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Updated: September 9, 2009

 

Interested in going to play an event in the World Series of Poker in Vegas next year? Not willing to cough up the $1500 US for the cheapest event? Well this is the deal.

 

Grand Prizes:

WSOP Main Event Package - $12,800 Cdn package including a $10,000 US seat in World Series of Poker (WSOP), plus ~$1500 Cdn cash to help cover airfare and hotel in Vegas. Actual amount of cash depends on number US exchange rate, but we will guarantee at least $1000 Cdn.

WSOP Preliminary Event Package - $2000 Cdn package consisting of either $1000 US or $1500 US seat in World Series of Poker (WSOP), plus cash. 

 

League Money Commitments:
Each player pays $90 per event with $50 going to Event prize pool and $40 going to Overall WSOP package pool.

 

Members are also required to pay $80 for a deposit. This is two $40 fees for your last 2 events WSOP drops. If you decide not to show one event unannounced, your first prepaid WSOP drop will be used, but you will be required to pay it back at the next event. There is no other penalty for not showing up unannounced. Any players who drops from the league will receive no refund and is ineligible to receive any portion of winnings from WSOP cashes. If you are unable to make a tournament, you may send a replacement player who would need to pay your WSOP drop. You may only use replacement player(s) for up to two events.


After your deposit is in, you'll need to bring $90 to each tournament; $40 for the WSOP drop and $50 for the cash tournament. If a player does not show to an event tournament, they are only responsible for the events $40 WSOP drop, they are NOT required to pay an additional $50 for the events tournament fee. Should you attend all tournaments up until Event #9 and/or #10 and haven't used either of your deposit events, you will not need to make the WSOP drop for the event(s).

 

Note that this means for Event #1 you will need $170 ($80 deposit, $40 WSOP drop and $50 cash tourney entry).

32 players at $40/event for 10 events is enough to handle one $12,800 Cdn WSOP Main Event Package.

5 players at $40/event for 10 events is enough to handle one $2,000 Cdn WSOP Preliminary Event Package.

We will provide one WSOP Main Event Package plus one WSOP Preliminary Event Package for every 5 league members above 32 that we have.

 

You will need to commit to $400 ($40/event) over the year for the WSOP drop and $50 per event additional that you show up.

 

Points:

It works like this, each event, we will have a tournament with cash prizes for top 3-6 players depending on number of entries, and points awarded to top 10 league players. Points are awarded as follows...

1st-                  10000 points

2nd-                 8000

3rd –                6400

4th -                 4800

5th -                 3600

6th -                 2800

7th -                 2000

8th -                 1200

9th -                 800

10th -               400

11th-last -        0

The league leader in points at the end of the 10 event season will be guaranteed at least a WSOP Preliminary Event Package no matter where that player finishes in the league final. The league leader will also get the chance to play in the League Final in an attempt to win the WSOP Main Event Package.

 

The remainder of the prize packages will be determined in a league final tournament. To qualify for the league final you need to satisfy one of the following criteria:

1)      For greater than 50 league members you must finish in 1st to 24th place in points after Tiebreakers. If we have less than 50 league members we will only take the top 20 (1st to 20th) in points.

2)      Win 10,000 points in any one individual event. Note that you must win this yourself and not through a designate player to get the automatic buy into the league final. Note also that you need only be the top league member points-wise to get the automatic spot in the League Final. You don’t need to beat any non-league members.

The players satisfying the above criteria will play in a League Final. At the League Final, each player will receive 1 chip for each point they received during the regular season (Regular season and League Final tournament formats and blind schedules below). There will be no entry fee or prizes for the Final, except the Prize Packages. For Season 5 it appears we will likely be giving out 1 Main Event Package and 4-6 Preliminary Packages.

 

Tiebreakers:
In the event of a tie for the last qualifying place, the following shall determine the tiebreaker:

  1. Points obtained.
  2. Player that earned the most points themselves, not from substitutes.
  3. Player that earned the most cash.
  4. If still tied after above, a tourney will take place to decide who makes the final table.


The winners of the prize packages agree to split any monies won at the World Series Of Poker with the league 50%/50% (after applicable taxes). In practicality if you cash in the WSOP, Harrahs withholds 30% for tax purposes. Therefore the remaining 70% will be split in two and paid to the league immediately. If a player can attain any more of the withheld 30% back after dealing with the IRS, that money is to be kept by the player and not shared with the league. The 50% League share will be split into 2 pools (25% each pool). The first pool will be split among all league-mates equally. The remaining half of the League share will be split by the % of points earned by each player. So the chip leader going into the Final will receive the largest share of the League pool should a player cash in the WSOP. A player is also entitled to his league percentage even if that player is the one who won the prize.

