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Poker Room => Tournaments => Topic started by: Admin on February 20, 2008, 09:22:12 AM
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Congratulations to Conrad David Granath
2008 Arizona State Poker Champion !
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Prize: $217,000, trophy and ring
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Casino Arizona presents the 4th Annual
Arizona State Poker Championship
No Limit Texas Hold-EM Tournament
9:00 AM Saturday - August 16th , 17th, 18th, 2008
$50,000.00 Added
$650,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool (based on 600 entries)
Sign-Ups and satellites begin May 1st 2008 at 12 P.M
$1000.00 Buy-in + $50.00 Fee
Players can sign -up at the box office by calling 480-850-7734
300 players 9:00.am. August 16th play down to 30
300 players 9:00.am. August 17th play down to 30
60 Players 11:00a.m. August 18th for Championship
Tournament Prize Money ( based on sellout of 600 entries)
1ST 193,500.00 +Championship Ring & Trophy
2nd - $96,000 & Trophy
3rd - $54,000 & Trophy
4th $42,000
5th $31,000
6th $22,000
7th $16,000
8th $12,000
9th $9,000
10th $8,000
11th thru 75th $6,000.00
16th thru 20th $4500.00
21st thru 30th $3500.00
31st thru 40th $3000.00
41st thru 50th $2600.00
51st thru 60th $2300.00
$10,000 Tournament chips
No-Limit Tournament structure as listed below:
ANTE BLINDS TIME
25-50 30 MINS
50-100 30 MINS
100-200 30 MINS
25 100-200 30 MINS
BREAK 15 MINS
25 200-400 45 MINS
25 300 -600 45 MINS
50 400 -800 45 MINS
BREAK 15 MINS
50 600-1200 45 MINS
75 800-1500 45 MINS
75 1000-2000 45 MINS
BREAK 15 MINS
100 1500-3000 45 MINS
100 2000-4000 45 MINS
200 3000-6000 45 MINS
BREAK 15mins
200 4000 - 8000 45 MINS
300 5000-10,000 45 MINS
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WIN a $1,050 seat to the 2008 Casino Arizona State Championship
Play the following No-Limit Hold-E/M Tournaments. (Limited 100 entries)
March 2,16
April 6, 20
May 4,18, 25
June 8, 22
July 6
10:00 A.M.
Entry $105 - Service Fee $20
Sign ups start Monday 12:00 P.M. Prior to each tournament.
Prizes: For every 10 paid entrys, one $1050 entry to the State Championship Will be awarded (NO CASH). A maximum of 10 per tournament.
If an odd number of players sign up, we will award the most seats possible, With the remainder of the money awarded to the players who reach the final table and do not receive a seat.
$4000.00 Tournament Chips
No-Limit
20 mins 25/50
20 mins 50/100
20 mins 100/200
20 mins 150/300
20 mins 200/400
Break 12 minutes
30 mins 300/600
30 mins 500/1000
30 mins 700/1500
break 12 minutes
30 mins 1000/2000
30 mins 1500/3000
break 10 minutes
30 mins 2000/4000
30 mins 3000/6000
30 mins 5000/10000
Blinds Double
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Yes yes yes!!!! A much better prize distribution, much better then the top heavy prize they had last year just so they could advertise a quarter of a million to first place. I will be in it for sure!
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Ugh, but I just looked at how they are handling having two starting days, and I think I will have to talk to them about it, because that is just wrong. They can't play exactly to the money bubble, because what if day 1 lasts an hour longer than day 2. Theoretically the player who got 31st on day 1 actually outlasted everyone on day 2 because they still have an hour to make up.
And also what happens if Day 1 gets 250 people but Day 2 gets 300 people...totally not fair to people on Day 2 with that example.
They need to play down to about 50 people on Day 1 and then mark that time on the tourney clock and play the exact same amount of time on Day 2, YOU CANT REACH THE MONEY BUBBLE IN A TOURNEY WHEN EVERYONE ISN"T IN THE SAME BUILDING YET....I will be having a word with Kent on this (probably this weekend).
