It's me again.
This time I am looking at a live tournament - the £500+£50 Gladiator at Shuffles in Portsmouth being held next weekend 27/28 Oct.
http://www.shufflesportsmouth.com/tournaments.phpI am looking to sell up to 50% at 1.1. 1%=£6.05, 5%=£30.25, 10%=£60.50.
This is the second time they have held this event. In April they had 57 runners (mostly internally-generated), which meant a prize-pool of £28,500 and a 1st prize of £8,700. I didn"t play it. This time, they are forecasting a prize-pool of £35,000 and have guaranteed a 1st prize of £10,000. I think they are likely to hit the 70 runners they expect.
I mainly play local tournaments in the various card-rooms in Portsmouth (against the players who will be in this tournament), though not often at Shuffles, and I get more than my fair share of wins and cashes. The biggest local event I have played was the Solent50 in April, a joint event between the Grosvenors in Portsmouth and Southampton, where I came 4/197 for £1,225. Coincidentally, it is on again today, so I"m having another crack at that.
Outside Portsmouth, I have mainly played APAT in the last few years and have made six final tables and won one. This year, I have pretty much sucked at APAT and, apart from that, I have only really played two events that I satellited into - a UKIPT and an 888 Superstack, finishing nowhere in the first and eleventh in the second (should have FT"d it but you don"t want to hear about that). The only thing I have really nailed this year was winning two tournaments the same day at Coventry G on the Sunday after playing the APAT tournament the day before.
Hendon Mob -
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=54333.
The players in this event will mainly be locals. Shuffles has generated seats by every kind of satellite and league you can think of over the last few months and is turning every nightly tournament into a satellite for the last couple of weeks. The players are still paying for the seats, but their outlay is spread so they don"t notice so much and of course, some miss out and subsidize the others. I haven"t played any satellites so far. The point is that nearly all of the players will be locals. Now there are a lot of very good players in Portsmouth and they are all playing live tournaments several times a week. Virtually all are decent players, but it ain"t the UKIPT - 5/7 of the buy-in but no pros.
They have internet at the cardroom, so I may post an update during the event if I"m in the mood. I"ll post details afterwards here anyway and the results will be on Shuffles website.
Payment via Stars/Paypal/Bank Transfer all fine.
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Ian 5% £30.25 - received
Stuart 10% £60.50 - received
Rodders 10% £60.50 - received
Richard 5% £30.25 - received
Myles 5% £30.25 - received
Craig 5% £30.25 - received
CaptainThistle 5% £30.25 - received
Andy 10% £60.50 - received
