BoylePoker.com International Poker Open 2008

Dunno if there are any poker players here, but thought I'd post this up for anyone who doesn't know about it. Played it last year, and sounds 10 times better this year. Fantastic value for an amateur to get that "big tournie" buzz

BoylePoker link - clicky!

Boards thread - clicky!

Anyone from here already reg'd / going?

 

cant get into that site in work. whats the date place and reg fee???

 

Blurb from boards:

"BoylePoker.com International Poker Open 2008
17th/18th/19th October

Location; The BoylePoker.com International Poker Open 2008 will take place in the Regency Airport Hotel, Swords Road, Dublin 9 from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th of October 2008.

Players must register online through www.boylepoker.com/ipo before midday on Thursday 16th October in order to take part. (the website will be up and running by tomorrow morning 9th July but registration opens from 2pm today on BoylePoker.com so you can be one of the first to register).

We are expecting over 1,200 players to attend. 600 players will take part on Day 1A (Friday 17th October) and 600 more will compete on Day 1B (Saturday 18th October). Approximately 200 players will return for play on Day 2 (Sunday 19th October) and an International Champion will be decided before the night is out.

Entry; costs €150 (€135 + €15 registration fee)."

 

You should mate. I played it last year and really enjoyed it. I don't play as much as I'd like to these days (with recently buying a house / upcoming wedding) but I won't miss this.

For €150, and what's more a €15 reg, you won't find anything of this level of organisation for the money imho.

Great buzz all in all - love to see a pool fan win it

 

Taken from pokerireland.ie. Actually just looked at this now and think last year the levels were 1 hour. Now they're 40 minutes. That said you're talking a starting stack of 10k, so there should be a good bit of play.

Last year it started at 12pm and I lasted until 7.30pm. I wasn't dealt a premium pair once in that period of time (got JJ's once, a pair of 99's my highest other pair, AKo twice and AQ/AJ a few times). I didn't sit there though and wait to be blinded off. So I got reasonable value for my buyin (regarding amount of play).

Given the decrease of 20 minutes in level times it'll be interesting to see the differences.

Blind Structure and Timings for the BoylePoker.com International Poker Open 2008
10,000 starting chips:

Structure and schedule for Friday 17th Oct (Day 1A)
Time Blinds Dinner Break + Race Off
16:00-16:40 Level 1; 25-50
16:40-17:20 Level 2; 50-100
17:20-18:00 Level 3; 75-150
18:00-18:40 Level 4; 100-200
18:40-19:00 (Break 20 mins)

19:00-19:40 Level 5; 150-300 Group A (Staggered Dinner Break)
19:40-20:20 Level 6; 200-400 Group B Race off 25’s
20:20-21:00 Level 7; 300-600 Group C
21:00-21:40 Level 8; 400-800 Group D
21:40-22:00 (Break 20 mins)

22:00-22:40 Level 9; 500-1,000
22:40-23:00 Level 9; 500-1,000
23:00-23:40 Level 10; 600-1,200
23:40-00:00 Level 11; 800-1,500
00:00-00:20 (Break 20 mins)

00:20-01:00 Level 12; 1,000-2,000
01:00-01:40 Level 13; 1,200-2,400
01:40-02:20 Level 14; 1,500-3,000 Race off 100’s
02:20-03:00 Level 15; 2,000-4,000

Blind structure and schedule for Saturday 18th Oct (Day 1B)
Time Blinds Dinner Break + Race Off
14:00-14:40 Level 1; 25-50
14:00-15:20 Level 2; 50-100
15:20-16:00 Level 3; 75-150
16:00-16:40 Level 4; 100-200
16:40-17:00 (Break 20 mins)
17:00-17:40 Level 5; 150-300
17:40-18:20 Level 6; 200-400 Race off 25’s - Staggered Dinner Break
18:20-19:00 Level 7; 300-600 Group A
19:00-19:40 Level 8; 400-800 Group B
19:40-20:00 (Break 20 mins)
20:00-20:40 Level 9; 500-1,000 Group C
20:40-21:00 Level 9; 500-1,000 Group D
21:00-21:40 Level 10; 600-1,200
21:40-22:00 Level 11; 800-1,500
22:00-22:20 (Break 20 mins)
22:20-23:00 Level 12; 1,000-2,000
23:00-23:40 Level 13; 1,200-2,400
23:40-00:20 Level 14; 1,500-3,000 Race off 100’s
00:20-01:00 Level 15; 2,000-4,000

Blind structure and schedule for Sunday 19th Oct (Day 2)
Time Blinds
13:00-13:40 Level 16; 2,500-5,000
13:40-14:20 Level 17; 3,000-6,000
14:20-15:00 Level 18; 4,000-8,000
15:00-15:40 Level 19; 5,000-10,000
15:40-16:00 (Break 20 mins)
16:00-16:40 Level 20; 6,000-12,000
16:40-17:20 Level 21; 8,000-15,000
17:20-18:00 Level 22; 10,000-20,000
18:00-18:40 Level 23; 12,000-24,000
18:40-19:20 (Break 40 mins) - Dinner
19:20-20:00 Level 24; 15,000-30,000
20:00-20:40 Level 25; 18,000-35,000
20:40-21:20 Level 26; 20,000-40,000
21:20-22:00 Level 27; 25,000-50,000
22:00-22:20 (Break 20 mins)
22:20-23:00 Level 28; 30,000-60,000
23:00-23:40 Level 29; 40,000-80,000
23:40-00:20 Level 30; 50,000-100,000
00:20-01;00 Level 31; 60,000-120,000
01:00-1:40 Level 32; 80,000-150,000
01:40-02:20 Level 33; 100,000-200,000
02:20-03:00 Level 34; 120,000-240,000
03:00-03:40 Level 35; 150,000-300,000

 

Last year they suffered from inexperience, and so two areas were poor:

1). Dealers. A lot of them were trained for a cpl of hours and thrown into the deep end. Some dealers were slow or couldn't count. Apparently at one table a dealer would call clock on a guy if he was taking too long (lol ).

2). They suffered as well from having too many people on day one. It was over 1050 people they were trying to accomodate, and so the room was packed with tables on top of each other in places, and some tables had to self deal early on as they simply couldn't get dealers.

This year both those problems should be solved with the promise of professional dealers, and also the first day split into two days of 600 fields.

Should be good.

 

Sorry for the late reply Dub13, was at Electric Picnic.

Yup, I registered early - in July. I wanted to make sure I'd play

 

Yup, I did Dub13 as above. Sounds like I'm the only one from here

Shame you didn't get in there. Would be nice to meet a few irishkop folk at it.

Can't wait now. 2 weeks to go