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MONDAY        2nd OCTOBER          $10 NLHE Bounty Comp  2 x £25 Bounties (freezeout)

WEDNESDAY  4th OCTOBER           $10 Pot Limit OMAHA  (frezeout)

THURSDAY     5th OCTOBER           $3 NLHE REBUY (2 levels of Rebuys)

MONDAY        9th OCTOBER           $10 NLHE Bounty Comp  2 x £25 Bounties (freezeout)

WEDNESDAY  11th OCTOBER          $10 Pot Limit OMAHA  (frezeout)

THURSDAY     12th OCTOBER          $3 NLHE REBUY (2 levels of Rebuys)

MONDAY        16th OCTOBER          $10 NLHE Bounty Comp  2 x £25 Bounties (freezeout)

WEDNESDAY  18th OCTOBER          $3 Pot Limit OMAHA REBUY (2 levels of rebuys)

THURSDAY     19th OCTOBER          $5 NLHE Freeze

MONDAY        23rd OCTOBER          $10 NLHE Bounty Comp  2 x £25 Bounties (freezeout)

WEDNESDAY  25th OCTOBER          $3 Pot Limit OMAHA REBUY (2 levels of rebuys)

THURSDAY     26th OCTOBER          $5 NLHE Freeze 




Points will then be multiplied by the number of runners in the event. ONLY YOUR TOP 5 RESULTS WILL SCORE

PRIZES

LEAGUE WINNER  $250 paid into blonde poker account

RUNNER UP         $150 paid into blonde poker account

THIRD                $100 paid into blonde poker account

in addition to these prizes, the top 9 players at the close of the league will play a STT on MONDAY 30th OCTOBER at 8.30pm for the following prize money.

1st     $180
2nd    $100
3rd     $70
4th    $50
5th    $40
6th    $25
7th    $15
8th    $10
9th    $10

An Extra Bounty of $50 will be placed on Pab in one of the events, to be announced.

Nothing for the weekend?

we are holding the events on school nights just for you ... we assumed you would be busy at weekends.

Another no go for me then sigh, i can only make 4 comps.

play what you can, only 5 events score.  if you are as good as you keep telling us, you should easily qualify for the final :)

Do we have to register for the league or just turn up ?

nice gesture pab            :)up

No point, the Thursday ones i can't make and they are the ones with most points on offer.

You dont have to register for the league, you just register for each tourney that you want to play in as normal.


The Monday ones were the most popular last time.

aaaaayyyyaaaarrrr

LOL

Blinder, can't wait!  8)

don't want to complain as I appreciate all the work you guys do, but, especially given feedback from the last league, it strikes me as odd that all the $3 events are rebuys.  $10 is a fair buy in for a lot of blondes who will want to take part in the freezouts, so it would have been nice to have seen at least one $3 freezout a week as there was in the last league.

 I'll be playing in as many as I can though :)

Good point Claire ..... leave it with me, I will see what I can do.

but surely you cant get the same points for winning a £3 freeze as you get for a £10 freeze ?

Yes you can, the points are linked to the amount of runners.

We want everyone to be able to take part regardless of their bankroll.

An extra $3000 of added money from flushy then!

Love the idea of only 5 counting, I can't make some of them so having 5 is a top idea.

Not that much! But it will crush Pab's $500

League schedule amended due to feedback on forum and by PM ... we have changed 2 of the 4 thursday comps to $5 freezeouts.

nice one kev  :)up

it was top 5 last time too Graham!

lol was it :D

I'll try and play 5 this time.

What about weekends??

when we did the research for the league ... way back, the majority were in favour of weekday comps as they were more often than not out at weekends, or playing live.

we went with the majority view.

However, we will be having a couple of weekend comps in October, but they wont form part of the league schedule... I assume we will be seeing you there :)

and a 9pm start would be better too for me ;tk;

What research? when? who did it?
If you mean the thread Aaron started asking for feedback and then completely ignoring it then it doesn't count anymore now than it did then!
No i won't play weekend one offs, no point is there?

Please yourself.

What about forum members who play on sites other than Blonde?   I am not sure if there are any who aren't signed up with  the Blonde PokerRoom,  but if there were,  would they be welcome to play in the league even though they were using  Blue Square for example?    I know there is a deposit into their blonde accounts for placing in the top 3 , but could this be a cheque instead.   I only ask because not everyone plays at blonde

the league games are only visible to players who play on the blonde site

http://www.blondepokerleague.com/

They cannot be accessed from any other site.

ahhhh,  ok  :D   

I never read that bit,  it is late.  I am tired. 

Me too, I was going to go to bed at 12, now it's 1.15 and I have to get up soon :(

I have this problem every day.  I say to myself  " no later than 11pm tonight".  Next thing I look it is 2am

Just managed to drag myself away from my game.  Some guy was on tilt and paying me off nicely when I hit a hand.
Small profit for the night :)  Always a nice way to end the day.

