blonde poker forum

http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-forum/index.php?showtopic=132894

So who's up for playing the $40k nl? Staking board.....

That's not the full schedule - it's just the events that Negreanu plans on playing in.

I know, most info to date though

I knew a $25k + NLH event was coming at the WSOP, they'll all be calling this the 'real main event' like they do the HORSE. Should be interesting for lots of reasons, god knows how many players will enter it, under 500 imo. The betting market will be interesting on this one too, as I reckon Ivey/Hellmuth/Negreanu will be at very short odds.

The way they price these things up make me laugh, esp GUKPT events, flushy, moorman pab and serious online top MTT pros are just silly prices for 200 odd fields in comparison to players like DC and Micky Wernik being 9/1.

Tell me about it, what they really do is fuck up the 'last longer markets'. Last year PaddyPower  put Gus Hansen as the fave to win the 'Scandy Last Longer Market', at something like 9-1, which is daft because he is usually out first. Likewise I think Ram Vaswani was one of the faves in the UK last longer market and Mickey Wernick an outsider, but id lump all my money on wernick in a last longer with Vaswani, (Id back Ram to win it ourtight over Mickey of course. )

Just seen I've been installed the 6/4 favourite. Fair price imo

Full schedule here

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=3860083

Selling 10% shares for $10k pm if interested...

loads of juicy $1k-$2k nlhe comps what will the starting stack be in these?

I saw another forum were doing syndicate entries to DTD comps, with all final table participant's getting a % of the winners action at the comp. We did something similar on Blonde once - Kev how about doing somthing similar for buy ins into the WSOP?

If someone wants to put together a format/idea and there is enough interest, then I would gladly arrange it.

Ok - the idea is ; Run a series of satts to the wsop with all final table participant's getting a % of the winners action at the main event. All played on Blonde. 1 or 2 super sats a week culminating in 1 final every week with one winner from each final going onto play in the grand final at the end of the satt period - perhaps 1 month before final event.

Spam it on other forums and get new players in. Everyone one wants an easy way to win a seat into wsop. Depending on take up possible more than 1 seat available.

You do the maths as the card room manager.

LOL you make it sound so easy Trace.

Well, hows the response so far Kev?  You 'chopped' to it i presume?!

I know  ;D  But it's probably not that hard with a calculator and a quiet hour supping tea and working it all out.  ;slavedriver;

They are keeping the delay to the Main Event I see. I can't that sort of holiday so I won't play.







(as if I would)

Yeah doing it now...

Just working out what the buy ins for the sats would need to be to generate a prizepool that covers a WSOP buy in, flights and hotel for a week in Vegas and a bit of spending money.

Just enquiring if we can run sats with 2 runners ...

Yes but you could get a % of the blonde winner. So even if you don't win or play you may still cash.

Why not use Tracey's idea for smaller packages... Maybe the first $1000 event with some x's, start smaller.

Assume format will be same as last year, with "double stacks" ie 4k chips for a $2k comp

It would only be for the smaller events TBH ...

Like I said if someone can come up with a feasible format that will get enough interest, I will run them.

I will be honest and say right out that I do not think the support would be enough to fill sats, but I would love to be proved wrong.

In fact just to get some idea ...

I run a $200, 10 handed sat .. winner takes all ($2k) which pays for entry into a $1k WSOP event and exes.

Would we get 10 people who would play ? ... No cash alternative, MUST go to Vegas.

What about a $20 BI Kev, get about 30 Runners each week?

Do it over a number of weeks, say 4 weeks, which generates about $2400 to Prizepool, winner of League gets the package + the ppl in the top 5 get 5%/10%  each to encourage them to play the later sats if they cannot win it themselves?

I dunoo  :dontask:

I was referring to a direct buy in and was being tongue in cheek.............. doesn't work if you have to explain it.

How about a ten handed stt for $250 - winner gets $2500 for say buy in to a $1500 event plus expenses, with the 2nd and 3rd placers getting a percentage of any winnings?

- you posted a similar idea kev as I was typing. Not many $1000 events so $1500 better option IMO. I'd be up for it.

I like it ... could perhaps fill a couple of spots with feeder sats at $25 entry ..... its all down to interest from you guys.

thanks Glenn, ChipRich and others


give us 10 or more firm commitments to play these and we'll have every excuse to try to put these on.

