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

[Betwrong]

Hey guys,

I still haven't received confirmation but I am confident I will hear back today - be prepared for the Grand Finale on Sunday!


Another news - SwC have confirmed to host a third Bitcointalk Series!!

That is a great news! Thanks again for your efforts, mate!

As for the Grand Finale, Sunday seems perfect to me, and I have no preferences regarding time.

I'm really proud to be qualified for the event(in the #1 Series I didn't make it). Can't wait for it to start!

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[CoinEraser]

Big thanks to our hosts efialtis & tyKiwanuka for the work they have put into this series and hopefully we will continue to organize some poker here in the forum.

I can only agree and also say thanks to efialtis & tyKiwanuka. Really great of you two to organize the series. 

Another news - SwC have confirmed to host a third Bitcointalk Series!!

That's really good news. Keep us up to date on what's going on. I'm looking forward to the new series. 

[Steamtyme]

Glad to hear they are going to continue to host our series. Good times.

I noticed today they have launched the final looks to be same time as the qualifiers on Sunday.

It does still have 5000 for starting stacks this time around. Looking forward to Sunday I'll get rested up after work and try to record the final. Heavily dependent on my families mood that day, understandably the wife seemed a little less than impressed when i told her the schedule.

I'm not sure about all the entries but it looks like we have the .05 BTC  generously donated by SWC, and .0286 from the 200 chip fees for the prize pool.
This doesn't include the big BTC ticket worth .01 BTC and the SWC hat for the winner.

Can't wait.

[efialtis]

Yeah the Final Table is live and all who qualified were pre-registered! Regarding Starting Stack: Shall I ask them to make it 10k or do you wanna play with 5k?

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Yeah the Final Table is live and all who qualified were pre-registered! Regarding Starting Stack: Shall I ask them to make it 10k or do you wanna play with 5k?

Efi I feel that I lost my shift of the part time job I had in every week end. Any plan for anymore poker for us losers and a new series? Sorry last few days I was away and did not follow any update.

Thanks

[Steamtyme]

Yeah the Final Table is live and all who qualified were pre-registered! Regarding Starting Stack: Shall I ask them to make it 10k or do you wanna play with 5k?

I'm fine with it if everyone else is. You and they are busy and as I've said previously I'm not looking to come at them or you to make changes often. I'm pretty good with the "it is what it is" moto, deal with it and move on. Just something to make clear for the next series and hope there isn't another oversight.

Yeah the Final Table is live and all who qualified were pre-registered! Regarding Starting Stack: Shall I ask them to make it 10k or do you wanna play with 5k?

Efi I feel that I lost my shift of the part time job I had in every week end. Any plan for anymore poker for us losers and a new series? Sorry last few days I was away and did not follow any update.

Thanks

No announcement on a tournament of losers, and I didn't notice it at the time when I checked earlier. So far just a 3rd series has been confirmed. Sorry to hear about the part time shifts.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

No announcement on a tournament of losers, and I didn't notice it at the time when I checked earlier. So far just a 3rd series has been confirmed. Sorry to hear about the part time shifts.

I hope you got my sarcasm not the real job I was talking about 😛

So, finally us losers are real lose? LOL
Are you one of us or you were able to get a spot?

Looking forward to the next series.

I will play some poker today.

[efialtis]

The 2nd Bitcointalk Championship Finale Game is live!

We will have a Freeroll with a 50,000 Chips Prize pool for the TOP 9 players of Series #2. Big thanks to SwC for hosting + sponsoring us and thanks to all players!

Qualified players don't need a password as they have been manually registered!

There will be just the one Final Table unlike the last time. Starting Stacks are 5k - shall I kindly ask them to make it 10k or are we cool with 5k?

- There won't be a runner-up tournament this time around - I am sorry but due to limited time, I wasn't able to set anything up. :/

- There will definitely be a 3rd series and I will start organizing shortly - some details will be discussed in our respective thread.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

- There won't be a runner-up tournament this time around - I am sorry but due to limited time, I wasn't able to set anything up. :/

F you and SwC 😘
You guys are awesome 😀

- There will definitely be a 3rd series and I will start organizing shortly - some details will be discussed in our respective thread.

I can not wait for this. Surely I will have a boring weekend. May be I will find some other tournaments to spend the evening while you guys will run for the title. I am yet to make my place in a final tournament in any series. May be this 3rd series will be my first.

[1r0n1c]

The 2nd Bitcointalk Championship Finale Game is live!

We will have a Freeroll with a 50,000 Chips Prize pool for the TOP 9 players of Series #2. Big thanks to SwC for hosting + sponsoring us and thanks to all players!

Qualified players don't need a password as they have been manually registered!

There will be just the one Final Table unlike the last time. Starting Stacks are 5k - shall I kindly ask them to make it 10k or are we cool with 5k?

- There won't be a runner-up tournament this time around - I am sorry but due to limited time, I wasn't able to set anything up. :/

- There will definitely be a 3rd series and I will start organizing shortly - some details will be discussed in our respective thread.

Perfect, thank you efialtis! I´m cool with a deepstack final table, so if the other participants are also fine with 10k Chips?
How do you handle the prize pool of each 200 Chips which we collected? What´s the amount in total and will you send it out to the top3 after the final table has finished?

[iv4n]

10k starting chips would be better! Who doesn't remember last debate can find it in old thread, Yahoo and some others had good arguments why we should have 10k chips!
After all its grand finale, and we should have more chips than in regular games!

Wohoo, Good news. Lets try our best to get more people to join on the third series 

I was thinking about this, in my opinion if we wish more players we need higher prize pool! Don't wish to sound ungrateful, but that's a reality. After first series some people quit, we have some new players, but more people left than joined. Of course higher prize pool will help keeping regular players in too!

