#2 Bitcointalk Poker Series (0.05 BTC & BIG BTC Ticket sponsored by SwC Poker)

[efialtis]

Our #1 Bitcointalk Poker Series was a big success and I am happy to announce that we will start the #2 series next week, so there‘s not much time to catch your breath guys. SwC Poker will be hosting us once again while also adding incredible prizes (0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, valuable BIG BTC Ticket & not to forget a nice SwC Flexfit Hat) – thanks for that!

Link to Spreadsheet (Points Standing etc): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gsSA0_hoEbK6ezfzdW-BdIGxzc-hfiO0H-AvRyNTA0s/

Tournament Dates & Direct Links (as soon as available) can be found HERE. We will be discussing starting stacks for the regular games as well as championship game in our general thread.


General Information #2 Bitcointalk Poker Series – Structure, Payouts, etc.

Our 2nd series will feature a total of 8 qualifiers with one qualifier being played each Saturday & Sunday in May. The top 9 players will qualify for the Grand Finale.

Points Structure

10th = 1 Point
9th = 2 Points
8th = 3 Points
7th = 4 Points
6th = 5 Points
5th = 6 Points
4th = 7 Points
3rd = 8 Points
2nd = 9 Points
1st = 10 Points

Grand Finale Payouts

1st 50% of Prize Pool + BIG BTC Ticket + SwC Flexfit Hat
2nd 30% of Prize Pool
3rd 20% of Prize Pool

The qualifiers are regular games that pay out just like any regular tournament in the poker world. You don‘t have to participate in each tournament in order to qualify for the Grand Finale – all that counts is your points total after all qualifiers have been finished.

Each qualifier comes with a 1 mBTC Buy-in directly on SwC. In addition, you need to send 200 chips per game to „youcantwin“ via SwC Chips Transfer. Those extra chips will be added to the 0.05 BTC guaranteed prize that SwC Poker is sponsoring for the Grand Finale. All qualifiers are password-protected and you will need to send the extra chips before I send out the password. I am kindly asking everyone to PM me here on Bitcointalk after having sent the chips in order to get the password. Alternatively, feel free to join our Bitcointalk Poker Community Server on Discord and hit me up over there: https://discord.gg/n7TeTVs

Last but not least, anyone with a Bitcointalk account is more than welcome to join our series. Players with no Bitcointalk account are not allowed to take part in this series.

Let‘s get this party started – see you at the tables!

[efialtis]

Date: Saturday 5/9/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes
Tournament Link: https://play.swcpoker.eu/?tournamentId=44881499

Date:Sunday 5/10/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes
Tournament Link: https://play.swcpoker.eu/?tournamentId=44881501

Date: Saturday 5/16/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes
Tournament Link: https://play.swcpoker.eu/?tournamentId=44881530

Date: Saturday 5/17/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes
Tournament Link: https://play.swcpoker.eu/?tournamentId=44881531

Date: Saturday 5/23/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes

Date: Saturday 5/24/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes

Date: Saturday 5/30/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes

Date: Saturday 5/31/2020
Start Time: 1PM EST/5PM GMT
Buy-in: .0012 BTC (1200 chips) 1000 Chips direct buy-in plus 200 Chips to be transfered to "youcantwin“
Game: NLHE
Tournament name: "Bitcointalk Private Poker Series"
Late registration: 6 Levels
Blind levels: 10 Minutes

[efialtis]

Reserved

[Improved]

Efialtis, what about at least one non-hold'em event?
Maybe OE (Omaha Hi/Lo + Stud Hi/Lo) or Badeucy ?
500 chips buy-in.

[figmentofmyass]

a BIG BTC ticket added on top---very nice! SwC Poker has been really generous to the forum lately.

i'm gonna try to play every game in the series this time. fortunately they are early enough in the morning that i don't need to sacrifice the whole day during these beautiful springtime weekends.

we're talking about the possibility of bigger starting stacks in the qualifiers. chime in here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217547.msg54348854#msg54348854

Efialtis, what about at least one non-hold'em event?
Maybe OE (Omaha Hi/Lo + Stud Hi/Lo) or Badeucy ?
500 chips buy-in.

an OE side game might be fun for kicks, but including it in the series would be terrible for my equity.

[bullrun2024bro]

Our #1 Bitcointalk Poker Series was a big success and I am happy to announce that we will start the #2 series next week, so there‘s not much time to catch your breath guys. SwC Poker will be hosting us once again while also adding incredible prizes (0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, valuable BIG BTC Ticket & not to forget a nice SwC Flexfit Hat) – thanks for that!

Thanks for setting this up again @efialtis & @yahoo62278. I need to figure out my work schedule, but I might be joining this season too. Anyway, good luck all participants. I am sure this season will get even better than the last one.

[yahoo62278]

Our #1 Bitcointalk Poker Series was a big success and I am happy to announce that we will start the #2 series next week, so there‘s not much time to catch your breath guys. SwC Poker will be hosting us once again while also adding incredible prizes (0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, valuable BIG BTC Ticket & not to forget a nice SwC Flexfit Hat) – thanks for that!

Thanks for setting this up again @efialtis & @yahoo62278. I need to figure out my work schedule, but I might be joining this season too. Anyway, good luck all participants. I am sure this season will get even better than the last one.

This 1 is all on efialtis, I think he will be able to handle this project on  his own. Improved helped setup the new spreadsheet as well, so please thank those 2.

I will be playing the series and hopefully make the final game again, but if I don't good luck to those who do.

[steveabrahams]

What is BIG BTC Ticket btw?

