New 3-hour Freeroll Blind Structure Taking Shape

Those dastardly SAEs won\’t be allowed to play in the Pikes-only Northwestern homecoming freeroll, that\’s for sure.

Pokerati is headed to Chicago for an event you may not know about, nor should you. The awesomely titled \”Pike Poker Tourney\” takes place at the Best Western-Evanston on Saturday, Oct. 23, after Northwestern\’s (5-1) homecoming football game against Michigan State (7-0).

It\’s a $1,000+ freeroll for Pi Kappa Alpha alums and actives … with $1k going to first, and 2nd through 4th TBA tomorrow. Economists have confirmed that $1k is still \”a shitload\” to college students.

I\’ll be serving as executive floor honcho, and found out earlier today the original plan called for only 1,000 starting chips.

Gahhh!

Just because this will be a very quick, luck-friendly 3(ish)-hour event doesn\’t mean it has to suck! (We can stretch it to 4 hours if necessary, though it shouldn\’t be hard to get players to push chips around — health officials confirm that college students still like to drink, as do aging alumni desperately trying to cling to their youth.)

Props to @SteveH369) for tipping me off to the blind structure calculator from BlindValet.com. It\’s not perfect — got a list of unsolicited suggestions — but overall you can see how BV\’s \”Create a Tournament\” feature will obviously drive Matt Savage out of business while landing Allen Kessler an endorsement deal.

One nifty thing I\’ll be beta testing boldly and proudly introducing with this blind structure is the \”stimulus add-on\” … essentially, at each break all surviving players get extra chips. Like a soccer referee showing the stoppage time, I\’ll declare how many chips (probably 5k, then 10k, then 0k) with 10 minutes to go before break.

(Love how the stimulus add-on announcement stands to change play at various points … as well as the potential for in-game TD corruption it creates!)

Check out the deeper-stacked structure for the Pike Poker Tourney below as I get back in touch with some of my underage gambling roots to study the next generation of midwestern fish.

Pike Poker Tourney