SBR Poker 2012 schedule Mon-Fri (Jan 2nd-March 16th)

SBR Poker 2012 schedule Mon-Fri (Jan 2nd-March 16th)

All events take place at the SBR Poker room.

• Tourney start times: 4AM, 8AM, 12PM, 4PM, 8PM, 10PM, 12AM. All times are EST. *Tourney registration times at bottom.

• Max players per event: 42

• Non-Pro Buyin: 20+2

Prizes per event:
1st. 600 poker pts
2nd. 370 poker pts
3rd. 250 poker pts
4th. 200 poker pts
5th. 145 poker pts
6th. 135 poker pts
7th. 125 poker pts
8th. 100 poker pts
9th. 75 poker pts

Tourney registration times:
4AM Tourney opens at 10PM.
8AM Tourney opens at 4AM.
12PM Tourney opens at 8AM.
4PM Tourney opens at 12PM.
8PM Tourney opens at 4PM.
10PM Tourney opens at 8PM.
12AM Tourney opens at 9:59PM, officially begins at 11:59PM.

Fine-print
1. SBR reserves the right to modify the above schedule at any time.
2. One tournament registration per day for all players.
3. Poker pts carry standard 3X rollover (tutorial).

weekends also?

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Originally Posted by horja1

weekends also?

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No, that's the Mon-Fri schedule. We'll be doing weekend buy-in events and some surprises, but weekends aren't scheduled too far in advance.

no rollover?

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Originally Posted by jeffdane

no rollover?

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The standard 3X bonus points rollover.

nice.. glad to see the buyins a thing of the past :)

-stash

Get rid of 4PM and add 10 PM est back.

I like the buyin tourneys with extended number of payouts.

Maybe make the 10pm a buyin for those of us that want to play twice per day...

nice let the games begin

:grrr:....:yes:

limit to one a day? I was assuming enter as many as you wish! Big lost to my lenders that will receive all my points won.

Thanks SBR for this great line up!!!

Also glad to see Pro status meaningful in these

No 10PM :+clueless

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Originally Posted by a4u2fear

Also glad to see Pro status meaningful in these

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that's how it was in 2011 as well. Pro free, non-pro buyin.

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Originally Posted by tanner40

No 10PM :+clueless

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Hi guys,

We're experimenting with a new schedule for the first quarter of 2012 as SBR World Poker Cup 2012 is an international event. We'll modify the starting times if they are determined to be unsuccessful.

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Originally Posted by SBR Lou

Hi guys,

We're experimenting with a new schedule for the first quarter of 2012 as SBR World Poker Cup 2012 is an international event. We'll modify the starting times if they are determined to be unsuccessful.

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It is a world event but I assume a large proportion of the site are from North America right? The only viable option would be the 8 PM for people who work on the east cost and it will fill up fast. Why not remove the 4 AM time-slot and replace it with a 10 PM?

4am is the one I want most. 8pm here.

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Originally Posted by tanner40

No 10PM :+clueless

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Originally Posted by SBR Lou

Hi guys, We're experimenting with a new schedule for the first quarter of 2012 as SBR World Poker Cup 2012 is an international event. We'll modify the starting times if they are determined to be unsuccessful.

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Please if you can Lou, put the 10pm slot back in there. Some of us work weird shifts and or have kids that don't get their butts to bed until 8 or 9 pm. It's nice to be able to play at 10pm because things have finally settled down and I can just focus on the game. Keep the 10pm for us night owls and our international folks like Optional. Thanks. :cheers:

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Originally Posted by mikejamm

Please if you can Lou, put the 10pm slot back in there. Some of us work weird shifts and or have kids that don't get their butts to bed until 8 or 9 pm. It's nice to be able to play at 10pm because things have finally settled down and I can just focus on the game. Keep the 10pm for us night owls and our international folks like Optional. Thanks. :cheers:

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I rarely played it but always thought the 10pm was the most popular.

Anyways, would you guys really want long, slow structured tourneys where Ryder cup and future will be based on number of cashes, amounts, etc.

Its hard if you have wife, kids, or any sort of life to sit down and play tourney for 3 plus hours a day.

Faster tourneys with shorter blind structure may push the action a little faster but it at least allows to play daily and still have time to do other things with your free time.

when it was 10 AM, 1 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM, 10 PM,:

8 PM was the most popular, followed by the 10 PM, I believe. I have the stats.

How about going back to top 10 places paid? There shouldn't be a bubble boy at the final table.

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Originally Posted by downsouth

Faster tourneys with shorter blind structure may push the action a little faster but it at least allows to play daily and still have time to do other things with your free time.

