Poker Night Schedule and Guide

Hello everyone,

If you read my previous post, you know that i am organizing shard-wide poker nights! We will be using the Pokerstars software to schedule and play these tournaments. In order for everything to run smoothly on our first poker night, everyone interested needs to download Pokerstars, create an account (no payment information needed), and join the UOR Poker Club on the software.

This event is hosted by CPU. We are wanting to contribute more to the community.

Once everyone does this, i will only need to schedule the tournament, collect buy-ins in UO, and pay the winners!

Below, i am including step-by-step instructions, WITH pictures. This should be very simple even for people that are not so savvy. If you are not familiar with poker software, i recommend utilizing the tutorial that the software provides.

UOR Poker Guide
http://imgur.com/a/QuPnh










Every time there is an upcoming poker tournament i will post the date, time, and other details here. This is what it will look like;

Poker Tournament July 4, 2055 8pm EST
Registrations begin 6pm EST
Find Poker Paymaster at Occlo bank
Texas Hold'Em
25k Buy-In (No Re-Buys)
3k starting chips
6 players per table
1st place 75%
2nd place 25%
3rd place wins buy-in back

Once you see a post like this, here is what you need to do;
Go to Occlo when registration begins
Speak with Poker Paymaster
Give her your buy-in as a check
Tell her your Pokerstars username
Log onto Pokerstars
Register for the tournament (instructions are above)
Win. Go to Occlo and receive winnings from Poker Paymaster

I am held responsible and accountable by UOR Staff for any integrity issues (this will not be an issue)

All players in the UOR Poker club are expected to abide by the same rules of conduct as we do here on UOR

I will not be liable for the loss of gold due to the following reasons;

Not attending the tournament after registering
Internet and power issues
Losing a tournament
Not understanding how to play Texas Hold'Em

I am also not responsible for players behavior outside of the UOR Poker Club

With that being said, i wish everyone the best of luck on the felt!

Anyone interested should download pokerstars, create an account, and join the UOR Poker Club

Poker Night Premiere Tournament Sunday Aug 14 9pm EST
Registrations begin 7pm EST
Find Poker Paymaster at Occlo bank
Texas Hold'Em
25k Buy-In (No Re-Buys)
3k starting chips
6 players per table
1st place 75%
2nd place 25%
3rd place wins buy-in back

Alright everyone here is our first poker night. Everyone interested please download Pokerstars, create an account, and join the UOR Poker Club. Instructions are in the link in the initial post.

In the future i will try to schedule tournaments a whole week in advance.

If there are any questions, please feel free to ask.

If we could get some replys for everyone that plans on attending the tournament that would be great. I know myself and some of CPU will be there.

Seems legit.

you gonna attend pez?

I am interested in this and will likely attend.

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Registrations will begin soon! everyone come buy-in with the Poker Paymaster. If you have not downloaded pokerstars and joined the club yet, you still have time!

if anyone has questions please speak with pokertime on IRC, or PM me on the forums

This was fun and a change of pace from the standard shard events! Good job on setting this up.

Poker Night Premiere Tournament Sunday Aug 14 9pm EST
RESULTS
Congratulations Jack White on winning the tournament!

1st Jack White won 187.5k gold
2nd Fuji Flu won 62.5k gold
3rd Pillionaire won 25k gold
4th Meradin
5th Pax Romain
6th Larloch
7th Shocker
8th Oneminusone
9th Erikonig
10th Zyler
11th Sir Dire

Thank you everyone for participating! I would like to know what everyone thought about the tournament and if there are any changes you would like to be made.

For the next tournament--- Does everyone like the last buy in amount of 25k or should we raise it? How was the payout system? Please voice any concerns or thoughts

Again, thank you everyone for participating, i had a lot of fun, and i hope you guys did as well. I look forward to the next tournament.

IMO - agree that the 10 minutes blinds made the game a bit long. Maybe with lesser buy in / pot - 5 minute blinds and if more money is ultimately at stake the 10 minute would work. The games were actually going pretty fast and people not taking long times to bet like you'd see in standard online poker games, so there is a lot of hands being played in that time frame.

good point pill. that makes sense. Especially when more money is at stake, i can make the blinds longer. it did start getting a little crazy

i would just need to make sure that the time spent on poker yields greater rewards than going and farming for 2 hours

I had fun, this is a worthwhile event. Please don't make the buy-ins too high though because I can only rob so many people.

Aye! Even tho I went out early, I had lots of fun. The 25k buy in seems like a good mark. I guess for some tourneys there could be a bigger buy in.

Poker Night Deep Stack Tournament Sunday Aug 21 9pm EST
Registrations begin 7pm EST
Find Poker Paymaster at Occlo bank
Texas Hold'Em
25k Buy-In (No Re-Buys)
10k starting chips
6 players per table
1st place 75%
2nd place 25%
3rd place wins buy-in back

This is a deep stack tournament. This means that we will be starting with over 3 times the amount of chips as last time. Everything else will be the same.

Lets have a vote. reply to this post stating whether you would like the buy in amount to stay the same, increase, or decrease. If the majority wants to change the buy in amount, i will make it happen.

Everyone please let me know that you plan on attending as soon as possible.

If anyone has questions please PM me on the forums, or speak with Pokertime on IRC.

Thank you, and i wish everyone the best of luck on the tables!

I plan to attend. I vote 25k is a good place from a cost and reward standpoint, although I would be willing to suffer a buy-in up to 50k if that is what it took to get more people to attend.

Wow looks like you had a nice turnout!

Not bad paddy, not bad! you should join us. I don't know how familiar you are with poker, but someone that's fairly new to poker won the last tournament.

not if I play! bwahaha. Maybe this is how I should start farming gold in UO... just messin around, hehe

Don't forget that the more folks that play, the more places that pay. I believe it was 6 man -2 paid, 9 man - 3 paid, 27 man - 4 paid...or course you can customize these however you want. It's been a while since I was a real money pokerstars god! my avatar even had a tiny chiuaua with a needle in it's mouth and demon red eyes growling

edit - don't forget to also let folks know if it's "limit" or "no-limit" (I always hated "limit" because folks stay in with shitty hands...you get more bad beats and can't bluff as good)

hey rick i hope you decide to join us on sunday! good point rick. we will more than likely always be doing no limit. I think that's probably more popular anyway. However, if everyone wants to do limit, we can do that as well.

Also, i do plan on changing the payouts based on how many players we have. i figured 3 places getting paid for 11 people was fine. what do you think rick?

anyway, please join us on sunday! all of the details are in this thread, however if you have any questions please ask away; here, through PM, or to Pokertime on IRC.

Thanks!