PL Players Club

[GotaFancy?]

PuntersLounge believes in YOU. PuntersLounge believes in its players.

We have therefore decided to start trialling the "PL Players Club". PuntersLounge will periodically offer to buy players into value added events, and split any profit 50/50 (profit, so stake is returned to PL Players Fund, then remainder is split 50/50). You therefore get to play an MTT risk free to your own bankroll, possibly at stakes higher than you would usually play.

How will we decide who to stake? Well we want skillful and consistent players, so we will use the BPP rankings at a set date - they're not perfect, but they're the best system we have

Of course, you may be happy to bankroll yourself into these games in which case you can of course politely decline the offer, and we will stake the player below you in the rankings.

We can offer flexibility on the tournament - whether it be host or date, but want to ensure that similar levels of added value are available. Final decisions will be made by the moderator who is managing the scheme (i.e. for the moment, me!)

PuntersLounge will start this fund off with a donation of £200 to get it going.

Just for completeness, if the fund is ever wound up with a surplus, then it will be distributed by proportion according to net (positive) contributions from a player.

e.g.
Player A made €300 profit
Player B made €100 profit
Player C lost €200

It is wound up with a surpluss of €200, 75% (€150) goes to player A, 25% (€50) goes to player B.

Our first investment will be to stake the BPP after the focus game on 31st March. We are looking to buy this player into the PokerTrillion €100+€9 MTT with €5,000 added.

Statements here:

Opening Balance (Gift from PuntersLounge to PL Players Club) £200


Edit Latest (Post 111)

The result of this added investment, and the games costing $100 instead of €100 is that we can put players in this event fortnightly

We have approx $300 now, so will be giving seats in this tournament to the BPP after the games on:

Wednesday 21st May
Wednesday 4th June
Wednesday 18th June

[jones12345]

sounds like a great idea,i doubt it will benefit me as i dont play many focus games but i aint complaining well done PL nice 1

[Burnley Joe]

Great idea

[glceud]

Brilliant Idea.

[the croc]

great idea though,nice 1 pl.

[ubermonkey1]

yeah blinding idea
with the amount of good players on here it may get a tidy return and could even be expanded to more players ,if the bankroll grows sufficiently

[teaulc]

what a cracking idea ..well up for this,i have a good track record playing for other people so i ever got the chance i know that would continue...

[eyesallin]

Great idea, well thoughtful.

I'll speak to my manager

http://eyesallin.blogspot.com/

[Fonzie14]

Fantastic idea, especially for us low stakes players. Mind you, on current form, don't think I'll be giving the mods any tough decisions just yet
However, it has got me off my arse and made me open a Pokerkings acct, so that I can try to earn some BPPs.
Well Done PL....

[The Quiet Man]

Another great idea and should make the race to be BPP even more interesting!

TQM

[Dodger]

What a fantastic offer, but also what pressure will the poor sod be under when he/she is playing for the forum.
Can see this being a successful venture.

[Tweetypie05]

Great idea... nice move by PL!

GL to those at the top pf the BPP...

.... from one of those at the bottom.

[Red_Fear]

Good idea, although perhaps any surplus profits could be set aside for a members freeroll at the end of the year.

It will be nice to cheer on our "Poker Pro" in the tourney anyway, but even nicer if he/she was playing for us aswell.

[oddsoxzmaz]

Lovely idea PL
I have seen this done before and been involved, I must admit its a great way for the lower stakes player to get involved in higher staked games that normally would be out of reach for them wether it be playing or investing..
Sure with some players perhaps the preasure of playing in a higher stakes game for the forum as a whole might be a big ask but at the end of the day poker is poker and all you can do is play to the best of your ability with whatever your dealt on the day ..

[philossify]

Great idea.

I will need to play more focus games and (hopefully) move up the table..... if I ever do qualify and play then I would be totally happy with sharing the proceeds and propagating the scheme into the future. An alternative way of describing it might be "Punters Lounge Online Poker Pimp Scheme" or PLOPPS (very similar to previous acronym) - brings a new meaning to Poker Whoring .

[SpurMan]

What a good idea (and not just cos I am doing well BPP wise at the mo!). An added incentive to play in the focus games, and should raise the skill levels of all involved. Top notch idea, and gives everyone a chance to cheer on the relevant poker pro as Red so eloquently put it.

[strider]

Another top offer from pl

Was thinking along the same lines uber instead of surplus for those that had already cashed could be put into the pool and maybe r/u could be entered the following month also

Originally Posted by ubermonkey1

yeah blinding idea
with the amount of good players on here it may get a tidy return and could even be expanded to more players ,if the bankroll grows sufficiently

[happyhornet]

Fantastic idea. I agree it may well make more people consistently play the Focus games.

[gazabroad]

Originally Posted by happyhornet

Fantastic idea. I agree it may well make more people consistently play the Focus games.

Ditto.

[RIVRD]

Fantastic idea

As a question, would you be taking ie the top 10 from the bpp chart ? or would it be better to run a seperate table along the one that you are already running so everyone is starting a fresh as such, so people can see how they are currently running as obviously some people are in form and some are out of form. So the ones that are finding a bit of form may be currently way down the present BPP chart and may not get picked.