Game Day!

League tournament tonight, 8pm (trial league, no league fee). We'll take another shot at getting this off the ground, although interest so far has been, shall we say, rather light. So if you would like to see the league get going, playing tonight would be a good start! Hope to see you there.

League Tournament Tuesday Night, 8pm

As a reminder there is a NL Holdem Knockout Tournament scheduled for Tuesday, 8pm EST. Please try to play in the tournament if you can, as we are trying to find out how well PokerStars will do in managing league scoring. We would also like to gauge how much interest there is in having a league going forward.

Registration is open, tournament ID: 354601903 (or find it through our club section on PokerStars).

League

Our little "trial league" experiment is off to a very slow start. As in two people. PokerStars won't even keep track of less than four. I'm hoping there just wasn't enough notice, and that people will join in. Otherwise it looks like there isn't enough interest to keep it going.

Registration open for next Tuesday, 8pm. Hope to see some folks there!

WBCOOP

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: XXXXXX 987645

Game Day!

Tournament tonight, 8pm. $10+1 NL Holdem Knockout.

First tournament in a trial season (no league entry fee) with PokerStars managing the league scoring through the Home Games feature.

Come out and support the league!

Tourney Tomorrow Night, 8pm

Reminder - there is a tournament tomorrow night to kick off a trial season for a quarterly league. It is "trial" in that we are going to let PokerStars manage it, so the first season will just be to see how it goes. The tournament is a $10+1 Knockout tournament, which means you kick in an extra $2.50, and you get $2.50 every time you knock someone out. Should be fun!

C'mon out! Registration is open.

One More Thing...

I created a few ring tables - NL Holdem, PL O8, and 8-Game - that are available anytime. Whenever 2 or more people sit at one of these, it goes. We can create just about any kind of table, so if anyone has a favorite they would like to see, let me know and I'll put it up. It will be interesting to see if these take off.

If folks want to set some informal times for when they are likely to get together and play, that's cool. Just let me know and I'll promote it here.

MD DonkFest "Home Games" Is Growing!

After only 1 day we have 11 members - keep 'em coming, and spread the word! We can have up to 50 members in the club.

There is a $10+$1+$2.50 Knockout tournament Tuesday at 8pm EST, to kick off our trial league season (no league entry fee for the trial season). Registration is open now.

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: XXXXXX 213206

We're Getting The League Back Together (Maybe...)

This new Home Games feature has a tournament/league component that might be interesting. I'd like to give it a try to see if we can get the league going again.

A brief summary of the differences:

Old league: Lotsa work for me
New league: very little work for me

They support monthly, quarterly or yearly league seasons, and they track the league results. No idea yet how they do the points, except that it will be completely different than our old way.

To try this out, I'm thinking we do a trial season starting immediately, with no entry fee (each tournament still has a fee and a payout). Some executive decisions I made in the last two minutes include:

- seasons will be quarterly
- trial season will be NL Holdem, $10 + $1 entry plus $2.50 Knockout fee
- Knock someone out, you get their $2.50. Win, and you get your own $2.50 too
- If the trial works out, we can add an entry fee to have a payout at the end of the season, like before
- trial season starts next Tuesday, 1/18, 8pm
- yes, I changed the start to 8pm

Thoughts?

MD DonkFest "Home Games" on PokerStars

Hey Everybody!

Long time, no blog.

PokerStars has announced a new feature called Home Games, where you can set up a private group and host private ring games and tournaments. So I went ahead and set up a "MD DonkFest" group. I have no idea how it will be used yet, but maybe we can figure this out together and see if we can have some fun with it. Perhaps it will even take the place of the league (or the league might start up again - who knows?)

So if you are interested in checking it out, open PokerStars and look for the Home Games section. It may take a couple of days for MD DonkFest to show up, but you can use the club ID in the meantime.

To join:
ID: 33267
Invite code: wehatemoney

I'll get a notification that you want to join and will approve you. We'll see what happens after that!

Good luck and have fun!
-Wayne

Season 7 Champion: ravensfutbal

Going into the Championship Tournament, it looked like it was going to be tough to overcome the point totals of the Top 3. With the bonus and bounty points in the tournament, however, everything is up for grabs.

ravensfutbal took advantage of an early potnets exit, a couple of bounties and a solid second place finish to slip past potnets and win the League Champion title. Congrats ravensfutbal!

EJ89 started the tournament in 7th place, but was able to take down several bounties and outlast ravensfutbal in a long heads-up battle to win the tournament and edge COLUMBIADC for the league third place spot. potnets took second in the league.

The league payouts:

1) ravensfutbal, $90
2) potnets, $54
3) EJ89, $36

The Championship Tournament bonus points:

1) EJ89, 20 pts
2) ravensfutbal, 10 pts
3) fatwilbur87, 5 pts

The Championship Tournament bounties:

BeardieDog, 15 pts (9 potnets, 6 HiRoller88)
EJ89, 13 pts (8 ravensfutbal, 3 EJ89, 2 fatwilbur87
ravensfutbal, 8 pts (7 COLUMBIADC, 1 nekendrick)
fatwilbur87, 5 pts (5 BeardieDog)
potnets, 4 pts (4 thetoycave)

The Championship Tournament results:



The final Season 7 standings:

ravensfutbal(2)	177.24
potnets(3)	174.42
EJ89©	143.10
COLUMBIADC(2)	134.80
BeardieDog	116.95
HiRoller88(3)	114.64
fatwilbur87	103.78
thetoycave	95.57
nekendrick	79.57
big-e5960	33.58
Occhawk	19.83

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all that played this season! We will be taking a break for a while (probably the remainder of the year) and then make a decision on Season 8.

