Wsop-cpf.
What are we going to do ensure CPF is represented @ this years WSOP?
I mean, we could say that we'll have a $50 buyin with 200 members, but then there is always the very huge likeliness that the winner of that tournament will want to "take the money and run". Who has ideas? Throw 'em out in this thread, no matter how silly.
Do you think we could get 200-250 in a "meaty steak" tournament?
The stake...even if you lose, you would own a partial stake in the winner...say an equal share of 60% of the person who goes?
See here, Canadian $$ entry is ballpark $13,200
say we get 250 players in a $50 tournament. (okay, that's only $12,500) the 249 losers get an equal share in 60% of that person who goes.
Soooo...the person we send WINS $4,000,000 and keeps $1,600,000 of it. Then, 249 others get $9,638 each.
Do you think we could pull this off?
P.S. the person who goes, must win...oh, and wear a CPF hat and shirt and boxers.
Other ideas fellas?
I mean, we could say that we'll have a $50 buyin with 200 members, but then there is always the very huge likeliness that the winner of that tournament will want to "take the money and run". Who has ideas? Throw 'em out in this thread, no matter how silly.
Do you think we could get 200-250 in a "meaty steak" tournament?
The stake...even if you lose, you would own a partial stake in the winner...say an equal share of 60% of the person who goes?
See here, Canadian $$ entry is ballpark $13,200
say we get 250 players in a $50 tournament. (okay, that's only $12,500) the 249 losers get an equal share in 60% of that person who goes.
Soooo...the person we send WINS $4,000,000 and keeps $1,600,000 of it. Then, 249 others get $9,638 each.
Do you think we could pull this off?
P.S. the person who goes, must win...oh, and wear a CPF hat and shirt and boxers.
Other ideas fellas?
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See, if we held this tournament in a poker room that most people weren't already a member of, and signed up threw an affiliate link, then the $$ from that link could also get added to the pool (for airfare/hotel or something...anything or could ease the burden if we can't get the full 250 people)
If we get it organized in time, there isn't any reason why we couldn't do a few of these...
I also put a posting up @ my work selling shares of myself for $50 each. 2000+ employees here and lots of 'em make lots and lots of money.
what do you think is more realistic? a 40% stake or 60?
I think this may be important enough to actually use the "mail all members" feature.
SHOULD I email all members to come and read this post? I've never mass emailed before, I don't want to bother anyone if they consider it spam..
I like 60/40 in favour of the actual winner...but I love the idea of sharing a piece of the eventual winner. You can pretty much count me in any time after April.
As far as online...I am not sure I like the idea as much but I would play in an event up to $50 probably. There are way easier ways to qualify online than playing against a bunch of you guys and gals.
So I guess I vote for playing life (which I probably can do a lot to help with organizing) and having a buy-in up to $200.
Problem with poker rooms online is the rake. Can you set up a private tourney where the site only takes a small portion of the pool? As an alternative, I've seen guys posting ideas about micro tourneys where one of them holds the 'real' entry fee in their acct. Say a $10 tourney with someone trustworthy holding $90? That way the fees are only miniscule - maybe $1 per person.
As far as how much % goes back to the group, I'm not sure. The guy who wins has 'earned' his entry fee, why should he give back a huge chunk to the guys he beat? Having said that, the winner should have the lion's share of any winnings and I'd love to have a share of 40%.
I'd be willing to put as much as $100 into a tourney. A little bit over the WSOP entry for expenses would be nice too. I guess we'd need at least 150 people to participate. Given the number that have participated in the $10 leaderboard tourneys, is this kind of turnout likely?
Having said that, I am in.
I would expect that $100 would be more likely though as I don't see 250 players coming out. I could be wrong.
We could even have super satellites as well..
I would be in for $100
Because it gives us all that little chance to enjoy the WSOP even if we didn't qualify.. I know that the kickback percentage would be the only reason I'd sign up to play. It would be worth the entertainment expense for me to be able to root one of us on.. Without it, it's just another WSOP qualifier and I like playing those against bad players, not good ones.
