I've set myself another goal which will run for 1 year. Pool entries also available.
I'm back from a 6 month around-the-world trip during which I did not play a single hand of poker.
Time to get back to it but I need a goal.
Below is what I came up with. I'll try and rank as high as I can at this.
I also set it up as a pool so if anyone is interested, let me know.
I can maybe give out small Amazon gift certificates to anyone who can beat my entry.
Pool entry deadline would be December 1st and the start date will be November 1st.
Feel free to challenge me heads-up too. However, if your name is Benny Glaser, I'm waving the white flag right now!
SIMPLE RULES FOR THE POOL:
Name the 10 top male players & 10 top female players for Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
All 20 must be from different places (country except for USA where states are used)
At least 1 from North America
At least 1 from South America
At least 1 from Europe
At least 1 from Asia
At least 1 from Africa
At least 1 from Oceania
Players are ranked by $ cashed in each poker variant
Their final rank is the total of all separate ranks combined
Your score will be the final rank of all 20 players
Low score wins
No entry fee
Amazon gift certificates to the winners?
Entry must be in before December
These are the poker variants that all players will be tested on:
No Limit Holdem
Pot Limit Holdem
Fixed Limit Holdem
Showtime Holdem (mucked cards are face up)
Super Holdem (3 card Holdem)
Fixed Limit Crazy Pineapple
No Limit Crazy Pineapple
Fixed Limit Omaha
Pot Limit Omaha
No Limit Omaha
Fixed Limit Omaha hi/lo
Pot Limit Omaha hi/lo
No Limit Omaha hi/lo
Omaholic (PL and NL Omaha combined)
Stud
Stud hi/lo
Razz
Pot Limit Draw
No Limit Draw
Fixed Limit 2-7
No Limit 2-7
Dealer's Choice
Fusion (starts as Holdem, ends as Omaha)
Soko (stud with 4-card straights and flushes added to rankings)
Open Face Chinese
2 game mix
3 game mix
4 game mix
5 game mix
6 game mix
7 game mix
8 game mix
9 game mix
10 game mix
THE FINE PRINT FOR THE POOL:
"country/state"
The USA is broken down into it's 50 states plus District Of Columbia.
UK is broken down into England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
UK will be the correct country if the player is from the UK but we cannot determine where in the UK
USA will be the correct country if the player is from the USA but we cannot determine where in the USA
What is a country?: PokerStars/HM/WSOP get to decide
Which country:
PokerStars will decide this if the player is PokerStars only
Otherwise, we use (in this order) WSOP place of birth, HM place of birth, HM residence, WSOP residence
Geographic area:
Wikipedia will determine which country/state is in which geographic area
Which games:
Any live series that starts between Novomber 1st 2023 and October 31st 2024 and has at least 1 non-flop tournament.
Online (PokerStars) tournaments TBD (stay tuned) (the SCOOP, WCOOP, Micro Millions of course qualify but we'll add weeklies too).
Daily, recurring, satellites, restricted entry (except for age and/or sex restrictions), group entry tournaments will not count.
Scoring:
game ranking: most $ earned in payouts (high score wins)
Entries (if we get enough interest):
I will not look at anyone else's entry until I post mine.
You can enter any time up until the end of November.
You can enter at any time but you can make changes right up to December 1st.
Badugi:
Badugi ain't poker! However, if it's in a mixed game we'll count it as one.
Hidden players:
Any player who hides their results from HM will stay hidden.
Another update. Nothing much happening.
Another update.
Not much happening here except as it applies to my Summer In Vegas pools.
Benny Glaser is back home and on PokerStars (cashed in the $215 NLO8).
Does this mean he'll be there through SCOOP until WSOP?
There goes his chance to make Team England (and Team England's chance of winning).
ho hum. Another update but nothing much happening.
Total number of people playing in this competition: 94,062. Number who are trying to win it: 1.
One interesting change here is the live players. There used to be just a few in the top 100, now there are 3 in the top 10.
Alan Engel (5th), Tobias Leknes (7th) and Yuval Bronshtein (10th) have no online results.
Will they give me trouble once WSOP results start coming in? I hope so!
Lest we forget, there's still a pool going on here.
I think all top 10 finishers get paid. Looks like Wikipedia has 2 players and Doctors Without Borders has 1.
Still leading by 4 1/2% - no need to worry.
Big mover this week was Yuval Bronshtein who went from 10th to 4th and passed Alan Engel for top spot among live only (no online) results.
for who are you posting this? who actually has time to take in and follow this?
Good question puntmeister.
I've got all to agree to call it a day.
Nobody is trying to catch me so nobody will.
And this way I can send the winners of the pool their money right away.
I sent US$175 to Wikipedia.
I sent CAD$240 to Doctors Without Borders
Also, this will free up my time to concentrate on my Summer In Vegas/ODB25K pools running this summer.
More money being given away. Be like Wikipedia & Doctors Without Borders (get some money for yourself or for your favourite charity).
Info on the summer pools are at "Puzzles And Other Games".
Waw,, this feels like the end of an era.
