So in my main forum, we have an annual tournament series for forum participants in the Fall and it's something I want to try and bring over to SSPLO. It's a good way to have some fun and get some bragging rights and playing with other (presumably good) players can help improve your game, LDO.

Here's how it works (in a nutshell).

The series takes place over a single weekend and is played Friday night/Saturday/Sunday. The standard is 2 events Friday, 3 events Saturday, and 4 events Sunday, but this can be worked out as can the starting times based on Euro/US/other interest.

The events will be in a variety of games, but Omaha focused (LDO). So for example, the definites are 6M PLO, HU PLO, and Omaha H/L (not sure about PLO vs. FL). And we'd vote on what other games to include from what PS offers.

These get setup as private tourneys on PS and you must be a forum reg to get the password (i.e. no lurkers). Play in as many events as you want. For the truly hardcore, there's an additional competition that encompasses the whole series where you get points based on finishes in each event and whoever has the most points at the end wins the title of (TBD, but I like Mr. PLOw). Going for this is $x (TBD) and is split 67/33 between top the top 2 finishers. I can't guarantee I can pull it off, but I will appeal for the winner of the series competition to get a "Mr. PLOw 2010" custom undertitle. I think this is 85%+ to be approved.

Anyways, that's the gist of it. If you want to read more, here's a link to this year's event in Microstakes LHE (what this is based off of).

Things to figure out:

Is there enough interest for this to happen?

What weekend works best for the majority of people? (We need to squeeze this in before the holidays so it's going to have to be November 5/6/7 or November 19/20/21).

What times work best for people? In the past, Friday games have gone at 9 and 10 pm EST, Saturday games have gone at 7, 8, and 9 pm EST. And Sunday games have started at 6, 7, 8, and 9 pm EST. These are flexible depending on interest.

Anyways, post ITT if you're interested and what (if any) preferences you have for the weekend/times. Suggestions for what games to include are also welcome.

I'd be in for PLO, PLO8 and NLHE...but those times are damn late for a euro brah.

That's why there's discussion about it. I'm not so US-centric that if 20% of the people that are interested are US and the other 80% are Euro that it's going to be at a US friendly time.

What Euro time works best IYO? Nights, afternoons?

21:00 CET would be perfect (15:00 Eastern I think)...at least for Saturday and Sunday.

I would certainly play in this and I would be able to play it at any time. (PST)

I'll play I think in PLO but will mean me setting up a PS account. You realize if Fishnoob wins we're all totally fooked on every thread for eternity.

HAHAHAHA This... <3 Fishnoob

Id be down for something like this
I like the idea of the 3pm ET start time for saturday/sunday so we can work in the Euro's

Friday I could do anytime from 5 ET onwards... Maybe if we make it like 6ET we can get most the Euros? Since its ~12am there - depending on location

The only issue with 5 ET is that it kind of ****s any US west-coasters that may want to play. Maybe just make it a Saturday/Sunday thing and have 3 events/day? Maybe instead of staggering the start times by an hour, they go 15 minutes apart so it's not as long of a stretch?