Aspers Casino Christmas Cracker

[SpanRmonka]

Hi all. Over the weekend I'm going to be playing my biggest ever live game.

The £250 Aspers Christmas Cracker. Its at Aspers in Stratford. Its a Mystery Bounty event where the bounties come into play or Day 2. There are 4 flights on Thurs-Sat, I'll probably play the Saturday daytime flight. I just qualified tonight by playing a £20 rebuy satellite. I had my initial buy in plus an add on, so £40 total.

Really excited, but I'll be pretty nervous on the day tho too, as I've only really played in a large casino event a handful of times. There is likely to be a 10k bounty on offer, and a massive prize pool too. I've no idea how many players to expect on each flight, or how many in total, its going to be really interesting seeing how it all unfolds.

The other little bonus is, every entry wins a mystery prize, potentially a pint at the bar, pair of socks, ipad or a TV. Never owned an ipad so that would be nice!!

Here's a link to the schedule in case anyone is interested....

The Asper's Christmas Cracker | Poker Events | Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City | London

Mystery Gift, Mystery Bounty

www.aspersstratford.co.uk

 

[Shells]

Wow! This sounds awesome AND exciting! The very best of luck and cards this weekend! Go get it!

Go ahead and give us updates from time to time if you are ok to do so.

Good luck!

 

[SpanRmonka]

Wow! This sounds awesome AND exciting! The very best of luck and cards this weekend! Go get it!

Go ahead and give us updates from time to time if you are ok to do so.

Good luck!

Thanks Shells. I will try and make some updates....especially if its going well!!

 

[Martin]

Good luck Ian looking forward to read about your profit.

 

[Ron112355]

 

[Andyreas]

Good luck for this event, Ian! 🍀

Wish you lots of fun and also a nice bounty! 🎉

I just played a micro event on 888 yesterday and I got both bounties of the second highest category. 😎

Leaving me with an ROI of 7400%. Unfortunately the buyin was only 1€ though. 🤓

 

[SpanRmonka]

Good luck Ian looking forward to read about your profit.

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Cheers guys, I'm looking forward to typing about the profit too.....hopefully!

Good luck for this event, Ian! 🍀

Wish you lots of fun and also a nice bounty! 🎉

I just played a micro event on 888 yesterday and I got both bounties of the second highest category. 😎

Leaving me with an ROI of 7400%. Unfortunately the buyin was only 1€ though. 🤓

Wowzers! Nice bounties.....I'd certainly be over the moon with a ROI like that!!

 

[Andyreas]

Wowzers! Nice bounties.....I'd certainly be over the moon with a ROI like that!!

Thanks man!

18,4k would be a nice sum indeed. Get them, tiger. 😎

 

[IIZendrixII]

Congratulations! I also won in that same Satellite, and will be going on Saturday also! I was on Table 2, so no idea if I played you, but good luck regardless! It's a fun event - I played it a few years ago and won a pair of Monster Headphones worth about £160 as my gift. This will be my first ever Mystery Bounty tournament (being the first year they've made it Mystery Bounty), if I make it to Day 2!

 

[SpanRmonka]

Congratulations! I also won in that same Satellite, and will be going on Saturday also! I was on Table 2, so no idea if I played you, but good luck regardless! It's a fun event - I played it a few years ago and won a pair of Monster Headphones worth about £160 as my gift. This will be my first ever Mystery Bounty tournament (being the first year they've made it Mystery Bounty), if I make it to Day 2!

Awesome!!! Are you the guys that got quad T’s to survive? Or maybe the guy who he game a lift to?
I’m the ginger guy who got moved to table 1 for final 2 tables.
Catch you Saturday, and ideally Sunday too! 😀

 

[IIZendrixII]

Awesome!!! Are you the guys that got quad T’s to survive? Or maybe the guy who he game a lift to?
I’m the ginger guy who got moved to table 1 for final 2 tables.
Catch you Saturday, and ideally Sunday too! 😀

I'm the Quad Tens guy! Best live Quads I've had in years - See you Saturday!

Up to you whether you'd like to look at this to see the sort of thing to expect or not, but this is the last Christmas Cracker I think they had:
https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=539408
It's listed in a weird way here, because the "£50,000 Guaranteed" I think was the total value of the prizes separate to (and in addition to) the prize pool. Totalling up the entries, the total Prize Pool would be the prize pool and the guarantee added together.

Good luck!

 

[SpanRmonka]

Cheers, great info!

Hendon Mob record if you cash! Awesome.
Good luck to you too.

Incidentally, if you’re at all interested, Cardschat is a great forum. Been on here a couple of years now, the regular freerolls on loads of sites are great. It’s a solid group of players, and loads of good learning material etc.
I was not even close to good enough to get to this tourney a couple of years ago. Have to credit a lot of that to being here!

 

[machinm19]

Good luck down there guys, rooting for you all the way to make day 2.

 

[IIZendrixII]

Cheers, great info!

Hendon Mob record if you cash! Awesome.
Good luck to you too.

Incidentally, if you’re at all interested, Cardschat is a great forum. Been on here a couple of years now, the regular freerolls on loads of sites are great. It’s a solid group of players, and loads of good learning material etc.
I was not even close to good enough to get to this tourney a couple of years ago. Have to credit a lot of that to being here!

I appreciate that - I did join mainly for the Freerolls, but this was the first topic I saw that I felt I could reasonably respond to

They released a pic of some of the 'presents' you get just for participating on their Facebook:

 

[SpanRmonka]

I appreciate that - I did join mainly for the Freerolls, but this was the first topic I saw that I felt I could reasonably respond to

They released a pic of some of the 'presents' you get just for participating on their Facebook:

If you love poker you'll find so much more than the freerolls too. There's a load of great people too, its an amazing community.

