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Name: Trevor Owen
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Local News (East Lincolnshire)
PLAYER INFORMATION
The East Anglia Highrollers September - December 2024 season tournament will take place on Sunday 19th January 2025 at.........
Grosvenor Casino
Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth NR30 3JG
FOOD
Food will be available to purchase on the day@25% discount
This bonus game is for players who have played 30 games in the season.
Registration will open at 1.00pm and close at 1.45pm with a start time of 2pm.
There will be a 15000 starting stack with an OPTIONAL £10 side pot.
4 National seats and 1 UK Final seat will be available to win PLUS £250 added to the prizepool.
Qualifiers listed end of season
REGIONAL AND END OF SEASON GAME INFORMATION
Firstly I do realise this information is a little later than normal but the following will explain why and what has had to be re arranged.
I applied to the Palace for dates for the end of season games early November and the response I got contained a £5 levy for every player taking part in the tournaments equating to almost £1500 per season and that would be ongoing for future games held there to finance what was described as additional costs incurred during our events there.
I found this an unreasonable request knowing how much money we spend at a regional in particular so set about trying to make alternative arrangements.
I can now confirm that both the Highrollers and Regionals will be held at The Grosvenor Casino Great Yarmouth, although with certain changes having to take place due to time limitations and availability at this time of equipment. The following arrangements will hopefully be be amended for the Jan – Apr end of season games.
Highrollers Tournament
This game will take place on Sunday 19th January 2025 at Grosvenor Great Yarmouth where all qualifiers will be admitted on the same day.
Regionals
As stated above due to limitations and availability these will be as some of you remember from a few years back, be a 2 day event held at the Grosvenor Great Yarmouth.
Day 1 will be on 8th February and those who attend will play down to 9.
Day 2 will be on 15th February and will also play down to 9 to be joined by the final 9 from week 1 and play to a finish
Chips will be counted and noted, a manual adjustment will be made if there is a difference between attendances on either Day 1 or Day 2.
Day 1 will consist of venues players who are nearest to Yarmouth in case they are due to return on Day 2 being in the final 9 from Day 1
Day 1 Venues will be
Green Bear
The Albion at the bear
Lady of the Lake Monday and Thursday
The Crown Carlton Colville
Cherry Tree Norwich
Woolpack Norwich
The Boundary
The Old Mill
St Faiths Horsham
The three Horseshoes
Woodside Snooker Centre
Coach and Horses Norwich
Warwick Arms
Kings Arms Norwich
Oak Tree Norwich
Day 2 venues will be
The Grapes BSE
Green Dragon
The Crown Watton
The Jolly Farmers
Cherry Tree Wicklewood
The Gemini
Wymondham Sports bar Monday and Thursday
Railway Club BSE
The Black Swan
The Queens Head
Swaffham Con club
Carleton Rode
Both Skegness Venues
All online games
Some adjustments may be made at the end of the season for number balancing only.
NO DAY SWAPS WILL BE CONSIDERED
Payouts will be extended to 18 so everyone who makes it to the final 9 on each day will get paid.
Vegas trip will still be won.
Qualifying names will be published at the end of the season once calculated
Currently Day 1 will have a possible 116 attending and Day 2 113
I have agreed the following on your behalf with the casino
All food ( except steaks ) any time of the day will be discounted by 25%
All pump produced soft drinks will be free of charge
Staffing levels both poker related and valets will be will be a priority on tournament days
Although the club does not open until 1pm normally I will have early access to set up and players will have access from 12 Noon
Side games eg cash, crash, ringo etc will be available with cash either being dealer dealt or £3 per hour per player if self dealt
Vaping will be allowed on ground floor during tournaments but not in the pit
2 people on reception to to deal with non members on Regional day of which there are quite a few
Rules adopted are more than likely going to be Nuts eg no shuffling to the right cut to the left etc
Although cardroom magic is not licenced there at the moment they are looking to put that in place although my software is quite adequate if not available initially.
This is not a decision I wanted to make but I have been backed into a corner at relatively short notice so had to act decisively to secure what I consider best for you the players.