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I spoke with Kent a week ago, and he said only Dave could change it, he had no say in it, and he said he agreed with me, for whatever that is worth, probably said that so I would go back to my seat and continue playing and stop bothering him...
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There certainly is a much better payout structure than last year. I agree with your point about ending day 1s at the same time. Anyway, I haven't decided whether I will play in some satellites or just buy-in this year.
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Man, I just did one of the $110 satellites for this. I got lucky a couple times and managed to get down to heads up. She had me covered about 2-1 when it started. Honestly, I've probably played over 1000 heads up matches (most online) and I think she might be the worst player I've played against. With huge blinds (700/1500) she seemed to be waiting for a monster before committing any chips. I managed to get up to about a 2-1 advantage and eventually she got a couple monsters to double up then put me out. Very frustrating but judging from the general caliber of player I might try another next weekend.
She was such a bad player in general...earlier I had gone all-in UTG for 950. She was on the BB(600) and folded to my raise after everyone else folded. How can you fold any hand in that spot getting 6-1? It's not like my all-in means I've got anything since I'm committed to play one of the next 2 hands...ah, whatever, I'm going to sleep...
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Are entries to the championship transferable?
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Are entries to the championship transferable?
i'm pretty sure they are. i played in 2006 and my entry had someone else's name. they did not care.
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Does anyone know if there are still seats available? Last year they sold out pretty early. Also, are there still satellites going on? I definitely want to play again this year. I thought the blind structure was really good last year (far better than the WSOP and caesar's megastack debacles I recently experienced). Now that the payout is flatter, it seems like a great value.
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Well, I'm in. I hope they stop the clock at the same point for the first two days. I guess it doesn't matter since I'll probably win it either way.
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Well, I'm in. I hope they stop the clock at the same point for the first two days. I guess it doesn't matter since I'll probably win it either way.
That was my major quibble with the way it is laid out. If they play down to exactly 30 each day, there is no way they will be on the same level. You can't bust a bubble in a multi starting day tournament when the whole tourney isn't playing at the same time, that is just theoretically horrible. I spoke with both people who would have control over this, and they said, too bad.
The best solution is: You can play down to 50ish on Day 1a, and barring some unforseen catastrophe where all of Day 1b wants to go all in every hand, you will play the same amount of time on Day 1b, and rejoin the fields on Day 2 and burst the bubble then.
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I mean, how fair is it that the bubble bursts instantly in one day, and then I, on a semi-short stack, get blinded to the ground while trying to squeek into the money, and we end up playing for 50 extra minutes. Now they all saved all those blinds that I unfairly had to play, and vice versa, if I was a big stack in Day 1a, and all of a sudden my stack is smaller because Day 1b big stacks got more time to abuse the bubble, and at a higher blind level.
Nothing good can come from ending it this way, makes it almost like a shoot-out. The only way they could make ending at 30 people each day fair is if all 60 people come back the next day and start with equal stakes, making day 1 basically a shoot-out/satellite.
As you can see, I have very strong feelings on this, that no one else (specifically Dave and Kent) seem to care about.
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I completely agree with you. By playing down to the same number of players each day, you avoid the problem of bursting the bubble that day but give a major advantage to one of the days. I definitely think that playing down to some set number on day 1A and then having day 1B play to whatever that point is on the clock makes sense. I'll also complain to Dave and some of the other tournament players. Hopefully if enough people bring it up they'll change it. If not, hopefully enough people complain the actual day of the tournament that they will when people realize the problem.
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Has anyone played the $125 satellites? If so what was it like? I'm most likely playing the last one on Sunday.
