#4 Bitcointalk Poker Series @ SwC Poker (0.06 BTC, BIG BTC Ticket by SwC)

[efialtis]

#4 Bitcointalk Poker Series is real!

I am happy to announce that our 4th Bitcointalk Poker Series @ SwC is happening and it's coming soon, very soon! The first qualifier will already be played on this coming Sunday. SwC is once again our host and and adds the following prizes: 0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC, 0.01 BTC guaranteed Runners Up Freeroll  & a SwC Flexfit Hat!

The qualifiers are already live in SwC's tournament lobby - I have already received all passwords and will share them with the regulars shortly. Even the Runners-Up Finale has already been set up.

I feel the lottery was a nice addition and so the rules and conditions will remain the same as in season #3. Below you can find all the information regarding Series #4.

See you at the tables and let's see how many players (and new players) we will be attracting this time around, so spread the word please!


Index

• General Information & Series Structure
• Entry Fees & Passwords
• The Qualifier Tournaments
• Internal Point Structure
• The Grand Final
• The Small Final
• The Lottery
• The Spreadsheet
• Miscellaneous

General Information & Series Structure

The Bitcointalk Poker Series sponsored by SwC Poker can be joined by any interested poker player with a Bitcointalk account. If you don't have a Bitcointalk account yet, feel free to make one. We would be happy, if you engage in discussions about the series and/or Poker, but it's not mandatory. We welcome players of any skill level, any age, any gender, any colour. The tournaments will be played on Sundays 5 PM GMT.

The series will feature 8 qualifier tournaments, a Grand Final, a Runners Up Final, a lottery and hopefully lots of fun and suckouts. There is an internal points structure, where you accumulate points to qualify for the Grand Final. Every participation will also give you tickets to the lottery. If you are a regular player, you will automatically qualify for the Small Final.

We play Texas No Limit Hold'em, the starting stacks are 5,000 chips, blind levels are 10 minutes and there is no late registration available.

You might also want to join the Bitcointalk Poker Community Server on Discord: Join here.

The first three series:
Series #1
Series #2
Series #3

Entry Fees & Passwords

The entry fee per tournament is 1,400 Chips or 0.0014 BTC.
1,000 chips you pay for registering for the tournaments directly at SwC.
400 chips you send to the SwC account "youcantwin" via P2P transfer. 200 of those chips go towards the prize pool for the Grand Final, the other 200 chips towards the lottery.

There are no entry fees for the Grand Final and the Small Final.

The tournaments are password protected, you will get the passwords via Personal Message (PM) in this forum, after you have sent the 400 chips per tournament to youcantwin. If you intend to join all 8 qualifier tournaments, it would be helpful, if you send all extra fees (3,200 chips) upfront.

The Qualifier Tournaments

A total of 8 qualifier tournaments will be played inside 8 weeks, Sundays 5PM GMT. If possible, register as early as possible, since there is no late registration available. Just send 400 chips to youcantwin, get the password and register for the tournament for a fee of 1,000 chips.

Q#1: 08/30/2020
Q#2: 09/06/2020
Q#3: 09/13/2020
Q#4: 09/20/2020
Q#5: 09/27/2020
Q#6: 10/04/2020
Q#7: 10/11/2020
Q#8: 10/18/2020

Internal Point Structure

To determine who will qualify for the Grand Final, we have an internal point structure, where you get a number of points for each tournament, when you finished inside the Top 10.

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

If two or more players have the same amount of points after 8 tournaments, the average finishing position in all tournaments participated will be the tie-breaker.

The Grand Final

The 9 players with the most points from our internal point system will be eligible to play the Grand Final, which will take place on 08/23/2020. You will automatically get registered for this tournament and don't have to pay an entry fee. As in the past, SwC is sponsoring 0.05 BTC among other things for this tournament and the 200 chips per tournament and participant from the qualifiers will be part of the prize pool as well. This additional prize money for the Top 3 will get sent to you via P2P transfer on SwC.

