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Let's have some social poker games and tournament's! Poker Tables, chips, cards timers, Patio environment for breaks and quests are welcome to hang out. The Tasting Room offers tasty hot snacks, fabulous Meals, Flavorful Wines and maybe a BBQ or two. But always at the Lions Den Great Poker...The Lions Den only post games that are played at the Den.
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See all- Mixed Game Live Series - Event #5 - NEW GAMES !Don's Square Deal Ranch, Sun Valley, CA
Back by Popular demand !
Lion's Den Live Mixed Games Series
NEW CHANGES FOR 2025 - READ ON !
-8 Monthly (ish) Tournaments of Mixed Games.!
(75 % of prize pool goes to tournament winners - 25% of prize pool is held out for the Series Final Game Payout)Event #5 - NEW GAMES - Sat Sept 20th- Please confirm
12:30 pm
Something new this year. We are going to try 3-4 newer popular games among mixed game poker lovers. TBD - On the list for consideration: PLO Double Board Bomb pots, Dramaha, DrawmahaDugi, Courchevel SOHE Simultanious Hold Em PLO (get 6 cards and set you hold em and Omaha hands before flop - split pot) , Archie, Super Stud.
My Current Opinion on the games we should include
1. Double board PLO Bomb Pot
2. DramahaDugi (5 card PLO with a draw pre flop - best badugi splits with best high hand)
3. Simultanious Hold Em PLOWe will discuss at event 4.
How to Play Courchevel Poker - Rules, Hands & Strategy
Drawmaha Rules and Basic Strategy - CountingOuts.com
SOHE: Simultaneous Omaha and Hold'em by Jim Donahue - Books and Publications - Book and Magazine ReviewsList of Games
Location: Don G's ranch in Sun Valley CA
-Optional Last longer pools every game !
-Top notch Home cooked meal every game !
-Series Final for qualifiers
Days and Starts Times - Saturday's at 12:30 PM registration - Cards in the air at 1 pm
(see schedule below)Entry - $125
Optional entry for $95 to play for days prize $ only - not to qualify for series final
+$15 per person for additional 3k in starting chipsSchedule: all start times are 12:30 pm registration - 1 pm cards in the air
dates subject to change
Event #1 - 8 Game Mix - Sat February 22nd (We will not include NLHE probably replace it with Crazy Pineapple Hi/Low)
Event #2 - PLO/PLO8/PL BIG O - Sat March 15
Event #3 - LIMIT - Badugi/ Badacey/ 2-7 Triple Draw - Sat April 19th
Event #4 - Dealers Choice - Sat Aug 9th
Event #5 - July 22nd - New Games tbd - Sat Sept 20
Event #6 - Triple STUD - LIMIT (Razz, Stud Hi, Stud Hi/Low 8 or better) - Sat Aug Oct 11
Event #7 - Pot Limit - Badugi/ Badacey/ 2-7 Triple Draw - Sat NOV
Event #8 - H.O.R.S.E - Sat Dec
Series Final: Dealers Choice -Sat tbd***
Series details:
Entry: $125 (8k in chips)
optional $15 - extra 3k in chips - goes toward house expenses
If you bust in first 5 levels and want to re-enter you can for $70 (10k in chips)Option to play for the days prize money but not for series Final qualification
Entry: $95 (8k in chips)
optional $15 - extra 3k in chips - goes to house to cover food and home expenses -
If you bust in first 5 levels and want to re-enter you can for $70 (10k in chips)If you are eating lunch with us but choose to not buy $15 for 3 k in extra chips - $10 toward food/expenses
75% of $ goes to days prize pool
25% of $ is held out for series FinalHow to qualify for Series final.
1 out of every 8 entries from each Qualifying Tournament (8) will automatically win entry to series Final.
Minimum of 2 players from each qualifying event will qualify for series final even if we get less than 16 entries.Loyalty Clause - If you play 5 times and fail to qualify you win entry to the series final but your buy in to the Finals is an additional $20 $170
Re-enters count as 1/2 buy in toward loyalty clause.
If you played 5 times and failed to qualify your future entries get reduced to $100 with $60 re-entersSeries Final will be $150 entry - for qualifiers
(There will hopefully$1000 - $1500 dollars added to the Series final collected from all the qualifying events.)
Series final Start Stack: 15k (plus any bonus chips you have wonIncentives to continue playing after you have already qualified for series final.
-Once you have won your entry to the series final the future qualifying tournaments will be a reduced entry of $85, and re-enter is $60- Any time you win a tournament - 1st place you get 500 bonus chips for series final (if chopped - goes to highest stack)
-Anytime you re-qualify for the series final you get $20 off your future series tournaments, $20 off from the series final entry and an additional 1000 chips added to your stack for series Final.
Last Longer Pools (Optional for a bigger payout for the qualifying tournaments): We usually run an optional last longer pool for all qualifying events.
Usually $40 - This $ goes to the player that lasts the longest in the tournament that bought in to the last longer pool.
If you re-enter you remain in the Last longer pool with no addition $ paid
This LLP $ can be chopped in any way at any point with all remaining players agreeing to the chop.MVP - Top 2 ?
-There is a Top 3 MVP race for top 2 performers in the series
We will take out $60 from every tournament (including the Final) to pay the top 2 players in the series MVP race
1st - $400
2nd - $140Top 8 players in each qualifying tournament win MVP points
(No more than half of the people that show up can win MVP points - so if we get 11 players only only top 5 would get MVP points etc.)
