O Doyle's Army - NEW UPDATE ON START UP SITE OFFER

[sf340flier]

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glad that it looks like this thing is going to get off the ground and that some of the lower limit players like myself will have a shot as well.

I might not play high stakes, but i'm willing to put in a ton of hands to try and accomplish it.

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Well done O'Doyle!

[Losing all]

Nice work O'Doyle. Any idea when we find out who this is? A large sportsbook would be ideal, especially pinnacle.

I hope this works out, even if it turns out to be the next games grid I wanted to thank you for the effort.

[Duckstabber]

Now, what's the name of the site? Browntroutpoker.com [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I wish you guys the best of luck with this project!

[dealer_toe]

I haven't replyed since the original post, but I've been keeping up, and I'm still in. Is the site going to have some way of letting us view our progress?

[gk2400]

This sounds great. I'm in. Hopefully there be a way to see the progress in rake.
Thanks O Dyle's again for all the effort.
Gene

[O Doyle Rules]

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Great Job O Doyle! Like others, I am interested in this. The amount I play there will depend upon the availability of games.

One thing that would be nice -- the option to play for the buy-in only, or a prize package with travel expenses (and maybe some spending money) included.

I would personally prefer a prize package that pays for my flight/hotel, and maybe a little bit of spending cash ($500 - $1000 - but that part is not necesary), obviously, I would play more raked hands to earn the travel package as well, unless the site is generous like stars and kicks something in for wearing their logowear. Others obviously (especially those that live close to one of the tournaments, would prefer buy in only).

Do you know what there current plans are as far as prize packages vs. direct buy-ins only would be?

I can't wait to get started. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

EDIT: I would actually prefer to receive cash from the site to provide my own travel arrangements, anything i don't use would be spending money. However, like i said I don't know how the current deal is set up.

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Keep in mind this promo is still in it's infancy. I think the site at this point is just looking at the dollar amount to send someone to a major poker event, I'm thinking 12k, 10k for the entry fee and 2k for travel expense/hotel. This would mean a player would need to generate 16k in rake to qualify for one trip. As far as an exact list of events, I am sure that will be determined.

[ddollevoet]

This is very good news. I am interested. Thank you for your efforts.

[mshalen]

Kudos for doing a fantastic job on this. I'm still interested. I know that you will keep us informed.

[O Doyle Rules]

I was thinking about the amount of rake that will need to be generated (16K) for someone to qualify for a 12k WSOP/WPT event.

I know from the one tab (can't remember which one)on Poker Tracker it shows the average rake taken out of each pot. You can divide that figure by the average number of players at the table. This is from memory but I think from my $5/$10 SH play the average rake was close to .25 cents a hand for me. This would mean to qualify for a WSOP/WPT trip it would only take approximately 64K hands!

Would anyone out there be so kind to look this stat up on their Poker Tracker for whatever limit they play and convert it the amount of hands that they would need to qualify for a WSOP/WPT trip? I think it would be kind of neat to know the approximate number of hands needed for each particular limit. Thanks in advance.

One more note, the site has agreed to give low limit players up to nine months to qualify and higher limit players could qualify for several events during the nine months. Assuming that even a $5/$10 SH player would still have the same 9 month period to qualify for just one trip, he would only need to play a little over 7k hands a month! Assuming for higher limit players, they keep the time period at 6 months to qualify for one trip, this still would only be 10,667 hands a month!

[O Doyle Rules]

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Nice work O'Doyle. Any idea when we find out who this is?

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Thanks, I think it will be shortly, however, I think there possibly could be a potential problem if I reveal the name of this site on this forum I could be accused of spamming for that site and all posts would be deleted if deemed to be spam by the moderator.

Hopefully this could be clarified as I naturally would not want this to happen and I'm sure that many players at this site would not like to see that as well.