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El Stuntman

it's that time of year isn't it?

The tournament works as follows:

1. The game is poker (duh) - any variant that the two players in each match can agree between themselves. Presumably NLHE will be the variant of choice but you can go ahead and play Southern Cross with wild 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s for all I care.
You can play at any online site (or live) for any stakes (play money if you like) that are mutually acceptable.
Please note that this tournament is primarily for fun and bragging rights and should be entered into in that spirit.

2. Each match is best of three. This should hopefully reduce the luck factor and ensure that the best player wins.

3. It is up 100% up to the two players in each match to arrange and complete their match before the deadline for each round to complete.
If one player in the pairing cannot play before the deadline (and the other player has made reasonable efforts to contact him/her and arrange the match), then he/she forfeits.
Plead all hardship cases (holidays/imprisonment etc) to the tournament organisers.

4. Matches can be played live or online. Again, it's at the discretion of the two players in each match. Hopefully, last year's format of live semis and finals in a casino will be repeated.

5. It's an FA Cup style draw. Each round must be completed by a certain date. Once that date is reached, the full list of winners will be drawn again to determine the next round of matches etc and so forth....
If we do not get a suitable number of contestants, then a preliminary round will be required to get us down to an appropriate number (like 128 or 64 or whatever).

6. Tournament organiser's rulings are final and irrevocable (unless you feel the need to bribe me with a house or anything Mr PT...)

There will be a prize befitting the enormity of the competition, however the true prize will surely be being able to brag of your achievement for one whole calendar year

so far we have these pretenders to rag2gar's crown of last year: get your name down, list closes at midnight on Monday 14th May.

As soon as the full list of contestants is in, the draw for the first round (and/or preliminary round if required) will be made.

1. El Stuntman
2. shoutman
3. the 35th best player in Ireland (Big City Banker)
4. Ste05
5. phantom lord
6. Killme00
7. Mellor
8. Hi Cloy
9. bops
10. 5starpool
11. Trippie
12. delanec8
13. Mr Plough
14. Hammertime
15. ditpoker
16. Tar Aldarion
17. sikes
18. Lucky Lloyd
19. karlh
20. Glowingmind
21. dingle
22. bohsman
23. Solksjaer
24. Shortstack
25. Flipper
26. Silver-Tiger
27. Imposter
28. Bottom Feeder
29. Sparky1808
30. CoolBoardr
31. leaba
32. ozpoker
33. Gholimoli
34. Norwich Fan Rob
35. Shuffles
36. semibluff
37. metafora
38. jonner
39. jacQues
40. mickste
41. digiman
42. jackyback
43. mdwexford
44. bubbleking
45. MisterMonkey
46. boba fett3039
47. redzerdrog
48. [nicK]
49. Hawk Eye
50. Spiritus
51. Big Dragon
52. Lex
53. DubTony
54. RasTa
55. Lazare
56. Jools Poker
57. The Rigger
58. hooooooooot
59. Marq
60. aidankk
61. nicnicnic
62. Richie Lawlor
63. max power
64. joe
65. shaydy
66. Bandana Boy
67. Rnger
68. White Knight
69. dvdfan
70. pppspecial
71. sendic
72. Chucky the tree
73. stevire
74. The Chopper
75. shrapnel222
76. Ollieboy
77. david-k
78. fl&sh
79. THEIRISHMOB
80. BrandonBlock
81. Iago
82. opr
83. DeVore
84. Wisesmurf
85. JP Poker
86. Hectorjelly
87. Cardshark202
88. ullu
89. musician
90. jd
91. luckylucky
92. eoghan104
93. 58o
94. Hyzepher
95. JAMM222
96. pwhite587
97. Eggie
98. WH BONNEY
99. jbravado
100. baker1
101. Lissavalley
102. Broken Arrows
103. dK1NG
104. JustMac
105. Primewise
106. tipp86
107. Flushdraw
108. DITTag
109. Iceman78
110. SIDESHOW BOBs
111. carlop
112. smurph
113. rx8
114. fabsoul
115. Tipperarymike
116. rag2gar (with a bounty of a bottle of Captain Morgan's on his head as defending champ)
117. thewools
118. kraken1800
119. MickL
120. Dub13
121. cooker3
122. Legend DIT
123. imalegend
124. Brayruit
125. $hifty
126. Vamos
127. rounders123 (bounty on his head of a copy of SuperSytem. why? no special reason...)
128. Halfbaked
129. dougee19
130. Macspower
131. Samba
132. robinlacey
133. Cuban Son
134. PokerPissTaker
135. BrendanB
136. StraddleFor6
137. jprender
138. Katooey
139. samspuds
140. ollyk1
141. dannydiamond
142. The Istanbul
143. ZZR1100
144. EARMUFFS
145. BarrierReef
146. boogey man
147. Felix Ridgardo
148. lafortezza
149. Rickyroma
150. ocallagh
151. Desmundo 'Doc' Farrell
152. Nagran
153. jovirna
154. ianmc38

(serious LOL at all the lurkers emerging from the shadows)

shoutman

I'm in, unfortunately I had a last minute substitution fill in my place at round one last year.

