[The Poker Gods]

I like this concept very much and I think the initial guidelines set by w16227 are a good starting point. We can most definitely get people to back a player from this board and the suggestion of the table leader from Jan to may is a great idea. I would be in for this type of setup.

[99%evil]

Sounds good, but expenses can be a bit subjective. Maybe some extra cash to try a satellite to gain entry cheaper and maybe play in a $1500 butin tourney or something. Nice to get someone acclimated with a smaller tourney to start.

[tomb1]

I would contribute to one of our sharp players (that certainly excludes me) going to Vegas.

If he cashes, I would like to get paid back then give the player a larger percentage than the shareholders. He (or she!) did all the work and had to live with the gawd-awful pressure he'd feel from all of us backers! Just my 2¢ -- I'm actually OK with any arrangement the group thinks is right.

[jojobinks]

i'd buy a piece

[burnvalley]

Here is an idea.

Have one person be the "Money Holder". Every week when there is a tournament. Every entrant could send $10 a piece to the "Money Holder". Then after Jan - May is complete the leader gets all the money in the pot to use to go to the main event.

At the main event. If said player cashes he keeps half. The rest is divided into equal shares depending on the number of events each player has played in.

I think that makes sense?

[SpeakEasy]

I will be playing in at least one WSOP event again this year. Possibly the big one if the bankroll really gets rolling, but its still looking like earlier events at this point.

As a side note on selecting the player, the CT tournaments, while very competitive and very fun, are probably not the best indicator of performance in a WSOP tournament. I do believe that there are several regulars here that could hold their own in a big tournament and do very well, but the blind pressure and luck factor is much higher in the weekly CT tournament based on the PStars structure. There's probably no better way to determine a Chiptalk representative than our regular tournaments, but I thought that I'd throw this out -- while both are NLHE tournaments, its really a different breed of poker.

(And if you really want to sponsor someone with the best chance of making $$$, put the player in the NLHE cash games at the Rio during the WSOP instead of the tournament. There are some wild, aggressive, wealthy players in those games, and lots of internet-trained kids, who just aren't very good. But that doesn't get ad exposure, that's not a tournament, etc.)

[hachkc]

What about some sort of live tourney with 1 or 2 steps to a CT final table which leads to the WSOP?

Ignore the whole logistics thing for the moment but would this be a better indicator of who should go than the weekly online tourney's? You are basically looking at a couple of live tournaments versus a season or so of online tournamnets. Which is a better indicator?

I have some ideas regarding logistics but I'll save those for later.

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by hachkc

What about some sort of live tourney with 1 or 2 steps to a CT final table which leads to the WSOP?

Ignore the whole logistics thing for the moment but would this be a better indicator of who should go than the weekly online tourney's? You are basically looking at a couple of live tournaments versus a season or so of online tournamnets. Which is a better indicator?

I have some ideas regarding logistics but I'll save those for later.

clearly we'll eventually need to have a CT live event. i like where you're going with this.

[Fins]

Originally Posted by SpeakEasy

As a side note on selecting the player, the CT tournaments, while very competitive and very fun, are probably not the best indicator of performance in a WSOP tournament.

Can you do deep stack private tourneys yet on PS? Are there any that available at set times that could be used & still rank according to finish?

Like the idea of a live game but just don't know how you work out logistics... say have 9+ games in diff places to field a final table(s)?

[SpeakEasy]

Originally Posted by Fins

Can you do deep stack private tourneys yet on PS? Are there any that available at set times that could be used & still rank according to finish?

No private deep stack option right now for the private tourneys. PS response to me did not indicate if this will become an option. Probably not, since they want us grinding the rake, rather than playing a looong tourney that more closely resembles real poker.