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Free web-based service for turning your home poker game into an enterprising partnership with your friends
This article explains the history, features and strategy behind pokerteambankroll.com
The idea was spawned as my friend and I were talking during a car
ride down to Atlantic City for a poker tournament over a year ago. He
said to me, “We should get everyone in our home game to pool our money
together so we can play in big tournaments like a World Poker Tour
(WPT) Championship and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event!”
That was all it took to get the wheels spinning.
The very next week I drafted up the concept on paper so all of the
home game players could get on the same page. I laid it out for
everyone. Our team goal was to put together enough money for one
$10,000 buyin to the WSOP Main Event for one of us, plus $1,000 for 1
Main Event Satellite buyin for a second player, plus $2,000 for travel,
food and lodging expenses for both. $13,000 in all.
In order to reach our goal, we were going to follow this plan…
Any profit made in our home game could be contributed to our team
bankroll in exchange for an equal number of points. I would collect the
money from each player and record an equal number of points on paper
(e.g. $82 profit contributed = 82 points recorded). I then put the
money in a savings account that I set up just for this. We did this
every week - and we still do. Anyway, every week, profits are
contributed and points are given. And it adds up quickly!
The idea is, when we reach our goal, whoever has the most points
will take $11,000 from the bankroll and use it to travel to Las Vegas
to play in in the World Series of Poker Main Event, poker’s most
prestigious tournament. Our team member with the 2nd most number of
points will take $2,000 from the bankroll, travel to Las Vegas and play
in a satellite tournament to try to win a seat in the Main Event. If
that player wins a seat, then the team will have 2 players in the Main
Event, thereby doubling our chances of cashing.
Here’s the best part, and you may have guessed it already, but, if
either player cashes any money in the Main Event, everyone who
contributed to the team bankroll will be paid out according to their
percentage of contributions. For example, if the point leader, who
contributed $3,500 in profits to the team bankroll, which is 27% of
$13,000, cashes $100,000 in the tournament, he or she wins $27,000. The
rest is paid out accordingly.
What this means is that everyone has a shot to win big money,
regardless of how much you contribute. Take this hypothetical example:
Player B has the least amount of points contributed (130), which
translates to a 1% share in the bankroll. If the point leader wins the
WSOP Main Event and cashes $10 million, player B wins $100,000. Not bad
for a $130 investment!
So here’s where the web site comes in. I got tired of recording
everything on paper, and so, being a webmaster, I decided that the best
way to keep track of all of our activity would be online. That way,
everything got recorded safe and sound, anyone on the team could easily
check their statistics at any time, and everyone would always know
where they stood with respect to the goal. We started recording and
tracking every single buyin, cashout and contribution for every weekly
home game on the website.
From there I starting adding features like a message board, photos,
avatars, event selection, goal management, team management, emailing
and more. It became so useful and so integral to our team that I
decided to put it out there for the entire world to use.
Now anyone can create a private team on pokerteambankroll.com
and use it to turn their home game into a big tournament team effort -
and transform their home game players into poker super stars – all for
free. Good luck!
Post by Matt.
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