Just make a few posts per day and you'll be at Platinum in no time at all!

Interesting looking mix of prizes....would def prefer the pint than some of them , but some are pretty high value too! Its a cool Christmas bonus to the tourney! 🎄

 

[whiskers77]

Oh, in the Aspers I was playing too in the 888 Live Event 2019. I was surprised, that it is in a huge shopping centre.

Best of luck there Ian! Post some pics, if possible.

 

[SpanRmonka]

Oh, in the Aspers I was playing too in the 888 Live Event 2019. I was surprised, that it is in a huge shopping centre.

Best of luck there Ian! Post some pics, if possible.

Hey Isa, cool, exciting you've been to a big event there too!

Yeah it is a bit weird, but we do love a shopping centre in the UK. Not me tho....
I'll try and make some updates and take a few pics.....good idea!

 

[IIZendrixII]

Oh, in the Aspers I was playing too in the 888 Live Event 2019. I was surprised, that it is in a huge shopping centre.

Best of luck there Ian! Post some pics, if possible.

I've satellited my way to the $109 Satellite for the 888 Live Madrid Package which I've got on Sunday evening. It would be an odd but cool problem for me to have if I'm at the final table in the Christmas Cracker, mentioning I have to be trying to win a trip to Madrid at the same time

 

[whiskers77]

I've satellited my way to the $109 Satellite for the 888 Live Madrid Package which I've got on Sunday evening. It would be an odd but cool problem for me to have if I'm at the final table in the Christmas Cracker, mentioning I have to be trying to win a trip to Madrid at the same time

Madrid sounds awesome! I wish you good luck as well

 

[whiskers77]

Hey Isa, cool, exciting you've been to a big event there too!

Yeah it is a bit weird, but we do love a shopping centre in the UK. Not me tho....
I'll try and make some updates and take a few pics.....good idea!

I am also not a fan of shopping centres, honestly

 

[SpanRmonka]

I am also not a fan of shopping centres, honestly

I believe you!! Luckily for me my girlfriend is very similar.

I suppose many of the population may be disgusted to have a massive casino being normalised by being in a shopping centre, I'm disgusted I have to walk around all the shops to get to the casino!! Although since @IIZendrixII directed me to the easy way out I'm hoping for less aimless wandering!!

 

[SpanRmonka]

Well, I didn’t really get much chance to post earlier. I do have time now as I’m out!!! 😢

Just not my day.

Early on my AA gets cracked by QQ. All in on flop when he had hit his set.

Survived for a while, battled back from 4K ish to maybe a high of 11k.
Finally shoved with AKs and got called by JTs, who flopped a J to send me home!

Oh and my ‘Christmas present’ was a free pint at the bar. So I’m having that now! 🤣

However…..like a ginger version of Arnie……I’ll be back!

It was a great experience, and I’ll def be trying to keep playing some more live games when I can.

Just chatted to @IIZendrixII amd he had almost quadrupled up his starting stack…..so he is still in with a great chance!! Go go go!!!

 

[whiskers77]

Well done, well played, Ian, just unlucky! And you know this, I am sure
Enjoy your beer there! Cheers!

Good luck to @IIZendrixII still!

 

[IIZendrixII]

Well, I didn’t really get much chance to post earlier. I do have time now as I’m out!!! 😢

Just not my day.

Early on my AA gets cracked by QQ. All in on flop when he had hit his set.

Survived for a while, battled back from 4K ish to maybe a high of 11k.
Finally shoved with AKs and got called by JTs, who flopped a J to send me home!

Oh and my ‘Christmas present’ was a free pint at the bar. So I’m having that now! 🤣

However…..like a ginger version of Arnie……I’ll be back!

It was a great experience, and I’ll def be trying to keep playing some more live games when I can.

Just chatted to @IIZendrixII amd he had almost quadrupled up his starting stack…..so he is still in with a great chance!! Go go go!!!

However great a start I had, it wasn't to last. I survived to Level 15 at 3,000/6,000 blinds, but I was short-stacked at only 27K, so shoved with A5 suited only to run into AA and QQ. QQ hit a Q on the Turn and I had nothing left to chase, so such is life! (Day 1s were 16 levels total.)

I did have some interesting hands overall though - My best was having a Full House beating another Full House. Even though I had gotten up to 93K by the end of Late Registration though, I never got higher than that, and slowly but surely my stack diminished, fluctuating a little here and there, but not by much. I got AA twice only for everyone to fold pre-flop both times, so no-go on that.

And my gift? I only got a drink too

 

[SpanRmonka]

However great a start I had, it wasn't to last. I survived to Level 15 at 3,000/6,000 blinds, but I was short-stacked at only 27K, so shoved with A5 suited only to run into AA and QQ. QQ hit a Q on the Turn and I had nothing left to chase, so such is life! (Day 1s were 16 levels total.)

I did have some interesting hands overall though - My best was having a Full House beating another Full House. Even though I had gotten up to 93K by the end of Late Registration though, I never got higher than that, and slowly but surely my stack diminished, fluctuating a little here and there, but not by much. I got AA twice only for everyone to fold pre-flop both times, so no-go on that.

And my gift? I only got a drink too

Well played mate, sometimes you just have to hang in there and hope its your day. Harsh to make it so deep but not quite enough.

When AA is not winning big pots its also tricky to keep the stack going in the right direction.
Onwards to the next big game. Hope your 888 game goes well.