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Next Event: $50 NLH and $10 HORSE (DHPL Online)
Date Time: EVERY MONDAY 7pm
Location: PokerStars
Zoom: Meeting Link (Starts 6:30pm)
Darren: darrenkennedydk@gmail.com
Tourney Dates Weekly $50 NLH and $10 HORSE
Tourneys EVERY MONDAY!
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August 21, DHPL Online Mondays Info and Results
May 24,
Mondays $50 NLH and $10 HORSE Results
First
Monday of cash tourneys saw 21 players in $50 NLH and 17 in HORSE.
NLH Results
(21): Mike Twitchell $363.50, Ali Samji $340, Johnny
Dai $157.50, Ted Hill $105, Ryan Macdonald $84
HORSE
Results (17): Darren Kennedy $63.75, Kelli cera
$63.75, Mike Twitchell $25.50, Abe Leiren $17
Reminder that
next Monday we will again play $50 NLH and $10 HORSE on pokerstars.
May 19,
Mondays $50 NLH and $10 HORSE
We will be running
weekly tourneys for cash but no formal seasons from now until September. If you
want to play it will cost you 20,000 play chips to enter on stars. Additionally
you will need to etranfer me your entry 30 minutes
prior to the tourney or I will remove you from the tournament. Payouts will be
in proportion to however stars decides to payout the free money chips.
May 19,
Congrats to Darren Hindley for winning Season 18 and the other 7 winners
With this season
concluding we will take a break from holding an official online league until
September where we will hopefully be able to play live again.
March
15, Season 18 Kicks Off Tonight!
We have 36
confirmed players and 4 more on the fence atm. Looking forward to another fun
season.
March 9,
Season 18 Online Begins March 15
That’s
right we are back for our 3rd straight online season. Same deal as
before. $500 to sign up. We are moving the dates to Mondays because I, myself
have issues with Wednesday nights. We are starting March 15 and running for 10
straight weeks. So if you know you are in or if you know you are out, please
let me know ASAP. I will update this new Standings 18 page with who is in and who is out.
February
18, Bob Lisle Wins Event #7
After
folding down to less than one blind with 9 remaining, Bob Lisle played his chip
and a chair all the way back to win the tourney. Mike Honeyman
had his second runner-up spot of the season and John Keserich
took the overall points lead with a 4th place finish.
February
18, Events #3-6 won by Darren Hindley, Darren Kennedy, Thomas Davis and Darren
Hindley
Sorry for
the no updates but Darren’s won 3 of 4 in the stretches between events #3 and
6. You think with myself actually winning a tourney I would update the website,
but noooooo. As for Hindley, his performance vaulted
him into the points lead.
January
15, Ali Samji wins, Mike Honeyman
2nd and Bob DeForest 3rd
Ali and Bob
show they are no flukes by both having a win and two podium finishes in the
first two events putting a huge gap between them and the rest of the field.
Mike Honeyman came second. The rest of the results
can be seen on the Standings page.
January
10, Bob DeForest Wins Event #1 of Die Hard Season 17
(Online)
Congrats to
Bob DeForest for winning Event #1 outlasting Ali Samji who channeled his inner DK in negotiating a shortstack that went down to as little as 1.19BB’s and
stayed mostly under 8 BBs from 23 players all the way to headsup
where he did take the lead but ultimately fell to Bob. Wray Jones made waves
early getting a monster stack by playing nearly every hand.
And we also
increased our number of league members up to 44 players for this season.
Looking forward to Event #2 this Wednesday.
December
18, Die Hard Season 17 (Online) Starts January 6th
Season 16
just ended and Season 17 will start on January 6th. If you are
interested please email me and let me know. Same situation as last season in
that you pay $500 up front and we will pay top 15-20%. No league final etc, etc. Looks like the bulk of 39 players that played
last season are in again for this upcoming season and we are open for new
registration. I have 8 new people already saying they are in. Lmk!
For those
in previous season. I have paid out all players now except Dennis, Sam, Johnny
and Jeff. Limits on etransfers of $2500 per day. One
per day will be paid out from here on.
December
16, Event #10 Dennis Neels Wins Event 10 and League
Congrats on
the 8 winners. My condolences to Bod DeForest who
ended up tied with Rachel Grillot for 8th
but lost out on the money due to Rachel having earned more money in cashes over
the season. Tough loss. Great drama during the final as Ali went out on the
bubble and could only sit and watch to see if his lead held. Sam Raz fell 100
points short of Ali going out in 12th place. Then when Johnny went
out in 8th, Ali only had to fade a Brant top 3 finish or a Dennis
win. Brant would finish third AND Dennis won dropping Ali down to 3rd
place. Rachel folded down to just a few blinds on points bubble and that 400
points she got was enough for her to pass Bob and ultimately made her $500 went
she went out in 16th place for 400 points.
Great season.
Please look at the standings page to make sure I didn’t miss anything. I am
going to review it in detail on Friday before I start paying out all the money.
We will
start another season in January. I will get the dates fixed soon but likely I
will start it Wednesday January 6th for 10 straight weeks. Don’t
plan on changing the format at all, but if you have suggestions for how to
improve the league please let me know.
Merry
Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
November
4, Event #3 Sam Raz Wins again defeating Dennis Neels
Sam Raz has
a commanding early season lead now after winning both of events #2 and 3. Also
of note is that only one player has pointed in all 3 events. That being Shaun
Ali who sits in the 8th spot.
I have also
added pokerstars names to the standings page so you
can identify who is who.
