Saturday night Texas Holdem tournaments will adopt a standard format as detailed here. All tournaments will be £20 no limit contests with 1500 starting chips, unlimited £20 rebuys in the first 90 minutes and one optional add-on at the end of 90 minutes. The first £20 entry will be payable to Michael when registering for the backgammon. It should be noted that only players who register at this time will be entered into the poker - late entries not allowed. All the entry, rebuy and add-ons will be returned in prizes.
NB: Blinds updated 3 May, 2008
The blinds will start at 25/50 and rise to 50/100 after 30 minutes and 100/200 after a second 30 minutes, until the freeze-out. Thereafter the blinds will increase every 20 minutes according to the following schedule:
| 150/300 |
200/400 |
300/600 |
500/1000 |
700/1500 |
1000/2000 |
| 1500/3000 |
2000/4000 |
3000/6000 |
5000/10000 |
7500/15000 |
10000/20000 |
| 15000/30000 |
20000/40000 |
30000/60000 |
50000/100000 |
75000/150000 |
100000/200000 |
and onward in proportion if required.
10% of the prize fund at each tournament will be held back to fund cash prizes for the top three Grand Prix performers at the end of the year. The remainder will be divided as follows (if there are fewer than 30 players):
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If there are 30 players or more the split will be . . . |
1st |
40% |
2nd |
25% |
3rd |
20% |
4th |
10% |
5th |
5% |
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Pos.
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Points |
16th
15th
14th
13th
12th
11th
10th
9th
8th
7th
6th
5th
4th
3rd
2nd
1st |
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
12 (+3)
14 (+4)
16 (+5)
18 (+6)
20 (+7)
22 (+8)
24 (+9)
26 (+10) |
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The poker grand prix is to function as the backgammon grand prix inasmuch as the leader after the November event will be the Poker Grand Prix Champion and the prize money accrued over the year will be paid out according to the listing to the Top Five placed players thus: 1st 40%, 2nd 25%, 3rd 20%, 4th 10% and 5th 5%. To encourage (and reward) regular entry the qualifying minimum number of events needed to qualify for a Top Five place will be five (out of a possible 11). Once a player reaches five entries they can replace lower scores with higher ones.
Players making the final 8 will get bonus points of 3 to 10 for position 8th to 1st. Thus in a 16-player tourney the last-placed person scores 1 point, second to last 2 points, third to last 3 points and so on until we reach 8th place where the bonus kicks in and 8th place gets 12 points and 9th 8 points. It is recognised that making the 'final' table is an achievement and is therefore rewarded by the new points allocation.
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Standings following the County Cups
NB: To qualify for the payout, players must enter a minimum of 5 events.
If a player enters more than 5, then the GP points will be their 5 highest points total.
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Poker Grand Prix @ 4 May 2008
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Fund = £474 |
GP |
Player |
Events |
£189.60
£118.50
£94.80
£47.40
£23.70 |
71
64
84
62
28
66
60
50
31
22
48
46
37
28
24
22
42
40
34
32
28
26
24
23
22
21
20
19
17
14
14
13
13
12
12
12
11
10
7
7
6
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
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Tony Fawcett
Myke Wignall
Paul Gilbertson
Vicky Pemberton
Rosey Bensley
Paul Watts
Lawrence Powell
Crispin Duke
Stewart Pemberton
Mick Vacarey
Ann Pocknell
Kevin Stebbing
Roy Hollands
Jerry Limb
Rida Hassan
Nigel Merrigan
Steve Hallett
Jon Sharp
Felix Vink
Philip Vischjager
Paul Learmount
John Batty
Alison Lee
John Spraque
Tony Lee
Dave Moon
Blaine Buchanan
Mark Dixon
Carter Mattig
Cecilia Sparke
Mo Vafaei
David McNamara
Jacky Hamilton
Daniel Tutchings
Ralph Eskinazi
Stephen Drake
Robert Tutchings
Ray Fard
Marc Turner
Steve Pettit
Neil Young
Andreas Vrhosek
Max Limb
Eamon Keogh
Gaz Owen
Michael Benett
John Hurst
Mick Butterfield
Andy Bell
Costas Costi
Phil Tutchings
Andy Darby
Larry Bennett |
Q
Q
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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