Heartland Poker Tour Upcoming Events & they're coming 2 Denver area 2!

[The Bus Driver]

Cincy, please quit spamming the boards with your excuses for why you can't win in Black Hawk. It's not because you're too good.

[JohnnyJoe]

What's the word on the SnGs? are they soft? weekend play softer than weekday? buy straight into the 340 qualifier?

anyone qualified yet?

[CincyLady]

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Cincy, please quit spamming the boards with your excuses for why you can't win in Black Hawk. It's not because you're too good.

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First of all, I'm not 'spamming the boards' about it, and when asked here, or elsewhere, all I've simply said (in effect) is that it (Bingo/Lotto/No fold 'em Hold 'em Poker aka play any two cards to at least the flop no matter what) is just not my type of poker.

Just because others are good at this type of poker (IE: Low limit), doesn't mean I am, and I have never claimed to be either.

I could most likely get a handle on it, if I lived closer and could play more, but I'm just not willing to drive 2 hrs round trip to play in a game I don't find at the very least, fun to play at, even if I lost my money.

In other words, I'm not trying to make any excuses here, I've only said I don't like this kind of poker, and I doubt I ever will.

At the very least, even if I'm losing money, I'd like to have fun doing so, and for my money to last longer than if I was go go over and play the slots, and in Blackhawk, that's just not the case for me, so I simply choose not to play in the cash games.

As for the tournaments, well, again, I could master them better if I spent more time playing them, but again, the distance factor comes into play again.

If there were cash games I'd enjoy playing in afterwords, I'd make the effort (aka the drive) on a regular basis, but as it stands now, I simply don't see the motification for it (at least for me).

You have a right to your views, at least afford the same courtesy for me to have mine.

[CincyLady]

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What's the word on the SnGs? are they soft? weekend play softer than weekday? buy straight into the 340 qualifier?

anyone qualified yet?

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It depends. If you are good at Sit and goes, with fast rising blinds and lower chip starting stacks, then by all means buy into the lower amounts. If you do better with a larger starting stack, and slower blinds, I'd recommend you buy directly into the $340 qualifiers.

For me, I do better in the latter, but I did go up there on Monday Night, and the place was packed.

I had some friends up there as well, who are much better at sit and goes than I am, and are much better at blackhawk (style) of poker, than I am.

They tried both the $40 and $75 sit and goes, and said the $75 was much better, because the players didn't get crazy like they did in the $40 ones.

With the $40 ones (which awards 1 seat), you also only have a 1 in 10 chance of winning, but with the $75 ones (which awards 2 seats), you have a 1 in 5 chance of winning a seat.

You also get more chips in the $75 one, and you save 5 bucks over 2 $40 events.

I found that you can also be a tad more patient in the $75 ones (I tried just one $40 one) over the $40 ones.

As for me, I did okay in the 1st $75 (but still didn't win a seat, finished like 4th or 5th), but for the 2nd one I tried, Donkella showed up instead (not good for me). The $40 one I tried, was an all in fest (by the others at my table) from the get go, and I didn't do well at all in that one because of that.

Overall, being as this is the first time they are running this type of event, I was impressed by the staff of the room, as they seemed to be doing a good job of running the sit and goes.

Average wait for the $75 ones was about 20 to 30 min with the $40 ones, the average wait could be an hour or more.

As for me, any further ones, I plan on buying directly into the $340 Qualifiers.

I've budgeted up to 5 of them (which is a tad more than if I had to buy directly in eleshwere), and if I win more than one seat into the ME, I will sell it since the seats are transferable.

BTW, I was told when I asked, that they tried to add a 3rd flight for the ME, but that the Colorado Gaming commission turned them down, as being too short notice.

As a result, the ME will be 11 handed per table, with 14 tables, and with 2 flights, that will only allow for a total of 308 players (154 each flight) for the ME, because the demand right now, is looking like it's going to be intense for the ME.

The way it looks now, the qualifiers will indeed sell out quickly, so it might behoove you to buy directly into the qualifiers as soon as you can (I already have done so, for at least one of them, on Monday, October 8th, at 6:30 pm).

First $340 Qualifier will be on Sunday, October 7th, at 6:30 pm.

Edit: BTW, I was able to meet one Two Plus Two'r up there on Monday, TDP (nice talking and meeting with you TDP), and man was he stoked for this event to be sure. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Ultra Violet]

About how long did the two seat satellites last? And how many are they running at a time?

[CincyLady]

The 2 seat Sats (the $75 sit and goes) are running about 2 hrs (or under) on average, and they are running between 8 to 10 tables (at least they were when I was there on Monday) for the sit and goes (total). The rest of the tables they have reserved for live action games.

They seem to alternate between open tables (that they've dedicated for the sit and goes) between the $75 and the $40 tables.

[DanielleRB]

Thanks for the update Cincy - big help.

We are going up on Friday for some SNG action - will buy in directly for the $340 we want to play before we leave regardless.

See you up there.

[JohnnyJoe]

Thanks for the info.

[tdp]

The $75s are super soft.I'm 3 for 5 so far as is my buddy who is also a turbo specialist.Too many people trying to play post flop poker in an sng.Poeple's pushing and calling standards are generally too high.Also,folks are trying to build a stack and coast.I've snapped two of these guys.Expect up to an hour wait.I wouldn't even bother with the $40s but there is more dead money in them than the $75s.
I plan on playing the qualifiers on Sunday,Monday and Wednesday so far.If you see a skinny middle aged hippy always wearing tie-dye,drop me a "sup bro".My name is Paul,you may already know me.
RR,would it be considered spam to try to unload extra ME seats on this list?

[entertainme]

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RR,would it be considered spam to try to unload extra ME seats on this list?

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I think this subtle hint is sufficient and anyone interested should contact you by PM rather than posting in the thread.