October
28, Event #2 Won by Sam Raz, Jeff Hall Runner Up
Congrats to
Sam Raz who outlasted Jeff Hall in a tourney that ended quickly. 10:34pm
ending. Christina Armstrong finished 3rd and Rachel Grillot made it back to back top 4 finishes adding 4th
to go with last weeks 2nd to take over
sole possession of the points lead. Once again all 39 members showed up and
yours truly bubbled the points. Fun! Standings Page has been updated.
October
21, Online Standings/Rule Page Up
Mike
Twitchell won the first ever Die Hard Online tourney outlasting in an epic 30
minute heads-up battle against Rachel Grillot that
saw the chip-lead change 8 times. The tourney got to heads-up just after 11pm
and ended at 11:43pm. We cracked the money bubble at 10:20pm when Bob Lisle
bowed out. Jason Nadeau took 7th, Shaun Ali 6th, Abe Leiren 5th, Ali Samji
4th and Brant Taylor 3rd.
You can see
the points and cashes on the standings page.
October
21, Online Standings/Rule Page Up
I have
posted a link to the new Online League
Rules and Standings so that we can track results, list the payouts chart
and points chart. Please refer to that page during games to know how many are
being paid and how much you win. We are up to 38 confirmed members with 2 more
possibilities as of 3pm on Wednedsay
October
19, 2020 DHPL Online Version Begins in 3 days! (Wed Oct 21, 7pm)
We are good
to go for the online league. League members that have paid up so far include 38
players:
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Abe Leiren Ali Samji Andrew Krywaniuk Bob DeForest Bob Lisle Brad McKibbon Brant Taylor Chris Flaman Chris Watts Christina Armstrong Dan Molatore Darren Kennedy Deepak Bhasin Dennis Neels Doug Cornelson Elton Ngan Fred Thiessen Harry Aujla Jason Nadeau |
Jeff Hall Jim Prime John Kesserich Johnny Dai Kal Kooner Kelli Cera Martin Sayle Michel Grillot Mike Honeyman Mike Twitchell Mo Pannun Rachel Grillot Ramiro Dominguez Roger Grosset Sam Raz Scott Wilson Shaun Ali Thomas Davis Trevor Massey |
Anyone else
wanting in please get it all figured out by Tuesday night at the latest. I
don’t want to be trying to add you to the homegame
minutes before the first event starts.
Thanks!
October 7,
2020 Answer to Questions I Receive
The
following is to clarify questions I am receiving:
1. There will be NO RAKE same as all
Die Hard Poker League Seasons. All money taken in will be paid out.
2. Start time each night will be 7pm
and events will likely end no later than 10:30pm. I am going to put up some
test events soon to work through the structure.
3. We are accepting anyone that wants
to join. You did not have to be a Die Hard Poker League member in the past. It
is first come, first served. First players to send their $500 CAD to me gets
in. We are capped at 100 so I think there should be no issue getting anyone in
that wants in. So far I have 12 players. Any less than 20 and we would not run
a season. I expect we will likely end up with 40-60 players.
October
5, 2020: ZOOM Meeting to Discuss Online League Wednesday 8pm
This
Wednesday at 8pm I will have a zoom meeting for anyone that wants to discuss this
proposal. I will walk through the way to sign-up and explain in detail how the
league will be run. Below are all the details to get you started.
Other
discussion points will include:
1. Points
2. Obtaining Play Chips
3. Practice games before season starts
4. Payout Chart for each event – this
will be fixed by me.
5. Payout Chart for league prizes – I
will have 4-5 of which we can vote on.
6. Setting up practice tourneys to help
dial in the structure in the next 10 days.
7. No rake
8. Tourney start time 7pm and expected
to go up to 3.5 hours
9. Other…
Zoom Meeting:
Topic: Die Hard Poker Online
Time: Oct 7, 2020 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and
Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82125501231?pwd=aXRIZmRqYXVwWnBGRXoxeExYM3NPQT09
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Passcode: 671363
October
5, 2020 Die Hard Poker Moves Online to PokerStars
Since we
are obviously not going to be having a live league this year I am going to
start up an online version of our league on PokerStars. We will run 10 events
1. Events Run weekly every Wednesday
starting on Oct 21 with one Thursday on Dec 10th added to allow us
to complete before Xmas.
2. League members will e-transfer or
otherwise pay Darren $500 CAD before playing first event. $250 is for league
prizes and the other $250 is for paying $25 per event for 10 tourney entries.
No rebuys. Each Event is played as a $25 buyin and
paid out as a regular cash tournament. If you miss an event I would refund you
$25 for that event.
3. All money earned from individual events
will be recorded on diehardpoker.com and then paid out at the end of the
season. A tournament payout table will be created and posted on
diehardpoker.com so everyone can know the payout structure.
4. Actual tourney entry will be done
with Play Money chips to reduce greatly the rake. Tournament entry will be
20,000 play chips so each player will need to obtain 200,000 play chips to
cover their 10 entries. As of now you can purchase 500,000 play chips for
$2.99, so that would be your rake for the season. You can also get 15,000 chips
for free every 4 hours apparently by going to cashier, hitting play money and
then collecting your free chips.
5. Points are obtained in exactly the
same format as Die Hard Poker regular league with the top X finishers receiving
points. We will determine how many receive points once we find out how many
league members we get. Likely we will keep it at 22 points spots.
6. At end of 10 events the league
monies are paid out to the top 15% of points earned. There is NO FINAL EVENT to
determine winners.
