No stress gentlemen, hope all goes well with your respective issues.

Looks like a great opportunity to pick up some extra points for the rest of us, take advantage while these two poker beasts have a little respite!

GAME 5 Wrap-up

Only 5 runners tonight with Dugg’s missing the late rego by a whisker. The conference call was again fired up on Skype and Australia’s “The Voice” was ringing out throughout the austral timezones in the background. So much, for the hardcore ‘punk’ poker stereotypes.

Mcg amassed a big stack early and and hit flops all over the show. Quad Js got him in the habit of revealing the “one card” showsky, and we did see a lot of deuces as the game progressed. Donskey and Cousteer were nursing short stacks for awhile, with the Don suffering first with K8o into Wabbitt’s T5. Cousteer had a bit of a run, doubling up over 25BB, but then re-shoved AJ into Wabbitt’s Q6s, to get chip raped by a set of Qs…. he subsequently threw schrapnel from the SB into mcg’s KK… and busted. Mcg’s stack tumbled and eventually fell victim with KTs to a Wabbitt 35o earthy wheel …. all this after Wabbitt complained about having a debilitating run of bad beats in other games today and was left HU with the Houndboy… For those avid followers of this league, you know the rest of the story!

gg Wabbit

kitty = $480

Player Games Score* Rank
cousteer 5 70 5
Bennyjammer 4 88 1
running0uts 1 15 7
wabbitt999 3 75 3
Bytie_nl 0 0 13
Donskey 5 64 6
Hapetimes 1 13 9
Boonos78 1 13 9
Houndboy 5 79 2
mcgcork 4 75 3
mavman39 1 11 11
Clydesdalez 1 15 7
sirduggan13 1 11 11
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same time next week…

Yeah Duggs you can reg now if you want. Hapetimes missed a few orbits last week and still got a decent game in. It was a shame you just missed out.

Same time game this week so ill be sitting out an orbit or two. got the worst draw for the league ever.

Right, next week im winning this thing, sick of losing

Alright guys I apologise that I’ve been slack with the write-up.  We’ve just wrapped up Game 11 and Benny has continued to dominate winning it along with half the games he has played.  Although he has run good, those stats clearly demonstrate that he knows a thing or two about the game.  

Given we have $1,125 in the kitty, which is enough for a ‘big game’ buy-in it has been suggested that we wrap this cycle up and begin a new one.  Although some of you haven’t played three games, we will make an exception and partition your stake accordingly.  This is on the proviso that there are no exceptions by any of the current home game members.

Here are the finishing places for cycle 1, with the exception of 1 game we all made the final table… well done! and great work for everyone’s dedication, committment and enthusiasm.  The game has definitely generated some interesting levelling wars.

Firstly congratulations to Benny, who cannot be beaten at this stage and will be able to proudly wear his new tpe hoodie and represent the home game down under guys in Event 1 of Aussie Millions.  He gets 50% of himself and the remaining 50% will be apportioned relative to points…

Here’s the wash-up:

So if everyone is keen for a fresh start: The next cycle will run for 12 weeks and the best 5 scores will count plus 5 participation points for each game played.  The standard $30, 5K, 10 min level structure will continue with a 50% pledge of all winnings into the prize pool. 

If anyone has any objections, speak up. I’ll hold off scheduling next weeks tourney until I hear from the majority!

next week is cool, also big thanks for organising this cousteer, I am curious what happens in the event of a tie breaker?

A recorded HU battle with play money! It’ll end up being a nail biting $1K+ HU.. Leveling warfare!!!

Sussed the stars scoring system… It’s weighted based on number of players (n), place of finish (k) and buyin (b), k = 1 for first etc…

Points = 10*[sqrt(n)/sqrt(k)]*[1+log(b+0.25)]

5 best finishes count, min cycle length 10 games, or until we reach a 1.1K pool thereafter.
Plus 5 participation points to entice regular play.

We’ll try and get a tpe pro to an invitational with a 5 point bounty… This may not eventuate, but we can only ask!

Thanks Couster for organising this youve done a great job and congrats Benny a worthy champion. I'm happy to start a new one next week, i'll try and play every week for the new series… and thanks for giving me a stake even though i only played 2 games… go Benny at the Aussie Millions!!!!! would be good if we get another TPE runner into event 1 so we have 2 members to rail

OK… Just for transparency I've started the process of transferring $1,125 US from my Stars account to my personal bank account (I haven't withdrawn $ before so its a two-step process – visa/bank account split).  I didn't nominate a Stars transfer due to their awkward limitations and it seems like too much dicking around.  Upon confirmation of receiving this transfer into my account I'll direct transfer it to Benny's nominated account.  Congrats mate! Well done… the cheque, as they say, is in the mail!  I'll let eveyone know when the final transfer is made.

I'll also remind KB to contact you re-shippage of tpe hoodie! 

Game on next week… new cycle, some new players and new scoring system… i'll update the details on the Stars Home Game page!

Prop-Bets anyone?