Can You Spot The Difference?
I completely killed this post and double rainbow joke
As for me, I am not allowed to post Alberta pics.
Hint: One Photo is from a 1k quarterly event, the other is from a 2k annual.
As for me, I am not allowed to post Alberta pics.
Hint: One Photo is from a 1k quarterly event, the other is from a 2k annual.
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Is that you in the left middle of the first photo?.
-edit- ok, now it is the second photo..dammit Jon, quit messing with my posts!
Yea, I spent a week looking for double rainbows.
Then hit the casino.
Shit Winnipeg crushed them.
Its too bad that they could have had something serious there.
I am not bared but was politely told not to take photos or cover for the media, since they are not fans of some of my previous unauthorized work.
Fair enough.
It was fun while it lasted. 3 suits with earpieces had a talk with me along with tour brass, I have been informed on the AGLC regs and what I personally can not do.
You have people that are not fans, but have noticed....YOU MADE IT!!
After 7 of the events & 2 super sats I have the total prize-pools at ~ $470,161
That might be a little out, I can't find a final number for the HU, but I used 32*1800bi*.955 (Charity-2.5, Tips-2% even though ads say 2.5)
With just 1 event to go, a $151+19, that means it will take roughly 195 players tomorrow to hit $500,000 in PLAYER prize-pools, after 11 calendar days of poker (minus Thursday as the Heads Up finals played out a day early)
By comparison, there was about $1.7 million last year and one report I read said that they estimated $1.6 million on sell-out this year, though no official estimate by the venue was given.
Last years top prizes, (deal outs out were) 100k (HU) and $63,000 (ME)
This Year (Deals out) 25k (HU) and based on a higher pay-out of 28% Of this years ME for first from the $166,170 (I am guessing as it could be anywhere from 23 to 30%) It will be around $46,500
The highest field attendance number was ~250 over 3 start days for the 4 day $300
Next best was 123 for the $500, which played to completion in ~ 9 hours
Most prizes up top were $15,000~$20,000
So 26% lower ME top prize, 75% on HU. Overall prize-pools total down about 70%
Think it's time to go back to the drawing board.
Biggest difference from Calgary / Edmonton to say Winnipeg / Regina, is the number of weekly tournies available for play. Edmonton & Calgary have 6+ poker rooms each, where as Winnipeg & Regina have 1 room each. Translation is that if Winnipeg runs a series twice a year, it is bound to get close to max attendance from locals....where as Calgary or Edmonton, you can wait 3 or 4 weeks, and there will be another big tourny series. Think it can still do well in Calgary, but has to be marketed a whole lot better than this past one, and have bigger b/i's to make it worth it for people to travel from other parts of the country / world.
With the lack of live (aboveground) poker in the GTA, I'd assume a series like the COPC would set rediculous numbers if they were allowed to go uncapped, and marketed it even half decently. Would be similar to the Winnipeg series for size / population.
Obviously larger population regions would be better (ie. Southern Ontario > Mon'real > Vancouver > Calgary / Edmonton > Regina / Winnipeg).
Agree 100% obv. Supply and demand. Don't "cheapen" majors by running too often, so that players actually feel like they are going to miss out if they don't play. Don't starve them for action either.
Offer an estimated prize-pool based on past numbers and don't over-promiss and under-deliver. if they are out by or over 10-20% nobody cares. But if it's way under, people feel like the event was crap.
on the flip side, BCPC's estimate low and always crush it. Edmonton is almost bang on it's estimates, to the dollar.
The GTD prize-pools, often done in US and if they aim a little lower than their past series research, usually no real risk. Can't see why some casino can't stick their neck out here.
Edmonton still does better than Calgary these days, but the players seem a lot more loyal to just a few rooms and they put effort in to spread the word.
Also wanted to mention, looking back over the threads on 2+2 and here, I would have to say yourself and Wetts did a ton to help spread the word on COPC last year yourselves.