id play a $100 or $200 nightly cage atleast 25 times a month

Yea it would be cool. I hope they listen

Winners of the weekly and bi-weekly cage could be put into a freeroll for the $5K. If they did it right they could pay for the seat they give away throughout the month and it'd draw even more attention to all of the buy ins.

Pretty much this. WPN hates admitting that the way they set something up could be Improved upon. Pretty sad really, hopefully that attitude changes in the future.

Giving away a 5k seat just like that seems like a terrible idea.

A better way to go about it would be setting up a CageLB which awards one seat at the end of the year to the top finisher.

Yeah, players hate free money and they could cover most (if not all) of the buy in they give away through the rake paid in the smaller Cage tournaments. Man, I'm such an idiot, terrible idea for sure.

Edit: If they ran a weekly $200+15 cage they would only have to get 333 entries during the month to cover the free seat. No brainer.....

by your logic they could give away 100 seats to the WSOP ME and it wouldn't cost them a cent.

That's definitely a good comparison to a give away promoting their innovative new format that could actually help them become a real site instead of a joke site. You seem intelligent sir, have a good evening.

Uhmmm.... I'm not making a statement here about whether I agree or disagree with IPlayPLOHigh right now....

But, what? This is one of the most ridiculous posts ever.

+1!! come on WPN you can do it!!

Anyone planning to play the PLO tonight??

I am probably going to play and stream it while I do

Doesn't look like it will get as many people as the last NL one did

^ Just received a call from BCP making me aware it's taking place tonight. I haven't played in a while so it seems like they're calling anyone who played PLO. Maybe next time =/

Yeah same call came in like 5 minutes ago from ACR. Too bad they called me to remind me way after the satellites have finished, so I can't even try to make it in anyway, but I probably wouldn't have anyway haha.

As all of us have said make a smaller cage and I'll put in more effort into satelliting in, but 5k is just way to big for me.

Hyper-turbo step sngs to the cage please!

How about WPN runs a $500 mini cage along side the 5k cage? for us grinders that don't have a mill bankroll.

The CEO said he doesn't want to take away from how "special" it is, and also plans to eventually make it a $10K with a $2500. I don't agree at all, but w/e.

When did CEO say this?

Last night when he came on ChicagoJoey's live stream.

Ok ty

So he said a $10k with 2500 what? I didn't understand what u meant

Basically he said that he'd like to get the Cage to a $10K buy in (also mentioned making the current version a multi-entry [ not reentry]) and then adding a $2,500 cage. He said he has no interest in having like a $500 or $1K Cage. I personally feel like that's a mistake, because it's an awesome format, but he seemed pretty set on keeping it "special".

So a multi entry means I can multi table in same player pool right? Like zoom? How would this work when ppl get knocked out.

I'd like to clarify a little of what IPlayPLOHigh said about the CEO's comments, since there's a bit more to it. I was only in the stream for the last hour or so, but that was when this discussion took place. First of all, just to give context to those who weren't there, the CEO (Phil) was kind of just discussing out loud his plans regarding the Cage especially in regard to the request for lower buy ins.

He said that it was discussed, and that the original draft of this OSS contained a 1k one EVERY DAY. Then he said the more he thought about it, the more he thought that he wanted to retain the exclusivity of the event, being exclusive to high buy ins (he used the example of Harley Davidson not making cheap bikes.) When he discussed the multi entry structure he wanted to do (you'd be allowed up to two entries per 24 players that join) there were strongly negative reactions to the idea, and he backed away from it (don't remember what he said, but it was basically something like "if you guys don't like the idea, then I guess it was a bad idea."

The context for him bringing up that he wants it to go to 10k was that after whatever date (I think after the 1 Mill GTD) the Beast/SnC (at least one) is going to feed the Cage, so if it becomes popular enough he wants to move it to 10k and THEN he'd want to add in a 2.5K as well, but only if they can successfully run a 10k.

What I'll say regarding this is that I lean towards IPlayPLOHigh's argument here (as I often do) but I understand both arguements, and can even conditionally agree with the Phil's. IF WPN actually does a great job of restructuring the schedule to include more worthy midstakes tournaments, I can see why having these tournaments as the things to shoot for may be good for getting players engaged in trying to move up. On the other hand, having no options except 5k is just.... daunting for a lot of us.

I do think the best option is a 1k one on Tuesday and Thursday, and a 500 one on Saturday. Alternate between PLO and NLHE for the 5k one, and do one every two weeks.

As for how the Multi Entry would work. If there were 24+ entrants, you can buy in twice, occupying two seats at two separate tables. These two seats are both you, but operate independently of each other in the tournament. I'm not sure I understand what you're asking about being knocked out, but I'm assuming you mean what happens if you end up on the same table as yourself.

I've never seen such a thing as possible on WPN, but on Full Tilt your stacks would just merge. I'd imagine the same would happen here.

Good recap Boney.

because when you launch a new brand with 30 customers, you gotta protect the brand.