Your ideal poker convention
Completely hypothetical question, of course...
Let's say you bought tickets to a weekend poker convention. What sort of things would you expect or like to do for the weekend? What would make it a good weekend for you?
Would having it in Kitchener/Waterloo be a detractor because you're not close to real casinos?
Let's say you bought tickets to a weekend poker convention. What sort of things would you expect or like to do for the weekend? What would make it a good weekend for you?
Would having it in Kitchener/Waterloo be a detractor because you're not close to real casinos?
Comments
Are you talking about like an educational / training thing or a weekend of poker goodness?
Mark
Poker convention must/should have mulitple playing tables for each discipline; low buyin kind of stuff
Some "Talk to the Pros" seminars/consultation areas
Availability of learning materials and supplies
This sounds REALLY intriguing. What's on your mind Zithal??
'Nuff said
Yeah. I'd like to contact the guy to see what really happened. Perhaps Dave Scharf knows as he was scheduled to be one of the guest speakers.
For everyone else's reference, think legal and more along the lines of an educational con; seminar, trade show, venders, Q&A,etc. Any poker played would need to be legal.
Seminars:
- Personally, I'd like a workshop type approach to train oneself to pay attention to the table / tells of other players, best practices on how to look for, catalog, and remember tells
- Tracking - what to keep track of, how to, and where to, and when and where it can best be applied to improve your game
- Money management strategy workshop: How to build a bankroll, when to move levels etc. etc.
Vendors:
- Best bet would be specialized manufacturers. KEM/COPAQ etc cards, specialty poker tables would be of most interest to me. I've got a set of chips that works for me, but maybe one of those.
- Possibly something along the lines of "weekend poker dreams". Almost like a poker themed travel deal?
Q&A:
- Clearly it'd be great to get a professional or two down. I think I'd love a chance to sit down and pick Mike Caro's brain for an hour or so 1:1...
Mark
Famous poker authors can have book signings. Local vendors can sell their poker supplies. Poker sites can offer promotions. The best time would be in late October when a lot of the poker professionals would be in town anyway for the WPT NAPC.
In terms of poker games, a legal charity game can be held. For example, I was a dealer at the Auto Show shootout tournament where the player's donation went to Ronald McDonald's House. Another option is to have fun tournaments with no money involved to keep it legal.
Come on now.....you mean 1:0.75 right Mark?
The series of lectures at varying skill levels is good..from learn to play -to the Navarro-like tells. (One I would love to see is POKER ETTIQUETTE)
You're right about the practical and novelty items for sale.
and lastly MO NAKED HOES
Very interesting idea Rob, hope you're actually considering doing this-you're definately the guy to pull it off!
Yup....
I think if you were to do a Poker Convention you would have to try and get a location closer to Toronto (or in Toronto) so you could get more "walk-in" traffic.
If it was out the K/W area people in Toronto and East of Toronto would have to make it a day and would have to plan to attend several days in advance and so on.
But if it was in the Toronto area you would get more people that heard about it last minute and drop by plus still get the plan to attend people from the areas outside of Toronto.
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I like this one. Stud 8/b (Stud Hi/Lo) is missing from the list.
It's not like KW is in another province. It's an hour's drive. Most from TO travel that far to a casino.
Yeah but people from KW could drive to Toronto.
Plus population of Toronto is approx. 3 Million, K/W is about 400,000.
So the greater chance of some one just dropping in is a lot larger for Toronto
if it is KW I'm going 50%. just giving the odds, everybody here should appreciate that.
-have tables for sale, or have workshops on how to build, tips plans etc...
-a booth about online poker, how the laws are effecting Canadians
-info on how to reclaim %30 or your $ won in USA.
-reps from the ontario casinos to explain what tourney they run or could run, and what kinds of games/limits they run.
I could go on and on, but if you are serious poker, as many on this site are, I would highly recommend something like this. Bear in mind the best teachers I found were not necessarily the "name" pros, but the ones that were willing to spend the time with you to teach rather than just toot their horn (like Hellmuth). Also the more pro's you have the better, just so you can see the variations in style and you can better connect with someone who plays your type of game. Hachem and Fishman admitted to me in private that he didn't feel they were teaching people who were going to be competitors and that while you could make money as an amateur it's very difficult to learn to be a pro on a part-time basis (I have two kids and I need job to pay bills) and certainly the pro's I met (there were over a dozen, most you have never heard of) were all either young (Scott plays on-line 12 hours a day, has no girlfirend or hobbies) or much older, but grew up with it (i.e. never really entered the real work force), no one really like me (except Raymar, maybe), someone who picked up the game at middle age. One of the depressing things I learned is how right they are, I have a long, long way to go to get to even approaching their level.
Sorry for the long post...still get caught up in it when I think back....