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Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!)
It's a very decent charity Graham! i'll sponsor you for £20.
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Latest standings below: £4,376 raised so far! Thanks for all the support!
Well it's December and that means we are into the last month of the TLB Charity challenge! It's all to play for in both the "TLB" and the "Tournament Wins" comps.
We finished with a total of 18 competitors, each donating £50 to the charity prize pool. The pay outs for the Primary Tournament Leader Board competition will be split between the top 4 charities:
First: 40%
Second: 30%
Third: 20%
Fourth: 10%.
In addition to the £50 per competitor, money sponsored that is pledged for the prize pool will go into this prize pool only (ie. not the "Tournament Wins" prize pool.) Also any other monies raised (UKPC initiative for example), will also be allocated to this prize pool unless specified otherwise.
The winner of the Tournament Leader Board challenge (most profit made from scheduled tournaments in 2015) will receive a cup. The name of this cup will be "The Tim Carter TLB Cup"
Moving on to the Secondary competition.
This is a "Tournament Wins" competition, and points are awarded to players who win a major tournament. The points allocation is as follows:
Main Event Win: 10pts
Mini Event Win: 7pts
£55BH Win: 2pts (including £55 Speed BH)
For UKOPS the same point system applies. For clarification, any £55 UKOPS BH side events, will also be worth 2 points, although £55 side events, that are not Bounty Hunters carry no points.
In the event of a tie on points, the person who won the most Main Events will win, if this is tied then it goes to the person who has won the most Mini's. If everything is tied then the prize money is split equally.
For each event won, the competitor donates £10, that goes to a prize pool specifically for this competition.
This prize pool will be split between the charities of the top 4 point scorers, as follows: (same split as TLB)
First: 40%
Second: 30%
Third: 20%
Fourth: 10%.
The winner of this "side" competition will receive a shield. The name of this shield will be "The Tournament Wins Charity Shield". Also if you don't play enough to be involved in the leader board, why not sponsor one of us for an amount of your choice. There are a number of ways you can sponsor us. It can go to a specific charity or be added to the prize pool fund, the choice is yours.
Registration for competitors is now closed, however we hope that sponsorship will continue throughout the year. Thanks everyone for all the support received.
Good luck at the tables!
Graham (StayOrGo)
Please find updated spreadsheets below:
Thanks Joesman!
This way, all charities will benefit, but the winner's one more so. What do you think? Also, can I suggest, that whoever wins out of us, also donates the £50 to our own charity (I'm sure we would have anyway)
Also, would/could Sky match any donations? (I will be paying plenty of extra rake to put in the volume to try and win, plus others probably will too :=))
I've got to practice multi-tabling, currently, two is my max on Sky! :=) Going to try and get it to 4!
All the best, and Happy New Year!
Cheers Graham!
Or perhaps a better way would be to post the links of the charities to the Forum and people can each make the donation themselves via a web link.
We have a year to figure it out anyway. Thanks again! Happy New Year!
Graham
My chosen charity is Centerpoint.
Best of luck all.
I reckon you lot could be worth doing £50 every month though...! hehe
:P
GL!
Cheers Graham
So glad things worked out for you and it's great that you give a bit back to those that helped you!
I wish you all the best for 2015 mate. I know you may not be able to put in the volume, but I'm sure you'll get a great ROI% for the tourney's you do enter, so still a good chance that you could take it down I reckon!
Obviously it would be great if Sky could support this, but I understand logistics can be difficult.
Happy New Year!
Graham
When someone sponsors a player, they can have four choices of where their donation goes.
1) The winner's charity.
2) The charity of the person they are sponsoring.
3) Split 50/50 between winners and person they are sponsoring's charity.
4) Split between all the charities of the players involved.
People who sponsor, still specify who they think will win, in the hope that a free roll tournament can be created for those who successfully pick the winning player.
Many thanks for all your support, and thanks Dad for this suggestion!
Graham
If anyone knows how to contact any of this years leading contenders, please give them a nudge, it would be great to get them involved.