1st: 50% of Prize Pool + BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC & a SwC Flexfit Hat
2nd: 30% of Prize Pool
3rd: 20% of Prize Pool

The Small Final

Every player who joined at least 2 of the 8 qualifying tournaments, will be eligible to play in the Small Final, no matter how many points they accumulated. That is in case both Finals will run simultan You will receive a password for this tournament and don't have to pay an entry fee. TBD: I prefer only players to participate in this who have not qualified for the Grand Finale.

The date and prize money is TBA.

The Lottery

To give anyone the chance to win some money, we introduced a lottery for the third series, which will be funded from the extra fees you send to youcantwin. With each participation you will get 10 tickets for the lottery. For every point you get via the internal point system, you will get one additional ticket. So if you played 6 tournaments and accumulated 18 points, you will have 78 tickets for the lottery. If you played only one tournament and did get no points, you will have 10 tickets. Etc.

After those 8 qualifying tournaments, the draw from a trusted member will take place via a random number generator. Each player can only win one prize from this lottery, so if you win a prize in first draw, the rest of your tickets will get voided. The number of prizes depends on the amount collected for the lottery. For every 10,000 chips, there will be one prize. If the total pool is 18,000 chips, there will be two prizes of 9,000 chips each. If the total pool is 24,000 chips, there will be three prizes of 8,000 chips each. Etc.

The prizes will get sent to your SwC account via P2P transfer. The date of the lottery is TBA.

The Spreadsheet

You can follow and monitor all happenings in the spreadsheet: Bitcointalk SwC Poker Championship Series

If you have any questions or find any mistakes, feel free to mention it in the dedicated threads or PM @efialtis or @tyKiwanuka.

Miscellaneous

If you paid extra fees upfront, but aren't able to participate in a tournament for whatever reason, the extra fee will be considered a donation, unless you request a refund. You won't get any tickets for the lottery, if you don't participate in a tournament, even if you donate the extra fee.

Any dispute should get resolved via majority decision.

[Trofo]

I am happy to announce that our 4th Bitcointalk Poker Series @ SwC is happening and it's coming soon, very soon! The first qualifier will already be played on this coming Sunday. SwC is once again our host and and adds the following prizes: 0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC, 0.01 BTC guaranteed Runners Up Freeroll  & a SwC Flexfit Hat!

Great news man, I was a bit worried after your recent posts in other topics about our future. Glad all that got resolved and we are continuing as usual.

Maybe you could lower that number of tournaments needed to enter small final. I would put it at 2 or 3 tournaments, 5 seems like way too much. And if it is set in the same time as big final, maybe those who play big final should not be allowed to enter small final.

[Globb0]

I will be up for it.

Also we may see some new faces, there were a few recent enquiries to our threads.

Now we have something to look forward to again.  


Thanks Efialtis

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[efialtis]

I am happy to announce that our 4th Bitcointalk Poker Series @ SwC is happening and it's coming soon, very soon! The first qualifier will already be played on this coming Sunday. SwC is once again our host and and adds the following prizes: 0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC, 0.01 BTC guaranteed Runners Up Freeroll  & a SwC Flexfit Hat!

Great news man, I was a bit worried after your recent posts in other topics about our future. Glad all that got resolved and we are continuing as usual.

Maybe you could lower that number of tournaments needed to enter small final. I would put it at 2 or 3 tournaments, 5 seems like way too much. And if it is set in the same time as big final, maybe those who play big final should not be allowed to enter small final.

Yeah - been a bit tough but eventually, it looks like we found a "solution".

Yeah, I edited and made it min. 2 participations - regarding Grand Finalists, tbh, I would prefer only places 10+ to be eligible for the Small Finale, no matter what. Opinions guys? Again, I think we shouldn't worry too much about this - the Small Finale really is just a generous bonus by SwC.

I will be up for it.

Also we may see some new faces, there were a few recent enquiries to our threads.

Now we have something to look forward to again. 


Thanks Efialtis

I know you will! Good to have you man.

[GeorgeJohn]

#4 Bitcointalk Poker Series is real!

I am happy to announce that our 4th Bitcointalk Poker Series @ SwC is happening and it's coming soon, very soon! The first qualifier will already be played on this coming Sunday. SwC is once again our host and and adds the following prizes: 0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC, 0.01 BTC guaranteed Runners Up Freeroll  & a SwC Flexfit Hat!