Regular Tournament Structure:
Each event, players will begin with 5,000 chips and one "Re-buy”. Re-buy may be used anytime in the first 6 Levels for 7,000 additional chips, regardless of your chip count. Any Re-buy chips not used by start of Level 7 will be worthless. The Re-buy is included with your event fee, there are no additional Re-buys for sale and no Refunds are given for unused Re-buys.

The blind structure is set up to finish the tourney in around 6 hours with a target end time of around 2am. If tournaments start to last beyond this time at a regular rate, the blinds may be adjusted for future tournaments.

Current Structure

(for use with 5 tables or more)

Original Structure

(for use with 4 tables or less)

Level #

Minutes

Small Blind

Big Blind

Level #

Minutes

Small Blind

Big Blind

1

20

50

100

1

20

50

50

2

20

100

200

2

20

50

100

3

20

150

300

3

20

100

200

10 Minute Break

10 Minute Break

4

20

200

400

4

20

150

300

5

20

300

600

5

20

200

400

6

20

400

800

6

20

300

600

10 Minute Break

End of Re-buys/Add-ons

Cash out $25 Chips

10 Minute Break

End of Re-buys/Add-ons

Cash out $25 Chips

7

20

600

1200

7

20

400

800

8

20

800

1600

8

20

500

1000

9

20

1000

2000

9

20

600

1200

10 Minute Break

10 Minute Break

10

20

1500

3000

10

20

800

1600

11

20

2000

4000

11

20

1000

2000

12

20

3000

6000

12

20

1500

3000

5 Minute Break

Cash out $100 and $500 Chips

5 Minute Break

Cash out $100 and $500 Chips

13

30

5000

10000

13

30

2000

4000

14

30

8000

15000

14

30

3000

6000

15

30

10000

20000

15

30

5000

10000

16

30

15000

30000

16

30

8000

15000

17

Unlimited

20000

40000

17

30

10000

20000

18

 

 

 

18

30

15000

30000

19

 

 

 

19

Unlimited

20000

40000

Last level continues until end of tournament.

Final Tournament Structure:

As for the final, the blinds structures will be as follows with half hour levels until Level 11:

Final Tournament  Structure

Level #

Minutes

Small Blind

Big Blind

1

30

100

200

2

30

200

400

10 Minute Break

3

30

300

600

4

30

400

800

10 Minute Break

5

30

600

1200

6

30

800

1600

5 Minute Break

7

30

1000

2000

8

30

1500

3000

5 Minute Break

9

30

2000

4000

10

30

3000

6000

5 Minute Break

11

60

5000

10000

12

60

8000

15000

5 Minute Break

13

Unlimited

10000

20000

Last level continues until end of tournament.
Note that there will be no Re-buys in the Final.

 

 

Tournament Rules:

 

Code of Conduct:

The final note I would like to make is that I will be much harder/stricter with rule enforcement, misconduct, drunkeness and perceived cheating.

1.      If you are noticeably drunk and slurring words, having trouble walking, etc you will be asked to leave the premises. I have no issues with those that would like to have a drink or two, just keep it under control.

2.      If you are caught cheating in any way shape or form you will be banned from not just that event but the league without having any money returned. Cheating includes among other things:

a.       Taking chips from another player or from the common stash.

b.      Passing chips to another player.

c.       Bottom dealing and other dealing mechanics.

3.      Misconduct will be dealt with on a per incident basis and includes:

a.       Intimidation both verbal and physical.

b.      Threatening actions or behavior both verbal and physical. We have no place for the Phil Hellmuth wannabes of the world.

 

Arbitration:

  1. In the event of any dispute on the rules, a league organizer who is not involved in hand will rule on the hand.

 

Dealing:

  1. The tournament will be self dealt. Dealer is to offer an optional cut to the player currently seated to the dealer’s immediate right.
  2. A Dealer button will be positioned directly in front of the dealer.
  3. The dealer is responsible for protecting his own cards separately from the main deck.
  4. The dealer must burn one card prior to the flop, one card prior to the turn and one card prior to the river.
  5. The dealer must NOT pre-burn cards.
  6. In the event of an exposed card during the deal:
    1. If it is one of the first cards dealt to the blinds a miss-deal is declared.
    2. If it is any other card, the dealer will continue as if the card was not exposed until the deal is finished. At this point, the dealer will replace the exposed card with the next card on the deck and use the exposed card as the burn card.
    3. If more than one card is exposed during the deal a miss-deal is declared.

 

Players Actions:

  1. If a player intentionally exposes a card or cards before all betting is concluded:
    1. If the action is heads up, the exposed cards will remain exposed for the duration of the hand.
    2. If the action is not heads up the exposed hand will be declared dead, even if the player is all in.

 

Late buy-in:

Any player showing up after the tournament begins will be allowed to enter the tournament late even if they are non-league members so long as it is:

1.      in the first hour of the tourney and

2.      the player can join without us needing to add a new table or push existing tables over 10 people.

