The TPF Heads Up Championship 2...

[Talking Poker]

We did it and it was a big success, so it's time to do it again!

This is the official thread for the TalkingPoker.com Forum Heads Up Championship 2 (TPFHUC2).

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Please do not post in here to set up matches and that sort of thing. Use PMs for that as much as possible and post the agreed upon match times (and the eventual winners) in the correct thread, linked to above. I will update this thread with the results as the competition plays out.

THE RULES

General
The TPFHUC2 will feature 5 rounds of Heads Up matches. We're starting with 32 players and will play a mostly single elimination tournament (March Madness style) until we have a winner.

All matches will be played at . After you download their software and create an account, log on. Click on "FreePlay" and then select "Heads Up." This is where all matches will be played at the agreed upon time. Timing it so both players are seated in the same freeroll can be tricky, but by using PMs, AIM, etc, it's not that hard. It just might take you a couple of tries.

The tourney structure can be viewed at the site, but basically, you start with 10,000 chips and 25/50 blinds, and blinds increase every 10 minutes. I think this is a great structure for this tournament. I personally don't like their software very much (be warned: the action buttons are probably backwards from what you are used to), but it's free, and should suit us nicely.

Important Note: Rounds 1 and 2 will consist of single elimination matches with the winner advancing to the next round. Rounds 3 and 4 will be a best of 3 series (unless both players agree to only play once). The final match will be a best of 5 series (again, unless both players agree to play only 1 or 3 tourneys). For the rounds with multiple tournaments, you can play them back to back, or space them out - whatever works best for the two of you.

Round Time Frames
All matches for each round need to be played within the specified time frame. Each time frame is approximately one week (with the early rounds being longer). This should be plenty of time for each pair to coordinate schedules and play their match(es). The time frames (and the maximum number of matches to be played per round) are as follows:

Round 1: 10/14-10/23 (1)
Round 2: 10/24-10/31 (1)
Round 3: 11/1-11/7 (3)
Semi-Finals: 11/8-11/14 (3)
Final Match: 11/15-20 (5)

With the exception of Round 1, matches may be played ahead of time if both participants agree. In theory, this entire contest could be over by the end of the month, but I'm not holding my breath - Last time, most of the rounds went long. Hopefully that won't happen again this time around.

*** When you and your opponent agree on a time to play, please post it in . It is also the responsibility of the winner to make another post in that thread letting us know the results. ***

Disappearing Participants/Bad Behavior/etc.
Hopefully this won't be a problem, but in theory, someone could have signed up for this tournament and then dropped off the face of the earth. If this is the case, I will try to find an alternate to take over their spot, but they may have to forfeit. If someone is completely unavailable for the entire time frame in which they are expected to play a match and I can't find an available alternate, the MIA player will forfeit. If both players are unable to come up with a mutually agreed upon time to play, I'm honestly not sure what we'll do. We'll probably discuss it openly as decide as a group which player will advance. Hopefully this won't be an issue.

Also, this should go without saying, but I expect everyone to behave throughout the competition. If you wouldn't say or do it at a poker table with the tv cameras on you, don't say it here.

Regarding the above, hopefully it won't come to this, but if I have to, I'll make the judgement calls. Any and all decision I have to make will be final. Let's hope it won't come to that.

Prizes
Once again, contributed by yours truly, the prizes are:

1st place - $50 cash, an autographed Phil Hellmuth book, and a TP.com hat*
2nd place - $25 cash and a TP.com hat*
3rd place - $15 cash*
4th place - $10 cash*

*The Final 4 players will ALL receive TalkingPoker.com mousepads. First and second places will also receive personalized TalkingPoker.com hats if they don't already have one. And no, if you win one now, you don't get another one when you reach 1000 posts. This is just a way to get your hands on one ahead of schedule.

All cash payments will be made via .

[junYUN]

what are the dates that it starts?

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Round 1: 10/14-10/23 (1)
Round 2: 10/24-10/31 (1)
Round 3: 11/1-11/7 (3)
Semi-Finals: 11/8-11/14 (3)
Final Match: 11/15-20 (5)

...look up

[Talking Poker]

Sometimes jun's questions really amaze me.

