Played Keepers 2/5 Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning. Jumped into the MSPT Satty as well but didn't fair too well. I chipped up decent at my starting table but then in broke in the 3rd Level ... I had just taken down the previous 2 hands PF with opening raises when this happens ...

V opens UTG for 1300 (200-400) and I flat with TT, one other caller. Flop is T64 V bets out 1900 ... I raise to 4200 and V shoves. I call of course assuming/hoping that V has AA/KK .. He shows AK ... Q on River of course. V barely has me covered and sheepishly says ...
1) I thought you were just making a move based on the previous 2 hands.
2) I didn't realize how big your stack was.

Jump back on the 2/5 must move and play til early morning. Moderate to excellent action for sure. Seems there was a lot of Detroit conversation at the table .. maybe some of you were there? GL

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Nice article ... I spotted a couple of issues within the bill. Doubt they made any changes after I called both sides. Michigan Charity Association never called me back either. We'll see if the Governor even signs it .. They'll be the hurdle anyway.

Smashing turnout at Firekeepers yesterday for the $400. Blew away the last tournament with well over 350 entries. All alternates were seated by 800-1600 with 25bb. They probably could've played a lot longer but they worked some sort of 6-way chop (after the 9-way and 7-way chop discussions failed). It would've been over $26K up top but I didn't get any of the details.

Plenty of discussion over changes that 'need' to be made for the next one. Starting at 10:00 AM being one of them. I don't really think there were too many re-entries this time around but there were around 116 alternates that made it into play once the ball dropped at Noon.

Pretty good 1/2 (short lived 2/5) and high action 1/3 PLO well into the night. BBJ still hasn't hit either ... $116K. GL

Played the $400 for the first time yesterday. Was fun, but plenty of levels get skipped early on, and later stages even the biggest stacks only have about 20 BB.

A 10am start would be fine, but are they going to add in levels? Otherwise they're just going to have the final table chop at about 11pm instead of 1am.

Action was great for a Sunday. I expectt the MSPT is going to be just as good as last October.

Yeah moving it up to 10 would be fine but only if they added some levels. Not sure about the later levels but the first few go:

25/50
50/100
100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800/100

Coloring up 25's right away really kills that structure to the point where starting with 40k doesn't really mean much. I'd rather have a 25-30k stack with more levels than the current set up.

Having 25 denomination chips and never using them for antes is utterly stupid. Your almost playing two levels of pointless poker in the beginning. Not enough people are busting early on creating a rubber band effect later.

Your never going to convince someone to start with less chips. So I'd just get rid of the 25-50 lvl completely. There is no reason to play 800bb tournament poker. Levels should be
50-100
100-200
150-300 25
200-400 25

and so on....I'd be happy getting rid of 150-300. Get rid of the silly levels early and add them at the end.

Chop details from Firekeepers 400
Nick Jivkov (bracelet winner and 1 mill in career earnings)= 20k
Mike Deis(2014 MSPT POY and 250k in earnings )=17k
3rd-6th = between 12k and 10k each.

My thoughts on the tourney- The cream is rising to the top (I'm 0 for 3 btw), the last 3 winners are Tom Midena (626k career earnings), Pat Steele (366k), and Nick Jivkov (1mill). The structure is definitely very fast in some spots but remember it isn't a multi day tourney. It had 115 alternates so the demand is there. I think they should slowly raise the buy-in until they find the sweet spot for less alternates while still continuing to grow the prizepool. I'm sure many people choose not to use the one rebuy allowed because of how long it takes to get back in. They could also keep registration open longer if they had less people waiting. It closed after first break or start of level 5. Firekeepers is doing a great job at drawing from many surrounding areas- Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Fort Wayne, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo. If they could make the event center available for poker they could run a successful week long series similar to the Chicago Poker Classic.

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nice to see the big turnout.

Raising the buy-in and making the structure slower?

I'm 0/2 and feeling salty about it as well

Good stuff hamm ... I was late arriving and was alternate 100 at 1:30ish. They had only sat 10 alternates by that time and only 16 entries came after mine so yes, probably a minimum of re-entries this time around.

MSPT has late reg (1 re-entry per flight) until end of Level 8 (2nd break) but is obv a 2-day event as well with longer levels.

FK has a lack of 'good' cameras in the Bingo area so it would take some major work to hold something in there. Not really sure how SEagle (or any other HPT site) holds tournaments in 'event' type areas if they also have the lack of cameras? Or perhaps FK is just making this a requirement for their internal events. BabyDutch (or other) .. What is the camera situation in Milwaukee for MSPT. Really stumps me that Poto only has 2 Day 1s for their 4 MSPT events, but that's for another thread/post. GL

Not sure how I stumbled onto this, but I can answer in detail. The Shark Tank is not a charity room, they are a "private card club." Membership is open to the public just need to fill out a membership form and present ID. They do run charity tournaments occasionally, the week you were in town they were hosting a charity tournament/memorial/silent auction fundraiser in honor of one of the members that was well known and passed away unexpectedly a few years ago.

