Official Noob HU Tournament Thread

Notice: You MUST PM me the final hands of every match. I need the verification that each match was played. If you pull out of the tournament, please PM or post on here to let me know. Thanks and good luck all!

Matchups: Located at this link: http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=313065&tclass=

Tournament Dates are as follows:

All monies must be shipped to Muzzard (look below for stars sn) by Saturday, March 14th. I will also post matchups at this time.

Tournament will start on Sunday March 15th at 12am EST. All matchups must be played out by Wednesday at 12am EST(Tuesday night).

Rules and whatnot:

Number of Entrants: 16

(Lets just keep this one a 16 man to kick it off. If it goes pretty smoothly, and I think it will, we can try a 32 next, then 64, etc, etc.)

Buy in: $5

Brackets: Selected at random in the same fashion as the other tournament. (Players are given a # corresponding to the # they signed up to the tourney, and they will be plugged into random.org's generator. Example: I would be #1 next person would be #2, etc.)

Tournament Play:
-Play money HU 1/2 tables on Stars.
-200bb deep, no reload/auto-top feature obviously.
-Best of three matches. First person to lose their stack twice is knocked out.
-3 days to play your 3 matches. (Example: Scheduled to start Sunday you have until Tuesday at midnight (wednesday morning) to complete. Wednesday we get the results, reseed and you have from Thursday til Saturday to play next match, etc.)

Payouts: 50/30/20, 3rd place will be decided by the semifinal losers playing a best of 3 match. Winner obviously gets 3rd.

To sign up just put I'm in and I'll keep track of who is signed up on this original post.

Escrow:
PokerStars: Muzzard (poker_muzz is PokerStars name)
(Thanks for offering XTR)

Pretty much all we have to do is confirm who is definitely playing on the list below, if you want to play in this don't hesitate to sign up still because someone may not want to play, and decide to drop out. We have already had two people drop out, so don't hesitate to apply, theres a decent chance you can still get a spot.

We also have to decide on a date, but that can be negotiated later. Will have to be starting on or after the 15th, though.

Good luck everyone and hope to see you come out!

Signed up:

1.) dranger7070-shipped
2.) Outlaw-shipped
3.) kfaess-shipped
4.) Carroters-shipped
5.) Taicho-shipped
6.) mrhappy333-shipped
7.) Micro2Macro-shipped
8.) JR9477-shipped
9.) Illfavor -shipped
10.) amifat-shipped
11.) settecba-shipped
12.) Pig_Vomit-shipped
13.) BooG690-shipped
14.) iopq-shipped
15.) sil693-shipped
16.) Muzzard-shipped

*Bold text- you have confirmed you are playing. Regular text you have to confirm.
**Once you have shipped your $5 to muzzard, please post on here and I will put "dranger7070-shipped" so we know who is playing for sure, and who has paid.

Alternate(s):
3.) lockpull
4.) OhBollocks
5.) connectthesuitors
6.) flomo
7.) wilburforce
8.) Erpel

in. 1/2 stars play money tables w 200bb, play 3 tables until someone is bust on two seems good.

I am in. I'd say a $5 buy-in is a good number. I'm not sure if we'd get 32 entrants, and obv. 16 would facilitate a quicker beginning to the tournament. I agree that 1 week per match is too long. I think we could go Sun.-Tues. for a match, collect results and reseed/rematch up on Wed., go again on Thurs.- Sat, etc. With this format it would take ~2 weeks with 16 players and this could become a more frequent event so ppl wouldn't feel left out if they couldn't get in this time.

Prize split something like 55-30-15 percent or something? (obv 3/4 place players would play to settle who gets 3rd prize money)

I like the idea of the play money tables as well.

So 16 man, 2 week, 5$ imo.

I'm in. $10 imo

im in $5 is good.

Once BI has been agreed I'd be happy to be the escrow on stars

how about making it so that in a 16 man $5 tourney
round 1 winners get 2$ for the win
round 2 winners get 5$ for the win
round 3 winners get 10$ for the win
final winner gets 24$ for the win

so 1st gets $41
2nd gets $17
3/4 gets $7
5-8 gets 2$

I'm up for anything between $5 and $100
so I wouldn't be against $10 either

but $1 seems too low
Keith_MM: if you cash 5-8 you get less than what you bought in for? lol

*Last edited by Keith_MM on Sun, 08 Mar 2009, 11:24am; edited 1 time in total*

alternative could be 5$ for winners of each round and 10$ for winning the final.
i.e 1st gets $25
2nd get 15
3-4 get $10
5-8 get $5

this would mean all the round 1 winners would break even for the tournament and then just fighting for the cash.

how are we going to play play money heads up?

Ok, sil693 I just tried to open PokerStars and find the HU tables on for play money on stars, but failed epically apparently. Directions imo?

Ah, yea I did all that Muzz, but I had to go into options and click "Show Play Money Tables" lol. God I suck at life. Thanks Smile

200bb on 1/2 at PokerStars is a go at least.

