Congratulations to Journey85 for winning Q1.1

It is always nice to start a season off with a win...and Journey85 did it!  We had 6 players show up tonight.  3 players were knocked out fairly quickly after 45 hands and then it was an epic battle for the remaining 3 players for 100+ hands.  Results are listed in table below.

While I was playing I was reading up on Poker Stars "Home Game" and it sounds VERY COOL!  I will post a separate blog on this...but I plan to set our game up on PS's "home game".

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	journey85	24.49
2	AllPuddin	17.32
3	nahanni74	14.14
4	EDWT	12.25
5	99RAW99	10.95
6	crabbyjoe154	10.00

2011 GPN Online Point System and Schedule

I apologize for not getting this information posted sooner (I thought I would have more time over the holidays to post this stuff).  The point system has been slightly revamped from last quarter as follows:

·       All players will receive Tournament Leader Board (TLB) points for every game that they play.

·       The points are determined using the same formula that Poker Star uses to determine their TLB points, which is:  TLB points = 10 * sqrt(P)/sqrt(F)…where P = number of players and F = how you finish.  For example, if 10 players play and you go out 5^th, then you would be awarded 14.14 points

·       There will be a quarterly TLB and a yearly TLB (for this first quarter, the yearly TLB will not be posted until the 2nd quarter as it will be the same as the first quarter points).

·       The leader board points are just meant to give regular players something to shoot towards and count for nothing more than “bragging rights”…if you are an occasional player and don’t want to commit to a weekly game, then come play when you can, and don’t worry about it if you can’t.

·       Again, this is open to friends and families…feel free to invite them.  Just email me with their PS user name, real name, and email.

·       Each game is $5.00 + $0.50 on Poker Stars and starts at 8pm on most Thursdays.

·       Schedule

o   The game is every Thursday except for every 3^rd Thursday of the month (as that is when GPN Live League plays).

o   The schedule for this year is listed in the table below.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
	01/13/11	04/07/11	07/07/11	10/06/11
	01/27/11	04/14/11	07/14/11	10/13/11
	02/03/11	04/28/11	07/28/11	10/27/11
	02/10/11	05/05/11	08/04/11	11/03/11
	02/24/11	05/12/11	08/11/11	11/10/11
	03/03/11	05/26/11	08/25/11	11/17/11
	03/10/11	06/02/11	09/01/11	11/24/11
	03/24/11	06/09/11	09/08/11	12/01/11
	03/31/11	06/23/11	09/22/11	12/08/11
		06/30/11	09/29/11	12/15/11

·        The yellow highlight dates in the table above indicate special game formats.  I’m thinking of changing up the format a bit on those dates…perhaps run a matrix event where we have 4 games running at the same time, or we play Omaha Hi/Lo, or we play HORSE, or we play 8-game.  I’m up for suggestions…pretty much every game that PS offers, we can schedule as a private tourney, so provide suggestions.  I think for the first highlighted event we will play a matrix event.

I think that’s it…nice call, good game and good luck!

GPN - Y.1.1Q1.1

Thursday's game has been created...

Name: GPN - Y.1.1Q1.1
Tourney #: 352415810
Date: 1/13/11
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as previous weeks

Congratulations to Journey85 for Winning Q4.7 and to Nahanni74 for Finishing Top of the Q4 TLB

Our final game of the quarter (and the year) resulted in the largest turnout yet...8 players!  and a new player Steve W. with PS screen name of wonder914 (he is a friend of Roger's).

It was a pretty epic battle especially once we got down 3-handed (between Journey85, EFEN Captain and myself)...we were 3-handed for nearly 1 hour (100 hands were played 3-handed and the entire tournament consisted of only 196 hands). 

The results of the tourney are posted in table below and the TLB points for this quarter are posted on the side of the blog.  I may have to check my spreadsheet or have an independent audit conducted, but congratulations to nahanni (me) for finishing top of the quarterly TLB.  This concludes Q4 of our inaugural online league.  We will be starting back up on January 6, 2011.  Like I said before, over the break I plan to post the point system and propose some special game formats...I'll need your feedback on the blog, so don't be shy, and leave some comments.

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	journey85	28.28
2	nahanni74	20.00
3	EFEN Captain	16.33
4	99RAW99	14.14
5	EDWT
6	wonder914
7	crabbyjoe154
8	badbilly429

GPN - Q4.7

Thursday's game has been created...

Name: GPN - Q4.7
Date: 12/9/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as previous weeks

Congratulations to Nahanni74 for winning Q4.6

5 people showed up for tonight's game...and it was over fairly quickly (45 min) as yours truly was “hit in the face with the deck”…I don’t think I have ever had such a good run of cards before…like ever!  Broadway suited connectors, AKs, Pocket pairs upon pocket pairs, flopping sets and straights, turning boats, rivering a straight flush, etc.  Pretty sick.  One only dreams of having hands like that in a big tournament like the Sunday Million with over a million dollar prizepool.  Anyhow…I guess our $25 prizepool will have to do.  Results are below with the quarterly TLB updated on the side of the blog.

Next week will be the last game this quarter…come out to play even if it is your first game.  Then our next game won’t be until January 6^th.  I will send out a reminder email…I think I will start sending the reminders out on Wednesdays.

Also, after seeing how the first quarter went, I am thinking of revamping the point system a bit so that all players get points each game (not just the top 50%) and all games will count for the quarterly TLB and yearly TLB (originally I was setting it up for top 5 games per quarter and top 20 games per year)…but I think it would be better if all games were counted.  I plan to post the details of the point system in a separate blog later.

…also…brief reminder that GPN Live will be starting back up in 7 short weeks…more details to follow…

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

GPN - Q4.6

Thursday's game has been created...

Name: GPN - Q4.6
Date: 12/2/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as previous weeks