If they arrive 0-20 minutes late they will have 150 chips removed from their stack prior to play, 20-40 minutes late and they will have 500 chips removed from their stack, 40-60 minutes will have 1000 chips removed. No one will be allowed to join the tournament after the first hour of play.

 

Table Balancing:

  1. Table balancing will occur anytime one table has at least 2 players more than another table.
  2. When a player needs to be moved to balance tables, a player will be removed from the table with the most players that is next on the big blind. If more than one table is tied for the most players the table with higher table number will be used. Ie. Tables 1 and 3 have 9 players while Table 2 has 7 players. The next player on the big blind on Table 3 would be moved to Table 2 in the seat where the last person was eliminated.

 

Breaking Tables:

  1. When a table is broken the highest number table will break and fill up the empty seats on the other tables.
  2. A complete tournament redraw for seats will occur for the final table.
  3. We will move from 7 tables to 6 tables when we have 48 players.
  4. We will move from 6 tables to 5 tables when we have 40 players.
  5. We will move from 5 tables to 4 tables when we have 32 players.
  6. We will move from 4 tables to 3 tables when we have 24 players.
  7. We will move from 3 tables to 2 tables when we have 18 players.
  8. We will move from 2 tables to 1 table when we have 10 players.

 

Coloring up Chips:

  1. Color up procedures will be done as a standard chip race. All the lowest denomination chips on each table will be cashed in for bigger chips as much as possible. The remaining odd small denomination chips will be counted up and rounded up into the next lowest denomination. Each player will get one card for each small denomination chip left. The highest card for each player will be used to determine winners of the chip race. Each player can win only one larger chip.

 

Official Tournament Positions:

  1. If two players go out on the same hand on the same table, the player that started the hand with more chips will receive the higher position.
  2. If for purposes of points, two players go out on the same hand on different tables, the same rule of who started the hand with the most chips gets the higher placing applies.

 

Hand-for-Hand Play:

  1. There will be no hand-for-hand play in our tournaments. All cash prize bubbles will likely be bursting when there is only one table left so there is no reason for hand-for-hand play for the cash bubble.
  2. The points bubble will occur with two tables left in all likelihood, but we have decided against hand-for-hand play.

 

 

Season 5 – 2009/10 Changes to Rules:

1)      If we have over 50 league players, we will be taking the top 24 players to the league final, instead of just the top 20.

2)      The league leader in points at end of 10 events will be guaranteed a WSOP Preliminary Event Package and get a chance to play in the League Final for a shot at the WSOP Main Event Package.

3)      The top prize is now a seat in the WSOP Main Event worth $12,800 Cdn. Secondary prizes will be $2000 Cdn prizes covering a seat in a $1500 US or $1000 US preliminary event and remaining cash.

4)      The league fees for the year have been raised from $300 to $400.

5)      There will be no bonus 10,000 chips to take to the League Final. You will only get the points you earned as chips in the League Final.

6)      Code of Conduct Section added.

 

Season 4 – 2008/09 Changes to Rules:

1)      If we have over 40 league players, we will be taking the top 20 players to the league final, instead of just the top 10.

2)      We are once again bumping up the cash portion of the tourney. It will now be $50 entry for league and non-league members alike. The league fee will remain at $30 per event. The reasoning behind bumping up the buy-in is that we were pushing against our max capacity for the last 4 tourneys and there’s obviously enough interest to do this and two is that if I’m driving 2 hours to play I want that first prize to be bigger.

 

Season 3 – 2007/08 Changes to Rules:

  1. The cash portion of the tourney is moved up to $40 (from $30) while leaving the league fee portion untouched at $30. For league members that translates to an additional $10 per event, but has the much desired effect of upping the prize payouts.
  2. We formalized the “late buy-in” rule. Any player showing up late will be allowed to enter the tournament late even if they are non-league members so long s it is: a) in the first hour of the tourney and b) the player can join without us needing to add a new table or push existing tables over 10 people. If they arrive 0-20 minutes late they will have 150 chips removed from their stack prior to play, 20-40 minutes late and they will have 500 chips removed from their stack, 40-60 minutes will have 1000 chips removed. No one will be allowed to join the tournament after the first hour of play.

 

Season 2 – 2006/07 Changes to Rules:

  1. Substitutes: We continued to allow substitutes, but you now need to send someone specifically, that person must approach the tourney organizer and state who in the league s/he is playing for and that person MUST PAY your $30 WSOP drop before the tournament begins for you to be eligible for any points that person gets you.
  2. The starting time remained the same at 8pm start but we did our best to get the show going on time as this was the number one complaint from season 1.

 

 

Darren Kennedy

darrenkennedydk@gmail.com

425-894-4030