Official Noob HU Tournament #2 Thread!

[mrhappy333]

you deleted Dranger7070

[flomo]

i almost multi accounted the tourney but was caught by lockpull.
who was also trying it.


we need about a dozen more to do a 32 player bracket.

[Outlaw]

I just noticed this new thread.

Count me in, $2-$5 is best. (triplej74)

Why are we actually contemplating $10? That is way too steep for me.. I only have a $200 bankroll and I'm sure many others are in the same boat as me. A new tourney should be more like $1-$3 imo.. $5 on the high side. $10 would be more like an intermediate tourney, not a newbie one.

[lockpull]

i almost multi accounted the tourney but was caught by lockpull.
who was also trying it.


we need about a dozen more to do a 32 player bracket.

Double the odds to win..... yeeeeahhhhhhh

[BooG690]

I just noticed this new thread.

Count me in, $2-$5 is best. (triplej74)

Why are we actually contemplating $10? That is way too steep for me.. I only have a $200 bankroll and I'm sure many others are in the same boat as me. A new tourney should be more like $1-$3 imo.. $5 on the high side. $10 would be more like an intermediate tourney, not a newbie one.

I would have to agree...players that are "newbies" don't exactly have a deep enough bankroll for a $10 buyin.

[mrhappy333]

IMO I spend $10 bucks a day on stupid bullshit. New, Intermediate or Pro, Its only $10.

[Carroters]

IMO I spend $10 bucks a day on stupid bullshit. New, Intermediate or Pro, Its only $10.

This.

It's $10, not like it's £10 or anything.

If you're that bothered about spending 5% of your roll, which I can understand, then deposit a separate $10 simply for the tourney (which you can prolly manage since you can afford a computer and the interwebs and food)

[flomo]

i'll play a $2 tourny. i need HU experience and a tourny would be fun.

sorry, i'm too good for a $1 tourny. <---- **sarxcasm**

[dranger7070]

If you guys think the $10 is too steep, after this one we can have another $5 BI. Its really not that big of a deal. Me and micro just thought having a higher BI would increase the amount of interest (and imo it has). Theres nothing wrong with sitting one out.

Also, have to give props to mrhappy and lockpull for doing the lists. I was gonna do this tonight, but you guys saved me some time. Thanks!

It shouldnt be too hard to get enough for the 32 man, and no Muzzard is sitting this one out, I talked to him on MSN this morning.

[kfaess]

HELLO?!?...YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!

[lockpull]

Also, have to give props to mrhappy and lockpull for doing the lists. I was gonna do this tonight, but you guys saved me some time. Thanks!

happy is the man, i was a mere follower.

I think $10 is a good amount. Look at it like this, one hour of coaching from these guys would cost a lot more and you get 1-3 hours at the very least. I'll pay ten just for the experience/challenge.

[flomo]

Look at it like this, one hour of coaching from these guys would cost a lot more and you get 1-3 hours at the very least. I'll pay ten just for the experience/challenge.

++1

this is why stax, spenda, bbickes and other gunners are encouraged to play

to me it looks like we are all playing to win--oskar had a moment but it looks as if he is over it

[lockpull]

I'll only play Spenda if he makes a non-dated FTR video out of it......

[Micro2Macro]

You'll have to pay more than $10 to get experience like this if you're looking to shop somewhere else.

I agree, people whose brs can't afford $10 should deposit separately
or we can have an 8 man tourney for $5 and a 16 man for $10 if anyone wants the headache of managing two

[bikes]

K. So I'm putting a $25 bounty on myself imo.

Also I'm thinking of something else really cool for you guys. Gotta think about doing it though.

[dranger7070]

Wow! Thanks bbickes! It's really cool that you higher stakes guys are doing a lil extra for this, hopefully it will spark a little more interest so we can get the required 32. I can't believe we haven't gotten more people to sign up :/.

[flomo]

the tourney needs more exposure,
all we have is this thread

[lockpull]

Can the mods post like a site wide post or is that out of line? Wow, does that even make sense? Basically something that shows up in all of the forums..... or at least maybe BC, SnG, MTT and such.
Too selfish?

[dranger7070]

I posted about it + the link in my blog but not sure how much traffic that gets :/ lol.

[mrhappy333]

Just Pm everyone on the site.

[bigspenda73]

you guys are more than welcome to x-post it in the SNG forum

[flomo]

you guys are more than welcome to x-post it in the SNG forum

this makes sense


or if X added a black FTR hoodie we would lhave no problems filling in a bracket

[Chopper]

it's before april 5th and i want in for $10. someone will have to shoot me the particulars if they are common knowledge. i know nothing right now.....just that i want to play some pokahs. i'll reread this whole thread tomorrow.

and, thanks for putting this in SNG, guys.

