DieHard HORSE League Season 1
March 30, 2019: HORSE
Final Won by Mike Twitchell, Michelle Owen and Jason Nadeau
Huge congrats for a successful first iteration of the Die Hard Horse League. It was a fun league that helped us
play some different games for a change. The winners for this first year were Mike Twitchell ($1500 seat), Michelle Owen
($1500 seat) and Jason Nadeau ($500 seat). The chip lead changed a tonne with Jason Nadeau and Brent Senko dominating the
tournament early but with levels going up both Brent and Jason would run cold
and fall early at the final table. Deepak Bhasin took
over a massive chiplead with 5 remaining but he too
could not last. Mike Twitchell built up chips and while Michelle Owen had a
stack most of the night it came down to one monster hand 3 handed which left
both her and Kent Senko basically all in on Stud with Kent having a board of
TJ/AQAJ/7 and Michelle holding xx/689 with flush and straight draws as Mike
Twitchell happily watched. Michelle would come out on top completing one of her
draws and Kent would be the bubble boy (Jason had won the league points leader
guaranteed seat). Congrats everyone and good luck in Vegas.
LEAGUE FINAL IS AT DARRENS HOUSE
15840 Prospect Crescent, White Rock
Start time is 7pm March 29th
Obviously there will be no food service but we can probably
order some in
pizza or whatever. Please also bring your own drinks. See you in
a couple days. I land thursday at 3pm so if you want
to get ahold of me before that please email me at darrenkennedydk@gmail.com
DK
778-870-6319
Updated:
March 10, 2019
League
Standings
Place |
Player |
Cash Won |
Total |
Event #1 |
Event #2 |
Event #3 |
Event #4 |
Event #5 |
1 |
Jason Nadeau |
$760 |
43,500 |
8,000 |
8,000 |
2,500 |
5,000 |
10,000 |
2 |
Kent Senko |
$300 |
39,500 |
10,000 |
3,000 |
10,000 |
6,500 |
0 |
3 |
Chris McDonell |
$700 |
29,000 |
DNP |
0 |
8,000 |
10,000 |
1,000 |
4 |
Deepak Bhasin |
$100 |
27,500 |
DNP |
2,000 |
6,500 |
2,500 |
6,500 |
5 |
Jim Prime |
$150 |
26,000 |
5,000 |
5,000 |
1,500 |
1,500 |
3,000 |
6 |
Roger Grosset |
$500 |
25,000 |
3,000 |
10,000 |
DNP |
0 |
2,000 |
7 |
Dan Molatore |
$300 |
24,000 |
6,500 |
2,500 |
5,000 |
DNP |
0 |
8 |
Michelle Owen |
$490 |
25,500 |
DNP |
6,500 |
1,000 |
DNP |
8,000 |
9 |
Mike Twitchell |
|
25,000 |
4,000 |
DNP |
4,000 |
3,000 |
4,000 |
10 |
Brent Senko |
$100 |
23,500 |
2,000 |
4,000 |
2,000 |
4,000 |
1,500 |
11 |
Mike Honeyman |
$300 |
22,000 |
DNP |
1,000 |
3,000 |
8,000 |
0 |
12 |
Roman Pereyaslavsky |
|
18,000 |
2,500 |
1,500 |
DNP |
1,000 |
3,000 |
13 |
Darren Kennedy |
|
15,000 |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
5,000 |
14 |
Andrew Creed |
|
13,000 |
1,000 |
DNP |
DNP |
2,000 |
DNP |
15 |
Colin Genge |
|
11,500 |
1,500 |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
If everyone shows for final there
will be 368,000 chips in play and average will be 24,500.
Non-league Cashers:
Dave Sims
$300
Kyle Peters
$300
Wayne
Friesen $300
Johnny Dai
$200
Rob Sims
$200
Mike
Schubert $150
Bob DeForest $100
5 HORSE Events
$50 USD Each for WSOP Package($250 USD Total)
$50 CDN for Event Prize Pool
Players will begin with 20,000 chips
each
event
Players will start with $5000 Chips in
Main Event PLUS accumulated chips earned throughout the Season
Every table will play 1 (one) lap of
each HORSE game and then move on to the next game in order.
HORSE is actually an acronym describing a combination
of five poker games:
·
Hold'em (LIMIT).
·
Omaha Hi/Lo.
·
Razz (Seven card stud
low)
·
Stud (Seven card stud
high)
·
Eight-or-better (Seven
card stud high-low)
Tentative Dates
1)
September
28th Friday
2)
November
9th Friday
3)
December
7th Friday
4)
January
25th Friday
5)
March
1st Friday
6)
March
29th Friday FINAL
League
Money Commitments:
Each player pays $50 USD and $50 CAD
per event with $50 CAD going to Event prize pool and $50 USD going to Overall
WSOP package pool.
