WSOP 2009

[Dingdell]

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?

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.

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

[Gamblor21]

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.

[Colchester Kev]

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.

[Colchester Kev]

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

[Dingdell]

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.

[Laxie]

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.

[Colchester Kev]

All good stuff ... keep it coming.

[Gamblor21]

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.

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.

[Tractor]

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.

[DaveShoelace]

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.

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

[Colchester Kev]

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.

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 ?

[Colchester Kev]

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.

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

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.

[DaveShoelace]

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.

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

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)

[ZZZZZZZROPE]

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.

[hugob055]

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