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    mpaschal34
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    Next promo rumors...

    Might as well be the first to ask.....what's the next promo? Start your rumors here...

    Mine is WSOP seat (that was a great promo last year).

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    world cup for a boring 7 months

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    wsop seat went well last year (cabo's tax problems notwithstanding)..... was fun following the winner's efforts in vegas, generated some noise for SBR, so hopefully we'll do it again

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    we need to do the triathlon again

    It only lasted one year but was best tourney here

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    wsop

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    lets just do one where the top finishers after a few months actually get the prizes instead of a crapshoot

    I was 99th last promo but did not deserve to be in

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    if,.... is the WSOP i think that the top 10 players should make a final game with strong structure.
    Having a field of 1500 after a long 4 month of qualifying, takes away good SBR players that never make the cut.
    Also, it would be nice to send 2 players, meaning the 2 winners having them pay out 1/2 of the buy in so SBR will have more exposure.

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    3 month qualifying period. Instead of world cup. Alter the daily tournaments to pay out top 10.

    Top 60 Get in, Top 4 from qualifying are captains. Highest score from promo period picks first as captains pick teams of 12 using snake draft format. Remaining 12 that are not picked are put on team named the Rejects or whatever other clever name someone comes up with. This can be done in a single thread and drawn out over a few days if neccesary. Draft choices must come from the pool of players. Can be altered if you want to be inclusive of more players.

    12 tournaments daily starting at noon and running every hour with each tourney having one person from each team represented. Scoring as follows, 1st- 4points, 2nd-3points, 3rd-2points, 4th=1point and 5th- 0 points because honestly if you come in last you should probably receive. Run the tournaments for 5 days and at end of period award prizes. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th with last place team again receiving nothing as well, you know, there last.

    If you want to add a variable element to this then keep track of the top 150 or so and allow the captains to have 1 wildcard each from the overall top 150.
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    I'm OK with wsop or the triathlon again. I would rather have something like other sports (nhl, soccer, baseball) be part of it instead of blackjack.

    100 players in the final is 2 many. I would prefer 10 instead of 100, 50 max. If you do 100 chip stacks need to be staggered.

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    Gonna be the same old nonsense play for 5 months everyday make the top 100
    then play one day to try and beat 99 others to get a prize that must be shared with SBR
    if you cash.

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    Just create a Monthly Leaderboard. Top ten advances to the monthly tournament final.

    Add some PL Omaha by the weekends too.

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    World Cup, right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by downsouth View Post
    3 month qualifying period. Instead of world cup. Alter the daily tournaments to pay out top 10.

    Top 60 Get in, Top 4 from qualifying are captains. Highest score from promo period picks first as captains pick teams of 12 using snake draft format. Remaining 12 that are not picked are put on team named the Rejects or whatever other clever name someone comes up with. This can be done in a single thread and drawn out over a few days if neccesary. Draft choices must come from the pool of players. Can be altered if you want to be inclusive of more players.

    12 tournaments daily starting at noon and running every hour with each tourney having one person from each team represented. Scoring as follows, 1st- 4points, 2nd-3points, 3rd-2points, 4th=1point and 5th- 0 points because honestly if you come in last you should probably receive. Run the tournaments for 5 days and at end of period award prizes. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th with last place team again receiving nothing as well, you know, there last.

    If you want to add a variable element to this then keep track of the top 150 or so and allow the captains to have 1 wildcard each from the overall top 150.
    This idea sounds awesome builds more community.
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    Quote Originally Posted by downsouth View Post
    3 month qualifying period. Instead of world cup. Alter the daily tournaments to pay out top 10.

    Top 60 Get in, Top 4 from qualifying are captains. Highest score from promo period picks first as captains pick teams of 12 using snake draft format. Remaining 12 that are not picked are put on team named the Rejects or whatever other clever name someone comes up with. This can be done in a single thread and drawn out over a few days if neccesary. Draft choices must come from the pool of players. Can be altered if you want to be inclusive of more players.

    12 tournaments daily starting at noon and running every hour with each tourney having one person from each team represented. Scoring as follows, 1st- 4points, 2nd-3points, 3rd-2points, 4th=1point and 5th- 0 points because honestly if you come in last you should probably receive. Run the tournaments for 5 days and at end of period award prizes. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th with last place team again receiving nothing as well, you know, there last.

    If you want to add a variable element to this then keep track of the top 150 or so and allow the captains to have 1 wildcard each from the overall top 150.
    This.. c'mon SBR. The World Cup is broken when you have someone making it for Canada that played 3 tournaments.

