Elite Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Awards

ElitePoker · #1 (**permalink**) 08-13-2006, 06:14 PM

I hosted our first Tournament of Champions last night and it was a roaring success. I introduced our new custom chips (http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/custom...-abc-made.html), dealer buttons, and had plenty of awards to go around.

ABC made the "Participant", "Final Table", "Bubble" & "Fourth" chip awards. I got the "Third", "Runner-Up", and "Champion award medals from www.texasholdemstuff.com. I had the champion bracelet made at Things Remembered.

Everyone who participated received at least the "Participant" token chip and then received more chips, medals, awards, and money as they progressed through the tournament. Overall we had over $2,000 in cash and prizes passed out...

BTW: I took third even thought I was crippled several times by getting all my chips in the middle with the best hand only to have it cracked...

Anyways, here are the awards:

vikefan24 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-13-2006, 06:36 PM

That is beautiful.. what was the tourney buy in/starting chips/etc?

str8edg · #3 (**permalink**) 08-13-2006, 06:42 PM

Ditto on the question of buy-ins also where do you live so I can come and play... Man we need prizes, of course we would need regular players for that as well... and more than 10!

In any event love the idea, love the generosity and still love the design of your chips

ElitePoker · #4 (**permalink**) 08-13-2006, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by vikefan24

That is beautiful.. what was the tourney buy in/starting chips/etc?

Tourney buy-in was $50 with a pre-tourament add-on available for an additional $50. Our monthly tournament winners had their buy-in paid for by our monthly tournament rake. We had 18 players made up of the 12 monthly winners and the 6 top point leaders. Starting chip stacks were determined by their TOC points earned throughout the year by playing in our monthly tournaments. Our big stack started at around T5500 and our small stack started at around T1050. Our blind structure was a standard T1000 tournament with 10-20 staring blinds and 2500-5000 coming at round 17. We started at 6:00pm and the last hand was played at about 12:30am. <----I hope that all made sense, if not let me know.

cnw400 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-13-2006, 08:14 PM

Good choice for the champions bracelet since Triton makes the WSOP bracelets. Mind if I ask how much it cost?

cnw400 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-13-2006, 08:15 PM

Nevermind, I found it on thedir website. You guys at EPT know how to do it right.

ElitePoker · #7 (**permalink**) 08-14-2006, 09:38 AM

Yeah, for $110 (before engraving) it's a pretty good deal for a bracelet with the nice case included. They have a buy one get one at 50% off sale right now so I was thinking of getting a couple more to take care of the next two years but i have a feeling that someone will eventually start making/offering custom poker bracelets so I'm torn.

Thanks again for your compliments!

Orcryst007 · #8 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 10:24 AM

WOWWOWOWOWOWOW!!!

this is JUST SO FREAKING HHHOOOTTT!!!!

THAT CHIP SET, TABLE, CASE ADN ALL THE AWARDS ARE JUST AAAWWWSSSOOOMMEEE!!!!!

MY GOD!!!! HIT ME, I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!

NICE JOB MAN!!!

REALLLY NICE JOB!!!

ElitePoker · #9 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Orcryst007

WOWWOWOWOWOWOW!!!

this is JUST SO FREAKING HHHOOOTTT!!!!

THAT CHIP SET, TABLE, CASE ADN ALL THE AWARDS ARE JUST AAAWWWSSSOOOMMEEE!!!!!

MY GOD!!!! HIT ME, I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!

NICE JOB MAN!!!

REALLLY NICE JOB!!!

Thanks!!! I put a lot of work into our club but I think everyone appreciates it.

Slim7 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-30-2006, 08:11 PM

Simply awesome!!! Wish I was in your league!!