TPF League IV - Official Thread...
 

GENERAL:
It's been over a YEAR since we had our , so we are long overdue for TPF League IV.

This is the official summary thread for the TPF League IV. Below are the official rules, the schedule, and the confirmed signup list. Any questions you have are probably answered in this post, so please keep reading before posting a question that is answered below (every single time, there are people who do this).

Once the league begins, all Event Results and the Overall Standings will be maintained in the second post in this thread.

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RULES:
1) The league consists of 12 Private tourney events - nine will be on and the other three will be on . The password for every tourney (unless stated otherwise) is: talkingpoker
2) Each event has a $5+$.50 buy in and payouts based on the standard Poker Stars or Full Tilt MTT payout schedule.
3) The one time (optional*) League Entry Fee is $20, payable to to TalkingPoker (City=Indialantic) via Poker Stars money transfer. To join the league, transfer $20 to TalkingPoker and then post your Stars AND Full Tilt screen names in this thread. Once your transfer has been confirmed, you will be added to the participant list below.
4) The participants of each league event will be awarded points based on their finishing place in the event (see points distribution list below).
5) Overall point leaders at the end on the 20 league events will be awarded portions of the prize pool as described below.
6) TP is once again adding $100 to the League Prize Pool. This money will be set aside for a Tournament of Champions for the Top 9** finishers in the league. This will be a $100 NLHE freeroll at Stars held on Monday, 2/25/08 at 9:35 PM ET. If anyone else would like to match this donation or contribute ANY AMOUNT of money ($5 minimum) to the prize pool, please PM me and we'll sort it out. Your name and donation amount will be listed here (unless you'd prefer to remain anonymous), and all funds will go towards the T.O.C. freeroll, unless you have a better idea of how you'd like your contribution distributed. If you want your money to go to the first person to get their Aces cracked or the first person to win a showdown with 72o or whatever you like, no problem. We can make it happen.

:eek: Additional Money Added* - $573.37 + double bounties for the ! :eek:

Purple = Tourney of Champions Prize Pool Donation
Green = Available
Red = Gone
*You are welcome to play in any or all events with us without actually being a part of the league, but in order to earn points and be eligible for the added prize money, bounties, and the Tournament of Champions, you need to first pay the $20 League Entry Fee.

**If necessary, ties for the 9th spot of the T.O.C. will be broken as follows:
1) Highest Average Score for events scored in (person to get to total with least scores)
2) Highest Individual Score (if still tied)
3) 2nd Highest Individual Score (if still tied)
4) Next Highest Individual Score (if still tied) and so on...

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LEAGUE PAYOUTS ($560 Prize Pool + $115 T.O.C.):
Based on the overall points total from each's players best 6 finishes:

1st (40%): $224
2nd (30%): $168
3rd (20%): $112
4th (10%): $56
PLUS the $115 Tournament of Champions Freeroll for the Top 9* finishers!
PLUS all the bounties and added prize money listed above!

Note: There will be no tie-breakers for the Top 4 league payouts. For example, if the players in 3rd and 4th place have the same total score, the prize money for the two spots will be added up and split evenly between them. If two people tie for 4th, they will split the 4th place money.

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POINTS DISTRIBUTION FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

-Only the scores from your best 6 Event finishes (top 6 point totals) count toward your overall points total
-The number of points in play per event will be {Number of Players x 10}
-The number of players receiving points in each event will be determinted as follows:

3-5 Entrants
1st - 75%
2nd - 25%

6-9 Entrants
1st - 50%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 20%

10-12 Entrants
1st - 50%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%

13-15 Entrants
1st - 45%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%
5th - 5%

16-18 Entrants
1st - 40%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%
5th - 6%
6th - 4%

19+ Entrants
1st - 35%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%
5th - 6%
6th - 4%
7th - 3%
8th - 2%

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SCHEDULE:
Please note that all Events will be held on Monday nights, with the exception of the two that would have fallen on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve - those will be moved up one day and played on Sunday night.

