[horja1]

1 month event

[RudyRuetigger]

The opposite of this

the opposite of this

[dhristov211]

A paid buy in satellite to get into the main event each weekend.

As well as the normal weekday qualifying.

remove free poker with prizes for brokediks

add 5-7 tournaments a week with buy in 100 to 1000 and ADDED betpoints by SBR

no money, no honey

[Djohns04]

3 month long contest. Prizes given based off your standings for the 3 month period. The 3 months of qualifying is relatively meaningless when your result in the Main Event is all that matters.

Agree with this 100%...... Whatever format you choose, don't have the prizes based off the final tournament..base it off the entire collection of games during the period you choose. You've lowered the variance slightly by making the competition last a while, don't throw that out the window with a one tournament showdown.

[TheMoneyShot]

1 Month Events sound great. Keeps things interesting.

[thechaoz]

3 month long contest. Prizes given based off your standings for the 3 month period. The 3 months of qualifying is relatively meaningless when your result in the Main Event is all that matters.

This for days.

[thechaoz]

with 20 tourneys, you run bad one week you're already out of the contest. Needs to be at least 2-3 months

[Igor_1965]

1 Month Events sound great. Keeps things interesting.

New series every month. If you win in January you can't play rest of the year. A Grand Final tournament before Christmas with 11 monthly winners playing for something nice.

[Igor_1965]

New series every month. If you win in January you can't play rest of the year. A Grand Final tournament before Christmas with 11 monthly winners playing for something nice.

If you win means there is only one winner during each monthly promo. He gets a badge and an invitation for the Annual SBR Poker Super Championship. Like POTM but for poker.

[blankoblanco]

with 20 tourneys, you run bad one week you're already out of the contest. Needs to be at least 2-3 months

I would argue it's more like the opposite. When 1st place is worth 10 times 6th place you're pretty much always one hot week away no matter how bad you ran before

But yes, either way you look at it, a month is fairly high variance. Personally I don't want to play twice as many dailies to have like a 25% greater edge or whatever but people have different feelings about that. I think eaglesfan's perspective that variance is good in part just to encourage newer players is pretty reasonable

[Enkhbat]

6 weeks

[bobbywaves]

Skill based 12 month events, with 4x the prizes.

This should spike poker attendance by forcing people to show up, for a higher chance of winning a guaranteed seat to main event. It would also reward dedicated players with a better chance of qualifying.

[Mr KLC]

Don't care how long the next one is. The only thing I have to offer is instead of doing The World Cup like we have in the past, do a draft NBA All Star style. Top 4 point winners draft their teams from a pool of the 36 highest scoring players after them. That way someone who accumulates only 90 points from Somalia doesn't get rewarded over more deserving players.

[RudyRuetigger]

Don't care how long the next one is. The only thing I have to offer is instead of doing The World Cup like we have in the past, do a draft NBA All Star style. Top 4 point winners draft their teams from a pool of the 36 highest scoring players after them. That way someone who accumulates only 90 points from Somalia doesn't get rewarded over more deserving players.

pass

gambling is an individual activity

im very glad drew got rid of this shit show

























i want heads up poker tournament but that wont happen

though didnt we have one in the past???

[blankoblanco]

Skill based 12 month events, with 4x the prizes.

This should spike poker attendance by forcing people to show up, for a higher chance of winning a guaranteed seat to main event. It would also reward dedicated players with a better chance of qualifying.

If you want to benefit from being "dedicated" that's what leaderboard bets are for. Events are supposed to be fun. Not a sub-minimum wage job

Just because you have the free time to play every single daily doesn't mean most do. Saying this as someone with plenty of free time myself

Also surely you realize this alienates the more casual players which goes completely against what SBR wants to accomplish with promotions and events

[mikejamm]

New series every month. If you win in January you can't play rest of the year. A Grand Final tournament before Christmas with 11 monthly winners playing for something nice.

Fuk that! Nobody wants to win one month and then have to sit out for 11 fuk'in months or how ever many it might be, waiting around to for an end of the year tournament.

Agree with several comments though, about a regular monthly tournament. 4 weeks of regular daily tourneys depending on how long the month is, with a final of the top 20 played at the end of the month. 5000 chip final starting stack. Prize pool to the top 10. I believe it would increase traffic and attract players who don't have the time to grind away at 3 months of qualifiers.

This would also offset some of the bullshit of playing for 3 months, trying to qualify and missing out on the final due to a run of bad beats, terrible variance and just not being able to play everyday.

I'm not saying we should do away with longer 3 month qualifying tourneys all together, they are good in respect that the prize pools are greater and you have more opportunity to make up ground. Maybe 2 of those a year and run the monthly ones in between to break up the monotony.

You guys should seriously go back to paying out the top 10 at the final table in the daily tourneys too. It's worth something to make the final table, and would help increase the players and action at the ring games.

[Bob Loblaw]

Not sure what's been mentioned so far in this thread but my 2 cents...

