Vegas Bound

[Akverno]

I'm definitely jealous, haven't been to Vegas since either late 07 or early 08 and haven't played in a poker tournament since around that time either. I can't wait till after I buy a house and get settled in. Hopefully by next summer I'll be able to set aside enough money to make a trip down in July and buy into one of the smaller tournaments at the WSOP.

[Spidey44]

Invig...would love to know how the points are awarded for this. I've started a regular game in our neighborhood and we were throwing around the idea for this. Can you give me a breakdown of your normal buy in, number or tournies, points, etc?

Thanks and congrats!

[Invigilator]

Sure thing. I am just heading out in a few minutes, but I will post what we did for this league as well as structure for my own home league.

[Invigilator]

Spidey,

For our WSOP league, we each put up $250. This gave 1st place the buy-in and $500 for travel and accommodations. Second place got $500 to go along as a companion. (there were 10 people)

There were many rules for money and how to resolve disputes and such, but the important things were...

We played 10 tournaments. First place got 10 points, Second place got 9, and so on

If you are absent you can send a sub ONCE.

IF you have no sub, you get 1 point max. (if one person was absent, the first person present to bust out would get 2 points)

Ties int he final standings were broken by number of 1st place finishes, then 2nd place finishes and so on.

Since we were playing for a $1500 buy-in event, we started with the same chips. (4500).

Blinds were...

25/50
50/100
100/200
150/300
300/600
500/1000
700/1400
1000/2000 capped at that level

We played 20 minute levels and raced of the 25 chips after the 4th level.
We also ran a 2 deck system to keep it moving.

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The only glitch we ran into was as people became mathematically eliminated, they stopped coming. So as we got down to the wire, the available point spread shrunk. This made things harder for the people who were chasing. We pointed this out and got better attendance at the end, but I suggest also doing $5-$10 each game as a last longer and pay out to first or the top 2.

That seems to be the gist of the important things, let me know if you have more specific questions.

[Spidey44]

Thanks for the info Invig! Good stuff. So during the tournies was there a buy in for each as well or did you guys strictly play for points?

[Invigilator]

We all had to pay the money up front. We talked about doing small buy-in / side bet sort of things, but never did. The theory was that that would keep people playing hard when they were mathematically eliminated.

[Kurn]

Here's the league my boss plays in. Great format, but you need a lot of participants ans good management, plus a big place to play. If it wasn't 75 miles from my house, I'd be in.



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