7. Non-league members will NOT be
allowed to play any of these events to simplify points earned determination.
8. No subs are allowed because it would
break Pokerstars terms of service in that you would
have to share your pokerstars login with someone
else.
9. A new Home Game group has been
created and only players that have paid up their league fees will be allowed to
join. Pay your $500 CAD to Darren (etransfer to darrenkennedydk@gmail.com) and I
will send you the invite code. That way we prevent non-league members from
joining tourneys.
September
26, 2020 All players have been Paid Except 2
I am still
trying to get ahold of Clint Lomax and Frank Roblin. If anyone has contact info
for these two, please have them contact me or send me their contact info. They
have money coming back to them I would like to pay out.
Everyone
else should now have been paid. If you did not receive money yet and have not
been in contact with me, please reach out. It has taken a long time to get all
the money back thanks to $2,500 daily limit on e-transfers, but the job is now
complete. Thanks everyone and hopefully we can get a full season in next year.
At this point I have no plans to run a tournament prior to 2021 and unlikely to
start a league until Sept 2021.
August
31, 2020 League Cancelled. All Players Will Receive Cash-out Value of Their
Chips
The final
won’t happen. So many people want to cash-out there will be no money left to
play for. Which I kind of expected. So all players will be given their cash-out
value of their chips.
What I
still need to know is how you would prefer to be paid. The money is currently
in a bank account in USD. I can pay you in USD but that will mean we need to
meet up. Or I can convert it thru VBCE and pay you equivalent in CAD via
e-transfer. CAD is definitely easier for me, but USD is fine as well.
So please
let me know via email if you want it in USD or CAD.
I want to
start paying people in about one week and get all this money back into your
hands.
USD????
or
CAD????
August
24, 2020 Cashing out the value of your chips or Waiting to Reopen
We are
clearly at a point now where it seems unlikely that we will be able to play a
100 person tournament anytime soon and also that there will be a WSOP live
tournament that anyone is going to want to go and play in the near future.
As such I
have been working on some alternative solutions. I have calculated the value of
each players chips and presented a ‘cash out’ option on the standings page.
At this
point I would like people to look at the value of their cash out option and let
me know if you would like to just cash out your chips at this point in time.
Once I have
determined who has chosen to cash out their chips and removed all of their
chips and the cash from the prize-pool, we can look at who remains and what
remains of the prize pool and potentially have a tournament that will be paid
out strictly in cash to help us complete this season.
Here is how
I came up with the cash out value of your chips:
I looked at
ICM and chip-chop. ICM (Independent Chip Model) is the universally accepted
calculation for determining the real value of chips in a tournament at any given
point of time, given a prize structure and number of players to payout
remaining players in a tournament that gets paused/cancelled or a deal is made.
This happens often in both live and online tourneys. I also looked at the fact
that the 10th tourney was never played. I took into account that
everyone starts with 1,000 chips.
1. Un-played 10th Tourney:
this part was easy. We all paid $50 USD per tourney towards the prize-pool. The
10th tourney wasn’t played so I simply refunded $50 to every player.
2. Chip-chop: I looked at chip-chop vs
ICM. The numbers for larger number of players (we have 100, but even with 30+
it remains true) results in Chip-chop and ICM being closer. Therefore, I went
with the simpler formula of chip-chop. If we take the amount of money available
and simply divide it by the total chips in play the result is every 1,000 chips
is worth $70.
We do hope
to play out a tourney eventually and it could be as soon as September 12th.
That being said I do realize some people may not be comfortable playing live
poker yet. I also cannot be sure when the next live WSOP will run. Even if it
does run next summer in Vegas some of you may not be comfortable going down to
play in it. There is also the possibility that we may just not be able to run
any tournaments anytime soon.
What I need
from each and every player is the answer to this question:
Please
go to the standings page and view your cash
out value of your chips.
Do you
want the cash equivalent of your chips? Or wish to wait to play out a tourney?
Please
email darrenkennedydk@gmail.com
with “CASHOUT” or “PLAY”
June 27,
2020 DIE HARD LEAGUE RE-OPENING PLANS
League
Final – September 12 – SAVE THE DATE
It has been
a long time and we need to address the league. At this point my plan is to have
the League Final on Saturday, September 12th at noon.
There is a
lot that may need to happen to do this. The facility will likely only allow 50
people in there at a time so we are going to likely either have two separate
flights played 50 down to 20 and recombine the final 40 to play down to our
winners or possibly they will provide us with two rooms and we can do it all in
one day.
I’m not
going to get into the rest of it, but expect to have mandatory face masks for
this event. The most important thing at this point is to block the date off
in your calendar SEPTEMBER 12th which is the day we usually
start the season. We will run the Final on this day. Please contact me with any
concerns on scheduling. We also have two Americans in our league so we need to
watch the border situation and hope it opens up if we are to accommodate them.
If it does not open by then we will make arrangements with those 2 in some way.
Secondly
there is a chance, a decent chance, that we may still not be able to get this
tourney done even in September at Coyote Creek. If this occurs, I will attempt
to run the Final in 2-4 smaller heats to get down to a winner over several
days. I will be as creative as I need to be to try and get us our winners.
Think options like 24 players to 10 in 4 separate heats and then 20 players to
10 in two more separate heats and then 20 players to the winners in the final.
If it comes to this I will try and balance the days out chipstack
wise.