The club itself does not take a rake in the cash games, you pay a daily club fee. Same for the tournaments, daily club fee. They spread 20/40 Horse on Wednesdays and 10/20 O8 on Sundays. They have 1/2 NL every night, usually 2 tables with one starting around 7:30 and another around 10. The buy-ins are 300 max or 75% of biggest stack. It's not uncommon to see average stacks in the $700 - $1000 range and the game play more like a 2/5 game. They do take 2 dollars out of pots (forget the actual size in which they drop) for a player promotional fund. They have had monthly cash promotions recently where if you play 20 or more hours, you qualify for a free roll tournament with guarantees between 10,000 - 15,000

The daily tournaments get anywhere from 35 - 45 people in them. Some days (Mon/Weds/Fri) can get upwards of 80 people in them. They also run Tournament series with larger guarantees usually every other month.

Overall, the game quality is very good, the room is extremely well ran and I would recommend this room to anybody visiting the area. I play here much more than Hollywood. Only drawbacks is they don't spread PLO very often, and if you want to play bigger games, 5/10 NL/PLO+ then you would be out of luck.

From what I remember, they have portable cameras installed at certain points around the ballroom where they hold the MSPT event in Milwaukee. The tables are actually pretty close together, and don't take up much of the room. For Day 2 they move the remaining players back into the poker room till the final table.

Much like how the CPC takes place in the event center, and SE used to have their HPT event in the ballroom, I believe those spaces were designed with pre-existing cameras. I am not positive on that though. I know the cost of adding cameras has killed certain tournament tours from going to spots in Ohio bc the casinos didn't see it as a worthwhile investment.

QoH II opening soon ?

QoH II fitty dollar friday's?

A bit of a drive perhaps .. but 1 or 2 new charity rooms are trying to open in Jackson by the end of July. Supplier of Trippers (Reno's East/West) in Lansing is making a push. Don't know locations as of yet. Same owner operates in Waterford as well I guess.

2/5 got started late (about 1000) last night at FK but it was worth the wait. A guy who was basically sitting on his hands during the 1-2 play came to life and it was very active until 200. GL

Good Luck Weekend Grinders. Hope to see everyone at the new QoH II.

This wasn't the case last time I was there (April 2016).

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I'm back guys =D

Having lived out of the country for the past year, can anyone bring me up to speed on all things Detroit/sports/poker?

1) MCC shipped a $566K BBJ last May
2) MGM moved their room to a better location and is improved overall

3) Still no tournaments at casinos in Detroit, plenty at Toledo and Battle Creek
4) Charity scene is more comfortable with enforcement issues and booming on 'only' $15K in chips per day

5) Red Wings and Pistons will both play 'in the shadow' of MCC/MGM this Fall/Winter at Little Caesars Arena.
6) Matt Stafford still makes too much money .. and will make even more soon

7) The Tigers bullpen still stinks
8) The Tigers bullpen manager still stinks .. according to most. GL

What a time to be alive.

But seriously WTF red wings. All that hype for "keeping up the streak" just to be irrelevant because we can't get decent draft positions.

Also RIP Foster and Valenti. Valenti needs to find a new black man in his life ASAP.

Edit: Any story on who/how BBJ?

More local boyz may know more specific details ... but I was at the very next table trying out the 5/10 game!! (Joy)

Pocket 4s v 7s .. All-in by Flop for sure, maybe PF. I can still hear the snap of the River card come off the deck in my sleep. Around 2:00 AM at 1/2 table ...

There was a straight flush also possible on the board that would've canceled out the 4444x hand and made it a 'mini' win only.

One guy was from Toledo and apparently didn't have ID.

Go back in this thread from last May and check out the other posts.

There was a whole litney of posts leading up to 'the event'. Long wait lists, tired dealers .. and much more! GL

Been running terrible at the end of tournaments for months now. Last night was our last WSOP league tournament before today's final table. I was 9 pts off the final, pts go 14,11,10,9... so I needed to basically bink it and have 4 other guys get 0 points. So the exact guys I needed to bust started to bust, I won a couple of flips, down to 1 table, I keep moving up... 5 left, I need to come in 4th.... If I do I will start the final table w/ 100ish bbs (shortest stack though.) So I tighten the **** up. A couple of these guys have big stacks locked up at the final, they will make some kind of move here to get home to rest for today.... I have 20 bbs, go card dead, fold everything, make no moves... Start to become shorter though, blinds go up, nobody busts. I'm down to 11 bbs (next highest was like 20 at this point), guy min raises utg. I'm next and see JJ. This is really close I think. In hindsight I should fold this, qq+ should be my go with range, maybe even kk+. Anyway, I shove, guy has qq, I bubble final table by 1 point.