The qualifiers are already live in SwC's tournament lobby - I have already received all passwords and will share them with the regulars shortly. Even the Runners-Up Finale has already been set up.

I feel the lottery was a nice addition and so the rules and conditions will remain the same as in season #3. Below you can find all the information regarding Series #4.

See you at the tables and let's see how many players (and new players) we will be attracting this time around, so spread the word please!


Index

• General Information & Series Structure
• Entry Fees & Passwords
• The Qualifier Tournaments
• Internal Point Structure
• The Grand Final
• The Small Final
• The Lottery
• The Spreadsheet
• Miscellaneous

General Information & Series Structure

The Bitcointalk Poker Series sponsored by SwC Poker can be joined by any interested poker player with a Bitcointalk account. If you don't have a Bitcointalk account yet, feel free to make one. We would be happy, if you engage in discussions about the series and/or Poker, but it's not mandatory. We welcome players of any skill level, any age, any gender, any colour. The tournaments will be played on Sundays 5 PM GMT.

The series will feature 8 qualifier tournaments, a Grand Final, a Runners Up Final, a lottery and hopefully lots of fun and suckouts. There is an internal points structure, where you accumulate points to qualify for the Grand Final. Every participation will also give you tickets to the lottery. If you are a regular player, you will automatically qualify for the Small Final.

We play Texas No Limit Hold'em, the starting stacks are 5,000 chips, blind levels are 10 minutes and there is no late registration available.

You might also want to join the Bitcointalk Poker Community Server on Discord: Join here.

The first three series:
Series #1
Series #2
Series #3

Entry Fees & Passwords

The entry fee per tournament is 1,400 Chips or 0.0014 BTC.
1,000 chips you pay for registering for the tournaments directly at SwC.
400 chips you send to the SwC account "youcantwin" via P2P transfer. 200 of those chips go towards the prize pool for the Grand Final, the other 200 chips towards the lottery.

There are no entry fees for the Grand Final and the Small Final.

The tournaments are password protected, you will get the passwords via Personal Message (PM) in this forum, after you have sent the 400 chips per tournament to youcantwin. If you intend to join all 8 qualifier tournaments, it would be helpful, if you send all extra fees (3,200 chips) upfront.

The Qualifier Tournaments

A total of 8 qualifier tournaments will be played inside 8 weeks, Sundays 5PM GMT. If possible, register as early as possible, since there is no late registration available. Just send 400 chips to youcantwin, get the password and register for the tournament for a fee of 1,000 chips.

Q#1: 08/30/2020
Q#2: 09/06/2020
Q#3: 09/13/2020
Q#4: 09/20/2020
Q#5: 09/27/2020
Q#6: 10/04/2020
Q#7: 10/11/2020
Q#8: 10/18/2020

Internal Point Structure

To determine who will qualify for the Grand Final, we have an internal point structure, where you get a number of points for each tournament, when you finished inside the Top 10.

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

If two or more players have the same amount of points after 8 tournaments, the average finishing position in all tournaments participated will be the tie-breaker.

The Grand Final

The 9 players with the most points from our internal point system will be eligible to play the Grand Final, which will take place on 08/23/2020. You will automatically get registered for this tournament and don't have to pay an entry fee. As in the past, SwC is sponsoring 0.05 BTC among other things for this tournament and the 200 chips per tournament and participant from the qualifiers will be part of the prize pool as well. This additional prize money for the Top 3 will get sent to you via P2P transfer on SwC.

1st: 50% of Prize Pool + BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC & a SwC Flexfit Hat
2nd: 30% of Prize Pool
3rd: 20% of Prize Pool

The Small Final

Every player who joined at least 2 of the 8 qualifying tournaments, will be eligible to play in the Small Final, no matter how many points they accumulated. That is in case both Finals will run simultan You will receive a password for this tournament and don't have to pay an entry fee. TBD: I prefer only players to participate in this who have not qualified for the Grand Finale.

The date and prize money is TBA.