3 months for a bigger prize is good but not at 5 tournies a week at 1+ hours each. Its too much. A lot of people don't have the time to play daily and even for some that do they probably get tired of it real fast. Run tournies 5 days a week but cap it out at 3 max entries per week. Just my opinion. I know for me when i did try to play 5 days a week i didnt enjoy it at all and by the time the contest was ending I was probably down to 2 nights a week

[mikejamm]

Yes, bringing back something similar to the triathlon sounds good to me. After all SBR is mostly devoted to sports betting not poker so a contest which combines both of those skills seems like it would be fun to me. Adding a casino element to it would also be ok, as long as it's not weighted too highly (since that part would be nearly all luck), but not a huge deal.

Think poker promos should be kept to just poker

Exactly! Let's keep the poker separate and build on making it better. I fuk'in hated that stupid triathlon bullshit! Grind all those months to get a decent chance at a good finish, only to have it taken away by a fuk'in unlucky joke casino segment.

[bobbywaves]

If you want to benefit from being "dedicated" that's what leaderboard bets are for. Events are supposed to be fun. Not a sub-minimum wage job

I have leaderboard bets every year. Events should be skill based, not some high variance crap shoot. Where 2 bad weeks of getting sucked out on costs you a guaranteed qualifying seat.

Just because you have the free time to play every single daily doesn't mean most do. Saying this as someone with plenty of free time myself

Not my problem I'm retired & have all kinds of time. If someone can't find 90 minutes in their day to relax & play some poker, feel sorry for them. They need to stop being a slave to the grind & get their priorities str8.

Also surely you realize this alienates the more casual players which goes completely against what SBR wants to accomplish with promotions and events

Surely you realize with 4x the prizes, an annual event would attract many new & casual players to play more often. Spiking daily poker attendance with new players & pro memberships, which completely agrees with what SBR wants to accomplish.

[leovegas]

What's wrong with the World Cup? I liked it!

[leovegas]

If something new must be introduced, SBR may want to promote regular poker playing to forum members who don't. Maybe make a regular high stakes tournament, buy in with betpoints (in the thousands) with fun prizes like bitcoin, an iPad or $1000 in pinnacle sports credits for the winner?

I hope SBR finds a way to attract more interest from a broader base. When I played qualifiers for this last promo there were exact same 30-40 players in the early 3 PM tourney. So there is hardly 100 poker regulars here - out of tens of thousands of active posters?

How about promoting the game to them, giving them more value. Reward sportsbetting contest winners with poker credits instead of sportsbook free plays?

Start doing random draws and give away some high-value poker tournament seats to players who probably don't even have the software installed? The frequent SBR Drew threads where you have to guess 5 answers correctly to win 100 betpoints come to mind. Why not make that prize 200 poker points instead, or some type of free tournament entry with a chance at a nice prize? The fact that 90% of randomly selected SBR posters will have less than a 5% chance to win a tournament with a field like last Saturday... it doesn't have to be advertised

Maybe make a poker/sportsbetting contest hybrid where you must be able to pick winners and play poker at a reasonable level to have a chance to win it all?

[sinmiedo]

1 month event, is perfect. my objection is qualifying for main tournament. i would prefer to pay the prizes to the top 10 or 15 players,like it was done on the triathlon.

[katstale]

More BTC prizes. The points are worthless to some of us.

[playersonly69]

Lets have an event where you give away a WSOP seat to something like $3000 event

[playersonly69]

Hell I will already be at the WSOP so I dont need travel money, hotels are free for most of us here anyway

[RudyRuetigger]

we need a usa book to sponsor this contest


i get commercials all the time to visit some other place outside of my current residence

so i would think it would be great for a hotel in nj, ms, etc to host an event

[Auto Donk]

hoe runner contest

see who can pimp the most hos

[bobbywaves]

hoe runner contest

see who can pimp the most hos

7 of Trenton's finest ho's, under pimp Waves belt.

[cincinnatikid513]

a sbr world series of poker with a bunch of different events limit poker nl holdem 6 handed heads up, omaha followed up by a main event with huge stack sizes that last 2 or 3 days with the final table broadcast on sbr youtube channel with hole card cams on a delay

[thechaoz]

7 of Trenton's finest ho's, under pimp Waves belt.

I have our spot up point if you'd like.

[oiler]

Why not a tourney like ncaa tourney.Have a one month tourney and top 64 play heads up..1 vs 64 2vs 63 etc....make the point structure thru that..might be interesting to see if that works

[JAKEPEAVY21]

a sbr world series of poker with a bunch of different events limit poker nl holdem 6 handed heads up, omaha followed up by a main event with huge stack sizes that last 2 or 3 days with the final table broadcast on sbr youtube channel with hole card cams on a delay

it would be great to have a bunch of different types of tournaments like this.

[RudyRuetigger]

Why not a tourney like ncaa tourney.Have a one month tourney and top 64 play heads up..1 vs 64 2vs 63 etc....make the point structure thru that..might be interesting to see if that works

great idea

especially for next years march madness

[mpaschal34]

After a ton of good recommendations....next event....

World Cup....3 months to qualify.

[leovegas]

After a ton of good recommendations....next event....

World Cup....3 months to qualify.

Unlikely I'll participate but I will root for Canada. Canada is always the underdog, right?