Not sure about Full Tilt.

stars all the way imo.

fwiw i have no problem w muzz being the escrow for stars even though he's in the tournament.

Ok since it seems like all 3 of us (Muzz, me and sil lol) want to have it all on PokerStars i think thats how it should be set up. It just makes it easier, especially if someone that only has a FT account and a person that only has a PokerStars account get paired.

PokerStars only it is. I'll make proper edits.

Ill set up a poll for $5 or $10 BI if I can edit this post that way...

Dranger wrote

Keith, this isn't JUST for guys grinding 2nl/5nl lol. "Noob" refers to a wide range of players and the noob aspect of this tournament is for those who want to play a HU tournament, but DON'T want to play for the $100 BI that the other one had. So basically anyone can join, including griffey or badgers or someone who has a huge roll and is playing 1knl regularly. It just doesn't matter.

And if $5 is going to and I quote, "pillage their roll" I won't allow them to take place, I will take an alternate off the list to play in their spot because they are obviously not rolled for this tournament.

I voted for $5 lol because I don't care that much either way, but I realize that other people will have a problem participating if it's $10

and yeah I had the hide play money tables turned on lol

The setup sounds pretty good so far, thank you to those who are setting this up.

There are some highly respected players currently, but nowhere near as intimidating as the $100HU list.

*Last edited by Keith_MM on Sun, 08 Mar 2009, 1:11pm; edited 1 time in total*

well he's honestly under-rolled for 2NL :O

It will suck if xpaand isn't able to participate, but I'm not going to reformat an entire tournament for one player. This thread has only been open for a couple hours (if that) and more people will likely sign up as alternates. If I (or anyone else) feels that someone's roll is inadequate (as xpaands is) he will be taken off the list.

Its not like there wont' be another one ever. Besides, I think that this tournament will end up being a $5 BI one. In the future we can probably up the ante a little bit if some more players would like to, but for now I (and probly the majority of the others that will be participating) will want to keep it small just to see how it plays out. If its a $5 BI I have no problem allowing xpaand to play if he feels like risking that much of his roll on this, but if its $10 I will cut him. That simple imo.

just make it $5 to cut all the BS imo. makes life easier. (i voted $10 so its not like i REALLY want it to be $5, but it will probably make things easier).

Rofl ok. Since Muzzard and sil seem to be the only ones who want to cut through the crap and get down to brass tacks, will do. $5 it is.

I'll go and edit. The only thing we SORT of have to decide on now is the payout structure, but I think we can just have 50/30/20 and call it good.

Sound good everyone?

50/30/20 yeah. also, props to dranger for setting this up.

50/30/20 yeah.

also, props to dranger for setting this up.

I agree with either payout structure: 55/35/10 or 50/30/20

I agree with either payout structure:

55/35/10 or 50/30/20

50/30/20 yeah. also, props to dranger for setting this up.

All we need now is the 16 players to say they agree to the terms and start shipping.

I agree! Monies shipped to myself. lildogz

Damn I didn't have internet for a few days and I missed this! O well I guess I'm in as an alternate?

I'm in too if you need another alternate. My money is Goot.

Can always use more alternates. Most of the people on the list aren't even locks as of now. They just stated in another thread that they would be interested.

btw what time of day are we playing at and how are we going to contact the people

I mean are there going to be scheduling conflicts, are people going to sleep in and miss their arranged times, etc? I know I miss most of the FTR tourneys even though I want to play in all of them

Um, once you get your opponent for that rounds bracket you guys can really play whenever you want within the 3 days you are alloted per round.

Although, for proof, I think the deciding (final) hands should be posted or PMed to me just so I don't hear that "o we never played, he never beat me," etc.

Its not a perfect system, but it should suffice. Once we set a date, and everyone's money has been shipped and confirmed by muzz ill set up the brackets then post on here to let everyone know then we kick it off.

At this point do we need to just confirm here, when should we begin shipping the buy-ins?
I'm in

Yes I would like everyone that is on the list (the top 16 that is) to confirm whether or not they are in, and you can begin shipping the money whenever you like, I'm probly gonna hold off until I get back from spring break on sunday though.

Thanks for holding my spot guys. I was working on my Operations post (shameless plug). I'm in there like swimwear. Pretty excited to part of this. Sorry I didn't post sooner but hold my spot.

So I understand Muzzard is the "escrow." I was never familiar with this term but I'm assuming that just means he holds the money and pays out properly. That sounds about fine. I guess I will be shipping the money when the dates are set. Is that OK?

*sigh* i'm reluctantly pulling out, it's the *disciplined* thing to do. I'm no where near rolled for $5 16 man HU tournements at the moment. I'll be there next time for sure. So one of the reserves can have my spot!

Good luck all!

btw, when you do ship it is poker_muzz on stars (winsford)

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