My two cents:

It doesn't matter if you start with 500 or 5000 chips as long as the blinds are appropriate.

Consider only counting say the best ten finishes.  This way you will get more people to sign up who know they will only be able to make one or two a month.  You are not punishing the people who come to everyone because they will have 26 chances at their best ten, whereas the person who only makes 8 games has to use all 8 of those results.

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ron2573:

Jimboak36:

So, you would have troubled playing post flop poker with 1000 in chips and blinds at 10/20?

Ok who's the turbo player, raiser your hand.

 

Looks good so far, i like the idea of the basic chip stack and then adding on chips by how many events you to go.  How many weeks of this are you looking to do this before the championship event?

  26 weekly events at $20.00+$5.00 towards final event prize pool.

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the infamous AceSmall

Well let's look at 10/20 then we will look at what the blinds are in 2 hours.  so you raise to 80 at 10/20 blinds, get one or two callers, so there is about 250 in the pot, what bet do you make on the flop, lets say 1/2 pot, so 125, you get one caller, pot is now 500, you lead with another half pot bet(250), you now have almost half your chips in the pot on a very standard play.

Then 2 hours into to it the blind are are 25/50 which is early tourney light compared to how the blind increase later.  SO you raise 4x the bb putting 1/5 of your starting chips, then a continuation bet that is called put me all in on the turn, since close to half my chips are in. 

Also, if I do not double up after 2 or 3 hours, I am going to be forced to go all in preflop, due to blind and standard raise vs chip stack.

Just my opinion.

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lindy0331:

My two cents:

It doesn't matter if you start with 500 or 5000 chips as long as the blinds are appropriate.

Consider only counting say the best ten finishes.  This way you will get more people to sign up who know they will only be able to make one or two a month.  You are not punishing the people who come to everyone because they will have 26 chances at their best ten, whereas the person who only makes 8 games has to use all 8 of those results.

I have no problem only counting best 10 finishes in point totals.  What I don't want to start doing is micro-managing this thing into the ground though.  K.I.S.S.

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the infamous AceSmall

When I said it doesn't matter what the starting chips are I also said as long as the blinds are appropriate.  If you are starting with 1k then you need chips with a value of 5 and want to start at 5/10.  I have tweaked the starting stacks quite a bit at my games over the past six months, and for a one table prefer to start with 2500 and 10/20.  I also prefer 45 minute levels but got some complaints about it so went back to 30 minutes.

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two4suited:

Well let's look at 10/20 then we will look at what the blinds are in 2 hours.  so you raise to 80 at 10/20 blinds, get one or two callers, so there is about 250 in the pot, what bet do you make on the flop, lets say 1/2 pot, so 125, you get one caller, pot is now 500, you lead with another half pot bet(250), you now have almost half your chips in the pot on a very standard play.

Then 2 hours into to it the blind are are 25/50 which is early tourney light compared to how the blind increase later.  SO you raise 4x the bb putting 1/5 of your starting chips, then a continuation bet that is called put me all in on the turn, since close to half my chips are in. 

Also, if I do not double up after 2 or 3 hours, I am going to be forced to go all in preflop, due to blind and standard raise vs chip stack.

Just my opinion.

Very good point, thanks....I upped starting stacks to 2000.

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the infamous AceSmall

lindy0331:

When I said it doesn't matter what the starting chips are I also said as long as the blinds are appropriate.  If you are starting with 1k then you need chips with a value of 5 and want to start at 5/10.  I have tweaked the starting stacks quite a bit at my games over the past six months, and for a one table prefer to start with 2500 and 10/20.  I also prefer 45 minute levels but got some complaints about it so went back to 30 minutes.

Ok, I upped starting stack to 2000 with weekly events at 10/20 to start and 30 minute blind levels.  I have no problem going to 45 minute levels for final event though.

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the infamous AceSmall

Who will be holding all the money and keeping track of how much is in the pool.  Are you plan on running this thing, Jimbo.  I can help but usually in stuff like this when people are giving money to play for at the end they like to see the money is in a safe place, not saying you keeping it is not a safe place, just wondering.

