Edit: Meant to add that there’s still room for a few more people in the league. You can join by searching Club ID # 312467 in the PokerStars Home Games lobby and entering “foucault” when prompted for an Invitation Code.
Thanks to everyone who played in yesterday’s inaugural Thinking Poker Home Game tournament. I had a lot of fun and it seems like everyone else did as well.
Spidurman was our champion, outlasting 15 other competitors, including yours truly, to win first place in the $5+.50 “6-Max and Deep Stacks” event. Bond2King was the runner-up, and Piefarmer bubbled in 3rd place. Also scoring points in the nebulous League Standings were LiPhanOK and QandA201 in 4th and 5th place, respectively. Thus, after one tournament, the current standings look like this:
Don’t ask me how those points are calculated, because I have no idea. As you can see, though, there’s not a huge difference in points between 1st and 5th place, so even if you missed or didn’t do well in yesterday’s tournament, there’s no reason you couldn’t go on to win the season and the grand prize of a Leakfinder review with yours truly.
The next tournament will take place on Sunday, March 6th at 16:30 ET on PokerStars, coinciding with the epic Sunday Five Million. It will be a $1+.10 Triple Stud tournament, meaning that we’ll alternate between 7 Card Stud, Razz, and Stud/8. I deliberately made the buy-in as small as possible so that you can come play and have fun even if you have no idea what you’re doing in those games.
There will also be a Thinking Poker cash game tomorrow night at 20:00 ET. We’ll be playing $.10/$.25 6-max with a 100-250 BB buy-in. The results won’t count towards league standings, but if yesterday’s experience is any guide, it should be a good time.
Andrew,
Thanks again. Loads of fun. As a suburban dad, Sunday poker is a rarity for me. I signed up just to support you and your great blog commentors. Wifey was not happy that I played through dinner prep, dinner, and bathing the two year old.
My results were mostly luck, except I rolled some punk named foucault82 when he tried to bully me. 🙂
I hope to make it every week, as the token fish.
I enjoyed playing with everyone, but the guys at the final table were very impressive.
Much appreciated, Pie, and my apologies to your family. I did aim to create a faster structure for this week’s tournament, though it’s likely to have a lot more participants as well. Also we’re playing a cash game tonight at 20:00 ET if that’s an easier one for you to make.
FWIW I wasn’t trying to bully you, I just thought you were calling that 3-bet really light and that AJs still had good enough equity to get it in on that dry flop.
GG and congrats.
Hi Andrew!
I can explain the scoring system – the guy who runs our “local” PS Home Game is a maths teacher, so I’ve just nicked his lucid explanation [which may himself have cut-and-pasted from elsewhere, natch):
The total points awarded for a qualified tournament are exactly equal to the number of players in the tournament. So a 20-player tournament awards 20 points and a 50-player tournament awards 50 points.
The points awarded are spread across the top third of participants, with a higher proportion going to higher placements in the finish order. The number of points you score is inversely proportional to the square root of your finishing position, so 1st will score 1.414 times as much as 2nd, etc.
Thanks, N-M. I like his breezy use of “etc.” as though “inversely proportional to the square root of your finishing position” is such an intuitive concept that we can all just take it from there.
All reasonably high-level math textbooks do this, so you can’t really blame him for picking up the habit. It’s not THAT complicated anyway. 🙂
It does make for a pretty flat structure with first getting a little boost. The difference between 2nd and 6th is about the same as the difference between 1st and 2nd for example.
Anyway thanks for hosting, I had a lot of fun, hopefully I’ll make the next one!
Had a great time playing on Sunday even though I didn’t last that long. Caught a lovely cooler when I flopped the low end of a straight and ran into the high end which pretty much killed me. Hopefully I will do better this week. I love playing razz and stud so I am looking forward to it.
Thanks and see ya Sunday!
your home game sounds fun.
i’ll be there in the future…but can’t do it tonight. good luck to everyone.