[lockpull]

1-Micro2Macro - $10
2-XxStacks60xX - $10
3-iopq - $10
4-Oskar $10
5-Carroters - $10.00
6-flomo - $5/10
7-Parasurama--$10
8-Erpel $10
9-Lockpull- $5/10
10-kfaess - $5/10
11-luckyslevin-$10
12-mrhappy333 $10
13-settecba - $10
14-dranger7070 $10
15-pig_vomit - $10
16-sil693 $10
17-connectthesuitors - $10
18-bigspenda73 $10
19-Bbickes $10
20-chopper $10

[Outlaw]

Wahh I wanna play

Someone stake me and you can have 75% of any winnings. I just wanna do it mainly for fun, not to gank bankrolls.

[ATOTHEC101]

I see your short on numbers and I love playing hu so as long as no one objects I'll play, I'd also be happy with a last longer/ or bounty on my head etc.

[dranger7070]

Sweet we got 21 as of right now (22 of someone stakes outlaw, but seriously outlaw you got a big enough BR to spare a $10 tourney imo).

Only 11 more and we can kick this beast off.

[oskar]

Wahh I wanna play

Someone stake me and you can have 75% of any winnings. I just wanna do it mainly for fun, not to gank bankrolls.

done.

I can ship it to you or directly to Muzz.

[asdpikas]

asdpikas - $10

i'm in!

[elipsesjeff]

elipsesjeff - $10

when/where do i ship the moniez?

[BigPapi]

havent read everything, but can I play this?

[Chopper]

would love to see this go to 64 sometime, and get FTR to manufacture a trophy.

for you math wizards that fall in love with bracketology this time of year, it would also be fun to design a double-elimination tourney, too.

[Stacks]

havent read everything, but can I play this?

Do you like men? If yes, then your in for $10. If no, your missing out.

[jjbish]

jjbish-$10

Figure after playing NL for almost a whole 2 months now. I'm qualified to donate

When/who to ship $ to?

[BigPapi]

IN!! I knew liking men would be good for something some day. Will ship the $ once I read the thread and know who to ship to...

[Muzzard]

Monies are going to me, but I think we are waiting till April 5th to decide how much $$ and who's playing etc.

Also, I'm not goign to be playing in this one, just be the escrow.

[lockpull]

Getting closer.....

1-Micro2Macro - $10
2-XxStacks60xX - $10
3-iopq - $10
4-Oskar $10
5-Carroters - $10.00
6-flomo - $5/10
7-Parasurama--$10
8-Erpel $10
9-Lockpull- $5/10
10-kfaess - $5/10
11-luckyslevin-$10
12-mrhappy333 $10
13-settecba - $10
14-dranger7070 $10
15-pig_vomit - $10
16-sil693 $10
17-connectthesuitors - $10
18-bigspenda73 $10
19-Bbickes $10
20-chopper $10
21-outlaw $10
22-ATOTHEC101 $10
23-asdpikas - $10
24-elipsesjeff - $10
25-jjbish-$10
26-BigPapi $10

[BigPapi]

ok, you probably mean april 5th, so i'll keep an eye on this topic these next few days/weeks

[Outlaw]

Wahh I wanna play

Someone stake me and you can have 75% of any winnings. I just wanna do it mainly for fun, not to gank bankrolls.

done.

I can ship it to you or directly to Muzz.

Thanks man but Micro already offered to. I appreciate the offer!

[Outlaw]

would love to see this go to 64 sometime, and get FTR to manufacture a trophy.

for you math wizards that fall in love with bracketology this time of year, it would also be fun to design a double-elimination tourney, too.

bracketmaker.com allows you to setup double eliminations or whatever you want.

[bigspenda73]

fuck double elimination, this is poker bitches, not your city-league's over-40 holiday basketball tournament.

[oskar]

The structure is insanely slow as it is.

[Chopper]

fuck double elimination, this is poker bitches, not your city-league's over-40 holiday basketball tournament.

lol.

dbl elim just gets fun to watch someone comeback to haunt the fuck out of the bitch that slapped them out in the cold with one chip and told them to "keep the change." the ultimate in smack-talk revenge.

The structure is insanely slow as it is.

I guess we should just open 20 tables and 20 table HU (everyone vs. everyone) and see who wins the most play chips when the dust settles

[kmind]

I'll play for $10

[flomo]

I'll play for $10

allright all right!

[dranger7070]

5 more pplz and ill set up the bracket. We might be able to get this going by Sunday/Monday.

[bikes]

Plz to join so I can talk more smack about how my hand reading ability is the CEO of the United Hand Reading Ability Corperation

[mrhappy333]

I hope with this many people you give a little time too get the matches done, with people all over the world playing and shit.
I would suggest 1week per bracket, I know it will take a while but fuck, were dealing with the whole world here.

[Chopper]

i would like to add that we get some time to reschedule if our match conflicts with working. we arent all pros.