At this
point I will state that if we cannot run the tourneys down to a champion in
some way, shape or form by end of September I will work with a select group of
players to determine the fairest value of everyone’s current points and pay
people out the money. I really, REALLY, do not want to do this, but I’m also
not going to extend the season to 2021. I am at this point implementing a hard
date of September 30, 2020 to complete the season or payout monies.
Event
#10 – POSSIBLY AUGUST 28th
I expect to
also try and hold Event #10 potentially on Friday, August 28th. If
this happens it will include no re-buys and only league players allowed to help
speed up the game and minimize unnecessary contact.
In short I
really hope we can get back to some live poker sometime soon.
Take care
and as always send your questions my way to Darren at darrenkennedydk@gmail.com
HORSE
League (text from Jason Nadeau)
Hey HORSE
Fanatics!
Up till now,
I wanted to wait on seeing if we can get a Diehard Event #10 played or not
before making a decision on Season 2 of HORSE. But we need to come up with a
reasonable Post Quarantine plan now.
Running a
10-17 person event is entirely possible compared to 90+ people in the Main
League. We could easily limit tables to 4-5 handed (with masks) without
changing our normal game play and action. I want to hear the thoughts and ideas
from the rest of the HORSE Season 2 League Members so please email me on which option
you would prefer? This wont be a final vote, but an
opportunity to share your point of view.
We will
have a few options.
1) Complete
Season 2 Now! We can play out the last 3 events (Or Less) AND Finals between
presumed Covid waves in July-October. There are a lot of options here for how
we proceed. If we go this route, we can decide on a final event format, how
many events to play and how to spend the money in the end if WSOP isn’t a
realistic option. A straight Cash Prize Tournament for the Final is always on
the table.
If we
shorten the season, we can prorate points/chips to reflect the reduction in
events so that everyone benefits and doesn’t lose out on extra chips.
Basically, we would add an extra 1000-2000 Chips to everyone’s Final Table
stacks per event cancelled.
2) Merge
Season 2 with Season 3. Roll this season’s first two events Results & Money
into Season 3 – We can extend Season 3 into a 7 tournie
series or come up with other options. This is fair to everyone who played so
far. We would have to work out something for new members to even out chip
disparities. Of course, we dont know if or when a
Season 3 might begin.
3) We can just
do a full refund. Season Over – No Winners, just losers.
At this
stage, I just want to hear your preferred options and opinions? I’ll give
everyone 1 week to get back to me and then formulate the next step in our
Season 2 plans.
Please
email me directly at: janadeau13@yahoo.com
Talk to you
soon,
Jason
June 27,
2020 GG Poker Hosting WSOP Online
GG Poker is
hosting the WSOP Online giving us all a chance to win a bracelet from home. My
friend Mike Leah is one of the GG Ambassadors. Talk to me if you want to create
an account. If you create it through me you will get excellent financial
incentives, and a much simplified deposit and withdrawal method. Also being
connected directly with a host on the site can make things a lot simpler.
April 2,
2020 NO POKER TOMORROW NIGHT!!
A couple
things. Obviously, the Die Hard Poker League Final scheduled for this Saturday
April 4th will not happen as planned.
At this
point we are on a wait and see approach. We are going to react month by month
until we see what happens with the pandemic.
My personal
expectations include the following:
1. The World Series of Poker is unlikely to
happen in 2020.
2. We will likely not be able to get together
to play poker until August at the earliest and more
likely September.
If those
two things happen my tentative plan at this point is to hold Event #10 in
September and then the league final a few weeks later.
All non Main Event winners would be able to use their prizes
towards any poker tournaments such as those in Calgary, Montreal, Edmonton, LA
or other Vegas tourneys or the tentatively scheduled poker series to
happen in late fall at Parq casino in Vancouver.
The WSOP
Main Event winners would use their prizes in the 2021 WSOP Main Event.
All of this
is just speculation at this point. This whole situation is horrible and
hopefully we come out of this sooner than later. But I think it’s fair to
say we all expect the pandemic to last a lot longer still. So for now I would
assume we try to get back to playing poker in September.
If anyone
has any more questions please reach out and ask me either via email or phone.
For those
interested we are running nightly $2-$11 buyin poker
tourneys online at pokerstars. We have 53 people already
a part of the group. It’s not live poker, but at least we have a little fun
together.
Take care
and stay safe and healthy,
Darren
778-870-6319
PS. I have
lost control of the email list meaning I can no longer add or remove people
from the list though I can still email to it. I will find a replacement soon,
but for now please join the Facebook group "Die Hard Poker League" if
you can and we can communicate and discuss ideas on how to finish the season
there.
PPS: for
those wanting off this list please be patient. I will be ending the use of this
poker email list in the next 30 days.
March 7,
2020 NO POKER TOMORROW NIGHT!!
With all of
the news coming out in the last 24 hours on the corona virus including US
travel restrictions for Canadians, all major league sports shutting down and
even my sons Peewee Hockey tournament in Parksville being cancelled, I think
the only prudent move for the Die Hard Poker League is to postpone tomorrows
event.
The event
will NOT occur tomorrow. We will wait a week or two and see if we can get Event
10 in prior to the League Final on April 4. If we cannot get Event #10 in, but
it still looks like the League Final will go then we will give everyone 1,000
points for Event #10 and play the Final.
Realistically
though, I think there is a VERY good chance the league final may need to be
postponed as well. Roger and I will get together to work out some possible
solutions if that happens. There is a lot to take into consideration if this
happens and it will likely result in some people being unhappy, but I believe
we will be able to figure out a fair solution.