Couldn't agree more. I think that we should come up with a buy-in range and start a list of members that what in on this. It is definitely a win/win situation for all who play since you will have a piece of the whoever wins. Though, so guide lines would need to be set in place as to how we would do everthing from top to bottom...but I really like this idea and am willing to do what I can to help make it happen.
I think if we kept it to forum members and their CLOSE friends then we should be able to find 100 players in Ontario to make this happen. I would also be able to run satellites to the Main Satellite to help elevate some of the financial burden for those who are unable to pony up the full buy-in.
Sloth, let me know what I can do to help.
I think your regional satellite idea may have some merit but having to play online compared to playing live just doesn't do it for me...the WSOP is a live event and I think sending the "BEST" (at least for that tourney) live player would suit the forum best.
The other thing this could do is help elevate some of the travelling expenses of the winners. They could probably split room costs and some other costs incurred while in Vegas.
Again just throwing out some ideas.
Count me in.
Having a piece of a Potential Winner would be great. Of course as well you could all end up with a piece of me.
Okay well seriously i think a live tournament may just be an easier way to go about doing this. Especially since the winnier will be going on to compete for all of us in the biggest LIVE poker tournament around.
If you were doing it online i have one crazy idea that may be a more reflective way of figuring out who represents for the pool of money. Everyone who wants in sends $100 (or whatever to sloth) ... then we all register to play in one of those 6-7000 person freerolls on pokerstars. Last person from the forum (who contributed) standing represents at the WSOP. Or maybe the last 9 standing play a 1 table SNG, to choose the winner.
I think either playing live or having to get deep in a field of 6000+ should help us get the right person.
Cause if not we might as well have all people i
See, going back to..if I found a "venue" (online room) that very few of us had existing accounts with then I could set up an affiliate link. Hypothetically, lets say it pays $40USd per new account activation..then we could hold the event(s) there and the affiliate $$ could be added into the pool..whether it be becase we didn't get the numbers out or to possibly cover air and hotel..it could also be redistributed to cover any house fees, (so if the house charges $10 for a $100+ $10) then you would get at least the $10 back from me. Am I making sense?
I also like jimmi's suggestion of possibly looking at regional qualifiers if there are indeed enough players in your region. I'm sure all of us have family and friends that may be interested as well, lets just hold off until our thoughts are sorted so their first exposure to us isn't an air of disorganization
As far as the sharing up pieces of the winner, how about the top finishers get a higher percent on a sliding scale, along the lines of what a regular tourney payout would be? Top 10 get 1%, next 20 get .75%, next 40 get .5%, rest get .25%... whatever works out to 40%.
We could always do both! I would certainly play in both a live and online satellite...the nice thing about online is that all funds are American and would allow the full forum access and with live we could arange region type tourneys to allow for some excellent live action.
Just keeping the ideas flowing.
I'm interested in this tourney too.
My thought would be more along the lines of basing on the amount won.
Say we only distribute the money if the representive wins $100,000 plus (after tax withholdings, damn Yankees!!!) and splitting evenly amount all players. That way it will acctually cover the original buy-in of the satellite (based on $100 - $150 buy-in). If the represtitive pulls off a mircle and wins the whole damn thing (my guess is it will be capped at $5 mil for the winner) we each get $6,750 before tax withholdings!!! Very nice!!!
I'm so in for this!!!
US might withold taxes but Canadians should be able to get it back. IN TIME...
I don't like the idea of a large free roll myself. (Unless it is jelly-filled) Too many guys in there playing bingo when I've got 10k+ on the line. Couple that with all the disconnection problems that can be associated with large tourneys and it seems like too much of a coin toss to me for such a significant prize. Does a last longer winner in a free roll equate to the best qualified person to go to WSOP? I dunno.
every which way I tells ya!
absolutepoker seems to have quite a number of wsop tourneys
i see a lot of forum tourneys going on there