This pool was a blast last year, but we only had 8 or so entrants. I will sending an e-mail invite to those guys (if I can remember you all), but with 20 or so guys this thing would be slick. I changed one thing this year- instead of picking 20 poker players, we'll be picking 25. More variance, more points, more fun.
Anyways, here's the rules.
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OFFICIAL RULES:
Objective: Pick any 25 poker players you wish and rank them
from #1 to #25. Each time one of your selected players makes
the final 16 in a tournament, he/she will recieve a point
value based on his/or her finish. You can only enter one team.
Point System: If you are familiar with the Commerce's point
system, this will be the same with one exception: If the
tournament pays LESS than 16 places, only the players who
made the money will recieve points.
Finish Points Finish Points
1-50 9-16
2-44 10-14
3-40 11-12
4-36 12-10
5-32 13-8
6-28 14-6
7-24 15-4
8-20 16-2
Ranking system: With so many teams having duplicate picks,
the ranking system adds even more strategy and fun to the
pool. Your point total for any given player will depend on
their finish multiplied by the spot you ranked them.
EX/ Say you had John Juanda ranked #4 on your team, and
he won the first tournament. You'd get 50 points for the win,
multiplied by 22 for his rank for a total of 1100 points.
The ranking values are as follows:
Rank Multiple
1-25
2-24
3-23
4-22
5-21 ... and so on.
Events: All WSOP events will count towards the total with
these exceptions:
Casino Employees Limit Hold'em (event #1)
Ladies No Limit Hold'em (#15)
Seniors No Limit Hold'em (#19)
Also, the final WSOP championship and the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E event will be worth DOUBLE points.
Here's a link to the sched:
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/2006wsop.asp
To Enter:
1) Deadline to enter is MIDNIGHT ET - JUNE 24TH. To accommodate those people who for whatever reason miss the deadline (holidays, missed the thread, forgot, etc.) I will accept late entries until midnight ET - June 30th, with a 50 point penalty for each day over the deadline, and, obviously, no points for the events that take place in that timespan.
2) You may post your picks in this thread, or if you want to keep your team private until the 25th, PM them to me (Ro) here at CPuck.
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If you'd like me to (try and remember to) send you a reminder 2 days before the picks are due (June 22nd), reply in this thread and let me know you want in, and I'll do that if I don't have your picks by that time.
Also, if anyone has any questions, post them in this thread or PM me and I'll do my best to answer them for you.
For those of you wondering about updates, I did them about every 4 or 5 events last year. I think all those who took part last time will tell you it was enough, and that the overall pool was good fun. With the poker boom still going strong it should be a fun 5+ weeks, so get your entry in and try to dethrone Jiggy_12, who took it down last year!