This is
very unfortunate but I believe it is the only real solution. If anyone wants to
discuss this more please feel free to email me or phone me at 778-870-6319.
NO POKER
TOMORROW NIGHT!!
Everyone
stay safe and wash your hands.
Darren
& Roger
Die Hard
Poker League
778-870-6319
March 7,
2020 HORSE League
Just a reminder
that we are also running a HORSE league. You don’t need to be in the league to
play the $50 buyin tourneys. Full details are here: HORSE
February 24, 2020: League WSOP Prizes – 3 Main
Event Seats Up For Grabs this year
Most of the
league money is now in so I can set the prize payouts. With an estimated extra
$6000 in prizepool we will payout a total of 3 Main
Event Packages along with 10 more seats.
1st – 3rd : $10,000 Main
Event Seat + $500 USD
4th : $2,500 WSOP Buy-ins + $500 USD
5th : $2,000 WSOP Buy-ins + $500 USD
6th : $1,500 WSOP Buy-ins + $500 USD
7th-11th : $1,000 WSOP
Buy-ins + $500 USD
12th – 13th : $1,000 WSOP
Buy-ins
We have so
far given out a total of 193 WSOP prizes including 13 Main Event seats.
February 17, 2020: Chris Watts (don’t call me
Watson) Wins Event #9
Congratulations
to Chris Watts for the win on Saturday, outlasting Jason Wells to secure the
title. Afield of 96 players took to the felt on Saturday and the results were
interesting. With Dave Collier bowing out early, Mike Mittermuller
had the chance to put some distance between him and Dave for the points lead
and he delivered. Mike finished in 12th place and secured 4,000
points. With that finish and the way the rest of the tourney played out, the
guaranteed seat is now between just Mike and Dave. Dave is 5500 points behind
so will need a top 3 league finish at a minimum to pass Mike.
Another
interesting side note saw Johnny Dai fold the turn with just one single 100
chip behind vs two all in players and 48 players remaining. Johnny would spin
that chip up from 100 to 6,000 in just two hands and then hang around long
enough to squeeze into the points for 500. He outlasted 18 players after being
crippled eventually going out in 30th. Crazy.
February 15, 2020: Full update of website prior
to Event #9
I finally
updated everything on the website. This includes: standings pages, payments
made, All time stats page, Die Hard Poker Index, and Die Hard Fantasy. Also
sent the last two events results into HendonMob so
those should be updated by Eric Danis in the next 24
hours. Go and check the website out and make sure your points are accurate.
Congrats to
Brant Taylor for winning last event. That resulted in several significant
results. He became the first player to win 6 Die Hard Events lifetime, the
result pushed him back into first place on the Die Hard Poker Index and most
importantly the 10,000 points moved him into good shape for the league final.
Also please
note that whoever ends up as league leader in points after Event #10 is
guaranteed at least a $1000 seat at the WSOP. That race looks to be a 2 horse
race between Mike Mittermuller and Dave Collier.
Mikes 4,500 points in Event #8 was enough to pass Dave and he now holds a slim
1,500 point cushion. There are other players that can catch these guys but they
are going to need at least a top 4 finish to do so. Two events can change a lot
though.
January 28, 2020: Standings Page Updated – More
to Come
Got the
standings updated form Events #7 and 8. Will do Fantasy, League Fees Paid, All
Time Stats and DHPI, etc while on my flight to
Amsterdam on Thursday. Please check your points to make sure they are accurate.
November 24, 2019: Alex Young Wins Event #6 and
Dave Collier takes over DHPI lead with Second Place Showing
Event #6
came down to Dave Collier looking for his 5th ever DHPL tourney win
but was ultimately denied by Alex Young who notched his first ever win. Another
great night of poker with 106 entries. And now we have 8 weeks between events.
November 10, 2019: Johnny Dai Wins Event #5,
Kent Senko Chops Money with him
In an Event
with 112 entries and 44 people entering the last longer to make a pot of $4400,
Johnny Dai not only won $2220 in the tourney, he also took a nearly identical
$2200 in last longer winnings. Gavin Curley, Sam Raz and Nick Simon also got a
chunk of the last longer. Sam Raz finished 3rd and jumps into first
place for league points. Another event in less than a week so we get to give it
another go shortly.
October 30, 2019: Congrats to Pat Woelk (on rebuy) for his 5th Die Hard Tourney
Win at Event #4 and Sam Raz for the 10,000 Points and League Win
Pat Woelk … on a rebuy .. tied the record with his 5th
DHPL tourney win. 4 players have now accomplished that feat. Along with Pat,
Brant reached it in Event #1 this year and Dave Sims and Paul Deol have also 5
victories each.
October 6, 2019: Event #3 goes to Dave Collier
who outlasts Kal Kooner for
the win
And in the
vein of repeat winners Dave Collier notches career die hard win #4 in only his
3rd season of play and only his 23rd tournament played,
which is a very remarkable feat.
September 21, 2019: Mike Mittermuller
wins Event #2 and takes the points beating Tony Washburn (on rebuy)
Event #2
and it was another great night of poker. One minor tweak to the structure
resulted in the tourney finishing exactly as planned. Several big TDA decisions
by the floor needed to be made but overall things went smoothly.
September 8, 2019: Brant Taylor takes Event #1
but alas was on rebuy awarding second place finisher Paul Deol the 10,000
points
100 entries
for the kickoff to Season 15. Great turnout and some fun poker resulted in the
usual suckouts, bad play, great play and fun. The new
Big Blind ante format went well with the tourney finishing up only 20-30
minutes after the plan. Brant tied the record with his 5th DHPL win.
