Weekly tourneys dead?

The LP weekly tournaments were a very popular happening in the beginning of liquidpoker, 40-50 entrants for a single tournament were not an exception. The site has come a long way from then and now we have many times more visitors. You would expect the tournaments to be even bigger then, but lately we have trouble pulling in 10-15 players. Today was the worst failure ever with 3 players.

So my question is, why don't you play the weekly tournament?

normally cause im busy
today cause the last couple times i played there were only 10 players or so and its not fun enough then

I always forget. The news posts also seem to come a bit too late and they aren't really that noticeable sometimes.. maybe a different way of advertising it?

Sometimes I don't wake up in time, and I'm currently a bankroll nit =/
Maybe in the future?

I think the problem is the advertising. Ive been wanting to play in some of em, but i honestly don't even know the time they start, and i never bothered to look.

no money on stars atm.

not to mention that playing poker for fun over internet doesn't seem like fun at all.

Sadly 12 noon is a bit early for most poker players. At least in the us, what time is that in Europe like 7-8? + its such low stakes. Not many players here care about winning 150$ first prize. I know its supposed to be just for fun, but this is poker.

its obvious

[vital]myth doesn't do the weekly bulletin anymore

when he was an active newsposter, everyone was involved. since then, the main page news posting has been fairly lackluster. i don't even read it

i mean seriously corwin got everyone excited to do it

Well, since there are high stakes player, I guess there should be 5$ tourny for poor guys like me, and the high to med stakes one

i donate every week
fuick myt life

add $$ to prize pool :D


just dun have monies on ps for some time now

I think it has everything to do with the community size. When LP first started, everyone seemed to know each other, and had a good time berating each other and playing for pride in these weekly events. Now, I haven't even heard of half the players and never talked to 3/4 of the tourney entrants, making the pride factor pretty much non-existent, which I think was why the majority of the players showed up originally.

its at 8 oclock for us europeans btw (as asked earlier).. i think thats a good time, but if its 12 for the rest of you guys, i guess its a bit too early (lazy fucks).

and also, what JizzleSmitts said ^

On May 11 2008 15:53 JizzleSmitts wrote: I think it has everything to do with the community size. When LP first started, everyone seemed to know each other, and had a good time berating each other and playing for pride in these weekly events. Now, I haven't even heard of half the players and never talked to 3/4 of the tourney entrants, making the pride factor pretty much non-existent, which I think was why the majority of the players showed up originally.

I agree with that. If there was a tournament for people with say 2k+ posts on the site and a maybe a little bigger buyin ($40-50 or something, not something super big, just that there is at least some money in the pool), then I would prolly be more interested.

i dont play because I play to make money, which means avoiding LP players

On May 11 2008 16:52 Joe wrote: I agree with that. If there was a tournament for people with say 2k+ posts...

how would you police this?

Dunno, its a technical thing, for example by auto sending password only to those people...

wrong timezone for me

i wanna flip ><

dunno

usually I just forget

It's cause we're lazy man. Who wakes up before noon on sunday!?!?

speaking for myself when i used to play on stars i played it sometimes, now i rather open up my regular cash tables at another network and not mess with pokerstars

On May 11 2008 14:05 Liquid`Meat wrote: The LP weekly tournaments were a very popular happening in the beginning of liquidpoker, 40-50 entrants for a single tournament were not an exception. The site has come a long way from then and now we have many times more visitors. You would expect the tournaments to be even bigger then, but lately we have trouble pulling in 10-15 players. Today was the worst failure ever with 3 players. So my question is, why don't you play the weekly tournament?

cuz u touch urself at night

Rolls on FTP now =

i like Joe's idea

If it's an issue of stakes

Have a mailing list for a couple stakes. Whenever it's deemed appropriate, autosend a pm for whoever signed up the password for the tourney. Whoever wants to play in the tourney's could sign up to be a part of the mailing list. Leave a banner on the front page to have people sign up for it, publicize the sign up list for a few weeks or so until max attention is reached. Low, med, and high stakes.

Low stakes could start earlier, high stakes could start later. I say this because your more serious high stakes people wake up later (U.S.) and go to bed later (Europe).

Perhaps with the use of PM's, people would no longer forget and play them on a more regular basis, and it being a mailing list type of deal and same stake people playing together, more of a bond could be achieved, thus popularity would perhaps rise.

Thank you for reading.

some of the lpers who used to play became millionaires...

i think the spontaneous 6max cash games at 200-600nl were a lot of fun though. Usually had like 5 guys playing 40vpip and the random LP nit playing only AA.

Playing it sometimes, but i'm now trying to grind micro stakes, and that 10$ is like 1 buy in for me, which is most of the time total waste.
I don't always have the time tho, with summer coming i'll be playing less poker in the afternoon.
I liked that tourney cuz i tought it was fun to play against LP'ers, and wasnt really paying attention to my roll since i was only playing for fun.
For right now i prefer to improve my game at 6max and to grind those micro stakes

the tournies are at 5am monday morning my time -_- thats why i dont.

increase the buyin just a little? make it worth while.. like, if you win now, you score $100 or something. that's not much to a lot of people here.
requiring 2k posts to play is stupid, a lot of ppl including myself are still regulars but dont post enough one-liners in hand histories and other threads to have racked up 2k posts yet, doesn't mean we shouldnt be able to play

excluding people who don't have a lot of posts is bad i think.
yesterday was mothers day...