Problem in the past has been people have said "yeah great" and then we haven't filled the sats, and these were sats for smaller buy in UK events

same for the Equal chance sats, until recently a real struggle to fill them at $66 buy in

You can see why we are a bit shot shy.

Wouldnt it just be easier for Flushy to buy everyone into the main event?

I'll play satts to this. That's 1.

What does it cost you if they don't fill?

"If you build it they will come" Field of dreams 1989

Like Chiprich said, relatively small rebuy to cater for everyone.

Kev surely it is your job to put a proposal together, we can throw ideas about but at the end of the day it is up to you to decide what is benefitial for blondepoker and to make events that will draw as many as possible to the cardroom.

I can put a proposal together in an instant, I have done many times before ... but despite people making the right noises when discussing them on the forum, when it came time to play them, those people vanished.

It costs nothing to schedule sats and tournaments, apart from time.

Like I have said, if there is enough interest we will do it ... Trace has said she will play a feeder, thats a start BUT Ideally I would want a few people to confirm that they would buy in directly to a super sat if they didnt get in through feeders.

As an aside, I will run sats to the Easter fessie at Luton ... Lets see if we can make those work.

Good idea but satts to the Luton fess will never have the draw that satts for a wsop seat will. I would be concerned if that was used ot guage commitment for a wsop seat imho.

I know of a much smaller forum where they did a 10 person league.  It was done over the course of 4 weeks, with a small weekly buy in ($5 or $10) to keep it interesting on the night. 

Everyone involved had transferred the full amount required (for the seat plus expense) prior to the start of the league, so no worries about anyone backing out. 

The thought was this - Everyone can have a bad night, so sending someone based on one luckbox tourney to the WSOP was a bit silly, but to give it to the person with the most points over the course of a few weeks showed consistency in that person and a better chance overall of actually cashing in the WSOP event.

Meanwhile, the other 9 had a small percentage share in that person at the WSOP event, which kept them interested right to the end.

They had so much interest, they had to run 2 or 3 leagues and have done so for the past few years.

Blonde is a much larger forum with a bigger player base.  I can't see how it wouldn't work.  And as Trace said, there's a draw to WSOP that won't be there for smaller local live events.

All good stuff ... keep it coming.

Got to agree with Dingdongdell on this, WSOP is alot bigger draw than Luton and people will attempt to qualify/play for the experience of Las vegas and the WSOP.

What about a 30 man stt?
And just spam it untill it fills?
Im sure you would get 30 if the buy in is right, i would be up for this.

I love this idea, obviously its a big ask to get a wsop seats worth of entries out of it but I think it would be a winner if there was enough interest. Put me down for this

A 30 man STT would mean a minimum $85 buy in ... ( to generate a winner take all prize of around $2.5k)

Again, its a possibility but would you get 30 people putting up $85 for a comp with 1 prize ?


How about this

3 x $25 feeders and a $250 super sat

we could do 1 a month and maybe send a couple of people over ?

I like it ... if 10 people want to stump up a 10th of a buy in for the $1500 or $1k event + exes in advance ... its an easy option.

Good point, thought it was for the ME but would still be well up for this for a $1500 jobby (Kev, you would have to send a Blonde t-shirt to the league winner)

another idea is doing something like what bad beat do in the dream team . figures below are based on a 20 plaver feild in each ( not sure if you usually get more or less)

say for a $10 comp the buyin would be $10+$10+$1 where 10 ges into wsop kitty, 10 into prize pool.

so say a 6 game leauge.

1. $15+$15 nlh 6max

2. $10 + $10 nlh

3. $15 + $15 plo

4. $5 + $5 nlh rebuy

5. $15 + $15 nlh

6. $25 + $25 nlh

with 20 players playing each of these you would get $1900, you could obviously tweak it so that you get the desired amount, and atleast theres still gona be a prizepool in each comp.

$25 feeder sats kev woud be a good idea id be up for some of them

I'd be up for this

I can't think of any ideas at the moment but will definitly be up for parting some of my hard earned every month to play some sats to wsop on blonde

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=39787.0

Depending on when its played i would play a $250 super sat.
I am already booked for vegas 28th June - 11th July so may not be there for a $1500 event but the Bellagio cup is usually on around then and they have $1k or $2k events so I would prob have to do something like that if I won the stt. (Better structure tourns anyway!)

Wow nice to see you on final table tonight! anyone take any action??