your going to have a hard time running anything but nlhe

Nick's group is the official one now I think. He has way more members and it seems to be running smoothly. Not too sure if we can play "play money" games on that one too tho. Gotta double check.

Sock it... to ME?

when is the first event going to be and are you doing a table at the thing tomorrow?

First event is next Saturday I think. And yes, we had a table at the activities fair. Got about 50 new members to sign up. Still waiting to find out the budget and get some more random info, but I think Nick has a schedule all set up and rooms booked for the semester already.

lol first tournament with 27 players then online tourny only 7 with three sitters including you and the other head person, Nick.... lmfao

Hahah, yeah... clearly the live events have been more successful this semester. I think there are only a couple players on campus who prefer online to live. Regular cash game going Tuesday nights from now on hopefully though!

I find myself happy to hear this. It is good to hear people would rather get together in person rather than sit alone in their rooms, staring at a screen.

This semester wasn't as spectacular as we would hope. Any/all suggestions are welcome for starting next year off on a better foot. I kinda like the idea of a heads up tournament. Thoughts on that or anything else?

Why the lack of tournaments? I feel like we could have had at least two more including this last one. and you think we would be able to get like 50 people to play out of 4,000 but for only if the prize pool was like $500 per event. not $200

What worked? What didn't work? What were players saying about it?

Have to agree with these questions. Those are what you need to be asking first before we can really toss out any advice. In any arena, a quick lessons learned follow-up after completion is always a good thing.

it would help if you actually showed up to your own events especially when they moved it to a Friday to accommodate you and you still couldn't go lmfao

when am i getting my prize for winning the online from Nick?

What worked:
-I think the tournaments had a decent showing, between 20 and 30 players on average. -Maybe a small buy-in for a charity event would generate more interest and allow for a bigger prize pool. I know we had one event co-hosted/sponsored by a frat. There was a $5 entry fee and the money went towards the frat. Personally, I'd rather not play in a buy-in event unless the entry fee goes towards a)the prize pool, or b) a legitimate charity. (Not a big fan of frats, but maybe that's just me.)

What didn't work:
-Online poker events were a complete fail to put nicely. I think the idea was good, we just never got enough people to sign up and register. Anyways, we won't really have to worry about that anymore. It was worth a shot though.
-Lack of prize pool definitely made it difficult to get people interested. I think the prizes were decent since it was a free tournament. (Gift cards of winners choice... 1st: $60, 2nd: $30, 3rd $10)
-Maybe a faster structure would work. I think most people didn't want to spend hours there just to win a $10 gift card. Then again, some people just played to have fun so they didn't mind it lasting a few hours.

What were people saying about it:
-I don't think anyone was really saying anything about it. Unfortunately, I wasn't at several events due to scheduling conflicts. We made the tournament schedule before I started working. Work tended to conflict with the tournament times. Hopefully we can fix that next semester and luckily the other kid in charge was great at running the events and making sure things ran smoothly.

I'll talk to Nick about the prize for the online events. Sorry for the delay.

So let me see if I got this right. You first took a cash buy in and then payed out in gift cards and secondly you weren't even attending your own event. Pretty easy to see why this failed.

Hahaha, well that is partially correct. I wasn't the only one in charge of the club. We have a small group of kids. So one of us missing an event or two isn't exactly the biggest issue in the world. Sure in a perfect world we would have all been there for every event, but hey life isn't perfect.

Secondly, we aren't allowed to give cash prizes. All the events are free to play and award $100 in gift cards to the winners.

We held one special event with a frat on campus with an increased prize pool (more money in gift cards) and a $5 entry fee that went to the frat. It was a type of fundraiser I guess. (To be honest, I didn't like the idea but some people thought increasing the prize pool and linking the event with a frat would increase participants. I don't think it worked very well.)

Only event that had a buy-in was the one associated with the fraternity.

Other events were free. I think prize pools need to be doubled at minumum to increase interest as well as blind levels shortened. Most people cannot commit a few hours on the weekends to play for such little $$$ payout if they are not avid poker players...

imo

Almost word for word what I said. Glad someone agrees.

Also need more events at the beginning of the semesters when people are not as busy...

lol. i posted that almost exactly after you

no love for this thread

How long are these tourneys?

I'm a poker player, and I'm not really interested in playing for more than 2 or 3 hours for play money. Someone who's not a poker player gets bored in under 2 hours.

Have you tried a shootout? You don't even have to play to a winner at each table. Just play the tables for 90 minutes, take the chip leader (or top 2) to the final table. Reset the chip stacks so that everybody starts equal on the final (tho' make the stacks and blinds bigger so that it "feels" different), and schedule it to last another 90 minutes.

I've done this for free events among non-grinders, and it's worked fairly well. Sure, there might be some chip dumping or low-level collusion, but who cares? It's free and for fun.

This way the people who see poker as entertainment get their fix since there aren't many early bustouts, and the people trying to win have potential to play longer. It's a nice way to accommodate a lot of people in a short amount of time without having to create an insanely fast structure.