[SBR Lou]

SBR World Poker Cup 2012

Team USA vs Team Canada vs Team Europe vs Team World

How to make a team

• Rank in the top 10 for points won during SBR Poker tournament play from Jan 2nd-March 16th (SBR Poker 2012 schedule)*.

*unless expressly stated, all points won from added SBR Poker tourneys count as valid winnings.

• Ten slots will be assigned for each region. Leaderboards will be posted showing standings for each country. Tiebreaker will be SBRforum join date.

Team Match Schedule (March 19th — March 22nd)

• Ten tournaments per day running from 12:00PM-9:00PM EDT. Each event will be password protected. Your SBR Poker usernames will be altered to include your region.
• Four players per tournament (1 player from each region). It will be the responsibility of each team to decide which player will represent them per tourney. Players may compete in only one tournament per day. Players may not share the password with players that have not qualified under any circumstance - no points will be counted for that region.

Scoring details

• Each tournament will award 2 points for the winning team, and 1 point for the runner-ups team. Co-champions will be crowned in the event of a tie with an equal division of the pot. A leaderboard will be maintained in Players Talk showing how many points each team has.

Prize-pool
Winning team: 2,500 betpoints each
Runner-up: 1,500 poker pts each
3rd place: 1,000 poker pts each
4th place: 500 poker pts each
*poker pts 3X rollover

Team MVP: iPad 2 or 5,000 betpoints
*# of points for team
Tiebreaker: # of 1st place wins for team
Tiebreaker 2: If two or more players on different teams are tied after the above, the MVP on the higher placed team will be the victor.
Tiebreaker 2A: If two or more players on the same team are tied after the above, the player who netted the most points during the qualification period will be the victor.

Fine-print

1. Must be an SBR Pro to represent any team. Reminders will be sent to players to players during the qualification period.
2. Users who are banned during the qualification period may lose their right to make a team at SBR's discretion, even if they are reinstated prior to March 19th.
3. One entry per household.

[horja1]

[secretstash]

[aceking]

Prizes are reduced this year by 50% ?

[Ra77er]

This is awesome

[Wulfman14]

great news. thanks to sbr .

[LUCKYCHUCK]

sounds like another great tourney by sbr

[horja1]

Team MVP: iPad 2 or 5,000 betpoints
*# of 1st place wins for team

5,000 betpoints? not 8,000?

[no1here]

Thanks SBR! 8.5 K needed to make team my guess or goal.

[SBR Lou]

5,000 betpoints? not 8,000?

Correct. The MVP can choose between either an iPad 2 or 5,000 betpoints.

[a4u2fear]

Thanks, I just wish there was a way to make these since it's tough to play many tourneys during the week and some people play in every single tourney

[Optional]

Thanks, I just wish there was a way to make these since it's tough to play many tourneys during the week and some people play in every single tourney

You don't have time to make 1 tourney per day between midnight and 9pm?

[daneblazer]

Isn't Florida considered to be part of Cuba? If that's the case, can I be considered to be a part of the world team?

[FourLengthsClear]

Nice concept. Let's get 'em Euros.

[GUMMO77]

Isn't Florida considered to be part of Cuba? If that's the case, can I be considered to be a part of the world team?

No doubt. I'm here in Miami, and its more Cuba than Cuba

[a4u2fear]

You don't have time to make 1 tourney per day between midnight and 9pm?

Work, wife, life, eat, sleep, and tourneys take 1.5 hours. Not so easy

[Optional]

Work, wife, life, eat, sleep, and tourneys take 1.5 hours. Not so easy

oops. forgot some people have a life.

[Glitch]

nice. thanks sbr.

mvp should be scored like the overall standings. 2 points for 1st place, 1 point for second place. if theres 4 events- the mvp is the guy who got 2nd place 3x and first place once. not the guy that got first place twice and second place zero times.

[mikejamm]

Alright SBR! Way to kick off the new poker season! I really want to make the US team this time and represent!

[beerman2619]

thanks sbr

[wal66]

I'm gonna play but there is little chance I will make the team. I have this stubborn streak with my game that requires me to get the chips in the middle with the best of it and SBR's program has this stubborn streak that likes to reward the weaker hand. If not that then I like to be patient and wait for premium opportunities and SBR's program likes to blind me out before one arises.

The sick part is as brutal as it's been I still play just about every single day, hopelessly keeping the faith.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

thanks SBR! Looking forward to representing the U.S.!

[Bcatswin]

Sounds Great!!!!!

[ThaddeusB]

Team USA will be the hardest to make, obviously, but a field of 10 should give me a good shot at it.

Thanks SBR!

[aceking]

Team USA should win next year .

they can't finish last again .

[mp5070]

[SBR Lou]

nice. thanks sbr. mvp should be scored like the overall standings. 2 points for 1st place, 1 point for second place. if theres 4 events- the mvp is the guy who got 2nd place 3x and first place once. not the guy that got first place twice and second place zero times.

Depends on how you look at it. In a championship event with limited play opportunities, a guy that can seal the deal and finish 1st more times is seen as making more of a statement/being more valuable for his team, even if a guy that finished in second more managed to outpoint him.

[no1here]

Anyone looking to part of team USA has to go through me. Already consider myself part of team but have strong need to be number one. 2012 will be true test of whom is number one here and it is not you!

[SBR_John]

nice. thanks sbr.

mvp should be scored like the overall standings. 2 points for 1st place, 1 point for second place. if theres 4 events- the mvp is the guy who got 2nd place 3x and first place once. not the guy that got first place twice and second place zero times.

Agreed. We will modify it.

[yisman]

Depends on how you look at it. In a championship event with limited play opportunities, a guy that can seal the deal and finish 1st more times is seen as making more of a statement/being more valuable for his team, even if a guy that finished in second more managed to outpoint him.

But since the winner is determined only by points, the one with more points is more valuable to his team, even if he merely placed second in each tournament he played and got no wins whatsoever.

[SBR_John]

We made a few minor modifications including that one.

[Roxxyfish]

Anyone looking to part of team USA has to go through me. Already consider myself part of team but have strong need to be number one. 2012 will be true test of whom is number one here and it is not you!

good luck Buddy

[ThaddeusB]

We made a few minor modifications including that one.

Good change.

[oChRoNiCo]

Anyone looking to part of team USA has to go through me. Already consider myself part of team but have strong need to be number one. 2012 will be true test of whom is number one here and it is not you!

I look forward to this! I am going to start playing everyday in the new year.

[70kgman]

Should limit qualifying points to the weekday tournaments only. Those facebook/weekend buy in/other specialty tournaments really seemed to skew the 2011 standings once they were added.