[Carroters]

Okay for me this would need to be done by May 3rd as I go on travels without much internet access then. If this isn't likely I'll have to drop out, depends what the orginaisers etc think? I reckon we could muster 5 days per bracket, if people are dedicated, but if not then I shall withdraw, no worries.

[Micro2Macro]

I'm sure we can adjust times/extensions as necessary since April/May is a really busy time for alot of people. I don't see how there's a huge rush to get it done, but obviously let's not drag our matches out for too long.

[kfaess]

yes, finals coming up in early may so that will be very busy for me.

[dranger7070]

I ship for boot camp on May 18th so obv it will have to be done b4 that :s. Shouldn't be a problem to get matches rolling after the first 2 rounds or so.

we should do two per week, you get into a rhythm and after doing the match you message the next person and they reply the next day and you play in two or three

it works out pretty well

[bigspenda73]

we need like 4-5 more?

come on people, nothing to it but to do it.

[flomo]

i hate to say this--
looks like we should hit up the commune to get the last 4-6 players

[Outlaw]

If you guys want to go ahead and start this thing here is an idea. We give a few byes but make it DE to make it fair for everyone. DE doesn't really slow things down that much because the losers are playing the losers while the winners continue on.

I am okay with just waiting, but if it takes another week to fill the bracket, we could have already been to the semis. Just a thought.

Here is what it might look like. This is basically the format we used in shot online and we were able to usually wrap a tourney up in less than a week with less than 30 players. People just gotta be proactive about playing their games.

http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=318107

OK, but does the winner of the winner bracket get to lose once in the championship game?

Logically it follows that if he never lost a game he'd move down to the losers bracket

Usually double elimination makes sense if there are "groups" like group A, B, C, D

so the guy who goes 2-0 can go on to the semi-finals and get a better seed
and the loser of the winner bracket can play the winner of the loser bracket and get a worse seed

[Stacks]

I'm okay with whatever. All I know is I should get the BYE week in the first round. It will make me feel more like ISF.

[flomo]

lets start collecting money and i'm OK with people getting byes


i'm going to post in the commune now

[Outlaw]

OK, but does the winner of the winner bracket get to lose once in the championship game?

Logically it follows that if he never lost a game he'd move down to the losers bracket

Usually double elimination makes sense if there are "groups" like group A, B, C, D

so the guy who goes 2-0 can go on to the semi-finals and get a better seed
and the loser of the winner bracket can play the winner of the loser bracket and get a worse seed

The championship game is the championship game.

If you win the winner's brkt it can take like 5-6 matches. The winner of the loser's brkt has to win like 8+.

I don't care if its DE or not, frankly.. I was just trying to get this thing going faster.

We just need a few more to signup, so come on peeps!

[Chopper]

OK, but does the winner of the winner bracket get to lose once in the championship game?

Logically it follows that if he never lost a game he'd move down to the losers bracket

Usually double elimination makes sense if there are "groups" like group A, B, C, D

so the guy who goes 2-0 can go on to the semi-finals and get a better seed
and the loser of the winner bracket can play the winner of the loser bracket and get a worse seed

if it's DE, the championship match (Loser's champ vs Winners champ) is a bit different. if the Winner wins, its over, as this would make the 2nd loss for the Loser's champ. however, if the Loser's champ wins, it goes one more match since this is the Winner's champ's "first loss."

see?

[bigspenda73]

I'm out if it's DE

[lockpull]

I am fine with DE or w/e people decide. I think we should just roll with who has signed up by the end of today and try to start matches tomorrow.

[bigspenda73]

I'm not even trying to be a douche or anything but this is poker guys, there's variance involved. These things should be heads-up, single-elimination with a top-heavy pay out structure. That's poker, people win, people lose, the sooner you get over the fact that you're probably going to lose in the first or second round (a mathematical certainty for EVERYONE) the better.

Double elimination changes the dynamic of the game.

[flomo]

I'm not even trying to be a douche or anything but this is poker guys, there's variance involved. These things should be heads-up, single-elimination with a top-heavy pay out structure. That's poker, people win, people lose, the sooner you get over the fact that you're probably going to lose in the first or second round (a mathematical certainty for EVERYONE) the better.

Double elimination changes the dynamic of the game.

+1

[gametight]

Can I still get in on this?? Who do i ship to on Stars?

[flomo]

Can I still get in on this?? Who do i ship to on Stars?

yes, you can still join

[Muzzard]

Can I still get in on this?? Who do i ship to on Stars?

SHippign will be to poker_muzz on stars. But we are waiting until tommo sometime before we start shipping. micro2macro/dranger7070 will post details

[a500lbgorilla]

rilla 10 dolla

[bikes]

No damn DE wtf. Man up fellas.

[XTR1000]

XTR1k wants to spew with you!

[XTR1000]

obv I suck at "read before posting"

XTR1k - $10