OK, you talked me into it, discuss why this wont work please:)

[Akverno]

I understand the concept of this game, but if you start with ten players say I did want to take advantage of the donkeys at the lower limits and buy in appropriately. Will I be able to rebuy when the limits get higher? Say I sit down with fifty bucks, then the limits get higher and I want to reload to get the appropriate chip stack to be sitting at this table, will I be able to do this?

Edit: This idea reminds me of a SnG structure that party has, it's been a long time so I don't remember the name of it but where there's like six levels and you win a SnG to move up. People end up playing for a crapload of money at the end and you can start with a five dollar sng.

[Talking Poker]

"Steps."

As for my ideas eejit, it would be to base it more on a SNG that plays like a cash game, instead of a cash game that plays like a SNG. In other words, it would BE a SNG with a buy in, but in ADDITION, players would be playing with actual cash (the cash amounts should be less than the buy ins). If they bust, they would be allowed to reload as per your rules (maybe a max of 3 times though, so the game wouldn't go on forever), and they could buy in for whatever amount they wantin between whatever min and max are defined (you'd need a reasonably tight range too, like $25-$100 on a $100 buy in, because if someone sat with $10,000, it would be nearly impossible for them to lose). Then play "normally," with increasing (cash) blinds. People are free to get up whenever they want, but as soon as they do, they are out and not eligible for the prize pool (unless they finish in the top 3).

HeEre comes the interesting part.... Instead of playing down to 1 player, you could keep a full table going by allowing more people to buy in to the empty seats. What you'd need to do though is keep track of who came in when to determine who is eligible for what part of the rolling prizepool. That may not make sense, but it does in my brain.

Lots of details would need to be worked out, but it has potential. It's a lot different than what you are posing though, and I think I like your idea better, at least as far as what it's trying to accomplish.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

If this is NL then the buyins should change with every level change and there should be a normal maximum buyin (no matter what format it is). Having a 10/20NL player sit with $10,000 during the 25c/50c level would be annoying. If it is limit then it doesn't matter. At the end of a level you could either keep what you have on the table (even if it is above the maximum--not that it would be that much above) OR top off to the max for the next level if you want.

I like the idea of incorporating a prize with a buyin SNG style (or MTT style, but that would be confusing). Not sure how you would keep track of who is winning though...

MTT, it might make things easier (eliminate voting to continue short handed, waiting for 10th player, etc,etc) if there were a couple of tables of this going on at a time.

[eejit101]

wow, theres some thing i never thought of, thanx for the input guys. Maybe ill steal TP and Blabs ideas and get both running

but seriously, thanx very muchos.

CRAP, its monday, when does west coast america wake up?

[Reel Deal]

eejit, just so you know your copyright registration is not really going to afford you much protection. Basically under copyright law you're only protected against an exact duplication of the original... so if someone just changes your idea ever so slightly, you can't stop them. This is why you need to get the people you're discussing the idea with to sign a confidentiality agreement with a non-compete clause.

[BlibbityBlabbity]

Not to mention that you would have to shell out a lot of money to fight an infriging company, right? Poker Sites have the unlimited resources of Microsoft and tobacco and they are not officially in the US to begin with.

It doesn;t sound like you are looking for a huge payday for this anyway, but I hope you do get credit and a little s'thin for your time and effort.

[eejit101]

im hoping for something. dont know wot yet