Update Christmas Deepstack

Okay folks, an update on the Christmas game as follows:

Im trying to give the player the option here so they are going to enjoy the game, rather than give out about it! thats not what I want, hence the option!

Options are as follows:

1. 20K Starting stack buy in €70 (60 prizepool 10 reg), NO Dealers (self deal), capped at 50 players. 20 min blinds before the break of 6 levels and 25 mins after. Food will be served on the break, which will be 30 mins. Date is either the 22/23rd December and will be in the Grand Hotel, Wicklow.

2. 15k starting stack, buy in €75 (60 prizepool, 15 reg) dealer dealt, capped at 60 players, 25 min blinds before the break of 6 levels and 30 mins thereafter. Again food will be served on the break, which will be 30 mins, dates and venue as above.

I will not be playing myself and will be the tournament director, and any decision that is made will be final.

There will be no antes, after sufficient levels the clock will be paused and the smaller denominations removed and players chipped up. Play will commence mid afternoon, and there will be 2 breaks, one after 6 levels, the other after another 6, then we will play out to the winner.

There is no Guarantee on the prizepool as there is no overlay. I have had a good response and between all the local venues Im sure we could get 50 players easily enough. Nothing will be deducted from the Prizepool, any costs come out of the reg (Food, venue, dealers). Providing the venue is full the Prizepool will be over €3k (again this is only Guaranteed providing the game is full)

There was an option of running a larger buy in of €100 plus €20 reg, and to advertise on IPB and get more numbers. there are 2 reasons why (for now)im not doing this, and the 1st is because its right before Christmas and I think €120 is a bit much, even though €70/€75 is not cheap, I believe more people will go for this game, and secondly, Wicklow never really gets a big game apart from the local pub games etc, and this is the main reason for running this.

So the question that I am asking is:

a) which date would you prefer, Saturday the 22nd December or Sunday the 23rd December?
b) Self deal or Dealers?

I had a good response to my previous post on this both by emails, comments on the blog and text. So please feel free to comment and let me know what you would like here.

thanks.