Any interest in a Boards.ie $100 Superbowl Squares Pool?

Flipper · 28-01-2008 11:55am #1

I saw ADMO put one of these together (see here) and I thought it would be a cool idea. The Superbowl is on the 3rd of Febuary.

How a squares pool works:

"Football Squares Rules Within the grid, the top row of numbers represents the possible points scored of team one and the left column represents team two’s score. (The numbers are not placed in these squares until the players have added their names to the grid.)
All the players add their names to the other free squares within the grid. Depending on the number of players, some may choose more than one square. As soon as the players have filled in all of the squares, numbers from 0 to 9 are drawn blindly and filled in across the top row. This is repeated for the left column. When you’re done, you’ll have numbers from 0 to 9 in random order across the top row and down the left column, and names filled in all of the other squares.
The object of the game is to “choose” the score of the game by having your name in the square at the intersection of the final points of each team (as you draw an imaginary line down from team one’s score at the top and across from team two’s score). If there is a two-digit number, the second digit is used for the match. For example, if team one has 14 points and team two has 21, the person in the square at the intersection of #4 from the top row and #1 from the left column wins. You will have four winners by selecting the scores at the end of each quarter."

Cliff notes: A squares pool is neutral EV roulette with a good sweat. Nachos optional.

Here's the layout:

$100 was only a suggestion and we could do $50, $200... pretty much whatever anyone wanted. We could elect someone to act as escrow on FTP and Pokerstars. If we were to make it $100 per square, the payout would look like this:

1st Quarter: $2,000
Half: $3,000
3rd Quarter: $2,000
Final: $3,000

Maybe we would limit the maximum amount of squares to 4 per person to allow everyone to get involved. Time is pushing on so I would need a little help organising this but it could be fun. Let me know what you guys think and post how many squares you would take at $100 or if you think we should make it $50 per square.

RoundTower · 28-01-2008 1:02pm

sounds like fun, I'd be up for it for any reasonable amount. I don't think you'll get $10k in entries for this so better to make it less.

RoundTower · 28-01-2008 9:54pm

bump? doesnt look like much interest, what happened to all the degenerates?

Any interest in a Boards.ie $100 Superbowl Squares Pool?

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