Thanks for coming out and congrats to all those that cashed and pointed in this
event.
September 3rd, 2019: DHPL Fantasy
Please note
that we will be doing the DHPL Fantasy again this year. The sheet is posted. We
will print out a bunch and bring them on Friday as well. $50 Entry. Pick the bet player in each box.
September 3rd, 2019: Let the Games
Begin!
Saturday at
5pm cards are in the air. Please make sure to show up early so we can handle
all the buy ins. We should be ready to start accepting buy ins by 4pm.
For this
event you need:
New to league: $500 USD (or $700 CAD) for league fees PLUS
$100 CAD for the cash buy in.
Returning League Member: $150 USD (or $210 CAD) for league fees
PLUS $100 CAD for the cash buy in. If you can handle the money, please pay for
the entire league fees as that will make my life much easier at future events.
Big Blind Ante
Please note
that we will be running the tourney with a big blind ante this year.
Essentially the player in the big blind will pay the BB plus the same amount in
dead money into the middle.
Start Times
Saturday
start times will be 5pm and Friday start times will be 6:30pm. Please note
these time changes. They are being made to help allow us to get as much play as
possible in the tourney’s.
Maxed Out
We are
absolutely maxed out for this year with 100 members. As such, for Event #1
there will be NO DROPINS allowed. Once we have things sorted out we should be
able to start allowing dropins at Event #2 but they
will likely be extremely limited this year.
Please also
note that we can only setup 11 tables (99 players), so if you show up late you
may be waiting for someone to bustout before you have
your seat.
Show Up or Lose Your Spot
For event
#1 we currently have 13 people on the waitlist. I am inviting them all to come
out to play, effectively they are Event #1’s dropins.
There is a high likelihood that some of you will noshow
to the first event and not tell me about it. Note that if you do not show for
Event #1 and I have not heard from you, you WILL LOSE YOUR SPOT IN THE LEAGUE
and I will give it to the first person on the waitlist that shows up on
Saturday. So far I know of these 5 not coming for event one and their spots are
safe: Mike Honeyman, Dan Cassidy, Dennis Neels, Craig
Roberts, Mike Taylor.
The
waitlist order is on the website at Membership List.
Most
everything will likely remain the same
August 8th, 2019: All Dates are now
Confirmed
We have had
to adjust two dates due to the Arizona Room not being available. The new dates
are right above here and are 100% locked in.
July 30, 2019: 15th DHPL Season Set
to Begin on September 7th!
Welcome
back to our 15th season of the Die Hard Poker League. Crazy when I see it in
print that what started 15 years ago as me and 22 ball and work buddies playing
poker together has morphed into a league where we give away over $150,000 CAD
in combined prizes last year! Its insane to think
about.
Looking
forward to another season. We have a couple small changes this year and some
housekeeping to take care of.
1. First
off we are once again going to cap it at 100 players. Simply not enough space
for more players than that. Buy-ins will remain the same at $100 per event and
league fees of $500 USD will also remain the same.
2. Existing
league members: I need to hear from you via email that you are coming back.
Please respond to this email and confirm for me that you will be returning. IF
I DON'T HEAR FROM YOU YOUR SPOT WILL BE GIVEN AWAY! An * on the
http://www.diehardpoker.ca/MembershipList.htm page indicates I have heard from
you. There are a lot of you I am already sure about, but please check the list
and if you don't have a '*' send me an email.
3. New
league members: you must wait until Aug 7 to know for sure whether you have a
spot. I expect everyone will get a spot but I need to wait until then to be
sure. If your name is on this list:
http://www.diehardpoker.ca/MembershipList.htm then I know you are interested in
joining. If it is not on that list then you need to email me before Aug 7 and
let me know. All players emailing me by Aug 7 will be treated equally and a
draw (if necessary) will be done to determine which new players get to join to
fill us up to 100 players.
Please note
that for new players, you will need to etransfer me
$100 CAD to hold your spot. That $100 will be used for your buyin
into the first event. I am sorry to require this but we always have 20-30% of
new players that say they are coming dropout and it results in me having to
tell people no that wanted to join the league. This
keeps it serious.
4. BB
Antes. We tried out the BB Ante at the summer $200 event. It was successful
though I slowed the blinds down a bit more than I should have. I have made
adjustments and we should be good to go for the first event.
5. Events
will be 5 Saturdays (5pm start) and 5 Fridays (6:30pm start) this year. This
has been an ongoing request I have received by multiple people every year and
this year I have decided its time to try it. The
final will once again be on a Saturday with a noon start.
PROPOSED
DATES (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
#1:
Saturday Sept 7
#2: Friday
Sept 20
#3:
Saturday Oct 5
#4: Friday
Nov 8
#5:
Saturday Nov 23
#6: Friday
Dec 13
#7:
Saturday Jan 11
#8: Friday
Jan 24
#9:
Saturday Feb 15
#10: Friday
Mar 13
FINAL:
Saturday Apr 4 (NOON START)
6. Fridays
will start a half hour earlier than in the past. We will start at 6:30pm. This
is primarily due to push back from the facility as they want us to get out
earlier than in the past. I know its tough for those
coming from far away or who work later but it is a must.
