This will be a HUSNG, right? How long will the blind levels be?? Even if you start w/ 200bb deep, you will not be playing deep for very long.

no it will be a play money cash game with no blind increase. Maybe if the game goes over 1 hour double the blinds

Oooo.......cool. My vote would be 200bbs but I don't really care. Not sure how long you want the matches to last too??

i dunno but i dont think itd be good if they were to long but too short isnt good either. Has too be long enough to be worth playing but not so long people lose interest. Just have to find the sweet spot

default game is play money but participants can agree to play for real wonga too right, as long as both HU players agree? if one wants to use play money, then it's play money - no pressure to play for additional cash over and above the original wagers.

yea thats correct, its play money unless BOTH agree. No pressure on anyone to play cash if they dont want to. I just added it incase 2 players are like but WE want to play for cash.

An option could be to use PokerTH.

Its an Open Source (free) poker program for single table SnGs. Its highly configurable so you can set the starting number of players (obv 2 for HU), starting stack, blinds structure etc etc.

www.pokerth.net

i'm in. interested in improving hu play

I enjoy HU more then cash sometimes. let me in yo

I'll play ldo, but don't want the responsibility of Captain'ing

And 100BB is fine, 200 will last hours and 30 minute matchs are best imo

Interested. I suck balls at HU.

Ob, I really like the idea of using an offnetwork fully customizeable program. I can't check it now cause I'm on my blackberry, but can you set levels for ridiculously long so in effect you're turning it into a cash game?

Upto 99 minutes, so yes, ridiculously long.

You can also set the blinds levels to anything you want so you could keep it flat for the first 6 levels (1/2 hour with 5 minute levels) then steadily increase, so the levels could be something like 10,10,10,10,10,10,20,40,60,100,150,200,300,500 ...

too complicated stick to stars

Just throwing it out there as an option.

There are some good things with using PokerTH, like fully customizable levels, and you can password lock the table, but some bad things too. One I just realized is that its not possible to view the tables from the rail.

well, if we do play chips theres no huds so im sure everyone already made that connection. and the challenge page says start with 50bbs. Doesn't that seem a little short???

I think 50bbs was for limit hold em.

it was, im an idiot.

Do we really want to have a play money option? I'm not trying to be a **** but people just don't play the same when it's play money. I'm not sure of the structure, but if most people want to use play money then I probably won't be interested. Even $1 is better than fake money as long as there is something to lose.

everyone's putting up a buy in ($10? to weed out the indifferent) , so "playmoney" is only a label.

um they do have something to play for. They will have $20 on the line for the whole competion. If they play 5 games that works out to $4 a game. If they win the get a nice lift plus a bonus from bitchi. They also have forum pride and bragging rights to play for.

When each week starts going you get teams matched up and the competition gets good and people want to win. Even if you team is beat it helps you to win because in ties, most individual wins puts you through to the finals.



also if there is a repeat competition and you would want to enter then having a good previous season helps you.

Also add into the fact that if people want they are allowed to play for money, be that buying into a cash game or playing play money with a friendly wager. but only if both agree.


edit: $20 isnt definite, could be $10 or something. also this is more about improving your game than it is about making money. If your more interested in making say "$1" than improving your game and therefore long term winrate then thats ok

when do you think we'll be able to get this rolling?

interested.!!!!!!

I would most likely play

I'm interested