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4 Horse Pick'em for $2100 FTOPS

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  1. qjuice14 qjuice14 is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 12:35am)

    I want to organize a 4 Horse Pick'em for the $2100 FTOPS, tomorrow at 14:00est. There will be two separate buy-ins, $100 and $200. Both will be winner take all.

    For those of you unaware how this works, here are the rules. You pick 4 horses from the field, prior to the start of the tournament. The position that each of your horses finishes will be added together and the person with the lowest combined score wins.

    EX. Your 4 horses finish in these places: 395, 211, 99, 72. Your total score would be the sum of those 4 numbers, 777. If no one scores lower than 777 you win, if someone does, you lose.

    I am adding one variation to the contest. If one of your horses wins the entire tournmanent, even if your score is not the overall lowest, you win the contest. It has to be an outright win, it can't be a chop. If more than one person picks the horse that wins the tournament, the person with the lowest combined score of all the people who picked the winner wins the contest. In the event of a chop, your horse will be awarded the position he was in when the chop occured. However, as mentioned before, if your horse is in 1st chip position at the time of the chop you will not win the contest by default, you must have the lowest combined score.

    Those listed under have paid, those in bold have sent me their team. Deadline for registration is 14:00est on saturday. If you have sent me $$ by then, but not your team, you will be out of the contest and I will send your $$ back. You can either post your picks in this thread, or if you want to keep them secret until the contest starts you can pm them to me and I will update the thread at some point after the tournament starts. I will pm my picks to crazyhorse76 prior to the tournament so that I do not have any advantage.

    Since you cannot be 100% who is going to be playing, I will allow everyone to add a list of alternates incase one of your horses does not play. I will allow the full 3hrs of late registration for your original horse to join before I replace him/her with an alternate. Rank the order of the alternates, 1-X, and I will replace the people on your team in that order - if they do not enter the tournament.

    Send All money to qjuice14 (city Las Vegas) on either stars or ftp.

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    Edited By: qjuice14 Aug 14th, 2010 at 09:52 PM
     
  2. qjuice14 qjuice14 is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 1:54pm) in reply to qjuice14

    Bueller?
     
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  3. Burying_Luck Burying_Luck is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 4:55pm) in reply to qjuice14

    Even though I love these I don't have a hundo to blow on it. Here's a bump though, good luck.
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:01pm) in reply to Burying_Luck

    you should be adding up the cashes from the 4 horses not taking the position that they finish
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  5. Jason2890 Jason2890 is offline plays plo for overlays

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:08pm) in reply to apology7

     
    Originally Posted by apology7 View Post

    you should be adding up the cashes from the 4 horses not taking the position that they finish

    Meh, I don't think it would make sense for one person that picks the guy that gets 2nd and have his other 3 picks bust out first hand to win over a guy whose picks finish 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th.
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:24pm) in reply to Jason2890

    using finish place rewards folding to money and basically sitting out...where, using total amount of cashes rewards playing to win and playing to make the most money


    actually, i don't think i've ever seen a comp like this run and use finish place as a scoring system...
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:26pm) in reply to Jason2890

    solid idea.. sent for 100
     
  8. Jason2890 Jason2890 is offline plays plo for overlays

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:32pm) in reply to Gags30

     
    Originally Posted by Gags30 View Post

    using finish place rewards folding to money and basically sitting out...where, using total amount of cashes rewards playing to win and playing to make the most money

    actually, i don't think i've ever seen a comp like this run and use finish place as a scoring system...

    But it's along the same lines as betting on pros in the main event and ranking winners based on finishing ranks. Most pros aren't even going to know about your bet let alone sacrifice their own tournament equity to fold farther into the money just so you can make a few hundred dollars.

    The only way it would affect someone's play would be if you bet on yourself in the FTOPS and then decided to fold farther so you can win the contest, but that's just stupid.
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:41pm) in reply to Jason2890

    I would be in for both depending on how many else are in
  10. NG3434 NG3434 is offline make it happen

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:50pm) in reply to Bumbulbee_G

    It should be a point system with 1st getting the most points and if your player busts the 1st hand you get 0 points for that player
     
  11. gimmietheloot gimmietheloot is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:52pm) in reply to NG3434

    or like best 3 scores from your 4 guys.. cause if your guy finishes like dead last or something u r fucked.. but whatever if u change it or don't i'm still in
     
  12. Bumbulbee_G Bumbulbee_G is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 5:55pm) in reply to gimmietheloot

    It should be least points win and points are placing. so 1st - 1 pt and 500th - 500 pts
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:00pm) in reply to Bumbulbee_G

    Might be in if we change it to the biggest cash.
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:03pm) in reply to Bumbulbee_G

     
    Originally Posted by Bumbulbee_G View Post

    It should be least points win and points are placing. so 1st - 1 pt and 500th - 500 pts

    er, this is exactly the same as OP's scoring system
     
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:04pm) in reply to CJDeman

    lol im pretty sure its always been scored using finish place
     
  16. Bumbulbee_G Bumbulbee_G is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:06pm) in reply to thedylan

    sorry i was saying to people who wanted it changed. apologies
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:09pm) in reply to Bumbulbee_G

    Who is holding the money?
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:42pm) in reply to Jason2890

     
    Originally Posted by Jason2890 View Post

    But it's along the same lines as betting on pros in the main event and ranking winners based on finishing ranks. Most pros aren't even going to know about your bet let alone sacrifice their own tournament equity to fold farther into the money just so you can make a few hundred dollars.

    The only way it would affect someone's play would be if you bet on yourself in the FTOPS and then decided to fold farther so you can win the contest, but that's just stupid.


    i clearly was not talking about the person actually changing their play to win this bet (lol)...but just general tendencies of how tourneys work.


    also, picking the person who actually wins is really really tough...and you should win the whole thing if you actually pick the winner
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  19. gimmietheloot gimmietheloot is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 6:59pm) in reply to Gags30

    where is this guy... not a very good competition if he is never replying to any of this
     
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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 7:14pm) in reply to Gags30

     
    Originally Posted by Gags30 View Post

    using finish place rewards folding to money and basically sitting out...where, using total amount of cashes rewards playing to win and playing to make the most money

    actually, i don't think i've ever seen a comp like this run and use finish place as a scoring system...

    I agree that total cashes is a better way to do a comp like this, but we used to do these all the time and they always used this system.
     
  21. Jason2890 Jason2890 is offline plays plo for overlays

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 7:59pm) in reply to Gags30

     
    Originally Posted by Gags30 View Post

    also, picking the person who actually wins is really really tough...and you should win the whole thing if you actually pick the winner

    [ ] Read the OP

    That's exactly what the OP proposed.
  22. NG3434 NG3434 is offline make it happen

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 9:12pm) in reply to Jason2890

    I mean I think it would be fun to try something like this, but op has to be more active in the thread... seems shady even though he has so many posts
     
  23. qjuice14 qjuice14 is offline

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    Aug 14th, 2010 (8/14/2010 9:44pm) in reply to NG3434

    I appoligize to the few that were interested in this competition for my lack of being here to update and/or answer questions. I had to deal with a minor emergency this morning that prevented me from doing this. Because there is no fair way to continue, I have sent the money back to those who already sent me $$ along with pm apology.

    Again, sorry for the inconvenience and poorly run contest. I have run LL's, 4horse, and am holding for an OT contest currently - and this is not indicative of how I normally run one of these. The situation was just unavoidable.

    sorry, hope no hard feelings.

    Josh.
     
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