Event #1 - Monday, 12/03/07 - Poker Stars - NLHE
Event #2 - Monday, 12/10/07 - Poker Stars - Limit Hold'Em
Event #3 - Monday, 12/17/07 - Poker Stars - NLHE
Event #4 - Sunday, 12/23/07 - Poker Stars - Omaha High-Low
Event #5 - Sunday, 12/30/07 - Full Tilt Poker - NLHE
Event #6 - Monday, 01/07/08 - Poker Stars - Razz
Event #7 - Monday, 01/14/08 - Full Tilt Poker - NLHE
Event #8 - Monday, 01/21/08 - Poker Stars - Seven Card Stud High-Low
Event #9 - Monday, 01/28/08 - Poker Stars - NLHE
Event #10 - Monday, 2/04/08 - Full Tilt Poker - Pot Limit Omaha
Event #11 - Monday, 2/11/08 - Poker Stars - NLHE
Event #12 - Monday, 2/18/08 - Poker Stars - H.O.R.S.E.
T.O.C. - Monday, 2/25/08 - Poker Stars - NLHE Tournament of Champions
T.O.F. - Monday, 2/25/08 - Poker Stars - NLHE ______________________________

CONFIRMED SIGNUP LIST (with Stars and Full Tilt names):
28 confirmed ($20) entries = $560 Prize Pool

Akverno (Akverno2, ???)
bdawg31 (bdawg31, ???)
bigd007x (steal$pinach, bigd007x)
BlibbityBlabbity (TimeToWinTD, KGB81)
Brijac (Jack Brigs, ???)
bunny (Bunnyki$$, D3velishhh)
CalifNaughti (CalifNaughti, CalifNaughti)
de-coder (fr-vpfrt, phoenix_again)
drewjax (drewjax, AnniesBigPapi)
eejit101 (traca69, ???)
Fildy (Fildy, ???)
herschelw (herschelw, herschelw)
Invigilator (Invigilator, i am so poker)
Jakebarf (jakebarf, johnny_bob)
Jedi Master (XjedimasterX, ???)
juice[3x] (Lazerboy, Without Help)
Kurn (Kurn, Kurn)
Mayhem45 (Mayhem45, fghtffyrdmns)
melioris (melioris, pelagius)
N1kita (N1kita, N/A)
New Guy (gemini_j?, starcastle)
olydajew (OlyDaJew)
Oceanwaves91 (Oceanwaves91, N/A)
PokerRef (PokerRef, PokerRef)
Robbr25 (Robbr25, Robbr25)
Talking Poker (Rogue23, Troll Pie)
The Storm (NoTalentTom, PercentileDoom)
Trinket (Trinket13, ???)
VeryMoonFunk (VeryMoonFunk, verymoonfunk)
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MORE:
Remember, all Event buyins are $5+$.50, but you don't HAVE to play in them all if you unable to or just don't want to. Only your top 6 point scores will count toward your overall total.

For those of you who have money on Stars and not on Full Tilt or vice versa, no problem. I'm sure there are plenty of people here who would be happy to swap a little bit of cash for you from one site to the other. Just post your request in , and I'm sure someone will take care of you.

Lastly, just to make sure everyone understands how this works: If someone enters a given event and is not a paid member of the league, they will still generate points (theie entry will add 10 points to that Event's prize pool), but they will NOT recieve points for their finish. Instead, those points will be awarded to no one. For example, if a non-league player wins an event, there will be no 1st place points awarded for that event.

In other words, even if you aren't in the league, you are more than welcome to play in one or more of the tourneys with everyone. You simply won't be eligible for the prize money at the end of the League or the Tournament of Champions.

Event #1 - Pokerstars - NLHE
Event #2 - Pokerstars - LHE
Event #3 - Pokerstars - NLHE
Event #4 - Pokerstars - O8B (limit)
Event #5 - Full Tilt - NLHE
Event #6 - Pokerstars - Razz (limit)
Event #7 - Full Tilt - NLHE
Event #8 - Pokerstars - Stud 8/b (limit)
Event #9 - Pokerstars - NLHE
Event #10 - Full Tilt - PLO
Event #11 - Pokerstars - NLHE
Event #12 - Pokerstars - HORSE

TOC and TOF - Pokerstars

OK guys, this thread is open and ready to go! So start shipping those 20 spots to TalkingPoker (Indialantic) on Stars and don't forget to post your Stars AND Full Tilt screen names in this thread.

