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  1. trouble trouble is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 4:13pm)

    Any plans for one of these in the near future?

    Obviously everyone has been busy with the new site and great additions.

    Unless they're recorded incorrectly, the last one was over a year ago (June 18th 2009) and was on a minor site.

    How about an accessible ($11) tourney at a popular site?
  2. Adam Adam is offline Emperor

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 5:58pm) in reply to trouble

    The challenge these days is getting one of the big sites to put up money for this. We've never made anything off running those tournaments but always really enjoyed running them and thought they were great for the community. This was always possible because sites like stars or Full Tilt were willing to put up most of the money to host the event. These days, their pockets have really tightened up, making it difficult to host fun community events with added prizes.

    We're still always trying to find ways to run events like this, and we hope to be able to have another one this year.
     
  3. Gags30 Gags30 is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 6:40pm) in reply to Adam

     
    Originally Posted by Adam View Post

    The challenge these days is getting one of the big sites to put up money for this. We've never made anything off running those tournaments but always really enjoyed running them and thought they were great for the community. This was always possible because sites like stars or Full Tilt were willing to put up most of the money to host the event. These days, their pockets have really tightened up, making it difficult to host fun community events with added prizes.

    We're still always trying to find ways to run events like this, and we hope to be able to have another one this year.

    why do they have to put up money?

    why not just promote it on p5's, and make it like a $20+2 tourney with a password that you put on here somewhere.

    i'm sure people will play it, even big names...and give like people that ft a free p5s tshirt or something and maybe something to the winner or w/e.
    Edited By: Gags30 Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:40 PM
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  4. The Baby Bull The Baby Bull is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 6:43pm) in reply to Gags30

     
    Originally Posted by Gags30 View Post

    why do they have to put up money?

    why not just promote it on p5's, and make it like a $20+2 tourney with a password that you put on here somewhere.

    i'm sure people will play it, even big names...and give like people that ft a free p5s tshirt or something and maybe something to the winner or w/e.

    Agreed
     
  5. Aaron_Hacker Aaron_Hacker is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 6:54pm) in reply to The Baby Bull

    it should be like a yearly tournament like a club championship... 2010 P5's champion...

    or have a monthly tourney and then the top 9 of each month move on to the championship with the chips that they won in their monthly tournament to crown a yearly champion... would be kinda coo, and would be a pretty tight badge too have since only 1 person per year can get 1
    Edited By: Aaron_Hacker Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:55 PM
     
  6. Synappzz Synappzz is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 6:58pm) in reply to Aaron_Hacker

    A monthly tourney with a points system, leaderboard, championship, and badges would f$%$ing rock!!!
  7. kojacks kojacks is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 7:55pm) in reply to Synappzz

     
    Originally Posted by Synappzz View Post

    A monthly tourney with a points system, leaderboard, championship, and badges would f$%$ing rock!!!

    yerrrrrrrrp
  8. Adam Adam is offline Emperor

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 8:15pm) in reply to kojacks

    We do make it a $20+2 buy in always... We just generally have added quite a lot of prizes to the pool. The last one we had on stars had $20k in added prizes, for instance. It's a bit harder to draw a crowd if there's nothing extra on the line. We definitely want to get something going, though, and we will be working on it.
     
  9. kojacks kojacks is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 8:24pm) in reply to Adam

     
    Originally Posted by Adam View Post

    We do make it a $20+2 buy in always... We just generally have added quite a lot of prizes to the pool. The last one we had on stars had $20k in added prizes, for instance. It's a bit harder to draw a crowd if there's nothing extra on the line. We definitely want to get something going, though, and we will be working on it.

    try this

     
    Originally Posted by Synappzz View Post

    A monthly tourney with a points system, leaderboard, championship, and badges would f$%$ing rock!!!

  10. shallowcal shallowcal is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 8:29pm) in reply to kojacks

    i think the monthly tourney would be a good idea, and have badges/tshirts etc. for the winner. make it like a triple crown badge where you have the number in the badge to signify how many you have taken down.
  11. Boandaro Boandaro is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 11:11pm) in reply to shallowcal

    This would be a great tournament to have monthly!! I think the rail at the FT would be unreal!!! We need more badges and what better idea will you find for one!
     
  12. stackinsideways stackinsideways is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 11:21pm) in reply to Boandaro

    Id be in for sure... and the badge Idea is a good promotion tool
     
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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 11:25pm) in reply to Synappzz

     
    Originally Posted by Synappzz View Post

    A monthly tourney with a points system, leaderboard, championship, and badges would f$%$ing rock!!!

    cosign

    Also, I am sure FT would put up something small like a FTOPS seat to the winner. (or stars wcoop non main)
     
  14. JON STAMOZ JON STAMOZ is offline

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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 11:25pm) in reply to Gags30

     
    Originally Posted by Gags30 View Post

    why do they have to put up money?

    why not just promote it on p5's, and make it like a $20+2 tourney with a password that you put on here somewhere.

    i'm sure people will play it, even big names...and give like people that ft a free p5s tshirt or something and maybe something to the winner or w/e.

    co-sign this

    esp if you throw in some kind of badge... I bet a lot of people will play for the hell of it.
    Just kind of bragging rights type thing.
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    Jul 29th, 2010 (7/29/2010 11:32pm) in reply to JON STAMOZ

    Stars (or FTP) hosts a monthly $10+1 or $20+2 tournament. A separate leaderboard is kept using just these tournament results (10 tourneys, use top 3-4 scores only). Each individual tournament has smaller level added prizes (final table each get a Step 3 ticket, 55th gets a $55 tourney entry, etc.).