Season 7 Championship

It's Championship Week, and congratulations to the Top 9 players that will be competing Tuesday: potnets, ravensfutbal, COLUMBIADC, HiRoller88, BeardieDog, thetoycave, EJ89, fatwilbur87, and nekendrick. Here are the tournament details:

Format: NL Hold'em
Buy-in: $10+$1
Date: September 7
Time: 9pm EST
Tourney ID: 306735539
Tourney Name: MD DonkFest S7CH
Tourney Password: emailed to participants

NOTE: I need an email address for fatwilbur87.

NOTE: Due to the way PokerStars currently runs private tournaments we are unable to disable late registration or limit the players to 9. Because of this, the tournament will start on two tables until the late registration period ends. I tried to get this changed but could not; PokerStars has said they will consider adding this feature in the future.

As we did last season, in addition to the regular scoring there will be bonus points for the top 3 tournament winners, along with a weighted bounty system.

Bonus points
There will be additional bonus points for finishing in the money in the Championship Tournament, as follows:

Place	Bonus
1)	20 pts
2)	10 pts
3)	5 pts

Bounties
There will be a bounty on everyone in the Championship, but it will be a weighted bounty based on the leaderboard going into the tourney, as follows:

Place	Bounty
1)potnets 2)ravensfutbal	9 pts 8 pts
3)COLUMBIADC	7 pts
4)HiRoller88	6 pts
5)BeardieDog	5 pts
6)thetoycave	4 pts
7)EJ89	3 pts
8)fatwilbur87	2 pts
9)nekendrick x) fill in, if needed	1 pt 1 pt

The tournament winner will keep his own bounty. There are a lot of points up for grabs in this tournament!

Payout
The league prize pool for Season 2 is $180. Three places will be paid based on overall league points for the season, as follows:

1st place - $90.00
2nd place - $54.00
3rd place - $36.00

Good luck everyone!

Week 10 Results

The final regular tournament of Season 7 had a Sunday Million ticket on the line - congratulations to ravensfutbal for locking up the ticket. Good luck!

For the tournament, EJ89 took third, COLUMBIADC second, and HiRoller88 scored his third victory of the season. BeardieDog and potnets chopped the bounty by tying in the hand that took out ravensfutbal.

The results:



The final Top 9 (lowest score dropped):

potnets(3)	164.81
ravensfutbal(2)	143.03
COLUMBIADC(2)	127.55
HiRoller88(3)	108.30
BeardieDog	93.53
thetoycave	90.57
EJ89	85.10
fatwilbur87	81.46
nekendrick	69.57

Congrats! The Championship Tournament will be on 9/7, with the password to be emailed to the participants. Rules and details will be posted shortly.

Game Day!

Week 10 tonight, with a Sunday Million ticket on the line! The ticket goes to the league points leader after tonight, not including potnets.

No tournament next week - Championship Tournament for the Top 9 will be in two weeks (9/7).

Week 9 Results

Rather small turnout of 7 as the season winds down. BeardieDog was third, thetoycave second, and ravensfutbal took first. fatwilbur87 took out potnets for the bounty.

The results:



The updated Top 9 (lowest score dropped):

potnets(3)	153.17
ravensfutbal(2)	136.08
COLUMBIADC(2)	112.55
thetoycave	90.57
HiRoller88(2)	85.02
BeardieDog	83.38
fatwilbur87	75.77
EJ89	73.77
nekendrick	63.02

Next week is the last regular week of the season. The points leader (not including potnets) after next week will get the second and final Sunday Million ticket. There will be a week off, then the season Championship Tourney will take place the following week (9/7).

Game Day!

Week 9 tonight, with a bounty on potnets.

Week 8 Results

potnets extended his lead with a win and the bounty, with thetoycave taking second and ravensfutbal third.

The results:



The updated Top 9 (lowest score dropped):

potnets(3)	145.92
ravensfutbal(1)	114.62
COLUMBIADC(2)	106.75
HiRoller88(2)	85.02
thetoycave	76.86
EJ89	73.77
BeardieDog	73.10
fatwilbur87	63.94
nekendrick	54.79

Week 7 Results

I've been a little slow in getting results out lately - sorry about that, overcome by life and work. I'll try to get it back together for the remainder of the season.

Week 7 had 10 players, a decent turnout for a light summer season. EJ89 placed third, and potnets and ravensfutbal duked it out for a while before a winner emerged. I believe a 10-1 lead was traded back and forth several times before ravensfutbal finally took it down (and the bounty as well).

The results:



The updated Top 9:

potnets(2)	114.30
ravensfutbal(1)	101.36
COLUMBIADC(2)	99.80
HiRoller88(2)	80.02
BeardieDog	65.19
EJ89	62.96
thetoycave	59.50
fatwilbur87	58.94
nekendrick	49.25

Game Day!

Week 6 tonight, bounty on COLUMBIADC.