Deepstack Tournaments

[slick mick]

After the excellent Fenners freeroll last night and Monday's PPGP game I thought I'd have a look for some better structured tournaments. The only regularly scheduled ones I've found so far are on Pokerstars and listed below. Most are quite late but the weekend ones look promising.

If anybody knows of any others, regular or occasional, I'd be interested to hear about them. If we get enough perhaps we can have a deep stack sticky.

WEDNESDAY
Pokerstars 11.15pm $20 + 2

THURSDAY

FRIDAY
Pokerstars 11.15pm $20 + 2

SATURDAY
Pokerstars 5pm $10 +1
Pokerstars 11.15pm $20 + 2

SUNDAY
Pokerstars 5pm $10 +1
Pokerstars 11.15pm $20 + 2

[Ell Ess Dee]

The Betfair Grand Prix on 4th March and 13th May will be monsters - 5k starting chips and 20 min blinds. With over 800 players expected I would hate to guess the time that this will go on for.

[rosco]

Ladbrokes do quite a few of these tournaments

[slick mick]

Originally Posted by rosco

Ladbrokes do quite a few of these tournaments

Do they have scheduled times or are they random?

[The Rivers]

Full tilt have a few scheduled double stack (3000 chips) Mtt's.
They have a $24+2 DS $11,000 GTD at 7 pm every night. And you can win $26 tokens through $6 and $8 SnG's.
8.30pm $30+3 DS direct buy-in only.
The rest are bigger buy-ins but there's allsorts of satellites's for them.
And there's lots of DS tourney's for the other variants.
They also have 90 player DS SnG's, but these take a long time. I played a $5 game and it took 4 hours.
It also says they have super stack Mtt's aswell but i've yet to see one.

[clanfraser]

you got bridkids 3000stack on betfred on fridays for 5bux

[GotaFancy?]

Originally Posted by slick mick

Do they have scheduled times or are they random?

Don't know the schedule, but laddies do have loads of them ..... for example tonight:

19:45 $4+40c $500 Gtd 5000 Starting Chips, 15 minute blinds

And tomorrow
12:00 $5+50c 4000 Starting Chips 10 Minute Blinds
16:30 $3+30c $300 Gtd 4000 Starting Chips 15 minute blinds
18:15 $10+$1 5000 Starting Chips 15 minute blinds
19:45 $4+40c $500 Gtd 5000 Starting Chips, 15 minute blinds

It looks like those 4 may all be daily

[Teazz]

This is a great idea Mick

I do love a deepstack tourny, especially with good blind levels. i'll keep my eye out

I suppose the APAT events every other Saturday would be one. But they can be a bit mad for a $22 entry

[slick mick]

Originally Posted by clanfraser

you got bridkids 3000stack on betfred on fridays for 5bux

Can't find it what time is it?

[Ell Ess Dee]

8pm under S-Bet Large Stack Tourney.. Easy enought to find the magic word which is pretty obvious anyway..

[glceud]

its one thing to quote starting chips and blind intervals but if the blind increases are greater than nomal then you are basicly in the same position after an hour as you are in a lot of mtt's. Its like laddies ludicrous deep stack turbo idea
Trust me that the betfair normal tourneys with 2000 starting chips and 15 min blinds meet what you are looking for.

[slick mick]

Tried the 4:30 laddies deepstack and came 7th for $16, shocking play in general and fairly easy to get into the money. Took 4.5 hours though

[slapdash]

Sorry to resurrect a rather old thread, but I'm playing the Pokerstars $10+$1 deep stack tournament that Mick mentioned in the first post, after noticing it in the lobby just before it started.

I hadn't realized quite how good (or bad, depending on your point of view ) the structure is. It's 5000 starting stacks, 30 minute blinds, and standard Pokerstars blind levels (starting at 10/20).

It's nice to be able to try playing in something with this kind of structure for a reasonable buy-in.

This one started with 1086 players. I'll try to remember to make a note of how long it lasts, though at the moment I'm not looking favourite to be involved in the finish!

[Valiant23]

Its a good tourney.


If my memory serves me correctly Mike Saban got to the final table in this (coming 6th?) around two or three years ago.

I won't spoil it for you by telling you the time of his post when he'd finished.

[GotaFancy?]

Pene was moaning about this tourney a few weeks back, not appreciating quite how late it would go on .....

[slapdash]

Originally Posted by Valiant23

I won't spoil it for you by telling you the time of his post when he'd finished.

I have to go to work on Monday. Should I be worried?

[GotaFancy?]

Originally Posted by slapdash

I have to go to work on Monday. Should I be worried?

This Monday or monday week?

[Fonzie14]

Hadn't seen this thread before.

This is the tourney that I had my first 'big' cash in, (about 18 months ago). If I remember correctly, it started about 2 in the afternoon (looks different to Mick's post though ) and I finally won it at about 11 in the evening, so quite a long haul for an online tourney. It was the $20 + $2 tourney and I think there were about 300 runners or so. I won about 2.3k, so not a bad days work. I quite enjoyed the structure, made a nice change from the allin fests that most online tourneys develop into.

GL Slapdah.

[slapdash]

Down to 3.1k at the first break (don't worry, I won't bore you all with hourly updates!). No particular horrendous bad-beats or blunders (I think): I just never hit the flop and the bastards kept calling/raising my continuation bets.

Still, it's nice to go through a bad first hour and still have over 60 big blinds left.

[Penelopeys]

Originally Posted by GotaFancy?

Pene was moaning about this tourney a few weeks back, not appreciating quite how late it would go on .....

I played for a solid 9.5 hours - and got very far in the tourney... however the prize structure is crap - won $ 22

NEVER AGAIN deepstack on Pokerstars