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Well I played the satellite yesterday. 153 people entered, 15 got tickets, 16-18 got their money back. I was able to squeeze in to the top 15! :smiley: Pretty excited. I thought I played quite well and then when blinds were getting big with 40 people left, I was forced to go all in when I was BB. I got ridiculously lucky and tripled up. Went on a rush of cards and got enough chips to basically sit around waiting for all short-stacks to bust. Overall the play was pretty bad - definitely some good players but wow there were some terrible plays. For ex:
Guy is on the button with about 6,300 in chips. Blinds are at 500-1000 and he raises to 4000. BB pushes, Button folds. There are about 30 people left I think.
Blinds go up to 700-1500 and the same guy is in the BB. Someone raises to 4500 and the BB FOLDS!!! He leaves himself 800 in chips. I was surprised he called the extra 100 from the SB :laugh:
Really looking forward to August 16th!
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Congrats man
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How many seats have been sold for the championship?
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On Saturday they had around 160 signed up.
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Thanks CrazyLond!
I'm sure it will start selling quickly closer to the time but that's a little worrying. Hopefully it will sell out.
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They are not staggering the seat assignments at sign up.
They are filling up tables as they go.
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So does that mean my starting table will consist mostly of those people I satellited in with? I'd be pretty happy if that's the case!
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That is another horrible decision they are making. They run their tourneys very unprofessionally. I could do a much better job with my education, poker knowledge, and love for the game. I have had passing thoughts about turning it into a career, but unless I become like Matt Savage, it can't pay much better than what I am already making at an entry level position.
I accidently planned a Vegas trip the same weekend as this tourney, so I guess now I have a good excuse for blowing this tourney off.
I mean, come on. So you and 2 of your buddies decide to enter this tourney together, and enter early on and get one of the first tables that won't break until the final day, lots of good collusion possibilities there. They better redraw seating for the final day, or now they are just looking downright stupid. Learn how to run a professional tourney.
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Now that you mention it, that really is a stupid idea and should be pointed out to the TD (especially the collusion aspect). It's only good for me personally in one sense...I will have played with many of the people at my starting table for hours so I have a good idea of what I'm up against.
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Any updates on number of seats sold so far? Any changes to the tournament structure?
Thanks
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Any updates on number of seats sold so far? Any changes to the tournament structure?
Thanks
I'm also interested...with 2 weeks left it should start selling much faster.
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Are they still offering Satellites for this? Any seats still available? I've been out of state for a month and I'm interested in playing it. If not FullTilt's main event is that sunday and it's only $500...
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Are they still offering Satellites for this? Any seats still available? I've been out of state for a month and I'm interested in playing it. If not FullTilt's main event is that sunday and it's only $500...
Definitely seats available and I believe they're still offering $105+5 sitngos anytime 10 people sign up.
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As of today, a little over 300 people are in.
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I'm a little surprised...last year they sold out the 450 long in advance. I think they will still probably fill up at 600.
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If they only sell 599, its cause I will be in Vegas!
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They announced there were 50 seats left at 7 pm on Tuesday...
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Most likely sold out soon... 3 entries left at 2:30 a.m. Thursday and they were putting together a list for a shootout.
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I am off to Vegas tonight, won't be back until Sunday afternoon.
Good luck to anyone who is playing!!! I will try to stop in Monday night after work to catch the end of it.
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I'm playing on Saturday, table 26, seat 4. Hopefully I'll still be around so you can sweat me on Monday :grin:
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Any updates? How long it may take to play down to 30 today?
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Well, I made it through day 1. We played down to 45; tomorrow they will play to the same point on the clock which is about halfway through level 12, 2000/4000/100. I'm below average in chips with about 47K but at least I have enough to give me a fighting chance. GL to whoever's playing tomorrow. I'll be there for day 2 at 11am Monday. They actually sold extra seats so that we started with 320 players or something today and probably the same tomorrow. Now they are saying 70 places will be paid.
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Oh, and they gave $500 to the first person eliminated and something like $250 to the 2nd person. WTH is that all about? If anything, they could give something to the bubble or next to bubble. There are going to be 20 or so players who made it through day 1 and still lose a buy-in while the guy who lasted 10 mins only loses half a buyin...something seems screwy here.
