Kitchener-Waterloo Tournament - polling
Hey all,
Just got through reading the thread, suggesting that we set up a KW home game/tournament, and I'd be happy to organize the event. Before we nail down details, I'd like to ask a few questions and see what type of tournament the population would like.
I've been running home tournaments for the past 4 months and have been having great success with it. My current format is $10 for T500 with one $10 re-buy for the buyin in the first hour if you go below T100. Blinds raise every 20 minutes with a scale that is slow in the beginning, quickly raising over the 3rd hour. Tournaments often time in at around 4 hours, which is nice for an evening of poker.
So, chime in with your requests, we'll find some common ground and get the home game going.
Buy-In amount? $10, $20, $25, $50 (my preference would be to keep it reasonable and low for the first time out)
Rebuys allowed? Y/N (and if Y, what rules would you suggest?)
Add-ons allowed? Y/N (and if Y, as above, suggestions?)
Starting chip count? T100, T500, T1000? (no prefence on my end as everything scales)
Weeknight or Weekend? (With weekends, we could increase the level times and break for a BBQ in the evening)
Tournament length? 4 hours? 6-8 hours if the weekend? -or- Two $10 4 hour tournaments with a break for supper on a Saturday?
That's about it! Respond, please respond by roughly July 1st, and I'll announce the tournament.
Zithal 7:spade:2:heart:
Just got through reading the thread, suggesting that we set up a KW home game/tournament, and I'd be happy to organize the event. Before we nail down details, I'd like to ask a few questions and see what type of tournament the population would like.
I've been running home tournaments for the past 4 months and have been having great success with it. My current format is $10 for T500 with one $10 re-buy for the buyin in the first hour if you go below T100. Blinds raise every 20 minutes with a scale that is slow in the beginning, quickly raising over the 3rd hour. Tournaments often time in at around 4 hours, which is nice for an evening of poker.
So, chime in with your requests, we'll find some common ground and get the home game going.
Buy-In amount? $10, $20, $25, $50 (my preference would be to keep it reasonable and low for the first time out)
Rebuys allowed? Y/N (and if Y, what rules would you suggest?)
Add-ons allowed? Y/N (and if Y, as above, suggestions?)
Starting chip count? T100, T500, T1000? (no prefence on my end as everything scales)
Weeknight or Weekend? (With weekends, we could increase the level times and break for a BBQ in the evening)
Tournament length? 4 hours? 6-8 hours if the weekend? -or- Two $10 4 hour tournaments with a break for supper on a Saturday?
That's about it! Respond, please respond by roughly July 1st, and I'll announce the tournament.
Zithal 7:spade:2:heart:
Comments
Zithal 7:spade:2
Thanks for taking the lead on this following my post in the other thread. I would have loved to host, but simply don't have the room. You can count me in for sure. I also agree with the suggestion to initially make it open to forum members only so that we can all meet each other. However, if we can't fill it up, I suppose we could then bring in a few outsiders. Also, if you need any help organizing this thing, just let me know.
GG
Of course, blinds will be adjusted based on how long we want to play, addons/rebuys/starting chip counts/etc., but this is a good starting point.
5-10
10-15
10-20
15-30
20-40
25-50
50-100
75-150
100-200
200-400
300-600
400-800
500-1000
[Note: By buy-in, I mean expected total entry fee if there are re-buys and/or add-ons.]
But, buy no means plan this around me. To be honest, a weekday evening tournament might be easier for the locals, and if that's what most people prefer, that's what you should go with of course.
And having a BBBQ sounds like an awesome idea. :P'''O
"The extra B stands for BYOBB."
"What's *that* extra B for?"
"That's a typo."
ScottyZ
You don't win friends with salad;
You don't win friends with sal-ad!...
quite petty, but I've always thought it was you don't MAKE friends with salad...but now I'm not sure.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F03
I think the funniest part is that the BBQ host's name is Goober by default.
ScottyZ
<10 players : 3 spots : 50/30/20
10-19 players : 4 spots : 50/25/15/10
20+ : 5 spots : 45/25/15/10/5
Most of the rules / ideas / etc., are lifted from homepokertourney.com (a great site!). I try to keep the rules for the tournament as they should be.
The only one we're bending a bit is the rule to move players on unbalanced tables. I believe the correct rule is to move the person from the largest to the smallest table that was in the same position as the person who busted out. BUT.. we started using a tourney clock that takes care of all the seat/moving, so we let the program choose who moves where. We've found that the savings in time is worth the slight bend in rules.
Lastly, with the rules around busting out/paying blinds, we've gone with the option that the big blind always moves with the spot filled in behind created dead small blinds and/or dead buttons.
hork.
Regards,
all_aces
stp
Regards,
all_aces
Does freezeout mean no re-buys?
I'd agree with all_aces... seems like a $50 freezeout is optimal with what people have been suggesting. Big enough to possibly be worth travelling an hour for, but not so big that loads of people wouldn't play due to a high buy-in.
I don't like $50 *with* re-buys since this is getting into the pretty huge buy-in range.
ScottyZ
stp
The Main Tournament, (here-in called the, ah... pokerforum.ca Celebrity Tournament) will be a $50 No-Limit Hold'em freeze-out tournament. People will start with T1,500 and we'll use a T1,000 blind schedule (as seen on homepokertourney.com). (This will extend the time of the tournament to 4-5 hours and gives everyone a lot of play in the intial rounds for their $50)
For those that find $50 too hefty, but would still like to meet some fellow members, we'll hold a Satellite tournament on the day of the event. (and possibly one on a weeknight before the event) Basically this will be a $10 T500 freezout with one spot awared for every 5 particpants. Blinds will be used to make the tourney run ~3 hours.
So, the day of the big event (most likely a Saturday) would look something like..
2pm : Satellite tournament
5pm : Break for BBQ!
6pm : Main Tournament.
Thoughts/comments? If this sounds good, all we need to do is to pick a date, so I'll propose, umm.... Saturday, July 24th. It's about a month away and gives people time to plan.
I am so in.
hork.
Also are you talking about this Saturday? Because this Saturday is my big 19th birthday!