An idea for an Online Tournament Festival

[Tom Bayes]

I've got an idea for a tournament series and I'd like to see if there's enough interest for me to pursue it with the appropriate online rooms.

As many of you know, I tend to be a contrarian and like the less fashionable and more obscure poker games. I'm this way about books, movies, music, sports, etc. too.

I'd like to set up a tournament series that I would tentatively call the "You Can't Play this in the WSOP" or something similar. The idea is that the games we will play will ONLY be games that are not currently offered as choices in the WSOP.

Here's a tentative list of games and possible rooms. I know that I can set up the Omaha games as private tourneys at Stars and I suspect setting up a HORSE tourney at FullTilt and some tourneys at GamesGrid would be no problem. I have no idea if 24h or UB are amenable to setting up private tourneys.

Please give feedback as to if you would play. I envision a $10+1 buy-in and playing once a week and setting up some sort of points system.

Tentative Possible games/sites list:

Limit Omaha
Pot Limit Omaha/8 (both easily available at PokerStars-I want to avoid NL Omaha games)

H.O.R.S.E. (Full Tilt)

Dealer's Choice (GamesGrid-maybe this should be our "main event")

NL 2-7 Lowball
Limit 2-7 Triple Draw (Games Grid)

Pot Limit Stud
Pot Limit Draw
Pot Limit Sökö
Spread Limit Holdem (all games available at 24h)

Crazy Pineapple or Crazy Pineapple/8 (available as ring at UB; would they run a tournament????)
A-5 Triple Draw (same question at UB)

Limit Draw (Planet)
Limit A-5 Lowball (used to be spread at Planet-still available???)