The State of Festivals
Now maybe it is just me, but having experienced a number of UK poker festivals, and witnessing the electric atmosphere one generates, it has come to my attention that something is amiss?
I was at Dusk Till Dawn for the start of the tournament, their main event £750 10k 60 min clock. Something was missing? The atmosphere was completely flat, apart from the single one hand flip over satellite 2 minutes before the off. Yes the field was/ is a quality field, but this was advertised everywhere and only managed to attract 79 runners after starting with 58. Is it just the anti-climax of the Vegas fallout or just simply 79 players cannot generate the atmosphere needed in a room that seats 400?
Well, the Norweigen Championships was the most electric I have seen ANY cardroom, yet this festival (held at the same place) is the dullest I have seen a main event. Have these kind of events had their time, are they too rich to hold as every week there is a main event somewhere, or simply Vegas has taken the wind out of a few sails. It is the Broadway festival next week, so will be interesting to see just what happens there.
At the same time as this main event, APAT are holding their forum team game of which 20 forums are taking part in the Blackpool “G”. Looking at footage and following updates, it seems that the atmosphere that is missing from DTD has been absorbed into this event! The future is team games, if you are not in one at the moment, join one now, they are the most fun people can have at a poker table. But back to DTD’s Festival, at the time of posting these are the chip counts
| PLAYER | TABLE | SEAT | CHIP COUNT |
| Andy Greekfish | 15 | 1 | 156100 |
| Christopher Bruce | 15 | 4 | 140200 |
| Richard Berridge | 15 | 5 | 136400 |
| Shahnawaz Randera | 15 | 8 | 128000 |
| Marc Goodwin | 15 | 2 | 114400 |
| Jon Omara | 15 | 3 | 57300 |
| Michael Mccool | 15 | 7 | 49300 |
And as it has been decided that the 3 day event will now be a 2 day event, expect a winner tonight!!
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Tom Humes
I think it’s a combination of things, Rich:
Vegas fallout - lots of players potless
Summer - Improving weather, nobody wants to sit in a card room all night
Bubble burst - Poker’s peak has been and gone
£750 in Nottingham - Only local post office robbers have seven and a half to throw around, the rest have to travel to shootercity from nicer areas to play.
Nice blogging, btw. Shame about the site name.
I quite like the name