket afterwards to the winner direct.

also feel the clock needs shortening a little, esp if we get more runners.
personally i feel 4 hrs on a sunday night is to long for the recreational player.

I mentioned the clock to them last week and they agreed to shorten the blinds from 15 mins to 12 mins. I think Thrappers felt reducing it further would turn it into a shovefest, however I'm not so sure because unlike some games where the blinds go 10/20, 15/30,25/50, 50/100, 75/150 etc, these are going up in much smaller increments.If we ever got to the stage where 50-60 people were playing it could be a long night.

HF did suggest perhaps staring an hour earlier at 7 to ensure people who have to be up for work on a Monday morning aint inconvenienced, which I though was a reasonable suggestion.

The previous three posts all make a lot of sense to me - and chipfire, you are doing a fine job in the face of adversity in my opinion.  Keep plugging away, you cant make things any worse and can only have a positve effect to our benefit.

The buy in, structure are all fine and once they get the added prize sorted you should see how many we get as a regular number.

4 hours is fine. Though if more runners with same structure but paying 3 places may have taken longer.
It would have taken longer if I'd still been playing GSOP or the rebuys and $22 2015 MTTs that I normally play. And i'd also busted out of APAT on stars (and the sunday storm - 1 hour earlier because of ET change).

12 mins fine. But yes if 50+ it could be a lot longer. Those old BF rebuys with 21/25 runners and 15 minute blinds would take 4 and a half/5 hours to win. And even then I'd not normally have 10,000 chips after an hour of play.

I really felt sorry for whoever finished 3rd. I cannot recall playing before. Early on 3 handed he expected to cash or even win outright and I thought no chance at all. When he busted he was obviously peeved.

Chat stopped at 4 handed.

And agree with aj chip. Keep up good work. We got 12 minute blinds as requested. Just need to get the prizes plus added sorted for sunday. Hopefully BF will sort out.

See you all on wednesday anyway. hope to get in on time but will be multi-tabling - watching chelsea as well. just hope i can miss the obvious congestion at fulham broadway on the district line. TfL to mess up.
steal my blinds if i do not get home for 8.

Famous last words but I think we have sorted out this mess.

12 minute blinds -we can change this if numbers get bigger
$120 tourney ticket added - rather than guaranteed
8 pm start - we can change this to 7pm if numbers grows

Apologies once again.

and a normal payout structure?  ie not winner takes all?

....and a normal payout structure

Nice to know you are sorting it.

Any chance of a ticket as an apology for last sunday? Would really encourage me?

thats a great idea Nick

I still haven't had my cash from the first one!

OK BFPKrManager.

Can you sort out the previous one, plus the missing items in the wednesday challenge/quiz and then me?

Thanks.

Nick