I really hope everyone had a great time this summer playing 1/2 No-Limit Hold\’em/PLO at the Palms. I know I did … even though my own poor performance over the past couple weeks kept my summertime bankroll graph a little below sea level. But still, it was great to sit down for just some good old-fashioned poker with so many friends, colleagues, old Dallas players, low-stakes Vegas grinders, poker media hangers-on … as well as various new players from multiple continents with whom I got to enjoy some incarnation of sucking out. Thanks to all who played and especially thanks to those who embraced the Pokerati Game commitment to keeping the best low-stakes action in Vegas douchebag-free. (A bigger challenge than you might think.)
Tonight, we\’ve got a little game-sweetener: The two best players in the game will get satellite seats for the Epic Pro-Am (also at the Palms) — one for a Saturday $340 and one in a Sunday $180.
And to determine who these players are, we\’re gonna vote. Totally subjective and very unscientific, befitting of my ongoing social poker experiment, aka The Pokerati Game … and hey, if you don\’t like the way we do it, you\’re welcome to heckle from the rails. (2-drink minimum, though.)
That\’s pretty much it. We\’ll be playing the game as usual tonight — 1/2 NLH/PLO round of each, $100 min $400 max buy-in, game changes on the one seat, option to run it twice in both games, $5 button straddle gets ultimate last action — except everyone who plays will also get a ballot. And on that ballot they get to cast two votes:
+1 ____________
-1 ____________
Give +1 to the one player in the game you liked best — for whatever reason, whether it be skillful play, gutsy calls, rebuy frequency or breast size — and a -1 to whichever one player you liked least, whether it\’s because they played bad cards and got lucky to stack you or just didn\’t shower enough pre-game. We\’ll add up the final totals, and the top points-getter gets the $340 seat, 2nd gets the $180.
Simple enough. Cool? Cool. Oh, we\’ll also be taking votes from dealers, floor personnel, and cocktail waitresses … because really, shouldn\’t they have a say in who\’s the champion, too? Game gets going at 7 pm at the Palms Poker Room. Ballot box closes at 12 midnight.
The Saturday 340s, btw, are the ones where 20 percent of the field wins seats into a $1,500 Epic pro-am, and this weekend there\’s apparently a few bounties on some players … the bounty being a $180 seat in a Sunday satellite (which sends a more typical 10 percent of the field to the $1,500 event).
