LIMIT CHANGE!

Please be advised we are changing our limits and from now on will focus exclusively on the following:

No Limit Hold'em

Buy-in $40 - $200

Blinds $1/$2

To avoid any doubt and misunderstanding, this means that we will no longer provide Omaha, Pineapple or Manila variations to be played, regardless of player consensus.  This rule applies solely to cash games, while tournaments may vary.

We understand it is a significant change and we hope our regular players take the opportunity to embrace it and encourage their friends and collegues (who are usually put off by scary games and limits), to come in and give it a go!

For our regulars who we know will miss some of their favourite variations such as pineapple, we just wanted to offer the following reasons to clarify what we are trying to achieve.

First and foremost it is a business decision based on the evidence that certain variations and limits simply do not have enough players to sustain it, and when played at almost every opportunity, (including busy rugby weekends for example), it is cutting out walk-ins and further reducing the player pool. With a reputation of consistently being leveraged into omaha, it makes it difficult for newer players to even consider visiting.

Rather, we believe it is in everyone’s best interests for us to embrace a more casual, mainstream player, and unfortunately being able to offer a range of games and limits (which ultimately results in omaha being played) does not help us achieve this goal.

In contrast, Hold’em is the most ubiquitous poker variation in existence today, and perfectly aligns with our intentions to provide a sustainable poker game that appeals to the widest audience.

With regards to the limits, we feel the range is fair, it caters to both entry level players as well as the those with a little more time and money to spend.  100 big blinds is the standard buy-in for a game of this size.  We realise this may preclude any "high stakes" action for the time being, but these games are also not common enough to warrant losing new players.

We don't expect it to magically make our poker room full every night, but it will definitely stop turning players away and will have a much greater chance of success in the long term.

Regards,

DCPoker

Terminator August Final

Tonight's Wednesday Terminator Tournament had a great turnout of 28 energetic, enthusiastic players, with the total prizepool reaching $2,160.

With the final Bounty tournament of  August giving players one more chance to increase their number of kills and takeaway another $250 for the most kills in August.

Straight to the final table we had our top 5 money makers.

• Aaron taking $150 for 5th and $100 through Bounties 

Kirby unfortunately got flopped dead by Daniel who pushed all in with 4 4 against Kirby's J 9,  Flop came 4 2 4 giving Daniel Quads off the flop knocking Kirby out in 4th taking $195 cash and one bounty.

3 left and Chris calls Jed's All in with K J, flop comes J 7 7 turns a J and rivered a 4 knocking Jed out with Q K , Jed taking 3rd place, $325 and 2 bounty's.

Heads up and the final deciding hand has  Chris with A 8 and Daniel with A 5 club.  Flop comes 8 6 3 turns a 9 and river a J giving Daniel the over all win.

Chris still taking away $560 and 7 bounty's.  Daniel also taking 7 bounty's and $931 for 1st prize.

Tonight was the final Terminator tournament of August. The $250 Terminator bonus for most KO's went to Hayden. Despite not getting any knockouts this week, his 20 banked from earlier in the month was plenty to keep him #1!

"You're not Short Stacked if you know what you're Doing"

30 Players started tonight, and it was action straight from the start with rebuy after rebuy.  67 Rebuys and 75 addons in total making a prize pool of  $2744 plus another 30 bounty's up for grab, all worth $25 each.  That's a grand total of $3494.


Final table saw Greg bubble with KK up against Zane with AK, an A fell on the turn giving Zane his pair and Greg out in 6th.

Down to our last 3 players we had Jason at a massive short stack on 37k, Hayden holding 140k and Zane in control with over 200k.

Not fazed by his short stack, Jason said "Your not short stacked if you know what your doing"  And right he was!

Jason doubles up with KK up against Jason's JJ.  Flop turn and river were no help for Hayden.  A few hands later Jason pushes all in with 55 and Hayden calls with AK, flop comes 7 2 7 turns a 6 and the river a 5 giving Jason a boat and another bounty.  Hayden leaving in 3rd place and taking away 4 bounties and $410.

Final 2 players do a deal and play the last hand blind with Jason's 57 up against Zane's 47.  Flop comes Q 2 6,  turns a 8 and the river a 4 giving Zane his pair however giving Jason his straight and overall winner taking away 1st prize of $1184 and 5 bounties as well.

True to his word Jason was never short stacked as he knew what he was doing.






 

Terminating the Competition

24 would be terminators geared up tonight. We had a prizepool of $2,100 plus $600 of bounties in the mix.

Top four got paid out this week, we had; Hayden, Alex, Josh and Daez.

Blinds 2k/4k. Josh raises to 8.5 on the SB, Hayden pushes all in, Josh calls. Hole cards;  Josh AJ, Hayden KQ. The Queen came on the flop for Hayden. Josh got an extra chance with a guttie on the turn. King on the river scored Hayden two pair ftw.  Board: 2 Q 3 5 K.

