Getting the Pubcon Poker Date in Stone
I am still culling over the different dates and time for the tournament. We are getting lots of interest in the event, but I am still looking for more input in regards to what the contestants want in terms of date and time.
I am also trying to get a read on how late I can schedule it in the evening. I am guessing, that a poker tournament would last about 3 hours. Pubcon starts at around 8:00 each morning. Last year I was still deep asleep at 8:00 each morning.
This poker tournament should be very enlightening. As a group Search Engine Optimization guys tend to be very smart, very cunning, and good at carrying out strategies. It will be fun to see the treachery carried out at the poker tables by the guys who have a reputation for bluffing, redirecting, and generally being deceptive.
It is a group who often do not show their cards in life, as the second they do, someone else will snatch them and run down the street with them. They do this well though while sitting in front of a keyboard, but how will they do face to face?
I am still taking input as far as the date and time of the event. I am planning on setting the date by early next week. Because there is so much going on Tuesday and Wednesday, and due to the fact that no one has to get up early on Friday except to go drinking at the official Pub part of Pubcon, I might have the Post Poker Party on Thursday night.
I am still looking for someone who can provide me either with software I can run on this site, so entrants can practice online if they need to learn or a link to somewhere they can, and also a write up or a link to a write up on the rules of poker, in this case probably Texas holdem. The only requirement is that the link not be to an online paid poker site, or a site that links to them for obvious reasons.
I will keep you posted high rollers!
i agree that this tournament will be very interesting. successful poker players are usually grouped into two different categories…either extremely intelligent and very aware of their odds or extremely talented in reading the characteristics of people or the situation they are in. I feel that a lot of the people at PubCon have a great combination of both. this should make for a great night of poker and i’m excited to see how it plays out.
ReplySome of my poker playing friends love the facebook poker app, both for the free nature of it, as well as the fact that it is behind a screen, away from the other players. They can’t keep a solid poker face at all.
Face to face around a table would be interesting for people of those characteristics.
ReplyJust the description you presented though, reminds me of a WWI strategy game called Diplomacy.
The way you describe the SEO guys going head to head makes me think you could probably make a good film out of it. Kind of like the movie 21, but instead of mathletes, it could be SEO guys. This could be huge…
ReplyThe SEO guys referance is great. They sound like a mafia outfit…OMERTA “this thing of ours” the SEO underground. lol
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