Wicklow Poker Scene: 2014-04-13

Friday, April 18, 2014

Friday Night Poker

Its Friday.....

Action as follows:

Doyles Rathnew, There is no game here tonight as its Good Friday. There is a game in Rathnew Soccer Club at 8pm. Buy in is €20, with unlimited €10 rebuys. Thats about as much as i know on this game.

The Kennedy inn, Newtown. There is no game here tonight.

Star Poker Bray, have their €25 (20 plus 5 reg) double chance tournie. Bust or be knocked out before the end of the first break at 9.30pm and you can rebuy for a further €25. Starts at 8.00pm and you can late reg up to 9.30pm. Starting stack of 10k, 15 min blinds and lately having been getting 60/70 runners with a very decent prizepool. Refreshments available throughout and hot food served at the break.

Cash tables run until late and usually have 2 going. 25/50c blinds. 10% rake once a flop is seen, capped at €3 per pot, again the 2 cash tables usually fill up fairly fast.

Also if you didnt already know, Easter Weekend see the start of the Irish Open. The main event is €2200 but there is also a mini main event for €225 which would be good value.

Have a good weekend and good luck at the tables.

Thursday, April 17, 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.

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, all money taken in paid out on the night. €20 buy in with 2 €10 top ups/rebuys. 1000 early bird chip if your in your seat by the start and 500 if you confirm by text. Best hand before the break also gets €20.

Whistlers have donated €500 to the final night. Tonight is week 4 of the current league. The Buy in for the final night will be €25 for 6k chips with 1 top up/rebuy for €15 and another 6k in chips. Any player that plays (Minimum of 4 weeks need to be played out of 8 to qualify) will receive 1500 chips per week to add to their stack for the league final night.

Star Poker Bray Wednesday Night Results & updated league table

16.04.2014 (Wednesday)
€20 League Freeze-Out
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 1:30 am
Players: 66
Prize Pool: €924

1. Victor Antoci €370
2. Simon Kearns €222
3. Ben Walsh €129
4. Eddie Ho €92
5. Matthew Flanagan €60
6. Willy Dalton €51

League table after 7 weeks:

1. Victor Antoci 86 pts
2. Andrius Ribaciauskas 80 pts
3. Simon Kearns 77 pts
4. Eddie Ho 76 pts
5. Mick O'Neill 73 pts
6. Adam Maguire 70 pts
Thomas Ward 70 pts
8. Derek Verhoeven 63 pts
Tadas Galkus 63 pts
10. Niall Vaughan 55 pts
11. Bogdan Tupu 54 pts
12. Ger Cleary 53 pts
13. Dan Neculaescu 52 pts
14. Nicholas McCoy 51 pts
15. Paul Scanlon 50 pts

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

SCENARIOS (PARTICIPATION REQUIRED)

This is something im trying out and need some participation off all players/readers of this blog. Im going to list 3 scenarios/Situations and need a response to each. You can comment here or email me the comments. I have asked 2 pro players their outlook on the same scenarios and will post their replies next week to show how they think. It will be interesting to see how players think.

Question 1.

Can you tell me how you would have played this hand! UTG pushes for €18k, blinds are 1500/3000. UTG had pushed 3 hands before and shown a high ace. Utg plus 1 folds and Utg plus 2 tanks for ages, with 5 still to act and eventually pushes. He pushed with ace queen. Few factors here, the guy pushing is going in with nothing less than a pair, and ace jack and above. We are 3/4 off the money as well. What would you do in this spot?

Question 2.

Holding ace king should you always raise? Ie if there is a raise before you act should you reraise. Yes/no and why?

Question 3.

Finally holding suited connectors should you raise? Or should you call a raise and if so up to how much? How do you play suited connectors?

This is nothing 2 serious but every player has a different way of thinking. This is something to show how each player thinks and like i said ill post all answers and then post the 2 Pro's answers to show you how they evaluate the above. If anything it may help you tighten up certain aspects of your game.

Thanks.

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 7 of the Spring League

WEDNESDAY “SPRING” POKER

TOURNAMENT LEAGUE

For 9 weeks Star Leisure Poker Room will run a Wednesday Tournament League from 5th March up to 30th of April. 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 7th May.

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

League table after 6 weeks:

1. Andrius Ribaciauskas 80 pts
2. Mick O'Neill 73 pts
3. Adam Maguire 70 pts
4. Tadas Galkus 63 pts
5. Victor Antoci 59 pts
6. Thomas Ward 56 pts
7. Bogdan Tupu 54 pts
8. Dan Neculaescu 52 pts
Eddie Ho 52 pts
10. Nicholas McCoy 51 pts
Simon Kearns 51 pts
12. Philip Carroll 49 pts
13. Colm Martin 48 pts
14. Derek Verhoeven 46 pts
15. Ger Cleary 44 pts
Sean Popplewell 44 pts
17. Adrian Connick 43 pts
Joe Baker 43 pts
19. Niall Vaughan 42 pts
Ronnie Ireland 42 pts

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

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!! This game usually gets 2 tables. Also one point to note is, i have played this game and sometimes in different places, they have different rules and this is one such place. Nothing major, just in relation to raising/blinds etc! otherwise a good game with some very nice people.

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 to Star Poker Bray's €220 game in May on Irish Eyes poker & free entry online tournament with 2 €25 tickets guaranteed to any live event in Star 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, April 14, 2014

Monday Night Poker

Only the 1 game tonight folks and its on 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 “APRIL” POKER Tonight is week 2 of the current league

TOURNAMENT LEAGUE

For 5 weeks Star Leisure Poker Room will run a Monday Tournament League from 7th April to 28th April. Over These 4 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

League Table after week 1:

1. Paddy Maher 18 pts
2. Daniel Mihalla 17 pts
3. Paul Doyle 16 pts
4. Ger Cleary 15 pts
5. Gerry Ring 14 pts
6. Paul Hickey 13 pts
7. Joe Masterson 12 pts
8. Barry McGovern 11 pts
9. Niall Carvill 10 pts
10. Thomas Bacon 9 pts
11. James Dwyer 8 pts
12. Paul Scanlon 7 pts
13. Ciaran McGrath 6 pts
14. Guillermo Gomarez 5 pts
15. Keith Clucas 4 pts
16. Philip McCormack 3 pts
17. David Harris 2 pts
18. Colm Martin 1 pts