Top 3 played out for around 30 minutes, once stacks balanced out, a deal was made (even split, with a bonus $150 for 1st). With uncertainty out of the way, the tournament promptly concluded.

Alex pushed all in with Q9. Hayden was sitting in ambush, he called with AK. Alex's chances got worse after the flop, Hayden hitting trip Kings against two nines. The turn was a blank... The river was a 2nd nine. Alex rivers a full house nines over Kings, Hayden's Kings over nines took the pot. 9 K K 4 9.

Top two both went in blind. Hayden: Hayden with A8 in Clubs vs Daez with A3 in Spades. community cards: 9 7 2 5 6. Hayden hit a straight on the river (8 high was also good).

Terminator Leaderboard Update 2

After week two, the unknown Hayden has taken out 11 players to hit the lead in his first outing.  Is this a man or a machine, and will his form carry him through to win the monthly prize.  Only time will tell at this point.

Returminator Roy

We had a solid turnout this week of 31 players, the prize pool got to $1,990 with 31 x $25 bounties in the mix.

After the break, the field thinned quickly, balancing tables seemed to be like sending lambs to the slaughter.

Top 5 this week were: Julian, Chris, Hayden, John and Todd.

Julian was the short stack, he pushed for 7k, Todd followed suit, all in for 20k.  Hayden, with both players covered, called.  Julian QQ, Todd J8 and Hayden holding KQ.  Julian was looking even stronger after a flop of 6-4-5.  Then the turn came out a 2 giving everyone a gutshot!  But no, the river a K and Hayden scoops!

John managed to go under the radar on final table, holding the small stack without any bounties.  Everyone seemed to be falling around him but before he knew it he was sitting in 3rd place.  The bet made it to 36K pre from Hayden, John called and Chris folded.  Hayden pushed on a flop of 3-6-7 and John called.  98 against K9.  Open ender with a flush draw against the King overcard (no paired hole cards). 7 and 4 on the turn and river, Hayden takes the pot with a flush, securing heads-up and another bounty.

Chris and Hayden had a big exchange of power when Chris took around 70% off Hayden's stack in a previous hand.

The final hand however began with 6K/12K Blinds, Chris pushed on the SB and Hayden called.  Chris could have been testing his luck with stealing blinds... or just feeling lucky?  Chris rolls over 84 against Hayden's Q9.  A snowman, the first card out, 8-3-T the flop!  A six on the turn gave Hayden a gut shot, but a 5 on the river gave Chris the win.  Well done to Chris for impressive back to back wins and a justified 7 kills this week.

Hayden performed strongly throughout the tournament, managing to accumulate 11 bounties, kick starting himself to #1 Terminator after two weeks.

He'll Be Back!

There were 23 players this week in our first Wednesday Terminator Bounty Tournament.  The prizepool got to $2,050, with $575 in knockouts available for the taking.

Dan H, Daez, Jason, Troy and Chris R were our top 5 this week.

We sat on the bubble this week for over an hour until we got to the cash. Troy got 35k all in and was called by Dan. Troy with A9 up against QT. The flop was T 3 A to pair both players.  Troy sitting pretty with top pair, but the turn came another Ten delivering Troy a raw deal.

An interesting hand quickly followed the knockout of the bubble... Daez blind bet 50k UTG, Jason calls for 40k, Chris pushes for 70k. Daez K6, Jason 77 and Chris with 88. The flop ran out: 4 K 6 (two pair for Daez). The turn brightened up Jason's day and delivered him a set of 7's. The river a Jack. Jason takes out the main pot with a set of 7's, Daez takes the side pot for 20k, and Chris gets 20k chips back.  4 K 6 7 J on the board.

Daez got the rest of his stack in against Jason, A4 vs 42. Jason flopped a pair of 2's, the turn was a blank. A four on the river hit both players hole cards, but gave Jason two pair to make that the end of Daez. J 2 7 K 4 on the board.

Chris managed to take a majority of Jason's chips before Jason and Dan got their cards face up. Dan was all in for just under the BB (blinds 8k/16k), Jason had him just covered. Dan holding 83 against K7. With Q 2 9 A Q on the board, K high was good for Jason and Dan was erased.

Chris pushed into the shorter stack with Q7, Jason called with KT. A Queen on the flop gave the last action hero the win, with the turn and river of no consequence. 4 4 Q 8 3.

Although managing to avoid termination on several occasions himself, Chris managed to come out on top, claiming just the one kill of second place!  A special mention to Jason and Dan however, who both racked up an impressive 6 kills each!!!

Thanks to everyone who turned up to try something new, we hope to see you back next week.


And don't forget our $250 bonus for the best Terminator for the month.  Here's the tally so far:

Name	Kills
Daniel H.	6
Jason S.	6
Daez	3
Chris R.	2
Will S.	1
Roy W.	1
Gary T.	1