Cheers, Graham
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The Bromleys are both willing and very enthusiastic volunteers to enter the Prop Bet Challenge as competitors. Hopefully our participation will bring not only competition to the overall leaderboard (we are coming after you Bates!), but also some healthy in-house competition between us! Those who know us know how much we like to go after each other!
Details are:
Natalie (Bromley023)
British Heart Foundation
https://www.bhf.org.uk/
Adam (Bromley04)
RSPCA
http://www.rspca.org.uk/home
See you at the felt!!
Bromleys (generic)
Hope you both have a great year!
Thanks again for supporting this, the level of support has been quite overwhelming!
Please spread the word to your poker friends to sponsor you!
All the best, Graham.
Hi Graham,
Sorry I never read this, & replied, sooner.
Put me down for £50, please.
Have not decided "how" to donate yet, or to what Charity, but I'm deffo going to contribute £50.
Good luck all.
After just two days of starting this more than £500 has been pledged!
So far we have 7 "Competitors", listed below:
COMPETITOR CHARITY
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Graham Carter (StayOrGo) Salvation Army
Matt Bates (Matt Bates) TBD
Ryan Spittles (Scotty77) Nuffield Orhopedic Centre
TommyD (TommyD) Centrepont
Ben Nuttall (Nutter5932) TBD
Natalie Bromley (Bromley023) British Heart Foundation
Adam Bromley (Bromley04) RSPCA
Players can "register" themselves as competitors until the end of January, the split of the "Competitor" prize pool, currently £350, we be allocated to the competitors that make the most money through their tournament play.
At the moment with 7 runners, and potentially more to come, I am thinking of a 50%/30%/20% split between 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. This could be "broadened" to include a 4th place if /> 10 runners by the end of January.
I appreciate that things are a bit "fluid" at the moment, however I do want to give potential "competitors" time to come forward.
At the end of January the prize pool distribution will be finalised and no more "competitors" can come on board.
So, on to the "Sponsors".
"Sponsors", are people who are not in the competition as a "competitor", but sponsor a particular "competitor" to win. They have 4 choices as to what happens with their donation (as people are altruistically donating, I feel it right to give them as much control as to where their money ends up as possible).
The four choices are:
1) Their donation goes to the various 1st/2nd/3rd place winners charities, split 50%/30%/20% as per the "competitors" prize pool.
2) The full donation goes to the charity of the person they are sponsoring.
3) Their donation is split 50/50 between, the winners charities and the charity of the person they are sponsoring.
4) Their donation is split between the charities of all the "competitors" involved
So far in addition to the £350 pledged by the "competitors" an additional £165 has been pledged by "sponsors", so a sincere thank you to all those involved so far. It is my intention to allow sponsors to pick "their competitor" until the end of June 2015.
Please can I now ask for people to spread the word about this, so we can get more "competitors" and "sponsors" on board.
Also, can all "competitors" rally their friends to sponsor them.
Thanks again for all the support I've had with this, it's quite overwhelming. If some form of prize could be offered to sponsors correctly picking the winning player, that would provide a great incentive for people to become sponsors, and I'm sure it would help us raise more money for these worthy causes.
Thanks again for all the support! All the best in 2015!
Graham
£50 to my Dad's charity! The Salvation Army.
GL all!
P.S. Matt Bates, try not to beat him by too much! :=)
COMPETITORS, please add your charity, if you haven't already done so. PLEASE get as many friends to sponsor you via this thread as you can. So TWEET IT, FACEBOOK IT, EMAIL IT, PHONE IT, WHATEVER YOU CAN DO TO GET SPONSORSHIP.
We are hoping to have £2,000 pledged by the end of January, and maybe get to £3,000 as more "Sponsors" get involved! BUT we can only do that with the support of friends and family of the Competitors, plus of course the wonderful Sky community who already have been so generous! So far we have been pledged a total of £565.00
Copy of Sponsor spreadsheet below: