WSOP Challenge @ The Gaming Club
 

After certain players request,The Gaming Club Poker Room has decided to give certain high volume players a chance to play their way into the WSOP Main Event.

Currently 1 2+2'er has accepted the challenge which involves up to 120 000 played hands in 40 days, or under certain conditions 100 000.

As you might understand this is not a challenge for the faint hearted, not many have the skills to do it, but it is possible.

If you do play multitable $2 - $4 fixed limit and up, this might be for you, PM GamingClubGuy if you are interested, he will decide if you can participate.

I do work for The Gaming Club Poker Room, but GamingClubGuy is the one in charge of this initiative.
He will be back on Monday.

ToT

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sounds too good to be true.. whats the catch?

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sounds too good to be true.. whats the catch?

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lost income from doing the same thing through your regular rakeback/bonuses

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i recieve rakeback from TGC...arod4276

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time to check out teh action at GC and scout the game prospects...

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Does it have to be lmit HE?

I play just about everything except limit HE.

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How many tables at a time does TGC allow?

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Nice Idea! I wish I would of thought of it!
 

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After certain players request,The Gaming Club Poker Room has decided to give certain high volume players a chance to play their way into the WSOP Main Event .

Currently 1 2+2'er has accepted the challenge which involves up to 120,000 played hands in 40 days, or under certain conditions 100 000.

As you might understand this is not a challenge for the faint hearted, not many have the skills to do it, but it is possible.

If you do play multitable $2 - $4 fixed limit and up, this might be for you, PM GamingClubGuy if you are interested, he will decide if you can participate.

I do work for The Gaming Club Poker Room, but GamingClubGuy is the one in charge of this initiative.
He will be back on Monday.

ToT

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Hmmm, I wonder they come up with this idea from? I sure wish I would of thought of it.

Wait a minute, I bet they got it from here:

Original Idea

I guess I should take this as the sincerest form of flattery.

(To those players who said poker sites would not compete for high volume players, would you like to eat your words now?)

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i recieve rakeback from TGC...arod4276

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the deal is in addition to rakeback? hmmmmmmmm.....

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not sure but would think so,, arod4276

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I'd be interested in a challenge like this. I've always been interested in doing some sort of marathon type promotion somewhere.

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Currently 1 2+2'er has accepted the challenge which involves up to 120 000 played hands in 40 days, or under certain conditions 100 000.

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And that would be me. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Nothing motivates a Klingon like a good challenge. I'm looking forward not only to completing this quest, but to being the first woman to win the WSOP main event. Ok, I only have to go through like 6000 other folks with the same idea, but you have to believe in yourself right?

Yes, I was indeed inspired by O'Doyles example and rather than just be jealous as hell, decided to try some of the same initiative that he showed and come up a similar deal. I certainly give him credit for the idea, and hope he doesn't mind that I wanted to join in the fun too.

And of course, I have to thank the folks over at Gaming Club for working with me. I appreciate their willingness to make this happen.

I'll post some thoughts on getting started later and probably go to weekly updates after that. For right now, I'm just enjoying the rush of exitement, fear, and joy at working on this. The WSOP has been a dream for me quite some time now, and I'm still processing that it really might happen.

Wish me luck, I have a feeling that this is going to be an interesting adventure.

Shauna

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I wish you luck!!!!!!! If I win the paradise master 2, i see you in Vegas [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Is 4 tables the maximum?

The best way to complete this challenge would be to play HU matches. Even 4 limit 6 max tables would take an average of 8 and a third hours per day with no days off.

Ah! Sweet Vindication!
 

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Yes, I was inspired by O'Doyles example and rather than just be jealous as hell, decided to try some of the same initiative that he showed and come up a similar deal. I certainly give him credit for the idea , and hope he doesn't mind that I wanted to join in the fun too.

Shauna

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Hey Shauna,

Congratulations! Yea, I could look at it like your stealing some of my thunder of my TruePoker Challenge, but instead I take it as a really nice compliment that someone would copy what I am doing.

As I have stated before, sure, this was about getting to the WSOP, but, it was also about proving that poker sites would be willing to offer special bonuses or incentives to players who agree to play a high volume of hands at their sites. I proved it and now you have as well. Hopefully, this is the start towards some even bigger and better things for the high volume online player.

Good Luck to you and at times I sure you will be wondering what you have gotten yourself into, but just keep your eye on that prize at the end of that long tunnel and you will be fine.

Oh, and just so there is no mistake, I think I must have to end all my posts in the following:

My TruePoker WSOP 120K Hands Challenge.

(The original hand challenge to the WSOP. Don't accept any cheap imitations.)

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Good luck, but that seems like quite the task.

