West Side Poker Club Second Chance Tournament
Did you want to go to West Side Tournament of Champions but had Christmas shopping to finish, had a bad beat and wish you could play it over again, gone with your first instinct and folded instead of calling. This Saturday we are going to give you a second chance to play with 10 000 chips and 1 hour blinds. The tournament will be held in downtown kitchener at the new poker room of West Side Poker Club called Kelly's Place. I will email the directions to all who respond. There will also be a 1/2 ring game for those who bust out. There will be two TV's that will show all 3 football games.
There is enough room for 30 players. The cost for this tournament is 40.00.
Registration is at 11:30 am with the tournament to start at 12:00 pm
Payouts Are as Follows assuming we are sold out:
1st 475.00
2nd 350.00
3rd 150.00
4th 75.00
Prophet 22
There is enough room for 30 players. The cost for this tournament is 40.00.
Registration is at 11:30 am with the tournament to start at 12:00 pm
Payouts Are as Follows assuming we are sold out:
1st 475.00
2nd 350.00
3rd 150.00
4th 75.00
Prophet 22
Comments
As you can see by the thread, nobody has registered for this tournament. I will check the thread in the morning and if by 10:00 am there isn't 10 or more people signed up I will have to postpone this tournament of until a later date. I can always open up for a cash game for those who are interested.
Prophet 22
Everyone is always crying about tournaments becoming "all-in fests" due to the short starting stacks and the quick (20-30 min) blind leverls... Well this one isn't!!!
This is the best structure of any tournament and it really sets up well for a good player.
If I lived anywhere near Kitchener, I'd be in for sure, good luck
Brent
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Great idea! I was going to ask you to hold more of these deep stack/slow blind tournaments. After all, most of the costs are fixed to run the tournament. So, why not give the players a lilttle more play.Â
As others have mentioned, the timing is yucky. I might add, that the prize pool makes it hard for folks to dedicate a whole day to playing poker. Personally, for a whole day of poker, I'm looking at a top prize of a few thousand dollars -- preferrably 5,000. So, working backwards we would need a total prize pool of 12,000k. With thirty players, that works out to about 400 per player. I really don't think that would be a huge deal, since many folks were dropping at least that much on the side games. With a little forward planning, and many online satellites we could likely make this a monthly game -- I'm thinking an even $500 would be a decent buy-in.
Online satellites could run for $25 bucks a player, and there could be single table sattellites running. Not sure if others are interested in a bigger buy-in, deep stack, slow blind tournament. But you have at least ONE person interested!
Cheers
Lou
Lou,
Thanks for the suggestion. Now that I have a place to run things out of I will be looking to run things like this for the more established player who doesn't mind spending a little money with a huge payout in the end. You are not the first person to say they would throw in $500.00 for a long day (hour blinds) with a big payout $6000.00 for first and a short field (32 players).
41.7% $6,000.00
20.8% $3,000.00
13.9% $2,000.00
10.4% $1,500.00
6.9% $1,000.00
6.3% $900.00
1600.00 to pay for expenses. Dealers, 2 meals, etc.
Of course this would include dealers and two meals. I am looking toward putting this event on Feburary 25th. I appreciate any help in running online satilletes. We will be running satellites at Kelly's Place in the new year. Look for an announcement in the new year along with the rest of the schedule for West Side Poker Club.
Prophet 22
Steve S.
A quick question on the math, though. The prize pool totals $16,200, which is $200 more than the total buy-ins. Can you clarify the actual payouts, and is there a separate rake (how much)?
Any chance to have it one week earlier or later.
That's funny.. most people wait to win a major tournament before they become prima-donnas and start telling the organizers how to run thier own tournaments.
But I guess if you can offer lessons at $100/hour or name a poker tour after yourself without any of doing any of those pesky things like winning, then why not boss people around too?
The funny part is this - most good hosts/organizers seem to solicit feedback from there players, and try to provide what their clients want, whether in a club or home-game environment. Locally, Zithal, g2, and Prophet have all done this, as have I, and the players seem to like it. To pick a specific example, I don't consider Johnnie or Wolffhound "prima-donnas" for the suggestions which led to my "KW Chaos", and it was one of the most fun tournaments we've had. From chatting with Prophet, he's smart enough to realize providing the service customers request is good business, and I don't think he has any problems with Lou's suggestion.
Your post on the other hand was just more crap and spew coming from your keyboard. I have defended you in the past, but you came out of left field on this one and there was no need to post your opinion as you did.
Prophet 22
stp
Great idea - plus the satellites should attract more people to Kellys for cash games.
And Trevor you know Johnnie is a prima donna - he just hides it well
If you read my post carefully: you'll notice I said their suggestions aren't what makes me think that
Cameron and i spoke about a higher buy in tourney just after i busted out of the TOC.
20 people at 1k per would be real nice, paying top 5?
thoughts?
I think maybe do what GBH do? 11 players, $50 each. Winner takes all, or if 1st and 2nd wants to chop then its players choice but 1st will have to make up the difference to get the seat.
If there are folks interested in an online satellite, please PM me. I'm thinking a $50 sat. would work best. I would do the conversion to CDN and then transfer any remaining funds to 2'nd place. If we get ten folks interested, I'll set it up pronto. And, I'll be the first person to sign up, so we only need 9 more. If we get 20 folks interested, we can ratchet down the buy-in to $25. Note, there won't be any rake, as the tournament will be a freeroll (you'll have to transfer your buy in directly to me and I'll do the appropriate transfers after the tournament). It's how we ran our last Lucky Lou freeroll and that went very smoothly.
Cheers
Lou
P.S. I'm not interested in a heads up match with anyone, as I have nothing to prove. And, we have a good bunch of folks on the forum.  I'll keep focusing on the rose and not the thorns.
I'll take a spot at the $500 tourney as well.
Jim