I wish you can make it more earlier to 3PM GMT for the start time, so people in asia like me can join 

[figmentofmyass]

What is BIG BTC Ticket btw?

it's a monthly 0.75 BTC guaranteed tournament with a 0.01 BTC buy-in. this is the next one on may 31st: https://play.swcpoker.eu/?tournamentId=43583277

I wish you can make it more earlier to 3PM GMT for the start time, so people in asia like me can join 

it's sorta early for me, sorta late for you. i guess our world revolves around the euro players.

[Chikito]

I wish you can make it more earlier to 3PM GMT for the start time, so people in asia like me can join 

Midnight on Southeastern Asia, maybe next time, I am suggesting efialtis try to make around the world tournament? We don't go anywhere, only time to set where we go to. for example next week Date: Sunday 5/10/2020 tournament on Bangkok (Thailand), so we go to setting time 10 AM GMT. IMHO

[iv4n]

You are fast Efi, you already have second series prepared, great job! I'm definitely in, I wait weekend's to play poker with you guys, and its nice to see that we will have poker weekends entire May. Like always thanks to swc for adding chips to prize pool, and this awesome ticket for Big BTC, that is very generous from them, winner will have a lot of fun and nice chance for winning a lot of chips.

I don't know about starting chips, for me it's the same is it 3 or 5k, but for sure final game should be with some bigger stack. This time it was crazy play with just 3k!

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Good to see this again and I am much confident about this series than the first one. In early tourneys of the first series I was a noob and I did not have much clue about how things works but this one? You have to talk to me before taking all the chips away from me 🤪

Each qualifier comes with a 1 mBTC Buy-in directly on SwC. In addition, you need to send 200 chips per game to „youcantwin“ via SwC Chips Transfer.

200*8 = 1600 chips I believe. You will get them very soon.

Edit:

Late registration: 6 Levels

Can you explain it please. Last time we had was 55 minutes but what are these levels and how long are these levels?

[tyKiwanuka]

Late registration: 6 Levels

Can you explain it please. Last time we had was 55 minutes but what are these levels and how long are these levels?

A level is a timeframe, where the small and big blind are fixed at a certain amount, f.e. 10/20. The level time is set by the Operator or with our private tournament we can set it ourselves per request (it was lowered from 12 minutes to 10 minutes during the first series). Once the level time is over, the next level starts and SB and BB are fixed again for some time, f.e. 15/30. Then 20/40, 25/50 etc.

In our tournament series the blind levels are set to 10 minutes as you can see above:

Blind levels: 10 Minutes

So 6 levels of late registration means 6*10 minutes = 60 minutes. Starting level 7 (SB/BB = 50/100) no more registrations are possible and Ante will start. Ante is a small fee every player has to put into the pot pre-flop, regardless of that player being involved in the action or not.

[CoinEraser]

Very nice, a second series. Thanks efialtis and SwC for the extra price!! Will certainly participate again. 

After the last game today I will update the german thread with the new series. 

[cygan]

i am also very pleased that there will be a continuation of the now very popular bitcointalk poker tournaments.
efialtis you are really doing a good job with SwC and the price of SwC is now also very impressive.
see you back at the tables soon 

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

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I am fucking out of sMerits. Can anyone send some merit to this guy please?

You are the one who was teaching me poker few weeks ago and now I feel I really do well on the tables. I am not going to forget the patience you showed on that day by answering my stupid questions. I noticed once yahoo was pissed because I was asking a silly question LOL (fuck you yahoo 😘)

I won the 4th place today and in sportsbet.io, I placed 2nd in a free roll tourney. It's not the money but the feeling you have when you do great in something that you have learned not long ago.

Thanks again tyKiwanuka.

Yeah, now I know what level they were talking about.

By the way, In this tournament whatever I will win whenever I will win, I will always donate 50% of my winnings to this project running by some legends : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5243099.msg54354162#msg54354162
If you guys have not noticed it then I will encourage to visit the topic and read everything. Awesome initiative by Lauda and some other old timers.

Edit:
efialtis, I sent you 600 chips which sorts out my first three tourney, right?

[morvillz7z]

Can't way for next weekend, i intend to play all games and will be sending out chips tomorrow.

I hope we can get some new faces too, a lot of people have shown interest so far. If we could keep a number over 30 players for each of the 8 qualifiers that would be awesome.

slightly off-topic but this has to be the most pimped-out spreadsheet i have ever seen, who create it?

[efialtis]

Can't way for next weekend, i intend to play all games and will be sending out chips tomorrow.

I hope we can get some new faces too, a lot of people have shown interest so far. If we could keep a number over 30 players for each of the 8 qualifiers that would be awesome.

slightly off-topic but this has to be the most pimped-out spreadsheet i have ever seen, who create it?

Improved (Obaming) initially offered his help and in the same time my friend tyKiwanuka also came up with that super fancy spreadsheet - loving it! Thanks for that @tyKiwanuka

@Improved Thank you very much, too - I just love tyKiwanuka's one!

[babo]

I know a friend of mine who plays poker, it could be a good opportunity to introduce him to the world of cryptocurrencies

I try to contact him and have him come here

i like poker but i'm not so good i have all this time - if you record the sessions I would be happy to watch them later

[Globb0]

Orea. 

I will be in again, some games. So that will be good for some people to get some easy money from me.

Looks like I need to think up a clever name for myself like everyone else has. Hmm poker or bitcoin related.


Ideas on a postcard     


All out of merit, been giving a lot away lately. When I will replenish I will award some for the thanks for organising.


Meanwhile accept my sincere thanks to all who are putting in effort to organise, help and make it nice for us with stats and stuff.