Team Poker League Idea - What do you think?

[Cleveland Guy]

Some friends and I were talking, and were wondering if they could come up with some type of a "Team Poker League"


In Basic this is how it would work. Each team would be made up of lets say 8 Players. Each "event" might have say 6 different tournaments

-NL HE
-PL O
- O/8
-Stud
-Razz
- Limit HE

Each team sets their lineup, one person playing in each event, and two on the "bench". Points are awarded based on your finish in each event, maybe 20, 15, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 - etc. depending on the number of teams.

Add up your point total from the 6 tournament to win the "event".

At the next "event" same thing, but players must play a different tournament than they had previously.

Cost structure and payouts could be figured giving some to each indivdiual win, some to the team winners, and maybe some saved for a season winner.

Any Merit?

[js13_tps]

just play horse.

H - Hold 'em
O- Omaha
R- Razz
S- Stud
E- Eight or better.

I think that is the way it goes. 6 players, 1 each game and 1 alternate.

Isn't there a WSOP event like this?

[Easy E]

I believe it's

H - Hold 'em
O- Omaha/8
R- Razz
S- Stud
E- Eight or better 7card stud

2 high only, 2 hi/lo split, one low-only

[Easy E]

Could be interesting, but don't you have a type of collusion risk going on?

[Cleveland Guy]

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I follow what your asking?

[GFunk911]

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Could be interesting, but don't you have a type of collusion risk going on?

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Well if you only have one player from each team in the event, then no collusion (aside from the collusion risk inherent in any poker game). I think this is a pretty interesting idea,

I'd been thinking about how to play "team poker" or "competition poker," with or without money involved, and the different events with 1 player from a team per event avoids the collusion. It'd be more interesting to let multiple players from a team compete in an event.

You can just let multiple players from a team play in an event and allow collusion, since the players are a team. It could add another layer of strategy to the game (is he making his move to help his teammate, because of his own hand independantly, etc), or it could really stink.

Another idea I had is a tournament style structure. Say you have 32 teams of 8 players each. You have 32 8-player games, with the top 2 players from each game advancing (either players up the most after 2 hours, last 2 left, whatever). You do the same thing with 8 8-person games to get down to 16 (notice how up to this point you can avoid ever having teammates in the same game). With 16 people (2 games of eight), you can redraw to keep teammates apart (if there are 2 teammates), you can simply let teammates play together, or you can have the 2 team members combine their chip stacks, so that only one palys, but he starts with 2x the chips. The tourney advances to a winner in whatever manner you want. Any thoughts?

[jakethebake]

Why? I don't get how this would make the game more interesting.

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Some friends and I were talking, and were wondering if they could come up with some type of a "Team Poker League"


In Basic this is how it would work. Each team would be made up of lets say 8 Players. Each "event" might have say 6 different tournaments

-NL HE
-PL O
- O/8
-Stud
-Razz
- Limit HE

Each team sets their lineup, one person playing in each event, and two on the "bench". Points are awarded based on your finish in each event, maybe 20, 15, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 - etc. depending on the number of teams.

Add up your point total from the 6 tournament to win the "event".

At the next "event" same thing, but players must play a different tournament than they had previously.

Cost structure and payouts could be figured giving some to each indivdiual win, some to the team winners, and maybe some saved for a season winner.

Any Merit?

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[Cleveland Guy]

If the tournaments are played one after the other - then you know how far behind going into the last tournament. Who you need to beat and by how many places.

[Easy E]

one person playing in each event,

[random]

You can find 64 people to sit around and play only one round of a 8 round tournament?