turn a home game into a seat at the wsop main event

[Scanner313 0]

I'm going to set up a 50 man league of my own to do this. This is a great idea!One thing that might be a worthwhile addition to the league to keep people interested...Make a stipulation that each player who contributes every month will get 1% of the winners action in the big event. If they miss even a single month, they forfeit their 1% to the rest of the group. If a player can't make it, they can still pay just the portion that goes into the big pool each week in order to keep their 1%.As for collusion, I'm not sure there is much you can do about that, other than to always randomize the seating arrangements. Honestly, I'm not sure what good it would be to dump chips to another guy as you're only going to get your 1% anyway. I know I'd want the best player to go to the WSOP and represent my 1%. Dumping to my friend who may not be that good certainly doesn't help me long term. I think all you can do is try to establish a league where you know the people can be trusted to play without collusion and hope for the best.I can't wait to get this underway! This is going to be awesome!

[tobytobey 0]

we are doing a league membership fee...and we will buy as many seats as we can with that. But this way...we got their money regardless of their performance.

How does this work? How many people, what is the membership fee, how are the seats awarded?

[Oziumrules 0]

Double the points for the last few tourneys so the people with low point totals have a chance.....

[tobytobey 0]

Double the points for the last few tourneys so the people with low point totals have a chance.....

I think the whole idea of making it 12 tournaments is that the best player (or close to it) will go. I would be pissed if I had played well 11 months, just to have someone go on a tear the last few tournaments and win.That's just my 2 cents.

[semaj550 0]

I think this is a phenominal idea, absolutely wonderful. Seriously. I don't know if I could get one going in my area but I would definately love to try.As for maining interest throughout the year you could just draft up a rules sheet for everyone to sign. You could have them sign that they understand they are prohibited from colluding and, if caught, they understand the penalties. You could also have them agree to play each of the tournaments, send a proxy in their place (could be vulnerable to ringers, etc. though) or simply post the buy-in and forfeit their participation in the tournament.Afterall you're dealing with $10,000+ here and it wouldn't hurt to have everyone sign something acknowledging that they know what they're getting themselves into while assuring that you'll have a sufficient prize pool over the year to fund the WSOP buy-in.

[rjohnny4321 0]

We did this a year ago and everyone who participated got "shares" of the qualifier. That's probably the best way to keep up attendence and interest. It was fun to have someone to follow in the Main Event....

[captnwmkidd 0]

I think Daniel and his sidekicks could work something up for us to do something similar online for FCPers. Our own WSOP online qualifier. :think:

[diablo 0]

we are doing a league membership fee...and we will buy as many seats as we can with that. But this way...we got their money regardless of their performance.

How does this work? How many people, what is the membership fee, how are the seats awarded?

How we do it is like this:To become a member for the season (A season is the time after the WSOP ends until right before the next WSOP starts) each person pays 150 dollars up front.Then we play 40 games in a season. Each game is worth points based on the number of people playing that particular game. (For example ten people in a game...first place gets 10 points second place gets 9 and so on...) The player(s) with the highest point totals get $1500 to get into a WSOP tourney. The winner(s) can pay the diff to get in a bigger game.All the other members get a piece of that persons action based on a percentage of thier points of the point total. So if the player(S) we send make the money, the league members get a piece of his/her take home after tax.g

[tobytobey 0]

Then we play 40 games in a season. Each game is worth points based on the number of people playing that particular game. (For example ten people in a game...first place gets 10 points second place gets 9 and so on...) The player(s) with the highest point totals get $1500 to get into a WSOP tourney. The winner(s) can pay the diff to get in a bigger game.

I see, so you're not giving away a seat to the Main Event. Can a person play in all 40 games?

[tobytobey 0]

Bump

[RDog 0]

One thing we are doing with our structure is having 10 tournaments and then one final tournament for the seats (we are giving out 3 seats to some of the smaller WSOP events). In the final tournament everyone has a base of 1000 chips and then gets awarded 100 extra chips for every point they accumulated in the previous 10 tournaments. This will obviously give the people who did well in the previous tournaments a significant advantage. Our group is only 10 people and we only award points for the top 5 in each tournament. The top 8 in points make the final tournament (we do believe this will keep everyone alive up to the 10th tournament). We are also doing the 2% of the winnings that was previously mentioned for all 10 people involved. Good luck.

[Hand_Cracker 0]

I don't know if this would be more or less "fair" but you could scrap the cumulative point system and just play a big slow-structured tourney at the end for the WSOP seat.OR, a compromise:You can allow everyone to play in the final tourney for the 10K seat, but distribute starting chip stacks based on each player's accumulated points. That way, even the least successful players during the year get a shot, but with a short stack.

i like your second idea, sort of like the tournament of champions.but putting it all out their with one last tournament will make it more luck i think. althoguh it will keep , the ones who have fallen behind in points, coming back for more, and still contributing to the prize pool.

[diablo 0]

Then we play 40 games in a season. Each game is worth points based on the number of people playing that particular game. (For example ten people in a game...first place gets 10 points second place gets 9 and so on...) The player(s) with the highest point totals get $1500 to get into a WSOP tourney. The winner(s) can pay the diff to get in a bigger game.

I see, so you're not giving away a seat to the Main Event. Can a person play in all 40 games?

well...if we had enough people in the league we could! I think every year we plan on rasing the membership fee so that we can get to the point that we can give away a seat at the big one...When we first started our home game we had an avg of 10 players a week. Now we are avg 20...League members should try to play as man of the 40 games as they can. We do have 4 games a season that are worth double points.g

[Gram Green 0]

Why do people like points for calculating rankings? I prefer just adding up cash won. (You want someone with some high finishes to represent you, not someone who finishes around the bubble at every game.)

[Guest]

man i can't see this as being profitable. you need to get 2/27 just to double your buy in so the payouts aren't going to be much incentive to play.but i also think that its ludicrous to play in the main event, given how many people you need to outlast, unless $10,000 means absolutely nothing to you.also, if a sort of unknown wins the main pot, he may take the 10,000 and bail out. i know i would definitely consider it.. heh.

[the red bull 0]

great idea.Just out of curiousity, what place are you in in the league?Don't Lie :wink:

[KingAustin 0]

I just want to say this is a great idea. GL in your tourney.

[tobytobey 0]

great idea.Just out of curiousity, what place are you in in the league?Don't Lie :wink:

After two months, I am tied for first with a third guy only 1 point behind.