Season 2, 2008, State Finals!

[Garth Kay]

It’s that time of the season again and State Finals for Season 2 will be conducted at the Seaford Hotel on Sunday the 15th June.

This event again promises to attract some large numbers and some top notch poker skills. We again expect a huge field size for this event from the 740+ qualifiers.

Due to the expected size of the field the day we will again be implementing a flight system. This season we will remove a couple of blind levels and introduce antes. We hope this will shorten the day for dramatically as we do not wish to see another 16+ hours of play for our winner.

Half the field, in each flight, will play for almost 3 hours. Flight one will commence in the morning and flight 2 will play in the afternoon. These two fields will then recombine in the evening and play until a winner is declared.
Be prepared for a long day of poker as we do not expect the final table to commence until 9.00pm at the earliest.
More details will be released in the first week of the Season 3. Please make sure your mobile numbers and email are correct in your player profile as this will be the way we notify you of your start times and flights.
Remember that this season we are offering a prize pool of $25,000 in cash and almost $1,000 in prizes for minor place getters
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South Australia’s NPL Season,2 2008 State Finals

Date: Sunday, 15th June
Venue: Seaford Hotel, Corner Commercial Road & Griffith Drive
Seaford, 5169 SA
Starting Stack: 3000 chips
Blinds: 25 minutes for the first two levels then 20 minutes.

FLIGHT 1: All qualifiers will be from the Gawler Barossa, Metro CBD, Metro NE, Metro South and Metro SW Regions. The State Top 50 will also be included in this flight.

FLIGHT 2: All qualifiers will be from Peninsula Hills, Metro E, Mid North, South East, Riverland, Metro NW, Yorke and Port Lincoln regions.

PLEASE NOTE: Changing of flights will not be permitted.



FLIGHT 1: Registration commences at 9.00am and will be completed by 10.30am. All players must be registered by 10.30am to play in the tournament. Tournament will start at 11.00am sharp. Flight 1 will cease playing at 3.00pm.
Players will only be registered with photo ID. No ID – no play.

FLIGHT 2: Registration commences at 1.30pm and will be completed by 3.00pm. All players must be registered by 3.00pm to play in the tournament. Tournament will start at 3.30pm sharp. Flight 2 will cease playing at 7.30pm.
Players will only be registered with photo ID. No ID – no play.

RECOMBINE: All players who progress to the combine stage will need to be at the venue by 8.00pm, seating will commence at 8.30pm and play will commence just slightly after 8.45pm. Play will not cease until a winner is declared.

Chips at the end of each flight will be totalled and bagged by tournament staff. The remaining players from both flights will then recombine, with chip totals carried over, to form the final stages of the tournament, seating arrangements will be redrawn and play will continue until a winner is declared.

Good luck to all of our qualifiers and we look forward to another great day of poker!

[Scotty]

Seaford Hotel - virtual tour

Click on 'Seaford3D' on the left hand side

[Garth Kay]

Nice work Scott.
You think someone would have told me about that when I was down there today meeting with them.

[Bacon]

As the Season 1 final was on a Sunday, was the decision to make this not alternate to the Saturday because of sporting commitments?

I was hoping for a Saturday event, because the girlfriend would still be overseas then, but she flies back in on the Sunday, so I wouldn't be able to play if I was lucky enough to qualify.

[Des]

All non-related posts will be removed from this thread. Sorry guys.

[AceLosesKing]

Sounds good Garth. I won't mind the 5 hour break now that I've got somewhere to stay.

Looking forward to it.

[Garth Kay]

Bacon,
During football season all finals are played on a Sunday. Sorry mate but football has too much of an impact on player numbers and attendance.

[Bacon]

Garth, that's fair enough, and I could've had to have made a decision on poker v football.

[maccatak11]

this maybe a silly question but why are the B&G players in flight one when there are plaers from the metro regions in flight two? seems a bit sill as it is still a coupla-hours drive from nuri or kapunda to seaford?

is it to 'spread the superior talent' of metro players across both flights? or is there some other reason.

(i have mates from B&G region who i though i could be playing with, thats all. im a riverlander and so will be in a different flight if im lucky enough to qualify)

[Garth Kay]

Because we need a balanced field with almost the same amount of qualifiers playing in each flight.

Unfortunately to truly balance it I would be required to put regional areas into flight one, and I would rather see BG players up at 6am and traveling than people from Midnorth or Riverland up at 3am or something stupid.