Members are also required to pay
$100 USD for a deposit. This is two $50 USD fees for your last 2 events WSOP
drops. If you decide not to show one event unannounced, your first prepaid WSOP
drop will be used, but you will be required to pay it back at the next event.
There is no other penalty for not showing up unannounced. Any players who drops
from the league will receive no refund and is ineligible to receive any portion
of winnings from WSOP cashes. No spares are allowed at all.
After your deposit is in, you'll
need to bring $50 USD and $50 CAD to each tournament; $50 USD for the WSOP drop
and $50 CAD for the cash tournament. If a player does not show to an event
tournament, they are only responsible for the events $50 USD WSOP drop, they
are NOT required to pay an additional $50 CAD for the events tournament fee.
Should you attend all tournaments up until Event #4 and/or #5 and haven't used
either of your deposit events, you will not need to make the WSOP drop for the
event(s).
Note that this means for Event #1
you will need $150 USD and $50 CAD ($100 USD deposit, $50 USD WSOP drop and $50
CAD cash tourney entry).
We will provide one WSOP $1500 HORSE
Package plus as many WSOP / ARIA / Venetian / Planet Hollywood Preliminary
HORSE Event Packages as we have money for. We will vote on this as a league
once we have finalized our numbers.
You will need to commit to $250 USD
($50 USD/event) over the year for the WSOP drop and $50 CAD per event
additional that you show up.
Points:
It works like this for each event;
we will have a tournament with cash prizes for top 15% and points awarded to
top 15% league players. Final structure to be determined based upon final
number of entries. For points, we will pay a MINIMUM of 10 SPOTS regardless of
numbers.
NOTE Everyone in League starts with
$5,000 Chips at Final Table PLUS points accumulated during season.
Preliminary Points are awarded as
follows...
1st: 10,000
points
2nd: 8,000
3rd: 6,500
4th: 5,000
5th: 4,000
6th: 3,000
7th: 2,500
8th: 2,000
9th: 1,500
10th: 1,000
League Final:
The league leader in points at the end of the 5 event season will be guaranteed at least a $500 US buy-in
HORSE Preliminary Event Package no matter where that player finishes in the
league final. If there is a tie for points for the league lead the tiebreakers
will be as follows:
1. Most points earned by yourself.
2. Most money earned.
The league leader will also get the chance to
play in the League Final in an attempt to win the WSOP
HORSE Event Package or Preliminary Package of greater value than the guaranteed
package.
The remainder of the prize packages will be
determined in a league final tournament. Anyone who obtains points during the
season qualifies for the league final. At the League Final, each player will
receive 1 chip for each point they received during the regular season (Regular
season and League Final tournament formats and blind schedules below). There
will be no entry fee or prizes for the Final, except the Prize Packages.
The winners of the prize packages agree to split any monies won at the World
Series Of Poker with the league. For
league winners that win money in the WSOP, the first $5000 USD of the prize is
kept by the league winner. The League will get 25% of any cash prize won
at the World Series of Poker before taxes above $5000. In this way, the league
will still be able to participate in any truly big wins, but the winner can
reap higher rewards from min-cashes. The league share will be divided
evenly among all players that have paid all of their
league fees by the end of Event #5. If the league share is less than $20 per
person, the league will keep the money to be added to the following seasons
prize pool. Also, the league will round down to the nearest $10 increment per
person and keep the extra as money to be added to the following seasons prize
pool. Also, to be clear the league is only entitled to a portion of the cash
prize received from the World Series of Poker. The player keeps 100% of any
monies received from any endorsements they may receive from online sites, ESPN
or otherwise due to participation in the event.
Regular Tournament Structure:
Each event, players will begin with 20,000 chips.
*Tentative Starting Chip Counts will be the
following based upon Total Players Per event.
30+ Players = $20,000 Starting Stack
20+ Players = $30,000 Starting Stack
10+ Players = $40,000 Starting Stack
* We reserve the right to alter the starting chip stacks and
Levels based upon final player turnout and speed of play.
SPECIAL NOTES
1) There will be no Spares allowed. You get 10,000
guaranteed chips for the Final already.
2) This is a learning league. There will be NO ASSISTANCE
once the points bubble is broken other than procedural help. We are trying to
have fun and grow the game. We are playing for money so no collusion or
outright coaching is allowed but there will be more leeway in the first levels
of each event to explain to players or to help coach players AFTER a hand is
played. It should be a fun learning environment before we get to the money.
3) If you do NOT want to agree to this standard, then do NOT
join the league.
*All remaining rules will follow standard DieHard Rules and a final chip structure will be posted
prior to Event #1.