Wicklow Poker Scene: 2014-03-09

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Thursday Night Poker

1st off, we start in the Coach House Roundwood.

Kicks off at 8.00pm, Buy in is €35 (20 buy in, 10 top up and 5 reg). If you dont take the top-up its €25. The starting stacks are 5k and the top is the same. Blinds are 15/20. Hot food served on the break. Always has 2 tables. Friendly Game, new players welcome, Ritchie Cullen used to run the game here but Im not sure who is running it now.

Star Poker Bray

€35 Scalp Tournament, Starting at 8.00 pm, Late reg up to 9.30 pm, Starting stack of 10,000 chips, 15 minute clock, Buy in €20 + €10 scalp + €5 reg fee

Refreshments available during the tournament, Complimentary food served at the break. Numbers coule between 30-40 tonight for this game.

Finally Whistlers Wicklow Town

Starting at 8pm, Tonight is the League Final Night so there wont be the usual weekly game here. A normal game will resume next week.

Star Poker Bray Wednesday Night Results & Updated League Table

12.03.2014 (Wednesday)
€20 League Freeze-Out
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 1:30 am
Players: 66
Prize Pool: €924

1. Damian Whyte €342
2. Andrius Ribaciauskas €213
3. John Ward €135
4. Mick O'Neill €83
5. Darren Moran €65
6. Joe Baker €46
7. Eoin Langan €37

SPRING Wednesday's league:
(after 2nd week)

1. Andrius Ribaciauskas 42 pts
2. Colm Martin 35 pts
3. Frank Collier 35 pts
4. Derek Verhoeven 30 pts
5. Damian Whyte 27 pts
Joe Baker 27 pts
7. John Ward 25 pts
Roger Shealy Jr 25 pts
Simon Kearns 25 pts
10. Ian Gannon 24 pts
Mick O'Neill 24 pts
12. Darren Moran 23 pts
13. John McDermott 22 pts
14. Eoin Langan 21 pts
Gerry Ring 21 pts

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wednesday Night Poker

Only the 1 game tonight folks and its on in Star Poker Bray

Starting at 8.00 pm. Late reg up to 9.30 pm. Starting stack of 10,000 chips,15 minute clock
Buy in €15 + €5 reg fee

Tonight is week 2 of the Spring League

WEDNESDAY “SPRING” POKER

TOURNAMENT LEAGUE

For 9 weeks Star Leisure Poker Room will run a Wednesday Tournament League from 1st of January up to 26th of February. Over These 9 nights players will receive points according to what position they finish in. The 5 players with the most points will receive a cash prize on Wednesday 5th of March.

The league prize pool will be created by taking €1 from each player’s entry fee every tournament and Star Leisure Poker Room will donate another €1 per person each tournament to double the prize pool. Star Leisure Poker Room will guarantee a prize fund of €750.

Points system:

1st - 27 pts 6th - 22 pts 11th - 17 pts 16th - 12 pts 21st - 7 pts 26th - 2 pts
2nd - 26 pts 7th - 21 pts 12th - 16 pts 17th - 11 pts 22nd - 6 pts 27th - 1 pt
3rd - 25 pts 8th - 20 pts 13th - 15 pts 18th - 10 pts 23rd - 5 pts
4th - 24 pts 9th - 19 pts 14th - 14 pts 19th - 9 pts 24th - 4 pts
5th - 23 pts 10th - 18 pts 15th - 13 pts 20th - 8 pts 25th - 3 pts

Top 5 at the end of 9 weeks will get paid:

1st €300
2nd €200
3rd €125
4th €75
5th €50

* - if after 9 weeks people in the money on equal points the winning prize will be split equally

SPRING Wednesday's league:
(after 1st week)

1. Colm Martin 27 pts
2. Derek Verhoeven 26 pts
3. Simon Kearns 25 pts
4. Ian Gannon 24 pts
5. Roger Shealy Jr 23 pts
6. John McDermott 22 pts
7. Gerry Ring 21 pts
8. Stephen Martin 20 pts
9. Liviu Runcan 19 pts
10. Bogdan Tupu 18 pts
11. Nicholas McCoy 17 pts
12. Andrius Ribaciauskas 16 pts
13. Frank Collier 15 pts
14. Ioan Gherghel 14 pts
15. Stephen Ryan 13 pts

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Wicklow County GAA

JUST A QUICK REMINDER FOR NEXT FRIDAY!

