Here are the official details for the First Annual PocketFives.com Off Topic WCOOP League that L0bstaM0bsta and myself will be running from July 20 - September 3.

Events
14 Total
-7 No Limit Hold 'Em (six $5, six $10 and one $22)
-1 Pot Limit Omaha
-1 Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better
-1 Stud Eight or Better
-1 Razz
-1 Fixed Limit Hold 'Em
-1 No Limit Hold 'Em Heads Up Matches
-1 H.O.R.S.E.

All events will run on Wednesday and Sunday evenings starting at 9:00 p.m. E.D.T. (21:00 Stars Time) Tournaments will be held on PokerStars, and the tournament will be posted the day prior to the start date.

Only your best 9 finishes count!!! This is to help the people who can't play in every single tourney. We want everyone to have a fair shot at winning this, and understand some people can't play on certain days.


Buy-In/Entry Fees
Single Event buy-ins range from $5.50 to $11 with the final NLHE event being a $22 buy-in.

To be eligible for the leaderboard, a $3.00 entry fee must be transferred to L0bstaM0bsta(Bloomington) no less than 30 minutes before the tourney starts. Please take special note that those are in fact the number 0 in his name. This $3.00 entry fee will go towards the WCOOP seats that this league will award.

There are three ways to pay this fee:

1) Pay $3.00 prior to the start of every tournament.

2) You can pay the entire $42 up front (Send to L0bstaM0bsta). However, if you pay the $42 up front but can't make a tournament here and there, you will not be given a refund.

3) Pay $55 and become a VIP for this league. The $55 VIP Fee will include;

a) Entry into all 14 OT WCOOP League Tournaments, saving you the hassle of transferring money 14 separate times.

b) If you win the league tournament (the entire league, not just finish first amongst the VIP's) you will have the option of playing a $530 WCOOP event or two $215 events.

c) Top finishing VIP player who did not qualify for a seat during league play will receive the VIP WCOOP Seat to a $215 event.

d) Winner of the VIP portion of the league will receive a $50 gift certificate to P5sgear, provided by OT's very own JesterWords! (special thanks to Jester for doing this for us!)

All of these VIP prizes are subject to the fact that we get enough VIP's to join, so make sure to sign up for this today to help get more seats generating for this event!

Prizes

You guessed it, prizes will come in the form of entries into $215 WCOOP Events. Any remaining funds will be distributed as PocketFivesGear.com gift certificiates.
If the remaining funds are equal to or greater than $175 we will award a seat in full (additional funds provided by L0bstaM0bsta).

Please see above for what prizes the VIPs will have.

The Leaderboard

The formula used to calculate Tournament Leader Board Points is:

Points = (10 * (SQRT(N)/SQRT(R)) * 2.3) +15

N = Number of players entered in the tournament.
R = Finish Rank of the player for the tournament.

This system rewards the top 20% of the finishers. However, it also rewards loyalty for playing. You will be given 15 points just for playing. Only your top 9 finishes count, though. If you were to play 9 tournies and not finish top 20% in a single one, you would end up with 135 points. If you played in 14 tournies and didn't finish in a single one, you would also end up with 135 points.

This thread will remain at the top of the OT page for the duration of the league. A new thread will be started before each tournament to serve as a reminder and also as an in-tournament progress thread. Please limit the trash talking, bounties, etc, to that official tourney thread so that we can keep the OT boards free of multiple posts about the same subject.

All members of PocketFives are permitted to and encouraged to participate in this event. Any questions please PM or IM L0bsta or myself or just post in this thread.



VIP's
L0bstaM0bsta
BillMueller
KidRockin
Diggs82
BigPun23
Blackout4
SmCrawford2
SfStoner
FattyMcBones
koJacksFull
Bruce285
BGX
Cougars4444
PokerJamers
hiwaymore
dizz05
ayecido
darkknyt

if listed above we have received your funds and thank you for shipping your money to L0bstaM0bsta(Bloomington) on Pokerstars!

what are the estimated times of these tournaments?? weekends? weekdays??

i am west coast and work full time.

 

Originally Posted by TheGarbageMan

what are the estimated times of these tournaments?? weekends? weekdays??

i am west coast and work full time.

All events will run on Wednesday and Sunday evenings starting at 9:00 p.m. E.D.T. (18:00 Stars Time) Tournaments will be held on PokerStars, and the tournament will be posted the day prior to the start date.

I will probably play at least a few of these.

soooooo, just the $3 from each tourney is goin towards the overall stake? and the regular moneys will just go into the winners accounts as normal?

1. nice work gentlemen
2. do you have the schedule mapped out? like which tourneys on which dates?

 

Originally Posted by norcaljeff

1. nice work gentlemen
2. do you have the schedule mapped out? like which tourneys on which dates?

I will post the schedule at the bottom of the OP. Thanks for asking, Jeff.

 

Originally Posted by stevester214

Yea when/what time is the 1st event? And do you need to send the VIP before event 1?

VIP fees, as well as up front paying of all tournaments fees (if you choose to go that route by shipping the entire 42 dollars immed) should be done before Sunday.

Thanks for your question, Steve!

 

Originally Posted by BigGunX

 

Originally Posted by BillMueller

 

Originally Posted by norcaljeff

1. nice work gentlemen
2. do you have the schedule mapped out? like which tourneys on which dates?

I will post the schedule at the bottom of the OP. Thanks for asking, Jeff.

Yes. Def nice work using my template and changing a few words. Bravo!! Bravo!!

loooool

 

Originally Posted by BigGunX

 

Originally Posted by BillMueller

 

Originally Posted by norcaljeff

1. nice work gentlemen
2. do you have the schedule mapped out? like which tourneys on which dates?

I will post the schedule at the bottom of the OP. Thanks for asking, Jeff.

Yes. Def nice work using my template and changing a few words. Bravo!! Bravo!!

EDIT: jk btw...no need to reinvent the wheel. Nice job.

LoL...exactly BGX. It seemed that everyone liked how you ran things for the WSOP so we though it would be fun to get this going for the WCOOP. The coolest part about this is that we can get multiple horses and have the ability for all of OT to watch them play. I'm excited and can't wait to see how it turns out. GTFI BISHES!

55 sent

will be shipping 55 on Sunday...can't wait btw....gl to all imo

 

Originally Posted by L0bstaM0bsta

 

Originally Posted by BigGunX

 

Originally Posted by BillMueller

 

Originally Posted by norcaljeff

1. nice work gentlemen
2. do you have the schedule mapped out? like which tourneys on which dates?

I will post the schedule at the bottom of the OP. Thanks for asking, Jeff.

Yes. Def nice work using my template and changing a few words. Bravo!! Bravo!!

EDIT: jk btw...no need to reinvent the wheel. Nice job.

LoL...exactly BGX. It seemed that everyone liked how you ran things for the WSOP so we though it would be fun to get this going for the WCOOP. The coolest part about this is that we can get multiple horses and have the ability for all of OT to watch them play. I'm excited and can't wait to see how it turns out. GTFI BISHES!

cosign, everyone can rail from the comfort of your own home! also play from your own home, which is really nice imo

Scha, the time is 21:00 Stars time i fucked up the OP,

the time is 9:00pm EDT or 21:00 stars time the OP is not correct, I am sorry.

Im in but not sure how many i can play so i will ship 3 before every event