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yeah that $500 to first bust out doenst make sense. good luck on monday!
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Got knocked out around level 7. Just couldn't get anything going. :sad:
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I really hope I am able to cash tomorrow. I am going through a heck of a drought in tourneys and cashing in this would surely help. I haven't cashed in about my last 20 tournaments going back to the WSOP event in June. I've bubbled and 2nd to bubbled 2 of the last 3. I went through a streak last year where I got within 5 spots of the bubble in 4 out of 5 tournaments and am posting because hopefully by naming my fear, I can defeat it. I think I am going to tighten up my play compared to how it usually is near the bubble since a 2K difference is more significant to me than a usual bubble. Getting over the psychological hump I'm experiencing at the moment would be very beneficial for me. Obv the 200k+ first place would be beneficial also but I'm willing to give up some equity in that to give myself a better chance of at least making the money.
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Hey I heard a player got ejected for getting caught playing again on Sunday after getting knocked out on Saturday...
Any details?
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Haha, that's pretty funny. We were specifically told about that rule at the beginning of play on Saturday. Does anyone know how many players from Sunday's group were still in it at the end of the day?
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I wonder who it was...Its amazing what people think they should be able to get away with.
Not sure how many players were left, i heard a starting figure of 92 or 94 players for Monday, they stopped at the same level as when they stopped on Saturday.
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I am really happy to see they changed the way the tournament played. Don't know how it happened, but I would like to think some of my posts and complaining at the casino had something to do with it. That is the proper way to run the tournament. Good luck everyone who is in it tonight!
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I'm out. I got AA and QQ early, raised and got no callers. This just kept me even with the blinds for a couple orbits but then as we approached the bubble I didn't get any hand better than K8 and got blinded out for a while. I ended up finishing 64th, good for $2254. Funny to think that's better than 11th place got last year.
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I'm out. I got AA and QQ early, raised and got no callers. This just kept me even with the blinds for a couple orbits but then as we approached the bubble I didn't get any hand better than K8 and got blinded out for a while. I ended up finishing 64th, good for $2254. Funny to think that's better than 11th place got last year.
Congrats on the cash, I know you needed it! How does the remaining field look? Lots of high limit players, or tourney regulars, or no names?
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Thanks man, it was a huge confidence boost for me and the money wasn't bad either. I didn't really look around at the other tables too much but I did notice quite a few tourney regs still in it. Other than that, it seemed people I didn't recognize. However, I wouldn't recognize some of the high limit players since I don't usually play with them.
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At 4:45 there were 18 left, also heard the guy that got the boot was a 10-150 player named Adam...
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As posted on the tourney board...
Winner : Conrad Granath 219,554.00
2nd place William Bright 109,050.00
3rd place Mark Hurlman 65,430.00
4th place Tom Weisner 42,166.00
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Thanks, I haven't made it into the room yet, and I have no clue who won, so thanks. None of those names look familiar, but here I come google!
Here is a results page as well...http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result20381.htm
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Tom Weisner is a tournament regular at CAZ who was at my table when I busted. Someone said Mark Hurlman is internet player Quasifiction (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=273227&page=2) who is a SNG stud on pokerstars.
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From the Casino Arizona website:
Conrad David Granath Arizona State Champion
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Prize: $217,000, trophy and ring
William Bright Second Place
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Prize: $109,000 and trophy
Mark Hirleman Third Place
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Prize: $65,430 and trophy
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I heard as well that there was a 3 MILLION dollar all in bluff by William, David called and that was it....
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Was looking to see results of this tourney and found this cool website! It taken me 3 days to get over being knocked out. Finished in the 40's for $3053. Took a few tough beats had around 300k with around 60 people left. I've been around long enough to keep the bad beat stories to myself though!
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Welcome to the forum. That's pretty rough but congrats on the cash anyway.