[chipper57AA]

* Tournament to be held at PokerStars.com!
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The ChipTalk Q2 Week #7 poker tournament has been set up!

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*** The tournament is called "ChipTalk Tournament Q2 #7", and can be found under the private tournaments.

This is the lucky 7th tournament of the 2nd quarter. There will be 13 weeks of competition leading up to the 2nd Quarterly Tournament of Champions in October! Now the pot has been sweetened for the winner of the 2nd ToC. The winner of the 2nd ToC will also receive 50,000 ChipTalk Store Points courtesy of the good folks at HoldemPokerChips.com !!!

DETAILS:

• The tournament will be hosted on Poker Stars. If you do not already have an account there, it's very easy. Just click anywhere you see "Poker Stars" on this page and download their software.
• The game is Thursday, September 15th at 9:30pm Eastern (6:30pm Pacific).
• Entry fee is $10+1.
• We play No-Limit Texas Hold'em format with 15 minute blinds.
• Each player will start out with 1500 chips.
• Payouts are determined by Poker Stars: 1-27 entries pays 3 spots; 28-45 pay 5 spots; 46+ pays 9 spots. Other bonus prizes listed below!
• The password changes weekly. Click Here to get this week's password (registered members only; register for free to get the password).
• It's easy to deposit real money if you haven't already. Visit PokerStars for help, or just ask us right here!

BONUSES:

1. HoldemPokerChips.com has stepped up to offer members the following bonuses for the top four finishers in this week's tournament!
   1st Place = 1000 ChipTalk.net Store Chips
   2nd Place = 750 ChipTalk.net Store Chips
   3rd Place = 500 ChipTalk.net Store Chips
   4th Place = 250 ChipTalk.net Store Chips
   
   Use the Chips to buy items from the ChipTalk.net Store, shipping included! Spend them now or save up for the larger items. There are many ways to earn Chips to spend!
   
   Many thanks to HoldemPokerChips.com for this offer!
   
   
   
2. Sometimes the previous week's champion offers an additional bonus, usually poker chip related, the the next winner.
   
3. Everyone who plays will earn points in the ChipTalk.net Tournament Leader Board!
   
4. *** HoldemPokerChips.com is giving away 50,000 Store Points to the winner of the ChipTalk.net Tournament of Champions in October 2005! Everyone that plays the weekly tournaments earns points in the ToC standings so play to win... but at least play!

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Hey guys, we are having a ton of fun with this tournament. I look forward to it weekly. Let's get the word out so we can consistently grow the number of players. We're getting bigger! The September 1st tourney had 49 players and paid out 9 places!

Please help get the word out on this tournament - we'd like to see it grow. One way is to post the link to this forum wherever you might think people like to play with competent players. Here's some easy copy/paste code that you add not only on ChipTalk signatures, but anywhere else you're allowed.

Heres the URL you can use anywhere: http://tinyurl.com/7k7g2

Here's easy code to past into most forum signatures:

[url=http://tinyurl.com/7k7g2][b]*** $10 Hold'em Tourney this Thursday night, extra prizes provided by ChipTalk.net.[/b][/url]

* Suggestions are welcome on making that code look better for all forums.

[yeltzen]

Man, I dunno. If the competition is as tough as last week, I better just save my money!!!!

[vrecksler]

Last week may have been one of my last tournaments for this quarter as one of my classes was changed from Monday morning to Thursday afternoon; I now get home around 7:30pm (PST) and unless I wanted to try and do the Helmuth thing and get blinded for the first hour (I don't) it leaves me out for the Thursday games.

Good luck to everyone the rest of the way!

[boondocker96]

Ready to break off my usual less-than-stellar performance on all y'all!


"THEY WOULDNT HOLLA CUZ MUH DOLLA'S WERNT SWOLL ENUFF"

[SpeakEasy]

Originally Posted by vrecksler

unless I wanted to try and do the Helmuth thing and get blinded for the first hour (I don't) it leaves me out for the Thursday games.

For what its worth, I had to do this a few times last quarter -- I was 20-30 minutes late for the action. At this point, your stack is down to maybe 1300-1350. This is actually a vary typical place to be at this point in the tournament -- hovering somewhere below the starting chip stack, with the third level looming. As with the vast majority of players still in, you're going to have to win a race or two in short order to double up and make it to the final table. In one tourney where I was late, I picked up some cards and did very well.

The point is, you can easily make a solid showing even if you miss the first two levels, so don't count yourself completely out.

[yeltzen]

I think he's saying he doesn't want to pay $11 for a tournament he'll be 30-60 minutes late for.

[vrecksler]

Speakeasy, you make a good point because when the blinds are low I do find that even my better hands do not get paid off too much since not everyone is willing to put their whole stacks to risk that early. But I typically only get a few good hands per tournament, and just thought of folding a premium pair or something else I could have accumulated chips is what gets me.

I am just not at the point where my skill outweights my cards; I am still pretty card dependant so I need those big hands (as well as one or two big suckouts) to compete in these events. It might not be so bad for me anyway, it is a lab course and I do not have labs every single week, and I may be finished early on some nights. So I should be able to make a couple more this quarter, maybe even enough to squeek into the finals.

EDIT: I guess I could have saved myself a couple hundred words by just saying Yeltzen is right (and I bet he never gets tired of hearing that!)

[hunterking]

i'm having a really hard time scheduling these tourneys in on thursday nites now.... is there any interest in having a 2nd weekly tourney?

[SpeakEasy]

Originally Posted by hunterking

i'm having a really hard time scheduling these tourneys in on thursday nites now.... is there any interest in having a 2nd weekly tourney?

There was some movement toward a Sunday night heads-up tourney (which does not count toward our points system). We actually held one on short notice, although only two players showed up (SpaceMonkey and me). Might consider this option.

[jojobinks]

Originally Posted by SpeakEasy

There was some movement toward a Sunday night heads-up tourney (which does not count toward our points system). We actually held one on short notice, although only two players showed up (SpaceMonkey and me). Might consider this option.

if there were 4 per week, i'd probably play in 3. sunday night sounds fine to me.