Thursday, November 18, 2010

Congratulations to Crabbyjoe, Matrix Event Winner

We had marginal success in this first 'matrix event'...5 players to the first game, nobody else except myself wanted to play the 8:15 and 8:30 game…but then 99RAW99 showed up around 8:30 and joined me for the 8:45 game and that convinced Crabbyjoe154 and Journey85 to register for the 8:45 game as well.  The last table shows the overall points/ranking for the matrix and the quarterly standings are updated on the side of the blog.

OH...BTW...I am assuming that you guys don't want to play next thursday right?  Besides living by myself, it isn't thanksgiving for me, so if you are interested in playing, let me know and I can set up a game (or 2)...and we can also set up private heads-up games too...just FYI...


Rank
Player
Points Earned
Game 1
1
journey85
22.36
2
crabbyjoe154
15.81
3
AllPuddin
12.91
4
Schlitz722
5
nahanni74

Rank
Player
Points Earned
Game 2
1
99RAW99
20.00
2
crabbyjoe154
14.14
3
journey85
4
nahanni74


Final TLB points/ranking for the matrix event:
Rank
Player
TLB Points Earned This Game
1
crabbyjoe154
24.49
2
journey85
17.32
3
99RAW99
14.14
4
AllPuddin
5
Schlitz722
6
nahanni74

GPN Q4.5 - 1st Matrix Event


It's THURSDAY!!!!  And that can mean only 1 thing...P-O-K-E-R!!!!!  Despite receiving no feedback on the proposed 'Matrix Event', I decided to create 4 tournaments spaced 15 minutes apart.  I’m not going to list the tourney IDs (it’s a bit of a pain)…just look under Tourney\Private and for the following titled games per the following starting times:

20:00  GPN – Q4.5.1
20:15  GPN – Q4.5.2
20:30  GPN – Q4.5.3
20:45  GPN – Q4.5.4

All games are $5+$0.50 and the password is the same as before.  Points will be awarded the same per game, but the final reported points will be based on the ranking that results from the summation of all points earned across all 4 games (i.e. first place points will be awarded to the person who earns the most points across all 4 games).  Play all 4 games for the potential to earn the most points.  This matrix event format is a trial…if people like it maybe we can work it into rotation once per month or once per quarter.

If you have never played 4 games at the same time…there are different ways you can handle it…Poker Stars has a few options for multi-tabling…click on the tiny double square icon that is on the lower right hand corner of the chip tray while seated at a table for multi-tabling options.  Personally, I find tiling the tables with a little bit of overlap between all the tables is the best to maximize my laptop’s screen ‘real-estate’.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

No Show

soooo...my function got canceled and I tried to register for the 8:00 game, but nobody else showed up.  I guess we have next week (unless people just aren't into this).

I haven't received any feedback regarding the proposed "matrix" format for next week.  Are you guys interested?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Congratulations to EFEN Caption for Win Q4.4

Tonight we had 7 players and one of them was a new player...Joe's wife Cathy (AllPuddin).  The results are posted below and Quarterly TLB points posted on side of blog.

Next week's game has been created:

Tourney ID: 328268907
Name: GPN - Q4.5
Date: 11/11/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as last week

(I won’t be playing as I have a prior commitment…have fun).
For the week of the 18th, I am thinking of doing a “matrix” game (somewhat similar to Full Tilt’s Matrix Sit-n-Gos) where we all play 4 games at the same time…perhaps we can space them out to start 15 minutes apart (like game 1 starts at 8:00, game 2 starts at 8:15, etc).  Points will be earned per game the same way they are now, however the final reported points will be determined by summing up each player’s point earned per game and whomever has the most points is the “winner” of the event and they earn 1st place, the 2nd most points earns 2nd place and so on.  I think it would be fun to try…but it would work best if everyone playing on the 18th also plays all 4 games.  Who is interested?  Also, if you are interested, let me know if 4 x $5 buy-in is OK…or would you prefer a smaller buy-in?  Poker Stars allows you to set up a $1, $3, $5 (and up) buy-in.  Leave your preference in the comment section of this blog.

Rank
Player
TLB Points Earned This Game
1
EFEN Captain
26.46
2
nahanni74
18.71
3
crabbyjoe154
15.28
4
badbilly429
13.23
5
Schlitz722

6
AllPuddin

7
journey85

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

GPN - Q4.4

Thursday's game has been created...

Tourney ID: 325919602
Name: GPN - Q4.4
Date: 11/4/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as last week