[junYUN]

haha

i was high last night and i seriously read the whole post.. except that part

i remember thinking "random ass numbers..."

[ChipFish]

Any chance of making this an autographed TP hat, and a Phil Helmuth book instead?

Might be worth more.

[Talking Poker]

LOL - that's fantastic.

[Talking Poker]

11 hours and counting...

Any matches set up yet? Don't forget to post them here:

[ChipFish]

Perhaps we could post them in a different thread?
Perhaps one that isn't closed?

[Talking Poker]

Whoooooooooooops!

[Talking Poker]

It's go time.

GL everyone.

[JDMcNugent7]

Alright, me and SirFWALGMan just decided we were going to play our match right now.
I havent played heads up in quite some time but we'll see how it goes. Feel Free to rail!

[Talking Poker]

Please post the results here (where this post should have gone):

[Talking Poker]

Here are the updated standings.

Looks like we have 2 round 2 matches all set to go - feel free to play now guys, if you want...

[Talking Poker]

Here are the current standings.

I'm about to start calling in the reserves.

[Talking Poker]

We need a replacement for eejit. The entire Waiting List is inactive members, so the first person to speak up in this thread gets the spot:


Matches not completed by the deadline - 11:59 PM Sunday night - will be cancelled, with both players losing. The exception to this would be if one of the players was readily available and the other was not, hopefully the unavailable person will admit it and conceed the match to the other player, so he can move on.

[Talking Poker]

We're running out of time here guys......... Does anyone want to play for eejit? Or should we just forfeit him?

Actually, I just hand an idea.............. we could make a list of players who have already been knocked out, have a random drawing, and then one (or more, as necessary) of THEM could take these dead spot(s). Forfeits are stupid, so I'm all for this.

I'll volunteer myself first, unless you guys don't think it's fair, in which case I'd stay out of it.

I actually love this idea. It's like a rebuy

Anyone think that's a decent idea? Anyone interested?

[jillaj]

I like the idea of a drawing. Since we didn't put up any money for this and it is mostly for fun, i don't like the idea of forfeits either.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

How about reshuffling the players who can play (as randomly as possible) into as many sets as possible to and then apply those matchups to as many open slots in Round one as possible. Randomly select the open slots in round one that will not be contested (whose round two opponents move on).

It sounds like there would be oneopen slot in round one (caused by Eejit and Penguinfan). BDawg and nutbag could play and then the other two (actually there are three others, not sure about Drewjax/lightfungus???)outstanding matches sounded like they were being set up. Not sure about

[Talking Poker]

I'm not sure either. I'll try to figure out what to do tomorrow evening sometime. HOPEFULLY some of these matches will happen, otherwise, I'm not sure how I'll pick who forfeits, who replaces whom, etc, etc... What a mess.

Just play guys... come on.

If you're having a problem getting in touch with your opponent, be sure to post in this thread, so I know you're not the problem and can try to find an opponent for you:

[Talking Poker]

nutbag and I TRIED to play a match just now (I was subbing for eejit), but he's out of town and on a crappy computer that can't handle Bugsy's Club, it seems.

So, I'm not sure what to do about that match, but the rest of Round 1 is complete.

nutbag - will you be able to play jillaj by the Round 2 deadline? If you can schedule a time, great, otherwise I'll step in and get myself a rematch

For everyone else, GL in Round 2.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

So nutbag moved on (for the brackets)? That seems fair and it really doesn't affect the brackets that way since EVERYONE chose nutbag to win!

Also, 2Tone and JDMcNugent have won their 2nd round matches

[Talking Poker]

Since everyone picked nutbag (and it looks like he'lll have time to play his Round 2 match), I'm fine with this...

Updated standings are attached.

[Talking Poker]

Now we're getting somewhere fast...

[badblood44]

Not that it matters, but it's badblood44, not badblodd44. See, blood is a bit "scarier" than blodd. And that's what I'm all about - being really, really scary.

Ph3@R m3!!!!!