Comp and I have been throwing around ideas to increase interest/participation in the nightly tournaments and have come up with an idea. The details are below. We'd like as many members who participate in the PS home games to comment on the idea and let us know if they think we should go ahead with it.

Starting Sunday there will be an additional buy-in amount of either $1 or $0.50 added to the current buy-in. This amount will be set aside and added to a bi-weekly "special" game to be played on every other Saturday. The top 9 point getters over the two week period preceding the "special" game will get a free entry into the special game and everyone else who has played at least 5 of the qualifying games can buy in for $5. The additional buy-ins collected from the 14 games preceding the special game will be added to the prize pool for the "special" game. Assuming 10 runners for each of the preceding 14 qualifying games that would amount to either $140 or $70 being added to the "special" game prize pool.

Thoughts? Any and all comments are welcome. If you like the idea, it's mine. If you don't, blame Comp. (Just kidding)

Edit: If preferred, we could limit the additional buy-in amount to only those who want to participate in the "special" game. Others would not have to pay the additional amount but would not be able to play in the "special" game. And to be clear, you would have to pay the additional buy-in amount for all the qualifying games that you play to be able to play in the "special" game.

DrTyore;c-418220 wroteAre people really playing that many times a week? I know I've slacked off recently... but, to be some of the top point getters, are you going to have to play like every day? Like, is the added buy in for every game? Or just the NLHE games?

Mark

Just for reference, you played 5 out of the first 10 games and ended up with the 7th most points. You don't have to play every game, just 5 out of 14 to be able to buy into the special game. Or you could choose not to contribute the additional buy in and just play the regular games. And yes, the intention is for the additional buy in to apply to every game, not just NLHE.

Appreciate your feedback.

compuease;c-418222 wroteOne I think we need to clear up if we do this. For any 2 week period is if you choose to participate for that period you pay the extra for every game you play and if you play 5 or more you get into the "special game" for free. If you don't participate you can play the game but it costs you $5. I think the "bonus" money should be kept separate and only paid to those who contributed to the bonus.

That wasn't really the way I had proposed it (but if that's what people want that's fine). My proposal was to have the top 9 point getters play for free but everyone else would have to pay. If you open it up to anyone who plays and pays in 5 games some people will effectively pay more than others without any chance of getting in for free. For example, if you play all 14 games you pay $14 to play but if you play only 5 you pay $5 to pay. That seems unfair. The idea was to provide a bit of competition while building a bit of a bigger pool.

The more I think about it the more thought we have to give this aspect of it. We don't want to make it unfair to anyone so we need to figure a way to make sure there isn't a wide discrepancy between what people actually pay to get into the special game. Maybe you can make it a requirement to play say at least 10 of the 14 games to play for free. If you play less than 10 but at least 5 you can pay to play (say $5 minus the number of games in excess of 5 that you played).

How do you make this "fair" without over complicating it?

I haven't been able to play as often as I'd like to, so take this for what it's worth... but my feedback is this:

As this gets more complicated, the interest will go down, not up... keep it simple!