Dom Classics, Utrecht

I’ll be travelling to destination unknown on Thursday, when I make my way to Utrecht for the Dom Classics of Poker. It’s a 2,500 Euro Main Event, and seems to be some kind of Dutch Poker Tour. Luckily,  Utrecht turns out to be not too far from Amsterdam, and it will be interesting to see a new town in a country I’m very fond of. I’ll be updating on here from Thursday!

I was checking out more precisely how the European Rankings work, and realised that I probably have the wrong game plan! The system seems a good one, as it weights points based on your finishing position(within the final nine), the number of players, and the size of the buy-in. However, their weighting for the buy-in size is very shallow, and makes little difference as you move up the stakes. A 250 Euro event gets a weighting of 2,5, increasing to 2,500 Euros only makes that up to 4.5, and even the biggest events are just 5.5. Read more