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two4suited:

Who will be holding all the money and keeping track of how much is in the pool.  Are you plan on running this thing, Jimbo.  I can help but usually in stuff like this when people are giving money to play for at the end they like to see the money is in a safe place, not saying you keeping it is not a safe place, just wondering.

I considered either Paypal, etc or my own personal Pokerstars account....lol  I am open to any ideas on holding the accrued final table cash.

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the infamous AceSmall

Jimboak36:

two4suited:

Who will be holding all the money and keeping track of how much is in the pool.  Are you plan on running this thing, Jimbo.  I can help but usually in stuff like this when people are giving money to play for at the end they like to see the money is in a safe place, not saying you keeping it is not a safe place, just wondering.

I considered either Paypal, etc or my own personal Pokerstars account....lol  I am open to any ideas on holding the accrued final table cash.

Personally I would just let mike handle the money, out of all of us he is the less likely to blow it on hookers or binges, other than that maybe have a few people hold a part of the total prize pool.  PS account is genuis you can double it playing 10/20 then the championship prize pool is even bigger, haha I kid.

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Andre C was nice enough to format up a flyer.  I will be distributing these and see how we end up by anticipated start date of first Friday in September. 

 

Hurry, RSVP as league will begin first Friday in September…..

League Point System

 

ü       Points system is based on final table finish position.  (9pts for 1^st –1pt for 9^th)

o        Maximum points if finished 1^st in every weekly event = 234. 

o        Minimum points if finished 9^th in every weekly event  = 26.

ü       26 weekly events at $20.00+ $5.00 towards final event prize pool.

ü       Weekly events will start with 1000 in chips.

ü       Weekly event blind levels will be 30 minutes, starting at 10/20.

ü       Weekly event payouts will be top 3 places based on 50/30/20%.

ü      There will be a final event “base” chip stack of 2000 in chips.  “Bonus” chips added to starting stack will be based on ratio of 1pt. = 25 chips.  (This means all final event players will have at least 2000 chips to start, with added chips based on their performance throughout weekly league events.)

Blind structure for weekly events will be as follows:

 

 

Blind structure for final event will also pay top 3 based on 50/30/20% and be as follows:  Remember, final event starting chip stack will be 2000 base plus accrued chips based on weekly points. Chip

Eease email at  alaskaspeed@gci.net for info to join league
20 min levels = 3-4 hours

 

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the infamous AceSmall

I like your idea.

A couple of things but mainly since this is your first time doing it and a test run don't you think 26 weeks at one tournament a week is a bit much.  That's 6 straight months of tournaments.  Why not have a test run of this league of 2 months or 10 games that way afterwards you can work out any kinks for your next league, gain more interest and move on.  Nothing worse than having a long program then working your kinks out during, all that does is piss people off.

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May as well figure in a kink now.  Y Ou say people don't have to go to every game, but everyone has to pay the 20+5 if they go to one of the league games, now at the end of the season that means you'll have a lot more than 9 people playing because i'm sure everyone will want a shot at the prize pool if they can have a reasonable shot at it.  Also what do you do when you have a single table game and you have 15 people interested in playing?

Just throwing out basic questions you may run into.

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ron2573:

May as well figure in a kink now.  Y Ou say people don't have to go to every game, but everyone has to pay the 20+5 if they go to one of the league games, now at the end of the season that means you'll have a lot more than 9 people playing because i'm sure everyone will want a shot at the prize pool if they can have a reasonable shot at it.  Also what do you do when you have a single table game and you have 15 people interested in playing?

Just throwing out basic questions you may run into.

Ron, I took all that into account.  I don't care if final event has 3 tables...top 3 pay.  The 5 bucks is NOT going to add up to all that much possibly and top 3 payout will keep it worthwhile for a prize pool.  Is it going to be perfect, probably not; but I think it will be fun and motivate players to have a reason to show up in a standings kept event.  I like the 26 weeks, gives guys like you plenty of outs to still have a chance at a decent showing; since they won't attend every event. 

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the infamous AceSmall

Just so we know what we are talking about and where we are (i.e. for those who haven't picked up a calculator yet)-

5 bucks per person (assuming one 9 person table) for 26 weeks (one game a week) equals $1170.

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