We have two scheduled tonight.

First, at 11:00 EST, we have the $500 draft.

Unbolded, you still need to escrow to me (mersenneary, FTP, smarmy douche avatar, city P) just to get the funds in one place. If you're in the 1k pool as well, I'm not 100% sure what's happening with that, but you can sent either 1500 or 500 for now.


Then, at 12:30am EST, we have the $250 draft:

1. mersenneary
2. rumnchess
3. jayluf
4. mizzle
5. Barewire
6. ITRIED2WARNU
7. mc4chess
8. eric79

I believe Barewire is the only one not to escrow to me yet, but I'll double check that.


A little later in the afternoon I'll ask an impartial observer to randomize the names using random.org/lists. Because there was some confusion over a more complicated way of doing it in the World Cup pools, I'm just going to ask the person to randomize the list of names, and whatever comes out, that's our snake order (1st on the list gets pick 1, 16, 17, 32, 33, 48, 49, 64). If anybody would like to request a more complicated un-hackable system, please do so, I will have no objection.

1. Rumnchess
2. Croix
3. Mers
4. Filthy
5. Primo
6. rmoriar1
7. Hundrye
8. Pistons

$500 draft in 2.5 hours, $250 draft in 4 hours.

Filthy has to drop out - apparently I was in error when I put him on the confirmed list. Let's find a sub. Croix, I still need an escrow from you. Hundrye is escrowed.

/TIME

I will take extra seat if the picking order isnt already decided

Excellent. You're in (picking order is not decided yet). Draft at 11:00 EST. Escrow to mersenneary on FTP.

The only person I haven't heard from/escrowed is Croix.

Player list:

1. Alexander, Jason:
2. Antonius, Patrik
3. Baldwin, Eric
4. Benyamine, David
5. Bloch, Andy
6. Boeree, Liv
7. Bord, James
8. Brunson, Doyle
9. Olivier Busquet
10. Cates, Daniel
11. Cheadle, Don
12. Chouity, Nicolas
13. Cunningham, Allen
14. Duhamel, Jonathan
15. Duke, Annie
16. Dwan, Tom
17. Eastgate, Peter
18. Elezra, Eli
19. Esfandiari, Antonio
20. Ferguson, Chris
21. Forrest, Ted
22. Galfond, Phil
23. Gordon, Phil
24. Greenstein, Barry
25. Grospellier, Bertrand
26. Hachem, Joe
27. Hansen, Gus
28. Harman, Jennifer
29. Hellmuth, Phil
30. Ivey, Phil
31. Jaka, Faraz
32. Juanda, John
33. Kaplan, Gabe
34. Kassela, Frank
35. Katchalov, Eugene
36. Laak, Phil
37. Lederer, Howard
38. Lindgren, Erick
39. Mahmood, Ayaz
40. Marchese, Thomas
41. Matusow, Mike
42. Mercier, Jason
43. Mizrachi, Michael
44. Mizzi, Sorel
45. Moneymaker, Chris
46. Negreanu, Daniel
47. Nguyen, Scotty
48. Obrestad, Annette
49. Phillips, Dennis
50. Pilgrim, Dwyte
51. Racener, John
52. Raymer, Greg
53. Rousso, Vanessa
54. Scott, Kara
55. Seed, Huck
56. Seidel, Erik
57. Selbst, Vanessa
58. Smith, Emmitt
59. Smith, Gavin
60. Tilly, Jennifer
61. Sam Trickett
62. Whitmire, Melburn
63. Williams, David
64. Young, Justin

KRab is in, the $250 is all escrowed.

confirm wannabe slick avatar city P..

I prefer "smarmy douche avatar", but yes, that's correct.

We can get the $500 pool going as soon as everybody checks in, as I know for some sooner > later.

Received from Nemo. In contact with Croix who was a bit blind-sided (he actually never confirmed draft time, last post was February 23rd), he says he'll know in like 10 mins, so there may be another sub spot open.

Croix might not be able to make it, so there's another sub spot open.

Croix is getting someone to pick for him. We should be good to go.

The next step is randomizing the $500 pool picking order. It's a snake draft, which means whoever gets the 1st pick gets the 16th, 17th, 32nd... etc. The 8th pick also gets the 9th pick. You get the idea.

mjw is going to randomize snake order. A reminder of the payouts:

$100 for each top 8, $200 for top 4, $600 for top 2, and $1200 for the champion
So just getting the champion gets $2100 back.

mjw, please go to random.org/lists and input the following

Rumnchess
Croix
Mers
Nemo
Primo
rmoriar1
Hundrye
Pistons

List Randomizer

There were 8 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. rmoriar1
2. Rumnchess
3. Hundrye
4. Pistons
5. Mers
6. Nemo
7. Primo
8. Croix

Timestamp: 2011-03-03 03:42:17 UTC

Perfect. We have our draft order. rmoriar1, it's 15 minutes early, but if you're around, you can go ahead and pick.

9. Olivier Busquet

rumnchess is on the clock.

Haven't heard from rum except that he knew to be back by now, we'll give him a few minutes and then I think he'd be ok with letting Barewire or someone make his first pick.

Let's see if we can do this in a chatroom to make it easier/go more quickly. Does everybody have AIM? rmoriar, send me a message (mersenneary on AIM too).

i think rum would want ivey, ill make that pick on his behalf if it helps.

phil galfond

huck seed