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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2007, 04:32:01 PM » |
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30 runners? you mean 30 finailist
or could people buy in direct for 10k?
yeah its nice to pay out 30% of the field but in essence it was 30% of the finailst that were paid out
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2007, 02:18:18 PM » |
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Ok
I will explain why I think this tournament is different but accept that there is a lot of similarities to others.
When I thought of creating a new tournament I looked around at what was available and asked players what they wanted. Two things stood out, firstly the pay out at most tournaments was 10% of the field and the spread of the payout was top heavy, secondly most players wanted the ability to try and play as a pro for a year to see if they really could make it on a poker circuit. The idea of the tournament from an on line qualifier point of view was similar to most WPT/WSOP etc qualifiers but the prize and distribution is totally different. Once you qualify for a WPT event you are in a tournament that pays a prize to 10% of the field. Pokerface paid to 30%. If you play a WPT event there is obviously a fantastic cash prize. The original idea behind Pokerface2007 is that for every 35 runners there would be a $200k pro package so if we had 140 runners then there would be 4 major payouts and 48 WSOP seats. This was on track until the US banned on line gaming and we had to remove all US players and cancel all the live satellites. We have now spoken to Nevada gaming and to various casinos and may run Pokerface2008. Which I hope will be viewed as a different type of tournament.
I accept that there are many different views on to what makes a good tournament and that you may not view this idea as unique. I will however try to continue to move forward with this project as I believe that the feedback that we have received to date is very positive. We are also running a regular tournament with Stanley casino in Torquay in August ( details to be published next week) which will be a ranking event. I hope that you and many Blondites attend as I value the opinion of the players who post in this forum.
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« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2007, 02:22:26 PM » |
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I have to say that when i saw the pokerface satellites being advertised on what was the the tribecca software, and i saw it bought u in to the top tourneys for a year i thought it was an amzaing idea. I really hope this does grow and grow and you get the runners it deserves and i for one will be trying the satellites for pokerface 2008!
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« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2007, 02:30:23 PM » |
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Ok
I will explain why I think this tournament is different but accept that there is a lot of similarities to others.
When I thought of creating a new tournament I looked around at what was available and asked players what they wanted. Two things stood out, firstly the pay out at most tournaments was 10% of the field and the spread of the payout was top heavy, secondly most players wanted the ability to try and play as a pro for a year to see if they really could make it on a poker circuit. The idea of the tournament from an on line qualifier point of view was similar to most WPT/WSOP etc qualifiers but the prize and distribution is totally different. Once you qualify for a WPT event you are in a tournament that pays a prize to 10% of the field. Pokerface paid to 30%. If you play a WPT event there is obviously a fantastic cash prize. The original idea behind Pokerface2007 is that for every 35 runners there would be a $200k pro package so if we had 140 runners then there would be 4 major payouts and 48 WSOP seats. This was on track until the US banned on line gaming and we had to remove all US players and cancel all the live satellites. We have now spoken to Nevada gaming and to various casinos and may run Pokerface2008. Which I hope will be viewed as a different type of tournament.
I accept that there are many different views on to what makes a good tournament and that you may not view this idea as unique. I will however try to continue to move forward with this project as I believe that the feedback that we have received to date is very positive. We are also running a regular tournament with Stanley casino in Torquay in August ( details to be published next week) which will be a ranking event. I hope that you and many Blondites attend as I value the opinion of the players who post in this forum.
with 140 players it would make it different with the satelite style top payout and the flatter structure all the way down but with just the 1 package it seemed odd that instead of cash you got to go on a tour players like myself for example wouldn't be intrested in the tour because we would end up dead before the end of it (as i dont look after myself properly when away from home) so would of much prefered a cash prize so i could pick and chooce which events to play |
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« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2007, 12:55:32 PM » |
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I think the tour prize is a great idea...Lord knows it'sthe only way I@ll ever get into more than one event a year (admittedly I'd have to win it first but stranger things might possibly have happened once upon a time)
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« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2007, 06:04:26 PM » |
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so if you won 100k in a comp you would not be able to play more than 1 comp in a year boldie?
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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2007, 01:21:22 PM » |
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so if you won 100k in a comp you would not be able to play more than 1 comp in a year boldie?
fair point.. |
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« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2007, 01:51:26 PM » |
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so if you won 100k in a comp you would not be able to play more than 1 comp in a year boldie?
No - he's married now so his wife will already have spent £99,990 of the £100,000. She may give him an extra tenner though for an add on if he behaves. |
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« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2007, 01:53:23 PM » |
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so if you won 100k in a comp you would not be able to play more than 1 comp in a year boldie?
No - he's married now so his wife will already have spent £99,990 of the £100,000. She may give him an extra tenner though for an add on if he behaves. yeah and if I won the tour I cuold say "But I have to go out this weekend, honey...it's already paid for"...and not have any of that "guilt trip" bollox. |
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« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2007, 01:55:14 PM » |
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...and not have any of that "guilt trip" bollox.
she's still not signed up then?  |
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« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2007, 03:36:22 PM » |
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...and not have any of that "guilt trip" bollox.
she's still not signed up then? nope  ....and she won't...all of a sudden that ring is on her finger and the interest in poker is somewhat diminished....I think she's starting to put weight on as well  and stopped shaving!  |
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« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2007, 03:42:26 PM » |
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and stopped shaving! hairy women - hubba hubba!!  |
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« Reply #27 on: May 24, 2007, 08:48:40 AM » |
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and stopped shaving! hairy women - hubba hubba!! yeah probably getting ready to have wild monkey nookie with you at BB5 lol..she must have read that 7 hour stamina and loner limbs thing |
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« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2007, 09:35:14 AM » |
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she's still not signed up then? nope .... she must have read that 7 hour stamina and longer limbs thing
well if she hasn't signed up to blonde how else does she know? She's not a member of speedmonkeydating.com too is she?  |
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« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2007, 09:39:20 AM » |
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she's still not signed up then? nope .... she must have read that 7 hour stamina and longer limbs thing
well if she hasn't signed up to blonde how else does she know? She's not a member of speedmonkeydating.com too is she? she'd better be!..I'd hate to think she's spying on me here! |
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