I wasn't trying to insult just fast shooting from the hip what I thought :-)
oh goodness! i knew you were not trying to insult. i was just answering like granny always does. anyway, the point is that we can't get poker players, especially this bunch, to pre-plan and commit to anything beyond their morning monkey-spank.
your idea is a great one and would be used in a perfect world.
ok, a little progress report here.
we are quite pleased with the developments of this last week. we will be making an announcement this weekend, but we are thrilled to report that we have partnered with an incredible site to handle the first event and the championship event. we will discuss the reasons that this is the best fit ever when we post the official news.
also, we have received commitment from paradise for a monthly event (which you all know makes Granny moist because we can now boast free hotdogs for the ISOP players that month. proper nutrition will be important if you make it deep into the money). this commitment was secured today, and added to the commitments from all the other top notch sites we have already signed.
things could not be looking better.
this final line-up will be a group of sites that will have the ability, through this partnership, to make the ISOP an event that will forever be a part of poker's landscape. not just online poker, but poker in general.
there are still details to iron out and still deals to close, but we are on the eve of launching the ISOP, and the final product will be a wonder to behold. the best part of it is that the ISOP is a concept that was born in the 2+2 community, will be staffed within the 2+2 community, and will be a group effort of staggering proportions.
from the audio commentary to the tournament director, from the tournament reporters to the operational issues, this is going to be all 2+2. the ISOP may have david, mason, and ray's mug slapped on it for tv commercials or print ad outside of this community, but they are just our trained monkeys. more like mascots that we will use to bring the little fishies to our tourneys.
the hard work and involvement of the community will be something that will brand this place as the genesis of online tournaments the likes of which have never been imagined.
thanks to everyone for your feedback and paitence. this is going to be a fun year. as a matter of fact, i am openly placing a $750 bounty on mason's head in the first tournament he can play. we hope the three can play in many of them, but that's going to be determined by schedules and availability. however, the first mason malmuth elimination in his first isop event will come with a cool $750 prize. the only condition is that the player who snuffs our grand POO-bah was a registered member of 2+2 before the tourney's first hand is dealt. massacre him with the Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], and you get an extra $750 for a total of $1,500. woooooooo
finally, i don't want to jinx anything with a progress report on Party, but this weekend we hope to be able to fill in the blanks in regards to the final schedule as well as naming most if not all of the site sponsors. we are certainly hoping that Party is on this final list, and i encourage all who feel the same to write an email to support and let them know this. they have, as you all know, the PPM and many other promotions, so we have asked that they simply take a monthly event, and that is what we are working toward.
again, our flagship site is perhaps the greatest fit between a tournament and a sponsor since benny binion invited his friends to crown a world champ. between securing them for our "bookend" events, and the firm commitments from the rest of our super star, site line-up, the ISOP could not fail even if granny dropped dead on a virtual poker table.
stay tuned!