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And +1 for this suggestion seeing as they are now 55 player tourneys. Accelerating the blind changes from 7 minutes to 5 minutes should do the trick.

cool the 4am will be fun when I cant sleep at night

yum

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Tax season so will rarely make the 8:00. Bring back the 10pm!!!!

Thanks for the continued tourneys!

Can we open registration 24hrs prior to start time?

Need a 3 AM tourney... These are all totally inconvenient both for us night owls and all the posters in Indian Subcontinent (Shantystar and his two ghost)...

i can't wait to get into some of these poker games .....:grrr::grrr::grrr:

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Originally Posted by downsouth

I rarely played it but always thought the 10pm was the most popular. Anyways, would you guys really want long, slow structured tourneys where Ryder cup and future will be based on number of cashes, amounts, etc. Its hard if you have wife, kids, or any sort of life to sit down and play tourney for 3 plus hours a day. Faster tourneys with shorter blind structure may push the action a little faster but it at least allows to play daily and still have time to do other things with your free time.

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Originally Posted by 70kgman

How about going back to top 10 places paid? There shouldn't be a bubble boy at the final table. And +1 for this suggestion seeing as they are now 55 player tourneys. Accelerating the blind changes from 7 minutes to 5 minutes should do the trick.

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Under the 2011 blind structure, a typical tournament was 1:15-1:30. There is no need to speed it up further, and indeed doing so would be detrimental to the game considering that the tournaments already become 80% luck at or before the bubble usually.

I do agree that 10 should be paid. 9 paid from a final table of 10 is just weird.

nice way to start the new year

Agree to 10 getting paid also but love the schedule and the structure was a big enough crap shoot as it was lets not speed it up any

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Originally Posted by moses millsap

Can we open registration 24hrs prior to start time?

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It will have to be same day registration. We find that folks are more punctual when they have to register closer to the actual start time.

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Originally Posted by ballahollic2

Agree to 10 getting paid also but love the schedule and the structure was a big enough crap shoot as it was lets not speed it up any

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The bubble boy just needs to play better. :D

We've lowered the players per to 45, and added the requested 10PM. :cheers:

Glad we now have a couple later night buyins.

Awesome I will be there for sure!

+1 on speeding up the blind structures. Lol at anyone thinking sbr point tourneys come down to skill, not sure why anyone who thinks there a great poker player would be wasting time playing for pennies? :+clueless.

Like the new time slots though :highfive:

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Originally Posted by zsr

+1 on speeding up the blind structures. Lol at anyone thinking sbr point tourneys come down to skill, not sure why anyone who thinks there a great poker player would be wasting time playing for pennies? :+clueless.

Like the new time slots though :highfive:

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Poker is a game of skill. If SBR wants to be taken seriously by poker players (and they've stated they do), then they need to keep it that way by keeping a (somewhat) reasonable blind structure. If you want a game of luck, try the casino. Also, 600 points is worth $42, which is hardly "pennies."

Thaddeus

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Originally Posted by ThaddeusB

Under the 2011 blind structure, a typical tournament was 1:15-1:30. There is no need to speed it up further, and indeed doing so would be detrimental to the game considering that the tournaments already become 80% luck at or before the bubble usually.

I do agree that 10 should be paid. 9 paid from a final table of 10 is just weird.

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I was not saying to speed it up from the 2011 format of an hour and half but was saying that we should keep that format. Some people are pushing for deeper stacks and longer blind structures. My point was an hour and half daily was enough, many people do not have 3 hours or whatever to play in a daily tourney monday thru saturday and that is what will be required to be competive in some of these cumulative contests.

As far as the luck vs skill factor, theres obviously some form of skill in this event as the same core group of people continue to cash, lead # of cashes list, etc. Shorter limits/stacks does push the action but tight wad fold fest make for fairly boring poker anyway.

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Originally Posted by ThaddeusB

Poker is a game of skill. If SBR wants to be taken seriously by poker players (and they've stated they do), then they need to keep it that way by keeping a (somewhat) reasonable blind structure. If you want a game of luck, try the casino. Also, 600 points is worth $42, which is hardly "pennies."

Thaddeus

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Lol. This was precisely my point, people like you who think there highly skilled, playing an hour and half every single night for a chance at 42 dollars? :+clueless

If I was a skilled poker player, I sure as hell wouldn't be playing sbr. Neither would you. Don't kid yourself.

Another recommendation would be to combine the bonus poker points that need to be rolled over rather than only being able to use bonus points from one tourney winnings at a time. I would rather save up a few tourney winnings and be able to play my preferred ring game table, then win 75 points and really have no other choice but to try to roll it over at the 0.25/0.50 kiddie table.