Of course it may not be 2k posts plus, it may be 800 posts plus or it may be filtered by date of registration at LP.net, etc.

cause it doesnt seem worth it to play them anymore cause the field is very small and i would rather focus more in the sunday warmup or any other important tourney at that point , and yeah, perhaps increasing the buyin would be good, according to the last poll of 'what stakes do you normally play?", most of the people play low stakes (NL50+) so it shouldn't be a problem.

For me, im usually playing sunday tournaments, and i found LP ones were distracting me from the ones that matter. I was paying more attention to some random $10 tournament and chatting to ppl, and totally ignoring the 215s i was playing at the same time.

Also, the buyin is pretty small so its fairly meaningless, but even if you made it bigger i doubt id care that much since it would just be a 100/215 sng with a tougher field than a normal sng, and im not all that bothered to play just for the sake of playing with LP people. (altho if ket agreed to play every week, with such dead money i might have to)

I dunno what else you can other than make weekly reports like you used to, and maybe have some kind of league/scoring system (like you already have) but it actually means something - either everyone throws is $x and makes a cash prize for the most points at the end of each 'season', or give away LP related prizes (other than coaching/custom icons i cant think of anything really)

1. Increase the buy-in to $50.
2. Change the day to Saturday.
3. ????
4. And they lived happily ever after.

if the winner would get a lp.net t-shirt i would play

800 posts? I better start getting busy spamming General - and do less post editing to add content and more new post creating. But yah - I wake up on Sunday and always ask BigRed - "am I too late for the LP tourneys" and always am - but if they're starting at 12 noon I never had a chance anyway.

stakes are too high for me =[

On May 12 2008 10:16 TwistedEcho wrote: or give away LP related prizes (other than coaching/custom icons i cant think of anything really)

tshits, so obvious^^

anyways, im always forgetting it. back in the time i wanted to play in one of em, but then my roll was too small.
time for me's good though

A new way to advertise it is needed, no suggestion as to how

I remember when it was very popular too and held some sort of recognition to winning it and had a big announcement from corwin, I would say "hey one day I will play that once I put money on PS and pwn those newbs". I have money on PS now and have no real ambition to play it anymore.

I agree with strato and twisted as the weekly tourneys do distract you from the important mtt's you are playing, so moving them to Saturday would not be a bad idea unless it conflicts with the schedulers of the weekly tourneys.

i think we should run 4 hu tournaments instead

the time and buyin suck big time.

dunno how many posts i have so not sure if i like joes idea yet

and my money is on ftp. it turns out if i have any money on stars at all, i treat it like play money and shorstack omaha with it.

I don't like tournaments. You can't just quit when you feel like it :/.

Other than that the weekly LP tournament is a waste of time because of the buyin and the fact that a bunch of unknown peeps are playing them now.

imo

have like 4 flipaments on sunday and have a ladder and shit for it

seriously.

On May 11 2008 14:48 Day[9] wrote: its obvious [vital]myth doesn't do the weekly bulletin anymore when he was an active newsposter, everyone was involved. since then, the main page news posting has been fairly lackluster. i don't even read it

^^ This is huge.

Yesterday was Mothers Day, too.

which tournaments?

i used to play them but they look more like a sng so its -ev imo

buy in is too low to make it interesting, also advertise more and give some fun extra prices for top finishers

starcraft clan wars at same time

id personally be much more likely to play them if they were on ANY OTHER DAY than a saturday or sunday.. those are the best two days to be playing real poker.

i dont know how many people would have trouble making it if they were at the same time (15:00 ET) on like a monday or tuesday (jobs/school anyone?), but if it got popular on weekdays at those euro-friendly times id def start playing them every time i can and encouraging my friends to do the same.

is this going to come back? i was always looking forward to playing in these tours since i started playing poker but you guys stopped hosting them and it seems so fun

On May 12 2008 23:35 Baal wrote: the time sucks.

agreed - wise words dr.baal

I think something like monday evening would be awesome since it's the worst day of the week to do anything

Hey Meat, I can take Myths old job and try to make the news bulletin for each tourney on Sunday.

just a few thoughts:

prizes for top 3 of ladder in a 8 week season ie lessons and lp stuff as prizes.... also some kind of 'bounty' for knocking out the previous winner or some designated high stakes / 'gosu' player... extra $ added to prize pool that builds and can only be won should you win two weeks in a row.

edit: interview or something of the winner to go in write up of tourny

On June 30 2008 10:48 Subaru wrote: Hey Meat, I can take Myths old job and try to make the news bulletin for each tourney on Sunday.

<3

the guys who used to play it and relish in taking victory have moved on to bigger things like final tabling sunday millions or winning wpt and bracelet events. it's prolly hard to get those guys to come back down to a 10 buck buyin after becoming big shots. but i did like some of CCMoz's suggestions about different prizes maybe, bounties, etc.

a hu league would be really fun aswell

my bankroll is too small T_T

weekly tourneys are dead meat