~ 120,00 hnds / 40 days = 3000 hands a day

~ 4-tabling at 6-max tables say 85 hands/hour ( generous allowance) = 340 hands/hour.

~ 3000 / 340 h/h = about 9 hours a day.

If you fell that 85 h/h is too high or too low, then using the formula:

3000 / (hands/hour)*(4)

yields....

60 h/h = 12.5 hours/day
70 h/h = 10.7 hr/d
80 h/h = 9.4 hr/d
90 h/h = 8.3 hr/d
100 h/h = 7.5 hr/d

Should be interesting.

Good luck,

jw

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or under certain conditions 100 000.


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Care to share the conditions for only 100K?

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~ 120,00 hnds / 40 days = 3000 hands a day


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The challenge ends at Midnight June 30th , so it is 48 days or 2500 hands per day in average, pardon my typo in the original post [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

ToT

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Does it have to be lmit HE?

I play just about everything except limit HE.

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Maybe not, each possible deal will be made individually, AAmaz0n will be playing both NL and Fixed Limit.

ToT

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How many tables at a time does TGC allow?

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At this point in time the max number of tables is 5, it might however be possible to play a higher number in the future, and you guys/girls will be the first to know [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

ToT

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each possible deal will be made individually

I can only one-table. Not entirely because I'm totally incompetent, but also because of being at the end of the telephone wires system and having only dial-up.

And as my wife is a harridan, (in the nicest possible sense, of course; I love her dearly), she allows me to play only two hours per day.

Therefore, could I have a deal where I play 5000 hands for a seat, please? As you can see, it will be an equivalent challenge to me as the big girl's one is to her.

Thanking you in advance. You are good people.

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As I have stated before, sure, this was about getting to the WSOP, but, it was also about proving that poker sites would be willing to offer special bonuses or incentives to players who agree to play a high volume of hands at their sites. I proved it and now you have as well. Hopefully, this is the start towards some even bigger and better things for the high volume online player.

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I couldn't agree more. It is far better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Thanks for wishing me luck. I've been asked to put my hand count in my location so some of the folks around here can track how I'm doing; I'm really not trying to be a copycat just responding to some requests.

See you in Vegas. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Shauna

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each possible deal will be made individually

I can only one-table. Not entirely because I'm totally incompetent, but also because of being at the end of the telephone wires system and having only dial-up.

And as my wife is a harridan, (in the nicest possible sense, of course; I love her dearly), she allows me to play only two hours per day.

Therefore, could I have a deal where I play 5000 hands for a seat, please? As you can see, it will be an equivalent challenge to me as the big girl's one is to her.

Thanking you in advance. You are good people.

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Now Mike, NOBODY is COMPLETELY incompetent because if you were you would not be able to play, which would be a better EV than many of the players playing!

Lets see. 2 hours a day 62.5 hands per hour 125 hands per day 40 days = 5000 hands, imagine 10 cents rake in average per raked hand, 60% of the hands raked means that you will rake $300 deduct our cost of keeping the games going, promotions and financial costs, not to talk about the money I get paid for answering your query and I think we will not be talking about the WSOP Main Event, but some local cardclub Buy-in for you Mike.

However, I will by you some glasses of Guiness wherever in the world we meet next Mike [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
(and include your wife in that offer.)

PS: even a onetabling player on a hand-driven 9k modem could win a seat to the WSOP Main Event, our Club1000 promotion that ends on May 15th will send 3 players to the WSOP and one of those might well be a one tabler.

Warm Regards,

ToT

PPS: You have actually given me an idea that might not bring 1 tablers like you to the WSOP, but still give you a piece of the action. If anything comes from it I will let you know. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Day One: I have lunch.
 

I'm not going to put up a progress report every day, but thought that I’d at least do one for the first.

After sealing the deal with TGC, I went and had a nice lunch at one of my favorite hangouts, the French Quarter on Santa Monica to think about what I had gotten myself into and how I was going to climb this mountain of hands. I decided that I needed to do some preparation to ready myself for the climb.

I hadn’t mailed out my contribution for charity from last month yet, so I got that in the mail right away to enhance my karma. Every month I take 10% of my net and give it to some organization that I think really does good in the community; I think that it’s important to use your money to improve the world in some small way, to feel like you are making a little bit of a difference. And it always seems that good things happen when I do this on a regular basis.

Also, I thought that it would be nice to have a symbol for this quest so I looked around for something that would fit in my workspace and look over me. I found a very lovely blue faerie figurine, the Pisces one from the Jessica Galbreth’s zodiac fairies. She is green and blue, like the club and diamond aces of my favorite hand.

