Ok, I know at least a couple more people are planning to get WPT. That's great, as we need more players. Tonite, Jim and I figured out exactly how we'll have to handle playing the game together though.
It'd be nice to sit around with 6 of us at a time playing at once at the same table, but there are some negatives to that. There are two kinds of tables: open and sit-&-go. Open tables are just like what you'd find in a casino: you just take a seat and play with whatever bankroll is available to you. I suggest using a profile different from your sit-&-go profile (you can have 4 pofiles at any time), since it's in your best interest to retain your bankroll for your sit-&-go profile. Open tables are like custom games in Halo; more relaxed.
Then you have sit-&-go tournaments, which are more akin to Halo matchmaking. Let's say you have a brand new profile. You start with a $1,000 bankroll, that you can either use raw in an open game, or use as buy-ins (entry fees) to tournament tables. Let's say you enter a $500 buy-in tournament game using half of your initial $1k bankroll. Up to 6 players are seated (who also paid the same entry fee you did), and you are all given $1,000 dollars in chips (these are not raw, "real" chips, just what you'll be using for this table). Everyone plays just like at an open table, except when you run out of money, you are out of the running. (Usually) the last 3 players to leave the table will "cash," in that they will earn money for placing well at the table, scaling down based upon how high you finished. Often times though, 3rd place still places outside the money, as they're reward is their initial buy-in minus the bullshit virtual rake to cover the overhead of the digital casino you're playing in.
Rake. In a video game. I'm still reeling from that crock of shit.
Now, back to my main point: the downside to
all of us sitting at one tourney table is that we're literally eating eachother's money. Invariably, someone will go broke in this situation and the others will profit. This makes it more difficult to keep playing together, as the broke players won't be able to afford the expensive buy-ins that the winning players are interested in.
So, if we're doing tourney tables, we sit 3 of us at a table. That way, there's an equal amount of people you know, and an equal amount of strangers whose money you can take without guilt. We can mix around the 3 at each table between completed tourney rounds. If you're just
ing around at the open tables together, you can just make a new account immediately if you go broke and jump right back in the game. Ok, I'm finished.