7. Finally
new rule changes. If you have a rule complaint or anything to do with the
league and the way we run it including tournament play, prizes, or just about
anything this is the one time of the year I will listen to rule change
requests. Please send them in to me and I will accumulate and address
them.
Thanks
Everyone and look forward to seeing you all in September. I will be back full
time this year as my Netherlands time ends as of Aug 26 so looking forward to
cashing a few of these tournies this year.
Please
email me and not text or phone as I am in Europe for the next 4 weeks.
July 12, 2019: $200 Buyin
Summer Special Tourney on for July 19
Hey guys we
are putting on a $200 buyin tourney for next Friday.
Let your friends know.
Time for probably our
only summer event as I will not be around until end of August after this one.
Setting up a $200 buyin tourney for one week from
today. I know that it is not that much notice, but it is what I can work with.
I need to hear from you if you are planning to come. Please show up by 6:30pm
to buy in to the tourney. Tourney will be same structure as our regular
tourneys except we are upping the start stack to 15,000 for this event.
It will be a great
chance to talk about possible rule changes for next season and discuss
everything that happened in this summers’ WSOP etc. I do owe another full
update on what our winners have been doing, but spoiler alert, no cashes from
our winners and just one person left to play.
I will be putting
potential league dates for the new year together in the next few days and
posting it up on the site
Are you new to the
league? This is also a great chance for those that are new to the league to
come out and play with us to get a feel for what the league will offer.
Who's coming? Send me
an email and let me know!
June 25, 2019: Bobbi Frost and Johnny Dai Cash
Tourney and More Updates From WSOP
Bobbi Frost
played and cashed in the Monster Stack to make it back-to-back years cashing in
this event. Bobbi was playing on our own and ashed in
793rd place for $2,369.00 She went out on a flip in her last hand
holding AJ to 66.
Johnny Dai
just finished playing a $600 Venetian tourney and went out in 87th
place of 1,987 players to cash for $1,900. Great job Johnny.
Andrew Krywaniuk also played the Monster Stack as a league winner
and made it late in the night on Day 1 but went out in Level 10 when he picked
up TT and ran into AA in a cooler.
Garry and
Mark Juvelin also both played the Mosnter
Stack and had no success.
Brent Miscisco played a $2,500 NLH tourney as a league winner on
June 20 and had his KK crushed by A4 on a Q44 board. And yes the river added
insult with an Ace hitting it.
Tosca Leuks played the ladies event and made it into Day 2 being
the first player from the league to actually bag at the end of the day.
Unfortunately, she was short and although she doubled that stack 3 times on day
2 she eventually picked up AK and ran into KK and did not advance into the money.
Michelle
Owen and Jason Nadeau both played in HORSE events at the Orleans on June 17,
but neither were able to find a cash.
Dan Cassidy
is currently playing the $600 bracelet event. Good luck to you Dan.
I receive
messages from you guys on multiple different platforms (2 diff phones, twitter,
email, FB) so if I missed anyone I am sorry. I love hearing the updates so keep
them coming. Let’s hear some more success stories!!!
Coming up we
have Bruce, Dan and Alyssa all slated to play the Mini Main on July 1 followed
by our two big winners Mike Twitchell and Dave Collier set to play the $10K
WSOP Main Event on July 5th. Next is Dan Molatore
playing Event #79 a $3,000 NLH and finally Mo Pannun
will play a $1,500 NLH on July 11.
As for me I
am over here in the Netherlands and just played a €700 Main Event in the Breda
Poker Series where I cashed 26th place of 202 players for €1,369. A
solid warmup for the WSOP.
June 17, 2019: Brant Taylor Cashes and More
Updates From WSOP
Brant
Taylor playing on his own dime cashed the $1000 Double Stack falling in 700th
place out of 6214 players to cash for $1,690. Nice work Brant
Mark McInney took his last buyin in
the Millionaire Maker and did not succeed in cashing.
Roger Grosset took his luck to the Millionaire Maker. He worked
hard building a stack and then got it all in on the QJ45ddxx board vs a flush
draw for a big pot… you know the rest. He did manage to bink
the daily $100 buyin tourney at the Rio poker room
though so he didn’t go home empty handed.
Pat Woelk played the Seniors Event and had an absolute cooler
flopping top set with QQ on a Q98 board and running into a guy holding the
stone cold nuts withs JT. The board did not pair and Pat rebought. His second
buy also went poorly and Pat was out the door.
Coming up
we have Tosca Lueks playing the Ladies event on
Thursday, June 20th and Brent Miscisco
playing a $2500 NLH on the same day.
June 4, 2019: Mark Scott and Jamil Jutha Cash Event #9
Congrats to
Die Hard regulars Mark Scott (471st for $1,388) and Jamil Jutha (213th for $2,257) who both cashed in the $600 NLH
Event #9 today. Both were league members last year. This was Marks 4th
career WSOP cash and Jamil’s first ever WSOP cash. Congrats guys!
June 4, 2019: No Early Success for DHPL Winners
at WSOP
So far we
have had Mark McKinney enter Events #9 ($600 NLH), #12 ($1,000 NLH Turbo
Bounty) and Steve McLarty also enter Event #12. Both players have failed to
make the money, Mark had a crushing blow to bust #9 yesterday when his AA got
all in on a flop of 99T vs QQ only to see the Q spike the turn in brutal
fashion. Steve busted out today when he pushed with AK vs QQ. He hit the King
on the flop but lost when the board ran out a 4 flush for his opponent.
