2010 WSOP Open Team Fantasy Competition

[Enzown]

Originally Posted by The 6th Wilbury

The LAPC traditionally runs a $10K HORSE and a $10K heads-up. However, they haven't released that schedule yet. Unless I hear objection, I will include all three $10K events at the LAPC in our contest: the HORSE, heads-up and the WPT NLHE championship.

This sounds fine.

Originally Posted by The 6th Wilbury

Furthermore, the NAPT has only announced one event for its second season. But I will add any further televised $5K events as they surface between now and May.

As does this.

Originally Posted by The 6th Wilbury

Some additional questions:
1. Yea or nay on the NBC Heads-up Championship?
2. Yea or nay on the WPT Celebrity Invitational?
3. Yea or nay on the Aruba Poker Classic (if it happens at all)?
4. Do we want to include any of the "high-roller" events that are popping up at various tournament series?

Were these in last year? I'd prefer keeping the comp to open events. I especially have concerns over the NBC as so many players say the structure is terribad.
As far as high-roller events go so few people play them and the prizes are so big that including a few of those could swing the competition one team's way. A horse could cash in one of those and outpreform a horse who'd had several decent cashes.

[The 6th Wilbury]

Originally Posted by Enzown

Were these in last year? I'd prefer keeping the comp to open events. I especially have concerns over the NBC as so many players say the structure is terribad.
As far as high-roller events go so few people play them and the prizes are so big that including a few of those could swing the competition one team's way. A horse could cash in one of those and outpreform a horse who'd had several decent cashes.

The NBC Heads-Up and WPT Celebrity Invitational were in. Aruba was not, although that was me doing so in protest of UB more than anything else. I also left out the high-roller events because we were basing our system on total dollars won rather than any sort of points system.

This time around, I'd like to use the same scoring system as the WSOP Player of the Year contest. Some of the concerns about that system (i.e. widely varying field sizes and buy-ins) wouldn't apply to our contest, so it seems like a reasonable way of doing things for this.

With Matt out of the country, I'll let people simmer on this before starting the "official" contest thread. But as of the moment, I have in mind the following:

1. WSOP Player of the Year points system, or at least a very similar variation of it. (I will spell this out in detail in the new thread.)
2. $25 buy-in. Payouts will depend on number of contestants, but this will also be spelled out. It will be pretty similar to a SNG payout.
3. Eight horses, reduced to five after the PCA main event concludes.
4. Schedule as listed above (including the agreed-upon adjustments).

Note: if I time this right, our official contest thread will be my 6,000th.

[Enzown]

Originally Posted by The 6th Wilbury

Note: if I time this right, our official contest thread will be my 6,000th.

I was about to ask why this contest wasn't already in its own thread, now I see it's all an ego boost for Mr Emiritus j/k
You have raced through the last 970ish posts though.