The Lottery

To give anyone the chance to win some money, we introduced a lottery for the third series, which will be funded from the extra fees you send to youcantwin. With each participation you will get 10 tickets for the lottery. For every point you get via the internal point system, you will get one additional ticket. So if you played 6 tournaments and accumulated 18 points, you will have 78 tickets for the lottery. If you played only one tournament and did get no points, you will have 10 tickets. Etc.

After those 8 qualifying tournaments, the draw from a trusted member will take place via a random number generator. Each player can only win one prize from this lottery, so if you win a prize in first draw, the rest of your tickets will get voided. The number of prizes depends on the amount collected for the lottery. For every 10,000 chips, there will be one prize. If the total pool is 18,000 chips, there will be two prizes of 9,000 chips each. If the total pool is 24,000 chips, there will be three prizes of 8,000 chips each. Etc.

The prizes will get sent to your SwC account via P2P transfer. The date of the lottery is TBA.

The Spreadsheet

You can follow and monitor all happenings in the spreadsheet: Bitcointalk SwC Poker Championship Series

If you have any questions or find any mistakes, feel free to mention it in the dedicated threads or PM @efialtis or @tyKiwanuka.

Miscellaneous

If you paid extra fees upfront, but aren't able to participate in a tournament for whatever reason, the extra fee will be considered a donation, unless you request a refund. You won't get any tickets for the lottery, if you don't participate in a tournament, even if you donate the extra fee.

Any dispute should get resolved via majority decision.

So how can someone participate for the game if the person develop interest to join.
Some really need the protocols before engaging into it.
I really love the price for the winner and their even paying with bitcoin.

[Globb0]

So how can someone participate for the game if the person develop interest to join.
Some really need the protocols before engaging into it.
I really love the price for the winner and their even paying with bitcoin.

One needs to just set up a poker account on https://swcpoker.eu/ and download the poker client to play.

With regards to entry fees and tournament costs you need to fund your account on SwC Poker with Bitcoin.

The details then are the ones listed above "400 chips you send to the SwC account "youcantwin" and 1000 chips when you register in the game with the password he will send you. Same for each weeks game.

[arallmuus]

download the poker client to play.

You can also play from the browser wthout having to download it 

Yeah, I edited and made it min. 2 participations - regarding Grand Finalists, tbh, I would prefer only places 10+ to be eligible for the Small Finale, no matter what. Opinions guys? Again, I think we shouldn't worry too much about this - the Small Finale really is just a generous bonus by SwC.

I'd say anyone on top 18 excluding those that made it to the Grand Finale ( 9 players for 1 table ). Just my 2 cent opinion on this because It just doesnt seems fair to include anyone that have chances on the Grand Finale on the Small Finale

Anyway , Im glad we are getting 4th series on our poker game . Once again thankyou for making all of this happen efialtis ! See you guys on the table, especially you Efi. Please make sure you can join us on the game 

[morvillz7z]

Lol I almost missed this thread! Maybe it's not a bad idea to ping everyone in the old one (series #3).

Anyway, i'm glad season 4 is happening, so thanks again @efialtis and @SwC for organizing and hosting these fun (and sometimes tilting games xD), much appreciated it and looking forward to it!!!

I'm 100% in, in fact, i already sent 3200 chips (id 51609890). 

BitcoinGirl.Club should get their account restored tomorrow, don't forget about them.

[figmentofmyass]

Lol I almost missed this thread! Maybe it's not a bad idea to ping everyone in the old one (series #3).

+1. i was browsing the SwC tournament lobby and just happened to notice 8 weeks of bitcointalk tourneys listed.

and here i thought i had a weekend off!

thanks for setting this up, @efi! it's gonna be a rocky few weeks ahead for me but i'll try to make it as usual. i need to load up my SwC account, but i'll be sending chips for the whole series your way soon.

i assume there's been no word on lifting the chat restrictions? i haven't had any time to play lately and grind up the required krill.

[efialtis]

Lol I almost missed this thread! Maybe it's not a bad idea to ping everyone in the old one (series #3).

