The Mourant Charity Game: April - August

With the help of BT, Kermit and The Fish, I've organised a series of live, multi-table tournaments and all proceeds from the buy-ins go to charity (Headway, Cancer Research Jersey & Jersey Hospice).

The structure is pretty cool, and is especially good for anyone in Jersey wanting to improve their tournament game (me included, because I rarely cash in a live tourney).

Basically, I've got five heats, and at each heat, 35 points is up for grabs - 20 for the winner, 10 for second place and 5 for third place. The ten players highest on the leaderboard at the end of the heats, win seats to the final table in August.

Each heat carries a £10 buy-in (for 5000 or 3000 chips depending on the numbers) with £10 re-buys in the first 90 minutes. Demand is high and I filled the four tables in three days so opened a fifth table and that filled the next day, so we have 5o starters for Heat One on Friday, 4th April!

As it's a league, obviously it's best to play in as many heats as possible.

At each heat, we have some tasty prizes for first, second and third place (as the buy-ins are going to charity) including official WSOP chips, limited edition Hendon Mob chips, top quality poker tables, DVD players and much, much more.

Obviously everyone is playing to get to the finals and to win the Championship, which is a rather tasty trophy (see below) and a top prize (yet to be finalised, but probably something like a Widescreen TV or some other bit of gadgetry).






The final table is a deepstack 30,000 chip freezeout and before the cards are dealt, we'll announce who the 'player of the year' is based on the highest points on the leaderboard. If any of the finalists then go on to take the 'player of the year' out the final, they win a terminator prize! Obviously if the player of the year goes on to win the tournament, they get to keep the terminator prize in addition to the main prize and both trophies! Nice!

I'll be covering each heat, with photos and how the leaderboard is looking right here, as the tournament has been put together by the fishhookpoker crew and most of us, including Poker Princess and Pokerbrat, will be at the table trying to last longer than each other! It would be a little embarrassing if none of us made it to the final table in August!

I'm off to The Vic on Tuesday night with BT, so looking forward to taking down some cockney cash! I'm also going to the Pomme tomorrow night for the cash game, hoping to bulk up my bankroll for the Vic.