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need opinions on a charity tournament.

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  1. debo34 debo34 is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 12:39pm)

    Ive been recently asked by some people in my hometown to run a charity poker tournament to raise money for a 3 year old girl with cancer and her family.I have agreed to do so, and also thought it might be a good idea to run one online as well.

    I am going to run this tournament on UB within the next 3 weeks or so.

    My question is.

    What do you feel is the best buy in for a charity tournament online? Obviously the idea here is to make as much possible for the cause, but i also want to know what is best for the players as well.

    I have seen 10+10 quite often and am leaning towards this but want to see what everyone thought.

    Thanks in advance for any replies.

    Debo
     
  2. Blackout4 Blackout4 is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 12:49pm) in reply to debo34

    I would say 10 or 20 is a fair buyin and would attract a lot of players - But, I would do this on stars if you wanted to raise more money.....
     
  3. moe86 moe86 is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 12:50pm) in reply to debo34

    $10+10 seems about right mayb give ppl to option to donate to the cause directly if they want to as well. If you wanted to get crazy you could do a low ($10+10) mid ($50+50) n high ($100+100) buy in. gl moe86
     
  4. Da Donkey Da Donkey is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 1:14pm) in reply to moe86

    I think if you are going to do an online charity tournament on UB, you are best having a $10.00 straight up buy in with 30-50% of the proceeds going to the charity and then ask for donations then also.

    I think you will get the most participation with that. Don't charge the juice or extra $1.00 or whatever, that throws people off sometimes.

    That's how we do it around here. Maybe ask UB to match or have some give-aways like free gear or whatever also if you can pull that off to attract more people or give away seats to certain events.

    Throw in a few added prizes.
  5. luckyleewon1 luckyleewon1 is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 1:22pm) in reply to Da Donkey

    I would also maybe email a bunch of the training sites and see if they can donate a subscription and maybe have that as a prize?
  6. Piloteg Piloteg is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 1:35pm) in reply to debo34

    This is a very nice gesture and I'm sure a lot of people from p5s would be happy to play for such a good cause, but seriously why UB instead of stars?
  7. debo34 debo34 is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 1:55pm) in reply to Piloteg

    Well the obvious reason is my affilation with UB, and i know who to go to, to get the tournament up on the schedule.

    I would have no objections of doing one on stars as well. I would love to raise as much money as possible for this cause. I might send an email into stars and see what they say.. unless anyone has done one of these on stars and has a better email for this sort of thing.

    thanks for responses

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  8. Jennifear Jennifear is offline

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    Mar 30th, 2009 (3/30/2009 4:58pm) in reply to debo34

    I'm with ya on the 10+10. Good luck raising as much possible.
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