Night Blondes :)

you play 5 exs and there is no point you playing in those either xx

night graham

What are the start times?

Good to see no events on Tuesday so no clash with another forums league :)

nice work kev you will never please everybody so dont let the minority
get you down

 ;snoopy'sguns;

It would be rude not to

Pots and kettles.
I mean there is no point staying in to play a one off game, if i did then there are plenty of comps that offer better value.
I am pretty disappointed that i can't join in the league AGAIN, and that there was no consultation AGAIN but it's your train set.......

just in response to Graham's post about the start times, a few of us did feedback before the last league started that some 9pm games would be good for those of us who need to get small children settled into bed.  As I recall, Aaron said that it had been noted for the next league and there would be some 9pm games......I'll try to find the thread and link to it later. 

here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=11858.15

I'll pop down to Specsavers later :blonde:

Sometimes you have to make sacrifices yourself....

Shucks, all events while i'm at work, but will try and play the weekend ones.

I see you used my contribution to the league wisely, nice work aaron and kev. ( i have yet to pay the $500, will sort that with one of u soon)

looks like it will be good fun with plenty of braggin rights, and i hope everyone enjoys it. I try and play a few of the events for the priceless table banter that usually takes place.

Thanks for organising Kev, I will be up for this as Pot limit Omaha is one of my specialities.  ;flushy;
Will do my best to clear my diary.

Fair do's I didn't see that, cheers for posting it :)

Unfortunately we have to try and please everyone with regard to comps, times, days etc..  This is impossible however. whatever we go with, someone will be unable to play some events.

Thats why we have the "5 results count" rule in place.

I appreciate that the times and days dont suit some members and for that I can only apologise.

The decision was taken to run every comp at 8.30pm to save any confusion that mixed start times would bring.

I hope everyone will try and support the league by playing in whatever events they can.

Thanks.

Im winning this league by the way people

OK then ;D

Completely understand Kev, but isn't this a little contradictory? 
Surely a mixture of weekday/weekend games, and various starting times would be the best way to make sure everyone can play 5ish events.  As long as the starting times were published in advance I can't imagine anyone on here not being able to keep track ???

Anyway, hopefully some of the feedback on this thread can be taken on board for the next league.

I'm happy :)  And I'll support Blonde Poker and play as many as I can :)

Sorry to sound like I was being awkward about the 9pm time thing,  I was only wondering - if you don't mention it, you certainly don't get :) 

I'll be able to make at least 6 I expect :)

Great work in getting it organised Kev, I've been looking forward to the new league.

Always gonna be disagreements but you have done the best you guys can with it. I will be there for the first 5 events, but once ive won them all there is no point in me playing anymore is there?? 8)

OK, let's clear this up.

The ONLY vote I held where the winners didn't prevail was the rebuy vs freezeout dispute for the Omaha comps. As there was a lot of voters for each we hd BOTH rebuys and freezeouts in the interest of fairness and people could choose what they wanted to play.

However the research Kev is referring to is the 'days of the week' vote we held before the last league where Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were clearly voted for by the majority of people. The masses spoke and we provided.

The weekend just wasn't popular enough.

Claw,

I do feel as though I owe you an explanation...

The start times were always going to be an issue. The bottom line was 9PM was too late to start the rebuys (as after Flushy had rebought 41 times the chips in play were huge and there was loads of play), some others didn't want earlier start times for these events as they weren't long home from work.

In short, we can't please everyone.

Another large piece of feedback (mainly by PM but also mentioned a good few times on the forum) is that people STILL don't know when our comps are happening. Now we don't want to overspam everything otherwise we get complaints, so the best way to get people aware of what's going on is to regularise (is that a word?) everything.

Within a few months we hope that even the non-regular players will know that every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8:30pm there is a blonde comp. By and large we think it will work a lot better than having 3 different start times each week.

I take full responsibilty for not having a 9pm start for you after I said I would last time, but at the same time we have to think about the site and it's progress. The site is a large portion of blonde's income and we have to look after it with what decisions we think will help it.

By and large I think the news of 8:30pm start times has been well received as there haven't been many discussions about it.

So we'll stick with 8:30 for now and see how we fare.

Sorry for not coming through on the start time but I hope you understand. :)

thanks for the explanation Aaron.  As I happens, 8.30 should jsut about be ok for me, , just worried it might prevent others from playing.  It's my years as a union rep coming through I'm afraid!

Good to hear! I'll be seein you at the tables then! (Unfortunately!) :D

It was me that asked about the 9pm time, Claw just posted the reply from the last post regarding it.

8:30 is good btw :)

Suggestion alert:

Does anyone here feel it would be worth stickying this, so that people who want the complete schedule in advance don't have to search for it?

Just a thought....

(to be taken under advisement, natch)

 ;izimbra;

your wish is my command


the genie