“2+2 NORTH AMERICA vs EUROPE CHALLENGE #2” TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

[DrPhysic]

C’mon guys and gals:

Poker Stars has been kind enough to provide bonus prizes for the tournament:

<font color="red"> A POKER STARS CAP FOR EACH PLAYER THAT REACHES THE FINAL TABLE,</font> and

<font color="red">A BONUS OF 100 TOURNAMENT DOLLARS FOR THE OVERALL WINNER,</font> if we have 50 players.

We wish to thank Todd Discenza and Poker Stars for helping us make this a first class event. Now, we need to get the word out, get registered, and get a whole lot of our friends to come play in the tournament to repay Poker Stars for their courtesy.

We have 72 people who have sent in asking for the password. That’s a great number! But only 22 have registered on Stars for the tournament. Don’t wait till the last minute. We need at least 50 to collect the Poker Stars winner’s bonus, and a lot more than that to repay them for their courtesy.

Jump in and get registered.

Doc

[DrPhysic]

Here are the teams as of 1PM Sunday Aug 15.

Lots of you still need to register on Poker Stars.

We have 36 new players out of 74 registered. Where are all of our SNG game regulars from the past several months? We want all of you to come play!

<font color="blue"> “2+2 NORTH AMERICA vs EUROPE CHALLENGE #2”</font>

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>European Team
2+2 Name Poker Stars Name Team Registered

Argyle TheGGMan EU
byronkincaid ByronKincaid EU Y
Filip Filip EU
genie genie1234 EU Y
Granite Camelking EU
IJW Tarls EU
ipp147 ipp147 EU
iturner187 iturner187 EU
Lars® Valhall EU
Mackthefork Mackthefork EU Y
Mike Haven Mike Haven EU
Poker Jon Poker Jon EU
Praying Mantis HelmetSky EU
Ruddiger Ruddiger EU Y
Sheriff Fatman Debaser EU
StableHand CPCharlie EU
t_perkin t_perkin 2+2 EU Y
Tosh Tosh27o EU Y
TylerD TheStrength EU

North American Team
2+2 Name Poker Stars Name Team Registered

0evg0 0evg0 NA
aBnart aBnart NA
Aceten1 Canada Bill NA
Al Capone Junior Al_Capone_Jr NA
alobar Alobar NA
aslowjoe trijoe NA
AtlBrvs4Life AlBrvs4Life NA
augie00 augie99 NA
C M Burns C M Burns NA
CCass CCass NA
Choyce Fmonti NA
codewarrior codewarrior NA Y
DerrekL drock76 NA
Diplomat The_D00d NA
DrPhysic DrPhysic NA Y
Eder Eder NA Y
Eihli Krogoth NA Y
eric5148 eric5148 NA
FloppedFlush FloppedFlush NA
Franco birding1 NA
Frenchie Catchupriver NA
Ghazban Ghazban NA Y
Graham Cracker Gcracker NA
housenuts ziggityzance NA
hyde dr. jekyl NA Y
jedi333 jedi NA
Joboo joboo002 NA Y
KilgoreTrout Wormtowne NA
Kurn, son of Mogh KURN NA
Kurt Cobain bd10 NA
mikey checks BustTheNuts NA
mikeyworm mikeyworm NA
missot missot NA Y
mrbaseball Silvur NA
mrgo prd mnky NA
napawino napawino NA Y
ohkanada ohkanada NA
PITTM PITTM NA
Roman Obender NA
Russian Ace Russian Ace NA Y
SenorBeef SenorBeef NA
Smoothtoquer Smoothtoquer NA
SUfan5 SUfan5 NA Y
TaxGoddess TaxGoddess NA Y
Toro Toro85 NA
tubbyspencer ZeppyZ NA
UsedToBeARock Arty Intel NA Y
VinnyTheFishPoker VinnyTheFish NA
woodguy woodguy55 NA Y
z32fanatic Chipferg NA
Zaebos Zaebos363 NA Y
Zoe's Echo Rosie Girl NA

Not on a team

ilya sleepyhollow None Y

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Games are for 2+2 posters. Not sponsored by Two Plus Two Publishing.

Doc

[DrPhysic]

For those that are interested, here is how the team scoring is calculated:

Scoring system for 2+2 North America vs Europe Challenge #2
(adapted from the weighted two team scoring system by Mike Haven. Thanks Mike.)

This scoring system balances points for placement in the tournament and number of players in a 2 team tournament where the teams have different numbers of players. Bringing lots of friends to the tournament is rewarded, but placing well is rewarded more.

Team points calculation:
NA = pyd/(yd+xe) North American Weighted Final Score
EU = pxe/(yd+xe) European Weighted Final Score

where:
NA = weighted final score of team North America
EU = weighted final score of team Europe
p = total available points
x = number of players in team NA
y = number of players in team EU
d = actual cumulative score of team NA
e = actual cumulative score of team EU
t = total number of players

CHECKS:
NA+EU= p
d + e= p
t = x + y

PLACE POINTS (for a game with t players)
1st = t points
2nd = t-1 points
3rd = t-2 points
…
last = 1 point

FINAL TABLE BONUS POINTS:
1st 20
2nd 16
3rd 14
4th 12
5th 10
6th 8
7th 6
8th 4
9th 2

TOTAL INDIVIDUAL POINTS (if there are 50 players),
1st = 50 + 20 = 70pts
2nd = 49 + 16 = 65pts
50th = 1pt

Codewarrior and Tim will check my spreadsheet before final Team Points are announced.

Doc

[AceKQJT]

Is fossilman to proud to play with us?

--Casey

[DrPhysic]

I don't know (if fossilman would join us), but certainly the top players from 2+2 are invited. The ones I can think of just off the top of my hat that we would like to see play would include...

Davidross
Eastbay
eMarkM
felicialee
Greg(Fossilman)
Jason Strasser(Strassa2)
LaBrujita
Lori
M.B.E.
MG in NJ
Nottom
SossMan
ZeeJustin

And any others that have been around long enough to have Pooh-Bah, Carpal \'Tunnel, or old hand behind thier names, as well as all the ones that have played in the 2+2 SNG games since January.

This tournament is open to all 2+2 posters including the new ones ID'ed only as "stranger", but we certainly would like to have the experienced players join us.

Doc

[FeliciaLee]

As much as I'd like to, I can barely stand playing online anymore. I never liked it in the first place, but now that I've moved closer to a cardroom, it is abominable to me.

Thanks for the invite though!

Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
www.felicialee.net

[DrPhysic]

OK Folks,

This is my last chance to get you interested in tomorrow’s tournament. I’ve tried PM’s, e-mails, etc probably till I have made myself a pest.

I got Todd Discenza of Poker Stars to put us up some great prizes (Thanks Todd).

I have completely run out of cute posts…

Everybody is invited from newbies to the Pooh Bahs listed in my last post.

Tournament starts at 3PM EDT tomorrow. I will send passwords up to the last minute if you e-mail me at DrPhysic@satx.rr.com.

We have 87 people who have asked for the password, and 35 registered on Poker Stars. More by tomorrow. It should be a super event. All the regulars and 42 people that are new to our 2+2 SNG group will be there.

Get your side bets placed. The game is on!

Doc

[DrPhysic]

Tournament starts at 3PM EDT.

I will send passwords up to the last minute if you e-mail me at DrPhysic@satx.rr.com.

Please send
2+2 Name
Stars Name
Team

Good Luck!

Doc

[Tosh]

Only 42 registered. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Come on guys!

[Hood]

Bump. Still only 42 :|
1h 20 to go!