Also, for those of you interested in this, please PM me:

Hopefully at least a few people will step up and make this even more fun with bounties or other fun prizes.

FIRST!

"Invigilator" on stars
"i am so poker" on FT

Shipping

I'm in

Oceanwaves91 on PokerStars

not registered on FullTilt

Should probably edit the typo there since its pretty important :thumbsup:

As for the league I actually may be in again this go around due to the latest at work (full post still coming)

Writters ON STRIKE = New Guys IN!!!! Shipping the funds!!!And TP I will be adding a bounty i'm not sure what and how much but it will on:D!!!

Whoops! Fixed. :o

Now send me your money, chump.

League has been great fun in the past. I encourage everyone to sign up and give it a try if you haven't. Tons of fun.

6:30 PST and the fact that it's during my basketball season make it impossible for me to commit to the league. I'll drop in whenever I can, but will not be able to dominate play.

GL to all who enter!

I'm in N1kita on Stars, I probably won't play on Full Tilt. Money is sent.
And Dec 30th is a Sunday. I don't think anyone wants to play on the 31st, so will this one still be played on Sunday?

That will teach me to trust Invigilator's schedule!

I think we're going to take 2 weeks off in there. I'll modify it above.

Or maybe we should play on Sundays those two weeks around the holidays........... Hmmmm.

Edit: Decided on the latter. Two weeks off is too long (3 between tourneys), and most people should be able to make those Sunday night events.

I'm in for sure, but I'll probably have to wait 'til I get back from Vegas before I can ship the money.

Is there a deadline for the league sign up?

I would prefer that people sign up ASAP, because thgat will give us a better idea of how many people are playing, added prize money, time for prop bets, etc.... but in theory, you can sign up any time - even AFTER the league has begun. If you sign up after Event #2, for example, your scores for Events #3-12 will count toward the standings, but your scores for the first two events will not.

BTW - Didn't get the transfer from New Guy.

That is exactly why it is on the Sunday. It's close to the regular day, and avoids taking 2 weeks off from the league.

EDIT: Just read TP's response. Yeah, what he said.

I'm adjusting the schedule to push everything back one week. This will give us a little more time to get people interested, plus we will be able to have the League Warm Up Bounty tourney sometime that doesn't interfere with US Thanksgiving weekend - probably the Monday after, or maybe later that week.

The league will start the first Monday in December.

Invite your friends. And for all of you who have said how much you wanted another league for so long (and especially those of you that we literally planned around), let's go - Sign up.

Lastly, I'm down with making some $100 league prop bets if any of the high rollers want to.

sent 20$

And forgot to post your Stars and Full Tilt names.

sent 20$
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ps name- bigd007x ftp-bigd007x

its in my sig bigd007x for both

I'm in
 

$20 transferred.

'Stars - KURN
'Tilt - Kurn

Mayhem is also in. Please spell your whacked Tilt name for me, Mayhem.

fightforyourrighttowackyassnames

Rofl. fghtffyrdmns.

Does it stand for anything? Or is it random?

I will go with fight your demons. I am leaving the 2 middle f's silent as they stumped me. I would have gone with one of them being for, but I am still left with another f so they both go silent.

close. fight off your demons.

I get alot of "hey fight for your dreams, you suck!" at the tables tho. lol dumb fish.

Funny. I always thought it was "Fight FOR your demons," which is really a very different thing.

Thank you bid007x for donating $5 to the T.O.C. prizepool. Our first donation!

I'll put in 10 from my recent 5 card draw win.

Shipping.

Is this for anything special, or just towards the TOC prize pool?

I think just for the TOC.

OP has been updated with Invigilator's donation. The TOC is now set to be a $115 freeroll.