    After 10 tournaments - there will be a final event. Tourney winners (10 in total) and the top 17 remaining players from the leaderboard play in a single 27 person MTT. Winner of this tournament receives a WSOP Main Event entry and will be THE pokerstars/PocketFives representative at the WSOP (wearing both Stars and P5's brands). 2nd-4th get $1500 WSOP entries (similar branding/swag), 5th-9th get Sunday Million entries, 10th-27th get Step 3 tickets.
     
  16. peacebrother peacebrother is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 1:28am) in reply to SpankyHamm

    Pocket fives cant afford to put up some ????
  17. N 82 50 24 N 82 50 24 is offline herp derp derp

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 2:22am) in reply to peacebrother

     
    Originally Posted by peacebrother View Post

    Pocket fives cant afford to put up some ????

    It doesn't make logical sense to really is the issue. One thing you learn when you run a business is you only invest thing things that return $. I don't mind putting up small amounts of things like t-shirts, etc. But it would be a horrible decision to put up, say, 20k in added prizes when most of that 20k goes to benefit a site that won't reimburse the money. But, on the other hand, I think it does make sense for sites to sponsor the P5s Open like they have in the past. Maybe 20k is too much but smaller amounts make sense. So hopefully they'll see that so we can do one soon.
     
  18. Dissident Dissident is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 2:46am) in reply to N 82 50 24

    Would stars or ftp be willing to put up like 2k? Then the FT would get a sunday $215 seat.

    if not....
    It seems that the community here at P5's wants to play with the rest of this community in a private tournament. I bet there would be a decent draw for a $20+2 with nothing additional. A lot of players would play for the chance to beat the high stakes players and earn a P5's badge.

    Just my 2 cents
  19. N 82 50 24 N 82 50 24 is offline herp derp derp

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 2:53am) in reply to Dissident

    Yea if a site won't put anything up then we'll just run it anyway. It's been too long. As long as there's interest, we'll run it.
     
  20. jusqwan jusqwan is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 5:31am) in reply to Dissident

     
    Originally Posted by Dissident View Post

    Would stars or ftp be willing to put up like 2k? Then the FT would get a sunday $215 seat.

    if not....
    It seems that the community here at P5's wants to play with the rest of this community in a private tournament. I bet there would be a decent draw for a $20+2 with nothing additional. A lot of players would play for the chance to beat the high stakes players and earn a P5's badge.

    Just my 2 cents

    turn these cents into some dollars lets make this happen the FT would be hype as hell
  21. SCooker SCooker is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 5:40am) in reply to jusqwan

    I'm in with nothing added.. I don't think I'm the only one.. t-shirts and badges ftw!
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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 5:58am) in reply to SCooker

    I like the monthly points system approach.. Hold the FT of the top 9 in Vegas or something... That would be pretty sick IMO... Turn it into a promo and live cast it on the internet or ESPN 8 the Ocho or something... If you want to make money there are a bunch of ways to do it...
  23. BigDShaggyJ BigDShaggyJ is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 7:08am) in reply to jsagan77

    interested tho, I def need another attainable badge thats ezier then an MPLB
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  24. chancew chancew is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 7:16am) in reply to BigDShaggyJ

    pride baby.

    Like people said, 20 bux is the perfect amount and would get a decent turnout IMO. Make it happen
  25. Acpittboss Acpittboss is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 8:45am) in reply to chancew

    I am intrested, I want a badge soooo bad
  26. 33mikemcg 33mikemcg is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 2:24pm) in reply to Acpittboss

    I'm in with added $ or just a badge. IT would be a fun tourney either way.
     
  27. Synappzz Synappzz is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 2:31pm) in reply to SCooker

     
    Originally Posted by SCooker View Post

    I'm in with nothing added.. I don't think I'm the only one.. t-shirts and badges ftw!

    Definitely this. Hell I'd still play if the juice was 15%.... matching skills against this community, bragging rights, and the chance to see my name atop a leaderboard is all the appeal I need.
  28. Diggs Diggs is offline

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    Jul 30th, 2010 (7/30/2010 4:35pm) in reply to Synappzz

    I'm in regardless as long as it's on stars or FTP....hate these on bush league sites.

    Also like the idea of a monthly series...
    Edited By: Diggs Jul 30th, 2010 at 04:35 PM
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