The 2022-23 season schedule has been posted to the events pages on the website! As always, it’s subject to change, but that is the schedule we try to hold to. Mark your calendars and don’t miss our 19th season!
New blind structures and starting stacks are being developed and will be posted soon.
See the attached list for the current qualifiers for the 2022 Tournament of Champions.
We just completed the third event of the 2021-22 season, with 51 runners at the Thanksgiving Challenge.
A quick observation is that some play has seemed to slow down, meaning that the tournaments are running a little longer than usual (and not that players are playing their hands slowly or something like that) and we’re reaching blind levels not normally seen. I’m not sure why this is, perhaps after all the time off we’re still not back in “poker shape”? Less reckless aggression? Who knows. But it certainly is strange to see an average stack of 125k or so heads up and blinds of 15k/30k. A 4BB avg stack is certainly SHORT. LOL Needless to say, when we get to that level, the tournament is usually over pretty quickly thereafter.
Something to consider for next season, especially if this trend continues, would be to add a BB-Ante. Now, I know most aren’t fans of ante’s and particularly aren’t fans when everyone has to do it each hand. We all know the large/major tournaments have all moved to the BB Ante and it is a fact of life there. I am no fan of the BB Ante either. But it does have an effect on game play and here at the MDPS, we pride ourselves in being a “training ground”, so to speak, for players to play in these larger, major, tournaments. Several of our regulars do play is these events and have had some success in them. It would certainly benefit us to emulate them as much as we can while still staying within our framework of one-day events offering a balance of play, trying to avoid the all-in fest that is common in the local charity card rooms. This isn’t something that will be implemented this season, but it would benefit us to have the discussion over the course of this season to see if this is something we want to shift towards. Keep it in mind and feel free to discuss during the upcoming tournaments.
We had 52 players, including several new ones, come out for the (slightly delayed) start to the 2021-22 MDPS Season! The results of the event has been posted to the results page, check out who took down the most bounties, who made the TV final table, and who punched their tickets to the 2022 ToC early, and who won the first event of our 18th season!
Also, a reminder, it is the responsibility of each player to protect his/her cards at all times. We did have an unfortunate incident last night where an active player’s cards got accidentally mucked and I have to make an unpleasant ruling (which, as it turns out, would have been the result of the hand anyway had it played out so that worked out anyway). Many of us use some kind of card cover and it is highly recommended, especially in our home-game, self-dealing environment. Thanks!
The video from the final event of the 2019-20 season is now posted. See it at the link below!
The 2020(21) Spring Poker Open final table video has been posted to YouTube. Check out our YouTube channel for the latest recap!
Welcome to the new MDPS website! It is very much still a work in progress as only a couple of pages have been published so far. What this space for update as to when additional pages and features are added. Be sure to check out our new YouTube channel for our final table videos! We will have guest commentators every month. In addition, the event calendar will be kept up to date. Eventually we hope to add a blog and/or comment area for the players to post their own thoughts and comments about the events. See you soon!