I also adjusted the start times to 9:35 PM ET for all tourneys.

I have to admit, I am pretty disappointed to see only 7 people signed up for the league so far, myself included. I know people like to wait to the last minute to sign up for things like this for some reason, but I don't think it will even be worth us playing every week if we don't have at least twice this many people signed up. :twocents:

Further contribution.
 

I'd like to see more people signed up too.

We spend a lot of time discussing hands as a group to try to get a better understanding of different situations. Frankly I think it is of greater use to those who respond to the hand than those who post it.

The league, in addition to being a good time, is a chance to see the various styles our members advocate up-close.

I can only imagine the hand discussions that will come from situations where both HERO and VILLAIN can explain what they thought was going on and what they were trying to do.

Honestly, how often do we get to interact in the game?
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HOW MUCH DO I BELIEVE IN THIS PRODUCT? Well, I'll tell you Bob, If we can double our current enrollment to 14, I will PERSONALLY put a $10 Bounty on the head of a league member of your choice, EVERY TOURNAMENT! (except TOC). [determined by weekly poll]

$120 in extra bounties. You know how and where I roll. that is 10 10 10 percent of my bankroll boys and girls.

So get on the phone, call your friends, call your mom (even easier if you live in her basement), but make sure you get your own BUTT out there and play.

I'm not drunk! I'm not high! I have not been stung by an Emperor Scorpion.

Book off work, hell quit your job. Can't quit? Insult the boss' wife and get fired. Remember campers, only you can prevent forest fires make this happen.

Now THAT'S a sales pitch!

Me and Fildy are in. $40 shipped to talkingpoker because Fildy is a moron and blocked himself from using his account for a week.

Stars: NoTalentTom
FTP: PercentileDoom


Also looking to do many prop bets if anyone else is interested.

Someone has watched Boiler Room lately;).

I'm in. TimeToWinTD on stars and KGB81 on FT.

I hope, in addition to 5-10+ more people signing up, that most play each week. Stars payouts are kind of dumb for 3-5 player events.

Fildy on both, might play on my "uncles account" if he makes one

This is awesome. Great stuff. And I'm sure we'll have enough people to make this happen... I like the idea of a rotating bounty (worth TWO league buy ins!). The EV is going to be exploding out of this league by the time we are ready to roll.

I haven't even made my post about the Bounty Tourney we're going to have next week some night (probably Monday or Tuesday). I should write that up soon.

Edit: I put this in the main post to generate more interest, but if we don't get enough people, I won't hold you to it (or I'll pay for it myself).

Also, do you still want to do your $10 contribution to the TOC, or is this instead of that? This is already ridiculously generous, so "insted" is fine.

herschelw both sites. cash sent add me.

Ridiculous is what I am all about. Do you want me to ship this to you once we hit 14 people, or would you prefer me pay it out myself. I plan on taking care of running the weekly bounty pole.

I was going to opt out of this since my usual home game is on Mondays, but that game has been really :donkey lately so I figure I'll take some time off from that and spend my mondays with you folks.

shipping money to TP now.....


stars: VeryMoonFunk
FT: verymoonfunk

Also, I will ship $5 each to the first two people two get all in with the same pocket pair (AA vs. AA, KK vs. KK, so on...)

When this happens to a player it's heartbreaking, so this time they can at least be happy they won something (other than the blinds)

You should all 10 to the losing player if for example, my AA fills up a flush and beast your AA.

Only 3 more registered players needed to ensure my weekly 10 dollar bounty!

okay, heres how ill do it. for the first pocket pair vs. same pocket pair, if its a chop then 5 goes to each player. If one player wins with a flush, then the losing player gets the whole 10.

excellent. I win wicked bad when holding the same hand!

:cool:

I'm in, thanks to Invigilator.

Stars : Bunnyki$$

FTP: D3velishhh

Edit: sent $20

Either is fine with me. Shipping it out yourself would be great if you don't mind.

I'm in...

ps: fr-vpfrt
ftp: phoenix_again

I'm In
Robbr25 on both
Money sent on PS