BigCityBanker

il play in this. who normally organises it? Oh right, it appears to be El Stuntman. gg.

Ste05

Yep, seems as though Stuntman has stepped forward for the honour this year... I'll play too.

Gl El Stuntman

phantom_lord

I;m in too. hopefully I'll go further than last year..

Killme00

I would like to play this

Mellor

Im in too, missed last years

HiCloy

I'm in

bops

put me down (not in the vets kinda way)

i'm guessing this is online??

5starpool

As long as I don't play my first (only) match against Rob Taylor this year I'll be happy to play.

Trippie

im up for this aswell, had to give a bye to davey devil last year as i couldnt play

shoutman

Last year I (was due to) play it live BOPS, but I think it is up to yourself and your opponent to schedule where/when. Its more fun playing heads up live anyway... most of us dont get the chance to do so too often.

delanec8

Me too please

Legend_DIT

I'll play but all my matches will pretty much have to be live..

2 separate Heads up tournaments - a live one and an online one??

Flushdraw

I'm up for this. I was only a lurker when last years event was running

BigCityBanker

lol, and there i was looking for my name in your edited list.........

wp, nh, gg.

El Stuntman

Legend_DIT wrote:

I'll play but all my matches will pretty much have to be live..

2 separate Heads up tournaments - a live one and an online one??

if you can persuade your opponent to play live, then it's all good

Mr.Plough

im in.



tis on like donkey kong

Bandara

I'm in

ditpoker

giggidy giggidy!! (im in)

Tar.Aldarion

I'll play depending on site and price.

sikes

Inskie

LuckyLloyd

This post has been deleted.

Ste05

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I'll play depending on site and price.

It's usually decided between the 2 people drawn together, it's more for bragging rights and fame than for the money, most of my matches last year were $5 and $10 HU STT's so any amount of money can be used and played for.

El Stuntman

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I'll play depending on site and price.

agree live/online, site, price, date etc with your opponent, it's up to you - you can play for play money if you like

the only stipulation will be that each round must finish by a certain date, at which point we move onto the next round.

and all matches are Unlimited Texas Hold them

karlh

in

sikes

El Stuntman wrote:

and all matches are Unlimited Texas Hold them

can this be changed if both parties agree?

Tar.Aldarion

Ah k, I'll try to organise it so I can play. Thanks for the info ste and el.
Live would be nicer, but online handier..

El Stuntman

sikes wrote:

can this be changed if both parties agree?

sure, not that it matters to you as you'll be out in the first round

Glowingmind

Throw me in there.

Ste05

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Ah k, I'll try to organise it so I can play. Thanks for the info ste.

NP, this is El Stuntman's baby now so I'm butting out from here on. Gogogogo El Stuntman!!

BCOOP 2007 to organise when you finish up here...

Legend_DIT

Legend_DIT wrote:

I'll play but all my matches will pretty much have to be live..

QUOTE]

Just to clarify, I'm in.

dingle

Count me in please

bohsman

Im in.

Flushdraw

Can we make the first round a groups phase where we're divided into groups of 4 and the top 1 or 2 go through? I think you will easily get 64 runners or so you can comfortably make 16 groups of 4 with 16 going through to the knockout stage as a best of 3?

It'd be pretty sick if i was drawn against a donk like this Emma chick on Ipoker. First level i raise with AA, he thinks "Hmm Flushdraw is at it" and raises it up with KJ, i repop and Jeff, sorry i mean Emma does the "i know that he knows that i know that he knows" thing and calls and cracks my Aces!

Would be a pretty sick way to go out in the 1st round......hypothetically

Solksjaer

David #78 signing in.

Shortstack

In

Flipper

Yes please. never played last year

Silver-Tiger

In Please

Imposter

Count me in

bottom feeder

Wee Wee

Sparky1808

Count me in please.

CoolBoardr

add me too!

leaba

Count me in too please.

ozpoker

+1

Gholimoli

im in

Norwich Fan Rob

and me

Shuffles

love to play too, making debut.

semibluff

im in

metafora

In please

jonnner

me too please