Efi and Ty are doing an amazing job for all of us here, and a fact is that with more people they will have even more job to do! It's crazy to organize all that and to not get paid anything for that! So it's a question do we want more players or to stay like it is? For more players we need more money, and like before my opinion is unchanged, just two ways to get more money, sponsors of higher buy-in (and we know what that means, it will be too expensive for some people).

How do you handle the prize pool of each 200 Chips which we collected? What´s the amount in total and will you send it out to the top3 after the final table has finished?

Efi will transfer chips directly to you on SwC if you are in top 3! In the same way you transferred him 200 chips for every tournament!

[arallmuus]

Starting Stacks are 5k - shall I kindly ask them to make it 10k or are we cool with 5k?

Im cool with any of those option. Whichever works best for the majority of the other 8 I guess

Wohoo, Good news. Lets try our best to get more people to join on the third series 

I was thinking about this, in my opinion if we wish more players we need higher prize pool! Don't wish to sound ungrateful, but that's a reality. After first series some people quit, we have some new players, but more people left than joined. Of course higher prize pool will help keeping regular players in too!

The extra 200 chips would serve as higher extra prizepool. More people means higher prizepool but the problem would be how to get all those new guy to join 

Efi and Ty are doing an amazing job for all of us here

Excellent job from both of them Indeed.

[efialtis]

I have asked SwC to make it 10k chips - let's see if they can do it!

Btw, big thanks to my man @tyKiwanuka for doing such a great job (when it's actually not a job but he's doing it absolutely for free) while I have been pretty inactive - cheers mate!

[Betwrong]

I have asked SwC to make it 10k chips - let's see if they can do it!

Btw, big thanks to my man @tyKiwanuka for doing such a great job (when it's actually not a job but he's doing it absolutely for free) while I have been pretty inactive - cheers mate!

I'm good with 5k chips and with 10k chips, whatever you guys prefer.

And yeah, I thanked you, @efialtis, but I forgot to thank your man, @tyKiwanuka for his altruistic work. Those spreadsheets are amazing, man! Big thanks, @tyKiwanuka!

[Emitdama]

These type of organizations are very hard to manage, it is really not a one man job, I should know because I have been trying to organize a fifa tournament during this pandemic and I know how many challenges there are to make it happen, it is certainly at least a two man job and it is much better if you have 5 or 500 .

At the end of the day what @efialtis has managed during this pandemic to make people play something so that they wouldn't be bored out of their mind is really something to be held, dude has done it without much help and they has managed to get a lot of people as well, that is the trickiest part of the organization, finding people to play. They didn't just find people, but they also found the best people, you guys are all a bunch of amazing people to be around.

[figmentofmyass]

Another news - SwC have confirmed to host a third Bitcointalk Series!!

great news. as always, i'm in!

I have asked SwC to make it 10k chips - let's see if they can do it!

i always love deep stacks but it's cool either way. 5k stacks at this structure with a single table is plenty of time.

I was thinking about this, in my opinion if we wish more players we need higher prize pool! Don't wish to sound ungrateful, but that's a reality. After first series some people quit, we have some new players, but more people left than joined. Of course higher prize pool will help keeping regular players in too!

that may just be the effect of the end of lockdowns, people going back to school and work, summertime weather and vacations.

considering we got a bigger prize pool this time (0.01 BTC ticket added) but a smaller turnout, i think we might be close to the limit. we can't expect SwC to keep throwing more money in. if we were to do higher buy-ins, maybe do a mix of different buy-ins throughout. maybe do a couple at the start of the series and see how it affects turnout.

[iv4n]

Last time before the final game we had hot discussions, Efi made a timer... This time it's really quiet, like before some big storm!

that may just be the effect of the end of lockdowns, people going back to school and work, summertime weather and vacations.

considering we got a bigger prize pool this time (0.01 BTC ticket added) but a smaller turnout, i think we might be close to the limit. we can't expect SwC to keep throwing more money in. if we were to do higher buy-ins, maybe do a mix of different buy-ins throughout. maybe do a couple at the start of the series and see how it affects turnout.

Well I just said that for more people we need higher prizes. It's not even my wish, I quoted Arallmuus! I'm fine with this current structure, I believe we play good poker and I will play next series again! I'm for changes if someone suggests something, and we all accept it, as always.

I am thinking about the final game entire week! I can't wait tomorrow and to start playing finally!

[arallmuus]

Last time before the final game we had hot discussions, Efi made a timer... This time it's really quiet, like before some big storm!

Calm before the storm I suppose 19 more hours before the actual showdown. Some people could be preparing their mental properly before the game

Also we are discussing about the format of the 3rd series in here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247993.0 instead of this thread. Feel free to join in the conversation and post your ideas there. There are some conversation regarding the next buy in in the thread as well  

I am thinking about the final game entire week! I can't wait tomorrow and to start playing finally!

Goodluck to us tomorrow  . Whoever win tomorrow must be either pretty good or pretty lucky.

[figmentofmyass]

Last time before the final game we had hot discussions, Efi made a timer... This time it's really quiet, like before some big storm!

yikes, only 18 hours to go. i better get to sleep early tonight. lots going on this week, i'm quite sleep deprived.....

Also we are discussing about the format of the 3rd series in here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247993.0 instead of this thread. Feel free to join in the conversation and post your ideas there.

everybody please check that thread and chime in re buy-in size, league prizes/structure and all that good stuff. we need some consensus if any changes are gonna be made.

see you guys at the final table tomorrow, and good luck!

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

see you guys at the final table tomorrow, and good luck!

So the battle is tonight?

I thought it was in the last evening. Lately, I got some weird habit of sleeping at the afternoon and waking up at the very very early morning LOL. I was on move last few days so really did not have much time to check in to see what is going on.

Good luck everyone.