Hi all,

We're glad to announce that the PocketFives Open is returning! Here are the details:

Site: PokerStars
Buyin: $20+$2
Password: FIVES
Date and Time: Wednesday Sept 1st at 8:30 PM EST
Added money, prizes and bounties: TBD
Elusive P5s Open badge up for grabs: YES

We have a commitment from PokerStars to add some seats to the prizepool. PocketFives will also be throwing in some t-shirts (which you can also buy here) and maybe a few other things. We'll announce the full details soon.

Also, we recognize that this is the middle of the AM for Europe. Sorry but we had to choose some time and this works out best for the highest numbers of P5ers. We like to have the tournament during the week as well to avoid conflicting with social lives. No time is perfect for everyone unfortunately.

Anyway, mark your calendars!

Nat

BOUNTY INFORMATION:

$215 Seats AND P5s t-shirts to each of the following:

1-6) Players who knock out the following P5s admins:

N 82 50 24
dhubermex
cypradn
WOWLUCK
PaiGowChamp
SandyRebecca

7) First hand won on the river at a mandatory showdown with two 5s as hole cards (they don't have to be red 5s). Showing your cards voluntarily (ie, after a bet and your opponent folds) doesn't count. The hand history must be posted in the official bounties thread. Please see rule number 3 below in the terms and conditions regarding how the winners will be determined.

8) First player to knock out a top 100 ranked player in the World Wide Rankings. One easy way to look up your table and who is who is the new P5s table lookup tool (it's still in beta). The hand history must be posted in the official bounties thread. Please see rule number 3 below in the terms and conditions regarding how the winners will be determined.

9-10) 5th and 55th place finishers in the tournament

P5s t-shirts to each of the following:

-Each of the final 9 participants
-Any finishing position that has two 5's in it (155th, 505th, 554th, etc.)
Please note from the T&C below that an individual can qualify for a maximum of ONE free t-shirt.

Terms and Conditions of bounties and added prizes:

1) No individual can claim more than one P5s t-shirt. All t-shirt winners will receive one shirt, regardless or the number of bounties they claim.

2) All t-shirts will be sent out within a week after the event, assuming t-shirt winners are located in places where it is not prohibitively expensive to send a package (USPS must deliver there -- they do almost all international locations). P5s will post all t-shirt winners within 24 hours of the event and will solicit mailing information at that time. Once the deadline for mailing information has passed, winners will no longer have the opportunity to receive a free t-shirt.

3) For hand history posting to receive bounties, the bounty will be awarded to the person who first posts a legitimate bounty-winning hand history in the official bounties thread - in other words the first post to appear in the thread with a legit winner. The hand history in the post MUST be time-stamped earlier than the time of the post. The hand history (including the time) will be verified by the P5s staff.

Yea definitely, we didn't want to have it go this long in between them. We'll hold the next one at a shorter interval.

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Very much looking forward to this. :)

Great! Let's do it so only americans can play it!!!

 

Originally Posted by Sawb0

Coool, going to be my biggest buyin tourney to date haha

lol same

 

Originally Posted by MakeMeMaster

Great! Let's do it so only americans can play it!!!

:-o
surely all donations are welcome?

 

Originally Posted by waboose

cant wait, all the last longers and bounties and the fact that its p5s make this trny one to always look forward to.

yeah, the thread that will get started a few days before with all of the bounties and sidebets is always fun.

 

Originally Posted by MakeMeMaster

Great! Let's do it so only americans can play it!!!

I'm sure you think it makes more sense to hold it in the evening in europe when poker players on the west coast of the US are probably still sleeping and people on the east coast are eating a late lunch.

 

Originally Posted by PARTS13851

How many entries do these tournies average?

It has been a long time since we had one so it's hard to say. It also depends on which site it's on. The last one was on power poker (Cake skin) and I think it was like 200 people. I can't remember but it wasn't a ton of people because it's a small site. The last P5s Open on stars got over 1000 people. This might not get that high but it should get a few hundred at least I'd hope.

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Fuck my job I have to work Sept 1st

 

Originally Posted by MakeMeMaster

Great! Let's do it so only americans can play it!!!

Come on, a world championship where americans play agaimst other americans is totally standard in us sport. gg rest of the world.

awesome. cant wait to win

weeee +1 for donating.

 

god i hope u win, i would love to open the site and be able to see ur smiling face on the front page everyday for a whole year....that would b heaven

want to have this avatar?