+1. i was browsing the SwC tournament lobby and just happened to notice 8 weeks of bitcointalk tourneys listed.

and here i thought i had a weekend off!

thanks for setting this up, @efi! it's gonna be a rocky few weeks ahead for me but i'll try to make it as usual. i need to load up my SwC account, but i'll be sending chips for the whole series your way soon.

i assume there's been no word on lifting the chat restrictions? i haven't had any time to play lately and grind up the required krill.

I thought I'd keep you busy! :p

No, doesn't look like they will be lifting this anytime soon but, the pain in the *** I can be, I will hit them up once more about it!

[GeorgeJohn]

So how can someone participate for the game if the person develop interest to join.
Some really need the protocols before engaging into it.
I really love the price for the winner and their even paying with bitcoin.

One needs to just set up a poker account on https://swcpoker.eu/ and download the poker client to play.

With regards to entry fees and tournament costs you need to fund your account on SwC Poker with Bitcoin.

The details then are the ones listed above "400 chips you send to the SwC account "youcantwin" and 1000 chips when you register in the game with the password he will send you. Same for each weeks game.

So if the account is been created and fund pokers SwC
With bitcoin, if the person happened to win the game, so how is going to be credited via bank account, is the person going to be paid with bitcoin or paper money.
You tried to explain  to my understanding, but I need a little clarification about these because am really interested.

[Trofo]

@GeorgeJohn
All the money from potential winnings will be credited to your SwC account. Tournament rewards are credited automatically by SwC, while lottery and extra pot for the final are credited manually by efialtis.

You are paying all buy ins whit chips (1mBTC=1000chips) and receiving all the rewards in chips. When you deposit BTC on SwC it is automatically shown as chips. Hope it is clearer now.

[iv4n]

I sent 3200 chips for all tournaments, waiting for passwords, so I can register. There's no way I will miss any game this time, like I missed the first one in the last series!
This time everything was fast and smooth, I am happy for that! New players are always welcome, but I have a wish to play with "old" ones! We are getting better and better, today I was looking at Hall of Fame and in every grand finale we had 3 different players in top 3, now it's time for some name to be repeated! Good luck guys, I can't wait games to start!

[efialtis]

I haven't sent out the passwords out to everybody yet because it turns out, the password for this Sunday's game is not working... waiting to hear back from SwC...

[Trofo]

I haven't sent out the passwords out to everybody yet because it turns out, the password for this Sunday's game is not working... waiting to hear back from SwC...

I have a feeling you will not be able to get to them in time. No matter, password for second tournament is ok and even if we miss this one, we can always schedule it on the end of our series or scrap it altogether. No big difference for me if we have 7 or 8 tournaments in the series.

And as added bonus if we can't play this Sunday at least some of us will have time to spend Small BTC and Big BTC tickets

[arallmuus]

-snipped-

See you on the game this Sunday . Cmon join our little game exclusive to bitcointalk fellow 

waiting to hear back from SwC...

It might take some time to hear back from them

I haven't sent out the passwords out to everybody yet because it turns out, the password for this Sunday's game is not working...

No biggie on this one if you cant get it in time for the next game. a week free time before the game start would be nice

No big difference for me if we have 7 or 8 tournaments in the series.

Probably some small difference on the prizepool and lottery but it should be alright, SWC will probably make up for this incase we missed the this 1st qualifier 

[figmentofmyass]

I haven't sent out the passwords out to everybody yet because it turns out, the password for this Sunday's game is not working... waiting to hear back from SwC...

hmmm, it's already friday evening. i have a nagging feeling this weekend's game will get scrapped. maybe that's just as well---i'm not sure how many players we'll get on short notice.

we can just add a replacement qualifier in october, or do 7 qualifiers in total.

if it runs, i'll try to be there though. i just shipped over my 3200 chips to @efi.

[Globb0]

haha I need the password quick.

I keep losing the money chasing Krill.


 

[efialtis]

Good news - password problem was fixed! I have sent the passwords to all you regulars (well, I might have missed one), so plz let me know if I did!

[seek3r]

Ah finally, was thinking about this series the last day and saw that #4 was going to start.
I want to try to play the full series aswell, looks like their is a pool of regulars who arent missing any tourney.

Will send my chips later this day.