The Wicklow Co GAA Poker Classic in Lynhams of Laragh on Friday 21st March. A guaranteed prize pool of €2000! This can increase depending on the numbers. The last time this was ran it had apporx 80/90 players with cash tables also running.

I will put up a full description of the buy ins/stacks etc buy the end of the week!

Tuesday Night Poker

Jacobs well Rathdrum have their usual game. Each week they alternate between 2 games. 1 game is a €50 freezeout. starting stack is 62k (you are reading this correctly), blinds are 15/20 mins. no money kept behind all is paid out in prizefunds. starts at 9.00 and can run for a while with a stack this big!!

Their 2nd game is €30, with a €10 rebuy only for the first 3 levels. starting stack is not as big, i believe its around the 20k mark, and blinds are as above 15/20 mins.

Pot Limit cash game also runs when enough players are knocked out of the game.

Finally there is an online satellite tonight to one of Star Bray's bigger games on Irish Eyes poker. Go to WWW.STARLEISURE.IE and go to the Poker room section and here you will find step by step instructions to register/enter

Monday, March 10, 2014

Monday Night Poker

Only the 1 game tonight folks and its a new game in Star Poker Bray, details as below.

Freeze-Out Tournament
Starting at 8.00 pm.....Late reg up to 9.30 pm.....
Starting stack of 10,000 chips
15 minute clock
Buy in €15 + €5 reg fee

MONDAY “MARCH” POKER

TOURNAMENT LEAGUE

For 5 weeks Star Leisure Poker Room will run a Monday Tournament League from 3rd March up to the 31st March. Over These 5 nights players will receive points according to what position they finish in. The 3 players with the most points will receive a cash prize on Monday 3rd of March.

The league prize pool will be created by taking €1 from each player’s entry fee every tournament and Star Leisure Poker Room will donate another €1 per person each tournament to double the prize pool.

Points system:

1st - 18 pts 6th - 13 pts 11th - 8 pts 16th - 3 pts

2nd - 17 pts 7th - 12 pts 12th - 7 pts 17th - 2 pts

3rd - 16 pts 8th - 11 pts 13th - 6 pts 18th - 1 pt

4th - 15 pts 9th - 10 pts 14th - 5 pts

5th - 14 pts 10th - 9 pts 15th - 4 pts

* - if after 5 weeks people in the money on equal points the winning prize will be split equally

Tonight is week 2 of the New league

MARCH Monday's league:
(after 1st week)

1. David Hickey 18 pts
2. Philip Carroll 17 pts
3. John Doyle 16 pts
4. Paul Hickey 15 pts
5. Paddy Scanlon 14 pts
6. Ciaran McGrath 13 pts
7. Bogdan Tupu 12 pts
8. Reggie Corrigan 11 pts
9. Paddy Maher 10 pts
10. Voisin Herbert 9 pts
11. Keith Clucas 8 pts
12. Stephen Balfe 7 pts
13. Ronnie Ireland 6 pts
14. Cian Ryan 5 pts
15. Alex Pavlov 4 pts
16. Ronan Murtagh 3 pts
17. Jacob Bobro 2 pts

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Sunday Poker

StarPoker Bray, Kicks off at 8.00pm and you can register up to the end of the break at 9.30pm. Buy in is €20 (15 plus 5 reg). 10k starting stack and a 15 minute clock. Refreshments served throughout and sambos served on the break.

Cash Tables available when enough players are around to start. blinds are 25/50c, 10% rake once a flop is seen and capped at €3 per pot. I think the minimum you can buy onto cash for is €25 and the maximum has been increased to €300.