    Let there be captains to pick teams. Call it SBR Fantasy Poker Cup

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    Quote Originally Posted by sinmiedo View Post
    if,.... is the WSOP i think that the top 10 players should make a final game with strong structure.
    Having a field of 1500 after a long 4 month of qualifying, takes away good SBR players that never make the cut.
    Also, it would be nice to send 2 players, meaning the 2 winners having them pay out 1/2 of the buy in so SBR will have more exposure.
    How many players are there who play SBR poker and can afford to spend 5k on a poker tournament? If you do this, there should be a way to sell the seat you win.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RudyRuetigger View Post
    lets just do one where the top finishers after a few months actually get the prizes instead of a crapshoot

    I was 99th last promo but did not deserve to be in
    It is pretty retarded that 100 people get to play in the finale.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheAntFather View Post
    It is pretty retarded that 100 people get to play in the finale.
    That's not the bad part. The bad part is the fact the 100th player starts with the same amount of chips as the top player. There should be some kind of reward for grinding out three or four months of tournaments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    That's not the bad part. The bad part is the fact the 100th player starts with the same amount of chips as the top player. There should be some kind of reward for grinding out three or four months of tournaments.
    I agree, I didn't play for 2 and a half months yet still placed in the top 100 and started with the same stack as people who played every single day.
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    you guys playing everyday have no lives though

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    also, we all cant/wont have people playing for us on our screen name
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    Quote Originally Posted by Igor_1965 View Post
    How many players are there who play SBR poker and can afford to spend 5k on a poker tournament? If you do this, there should be a way to sell the seat you win.
    Me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RudyRuetigger View Post
    you guys playing everyday have no lives though
    Why, because many of us can find 90 minutes in our weekday schedule to relax & play a poker tournament?

    I would argue people who drink every day have no life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    That's not the bad part. The bad part is the fact the 100th player starts with the same amount of chips as the top player. There should be some kind of reward for grinding out three or four months of tournaments.

    From the business side, they want more people to be intersted and sign up. So we likely won't see a decrease in entries into the final tournament...but you can format it so that it rewards those who put time into it and are seeded higher.

    This has historically been triathlon or World Cup time.

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    I wouldn't mind the WSOP thing again. Maybe offer $5,000 off of a seat for up to 3 players.


    If any of the top 3 cant pay the additional $5k for the entry fee then the prize or prizes revert to the next players who do have the cash to play.

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    Partial payments of an entry are stupid. Especially since SBR would want a cut as well.

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    Well they don't get a cut of the winnings, but the winner must wear SBR gear.

    I will pay $5k right now if SBR pays the other 5k. Hell last year I paid all $10k myself to enter and I finished in the money
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    Quote Originally Posted by playersonly69 View Post
    Well they don't get a cut of the winnings, but the winner must wear SBR gear.

    I will pay $5k right now if SBR pays the other 5k. Hell last year I paid all $10k myself to enter and I finished in the money
    So SBR should pay MORE, force whoever wins to either pay the other 5k or forfeit their spot, and not get a cut of any winnings?

    Sounds like a brilliant idea
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    Quote Originally Posted by playersonly69 View Post
    Well they don't get a cut of the winnings
    POS, the fountain of misinformation. It was clearly stated SBR will receive 20% of all tournament winnings in exchange for staking the player:

    http://www.sportsbookreview.com/foru...l#post23418949

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    bobby you are wrong AS USUAL! I was talking about them not getting 20% if they only put up 5k. But they get the exposure for free and maybe with 3 players it could be a whole lot more exposure

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    They don't have to stagger chips for the final if they bring back satellites. Let 25 in, let the next 25 spots be filled by the next 75 players.

    I think itd be cool if they gave out a bunch of spots to smaller wsop events myself. 5 of the 1500 events.

    I expect we see 100 players for a wsop seat myself

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    I kind of like the idea of letting it last a month, let first place be 1500 or 2000. 40 people in, 2-5 get points.

    People lose interest when something goes so long like these do. The school year started when that last contest did now it's half over. Seems like it took forever.

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    Let's do the bad beat SBR Classic. Mikejamm & Autodonk get dealt aces every hand and whoever knocks them out gets 100 points. Unfortunately this should only last 2 hands

    top 40 at the end of contest play for the prize

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    i think we have a month long series

    everyone in top 50 gets 200,000 pts each
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    They should give away 6 seats to a 1500 event. Also, only Top 25 should fight for these prizes in the final tournament.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RudyRuetigger View Post
    i think we have a month long series

    everyone in top 50 gets 200,000 pts each
    Funny shit.

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