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02-26-2010 , 02:23 PM

Johnny Douglas

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,480

This Sunday, (Feb. 28/10) marks the return of our weekly tournament sponsored by The Pokerstars VIP Club. The revised format is as follows:

Time: 14:55 Registrations Opens: 11:55
Found Under: Tourney -> Private (on Stars obv.)

$1 + 0.10 buy in, $1 goes to the prize pool.
$1000 added to the prize pool by PS VIP Club (awesome!)
$50 clearable bonus (player must earn 350 VPPs to clear) paid to all players who make the final two tables (18 or 16 players, depending on game).
Payouts are significantly flatter than original incarnation, approximately 1 in 7 people getting paid.
Protected by a single password, given on the show.
Registration opens 3 hours before the event starts.

As per usual, DO NOT ask for the password (listen to the SHOW) -- it'll result in a prompt ban.

Last edited by Johnny Douglas; 02-26-2010 at 02:28 PM.

02-26-2010 , 02:59 PM

Stinky Stu

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4,201

Will it be PL08? :-D

Oh: First.

02-26-2010 , 04:04 PM

Johnny Douglas

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,480

As of Friday afternoon I was unable to find any dodgy password sites giving away the password. Guess one dollar and ten cents is sufficient to weed out the deadbeats.

02-26-2010 , 04:41 PM

Mike Johnson

Former Pokercast Co-Host

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,865

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny Douglas

As of Friday afternoon I was unable to find any dodgy password sites giving away the password. Guess one dollar and ten cents is sufficient to weed out the deadbeats.

Henry Rollins ITT. Wheee!

02-26-2010 , 06:35 PM

S t =0= n a

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,073

wait what?

posting nipples = not ok
posting sperm = ok ?

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pretty awesome changes to the format, keeping my fingers crossed for a smaller turnout than usual.

02-26-2010 , 08:16 PM

Johnny Douglas

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,480

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Johnson

Henry Rollins ITT. Wheee!

Thankfully it's an instrumental album! Henry Rollins NFTW! I'd say pre-Rollins black flag was better, but really it just sounds the same.

02-26-2010 , 08:53 PM

SickestSlick

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 35

OK so this Sunday will be the first time i play the invitational as i couldn't ever deal with the huge fields of free rollers!
What time does it start in western europe? (Ireland) im confused with the time differences!

02-26-2010 , 09:08 PM

DonkOneMore

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 7,585

whatever time it was about 5h 10m before this post

02-26-2010 , 09:26 PM

SickestSlick

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 35

8 P.M. it is! thanks!

02-27-2010 , 04:09 AM

#10

AssCobra

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 109

see you there, gotta load some money on Stars, need a break from this Rush pokars ****e.

02-27-2010 , 07:47 PM

#11

ReyzorXxX

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,408

If the Russians can afford 1 FPP I think a $1 is not a problem. How will this deter the password stealers?

02-27-2010 , 08:11 PM

#12

Mike Johnson

Former Pokercast Co-Host

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 6,865

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReyzorXxX

If the Russians can afford 1 FPP I think a $1 is not a problem. How will this deter the password stealers?

Two things.

1) The buy is now 70x higher at $1.10 compared to 1FPP which has an approximate value of 1.5c. It's a huge difference

2) It will prevent many of the freeroll password leaking sites from bothering to post the password anymore. Since the tourney isn't even close to being a freeroll any more, it's just a regular tourney that happens to be password protected, they'll hopefully drop us from their hit list.

02-27-2010 , 09:47 PM

#13

SickestSlick

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReyzorXxX

If the Russians can afford 1 FPP I think a $1 is not a problem. How will this deter the password stealers?

they can steal the password all they want! but the big problem (from what i gather) was people with numerous accounts registering! blasting through one account trying to build a stack and if the get busted they would just go on one of their other accounts! they are not going to spend $1.10 on this same practice! at least the majority wont, and those that do should consider the buy-in a bigger investment (70x as mj said) and play properly!

heres hoping anyway!!

02-27-2010 , 09:54 PM

#14

SickestSlick

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by AssCobra

see you there, gotta load some money on Stars, need a break from this Rush pokars ****e.

rush poker on ft??
pointless gibberish :P
too much going on at one time for my liking!

02-27-2010 , 10:14 PM

#15

Johnny Douglas

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,480

I haven't found the password on any freeroll password sites, also the added prize pool isn't all that obvious so it's less likely to be on the radar of those looking to steal our value.

02-28-2010 , 03:42 AM

#16

LiczyHrabia

newbie

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny Douglas

I haven't found the password on any freeroll password sites, also the added prize pool isn't all that obvious so it's less likely to be on the radar of those looking to steal our value.

As to my calculation number of participants will go down 30% at most. So after 2-3 weeks we will have ca. 2k people in. 1k $ added not a good value, wow gfn or other similar sites give 30$ or 50$ added and they have buncha people in. To me it seems like you want to do something but You don't know what.
p.s. good luck today against USA

02-28-2010 , 05:33 AM

#17

diskkk

banned

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2,035

we say thank you for the changes, there will be a playable competition possibly like this. GL

02-28-2010 , 09:57 AM

#18

daimbar

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 434

Def in for this, but what's the password again? I've looked in the episode thread and everything!!!

Jk, $1000 added is amazing of Stars - their customer support is the stone cold nuts

02-28-2010 , 12:45 PM

#19

LiczyHrabia

newbie

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 34

Quote:

Originally Posted by daimbar

Def in for this, but what's the password again? I've looked in the episode thread and everything!!!

Jk, $1000 added is amazing of Stars - their customer support is the stone cold nuts

and the password is.....
"listen to the show"
end of password

02-28-2010 , 12:54 PM

#20

SickestSlick

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 35

whats the tourney id? cant seem to find it!

02-28-2010 , 12:57 PM

#21

SickestSlick

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 35

found it nm!

02-28-2010 , 12:58 PM

#22

Johnny Douglas

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,480

Quote:

Originally Posted by SickestSlick

whats the tourney id? cant seem to find it!

246379443

02-28-2010 , 01:06 PM

#23

inthepub5

banned

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 3,994

32 registered

02-28-2010 , 01:11 PM

#24

steve1238

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 7,631

traded some FTP money just to play in this. Registered and ready to play! Probably will be asleep by the time the tourney starts. Think the gold medal game will keep entrants down?

I'd like to think so!

02-28-2010 , 01:20 PM

#25

haroldpaul

stranger

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1

Why did you have 5 minute blinds? Wouldn't 10 minute blinds make more sense? For $1.10, blinds should be 10 minutes and maybe get more players to play? Something to think about.
harold.

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