After some stretching and washing to get myself physically ready, I blessed my workspace with some oils and sage and my former roommates dream staff. It’s a Native American dream catcher mounted on a long rod with some beading and leather trim. Her tribe, the Ojibwa, hand made it for her when she found her birth mom (she was adopted at an early age) and finally came home to see her. It’s a beautiful piece, and I can feel the love and power of the native people in it. I don't know why she left it behind when she moved, but I'm happy to keep it for her if she ever decides to pick it up.

Finally, I shifted some funds around and I managed to get in some poker. About 1,500 hands worth, I didn’t want to push too hard the first day; I was experimenting with table views and so forth. I may use the mini view for at least some of the tables. I can get 4 without overlap on my new monitor, but if I go to a 5th I’ll either have to put it on the other screen, live with some overlap, or put a couple on min view to fit them. If you see me at the tables and I don’t talk to you, it’s likely that I’m not able to see your chat, don’t think that I’m ignoring you.

Time to get back to work. I’ll let you know how it’s going .

Shauna

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not to talk about the money I get paid for answering your query

Dang.

I should have known you'd come up with a financial reason against which there is no argument.

That's why they pay you your 1% of their $390,000,000, of course.

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Is this really for real? I cannot find a single post by the user GamingClubGuy.... Am I supposed to PM him or just "Gaming Club" - I can find posts by that user.

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I'm still affected by the Norton Firewall issue so my proposal is 10 hands played by the end of the month. Personally, I think its a bigger challenge than AAmazon's!

Sheriff

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I'm really not trying to be a copycat just responding to some requests.

See you in Vegas. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Shauna

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I would never think that. (copycat)

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HB

your alive???

good to see you posting.

cubs

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sounds exciting....and VERY difficult.

i hope you make it. but 120k hands is going to be a LOT.


but it's fun to read about you pursuing something that has been such a dream of yours so we're all pulling for you.

hopefully you'll earn your 2BB/100 or more at the tables too and make it a REALLY profitable 6 weeks.

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Hmmm Sheriff, in your case I am rooting for you to win so much by playing poker that you can buy a separate computer without the firewall.

If there is a solution to the problem apart from that, we will of course let you know as soon as we know.

ToT

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Hmmm Sheriff, in your case I am rooting for you to win so much by playing poker that you can buy a separate computer without the firewall.

If there is a solution to the problem apart from that, we will of course let you know as soon as we know.

ToT

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Hi Tot

Unfortunately, threads like this will keep the firewall switched on regardless of how much money I win.

I look forward to coming back one day when you guys figure out how to make your site accessible to all potential players.

Sheriff

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HB

your alive???

good to see you posting.

cubs

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Thanks Cubs, I appreciate that. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I do not spend as much time playing as before due to my day job, so less time is spendt on 2+2, I also have no interest in posting just for the post count, as I have seen a bit of lately.

I am going to do something about my work schedule so I will be able to play some of the KoTZ events in the future, always great fun to play against the Zooers.

ToT

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Did anyone else PM Gaming Club to get their offer? If so, have you gotten a response?

I know it's early yet on Monday here in the U.S. but if he is in a European time zone his day is likely already over.

I replied to an earlier PM he sent me several months ago so I'm not sure he even received my PM from this weekend.

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Nevermind. They just got back to me saying they have been tied up and they will contact me later today.

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My TruePoker WSOP 120K Hands Challenge.

(The original hand challenge to the WSOP. Don't accept any cheap imitations.)

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Hey! I may be easy, but I'm not CHEAP! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]


Shauna

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Nevermind. They just got back to me saying they have been tied up and they will contact me later today.

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Kinky, he never told me that.
However he told me he was busy all day.

I have replied to all interested parties in PM's, they will be playing catchup to AAmaz0n as she is approaching 10k hands fast!

ToT

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Kinky, he never told me that.
However he told me he was busy all day


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Which is EXACTLY why we didn't tell you [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

In all seriousness tho, we'd like to wish everyone who is taking up the challenge the very best and hope that we will proudly be giving all the participants a seat at the Big Dance! We know that it's difficult challenge, but we have confidence that you guys can do it.

Apologies all round that we have not been able to liaise with all the participants on this deal directly, we have been insanely busy over the last few days and have not had much time to visit the forum.

Best of luck to O'Doyle and True as well.

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Nevermind. They just got back to me saying they have been tied up and they will contact me later today.

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Kinky, he never told me that.
However he told me he was busy all day.

I have replied to all interested parties in PM's, they will be playing catchup to AAmaz0n as she is approaching 10k hands fast!

ToT

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Approaching? I'm over 11K, I don't fool around. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Now if someone could just show me how to play shorthanded, I'd be doing ok. My earnings aren't usually so flat after this many hands.

Shauna