TP Cash League-idea crapshoot

[de-coder]

I haven't been posting on this, but I've certainly been thinking about it. Overall I think I prefer a MTT league, but this is an interesting idea.

With regard to handicapping the levels and games (6-max, HU, FR - limit, no limit?) - I think it would be beneficial for those of you who have enough hands in each category (or even just more than 1 category) to do some checking and see how you make out at the different types. We should be able to use the data we have to properly handicap them. I'm not sure what to do about the limit level - on the one hand I can understand that it, in theory, should be easier to double-up at lower limits I'm not sure thats reason enough to handicap based on limit. Players at higher limits should be there because they are better players - the chances of doing well should be roughly the same. BB/100 is supposed to be a measure that works across limits for exactly that reason. On the other hand I understand that it might just be easier to find fish at $10NL than at $200NL - again, I'm not sure one way or the other.

We'd also be taking quite a lot on faith that people are recording and reporting everything correctly. Apart from that there are sometimes technical problems out of our control that result in the


For me I know I'm away for a while in August and won't be playing as much as I'd like - that would also make it hard for me to sign up for this.


It's an interesting idea though - I'm curious to see how it turns out.

[Talking Poker]

Regarding this... I think you answered your own question in there. Yes, of course as you move up the games get tougher. Think about it like this:

Do you think the average 10/20 NL oplayer will be able to beat 1/2 NL? Of couse he will. Now - do you think the average 1/2 NL player will be able to beat 10/20? This is much, much less likely.

So yeah, while we have people here would are beating the 5/10 NL game, it's not fair to complare their results to someone playing in a .25/.50 NL game. If it was, what would prevent said 5/10 player from moving down in stakes and absolutely crusing the lower limits, in order to win the contest?

The limits need to be normalized somehow. These numbers are up for dabate, but I still like my original suggestion of using some sort of multiplier to normalize the results:

From my experiences, I think these are pretty reasonable guesses, and I think they err in favor of the lower limits, if anything. Like I said, they are open to suggestions though.

It's the hands played thing that I don't know how to address. Certainly we should reward people who play a ton of hands and win (since they will be making the most real life poker money), but there are some people here who play more in an average day than other people play in an average week, and we need to level that playing field a bit as well. Otherwise, the only people with a fair shot of winning money will be the guys who play for a living.

[Talking Poker]

Unfortunately, it seems as if McFly's enthuiasm for this forum was short lived, and this idea seems to have died out. I thought it had a ton of potential, but I think our community just isn't quite big enough to get something like this off the ground..... oh well. Maybe some other time.