May 26, 2019: WSOP Die Hard Players Update
The WSOP starts on Wednesday and most of our winners have sent me
updates as to when they will be playing. If you are going down to playing an
Event let me know and I will post it here so we can keep track of everyone.
Die Hard Main Leagues Winners:
· Mark McInney $3,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #9 June 3, $600 NLH, Event
#12, June 4, $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty, Event #19 June 10, $1,500 Millionaire
Maker (May 30-June 13) -busted Event 9, 12, 19
· Steve McLarty $1,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #12 June 4, $1,000 NLH -busto
· Roger Grosset $1,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #19 June 8, $1,500
Millionaire Maker -busto
· Pat Woelk $1,500 WSOP + $500 cash Event #32 June 13, Seniors NLH +
$500 for second Seniors bullet -busto
· Tosca Lueks Wild Card#1 $1,000 WSOP + $500
cash Event #47 June
20, $1,000 Ladies NLH -busto Day 2
· Brent Miscisco $2,500 WSOP + $500 cash Event #48 June 20, $2500 NLH -busto
· Andrew Krywaniuk $1,500 WSOP + $500 cash Event #50 June 21, $1,500 Monster
Stack NLH -busto
· Bruce Lawson $1,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #69 July 1, $1,000 Mini Main Event NLH
· Dan Cassidy Wild Card#2 $1,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #69 July 1, $1,000 Mini Main Event
NLH (June 23-July 7)
· Alyssa Webber $1,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #69 July 1, $1,000 Mini Main Event NLH
(June 23-July 7)
· Mike Twitchell $10,000 WSOP ME Seat + $800 cash Event #73C July 5-16, Event#14, June
5-8 (July 4-???)
· Dave Collier $10,000 WSOP ME Seat + $800 cash Event #73C July 5-16 (July 5-11)
· Dan Molatore $2,000 WSOP + $500 cash Event #79 July 9 – $3,000 NLH
· Mo Pannun $1,500 WSOP + $500 cash Event #82 July 11, $1500 DoubleStack NLH (July10-16)
Horse Winners
· Mike Twitchell $1,500 HORSE Seat Event #73C July 5-16, Event#14, June 5-8 -busto
· Michelle Owen $1,500 HORSE Seat Event #?? June ??
· Jason Nadeau $500 HORSE Seat Event #?? June ?? – undecided -busto
Non-Winners also heading to WSOP:
· Darren Kennedy – July 4-15
April 6, 2019: Dave Collier and Mike Twitchell
to Play WSOP Main Event
The 14th Season of the Die Hard Poker League ended last night with
$45,600 USD worth of prizes awarded including 2 $10K World Series of Poker Main
Event Seats and 12 other WSOP buyins. Congrats to
everyone that one a seat but especially to Dave Collier and Mike Twitchell who
won the big prizes. Mike Twitchell unbelievably finished first in both the Main
League and the HORSE League.
Mike Twitchell $10,800
Dave Collier $10,800
Mark McKinney $3,500
Brent Miscisco $3,000
Dan Molatore $2,500
Mo Pannun $2,000
Andrew Krywaniuk $2,000
Pat Woelk $2,000
Steve McLarty $1,500
Bruce Lawson $1,500
Alyssa Jane Webber $1,500
Roger Grosset $1,500
Tosca Lueks $1,500
Dan Cassidy $1,500
I forgot to take the photo while Dan Cassidy and Tosca Lueks were still there, but the rest of the winners are in
the photo.
Interesting stats from the event include 10 of the top 22 starting
stacks got seats. The other 4 started with 7,500 (Steve M), 5,800 (Tosca),
4,500 (Mo) and 3,500 (Brent M) chips respectively.
As can be expected there was some drame, some suckouts, some fist pumping moments and some absolutely
crushing blows. One of the most significant ones came with 14 players remaining
and Shawn Lange calling all in with a heatlhy stack
and KK vs Mark McInney’s AJ. Due to the Wild Card
seats, all players except Shawn L, Pat and Dave C were already guaranteed
seats. Shawn needed top 12 to make it. As luck would have it the board ran out
safe until a crushing Ace on the river all but ended his chances leaving him
with about 3000 chips. He would double once more from there but ultimately fall
short. This gave Dan Cassidy who had busted in 15th a Wild Card seat. First
time we ever had someone bust and think they came short only to watch someone
else’s misfortune give him a package.
Nothing made me more sick then when Brad McKibbon
was all in vs 2 players with 77 and the turn was brought early before the other
two players had completed action. That turn would as usual need to go back and
reshuffled. That turn, a 7, would have given Brad a set of 77’s to beat the
other players TT. It resulted in Brad’s elimination and is as I said the most
absolutely sickening way to bust a tournament.
There was another hand where set over set fell to a rivered straight.
There were Aces being cracked by AK all in preflop. There were Aces being
cracked by baby pairs preflop.
Dave Collier won a massive 44 vs AT flip versus Brent who was then
knocked out shortly after. Dave Collier, Mark McInney
and Mike Twitchell played 3 handed for about 90 minutes. They traded the chiplead numerous times, but in the end Dave went on a
heater and with Dave and Mike beign fairly even, Dave
once again took 44 vs Mark’s AT and held to give us our winners.
Good luck in Vegas everyone. Thanks for making our Die Hard Poker League
continue to thrive!!
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.
Mike Twitchell $1,500
Michelle Harker Owen $1,500
Jason Nadeau $500
Darren
778-870-6319
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If you
don't already have it, download the free PokerStars software from
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Open the
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Click the
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Enter my
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