Sloe Times
A journal of my adventures in learning and growing personally and professionallyFriday, December 10, 2004
Poker: Open Internet Challenge
After watching(reading?) Chris's account of participating in the OIC3 at The Gaming Club a couple of things occurred to me. The first is that the challenge is pretty interesting from the stand point that assuming you play well enough to go from the bottom to the top you're going to encounter just about every type of player there is. Then a second thought occurred to me. Yes, yes you are playing different levels and lots of different opponents, wouldn't it be nice to super-compile all of that data from each person into poker tracker?
So now I'm fully off on a tangent and am wondering if it would be feasible to coordinate a blogger version of this and have a three-fold purpose. First, a nice friendly challenge among bloggers to demonstrate skill and fill time between blogger tournaments. Second, as part of the challenge have each participant contribute their hand histories both as the tracking mechanism for progress but ultimately a nice opponent DB to be shared with the community. Third, some prize(s) for the winner(s). I'm thinking a seat at the next blogger tourney, a book (cert to amazon to pick up your desired poker tome), or something along those lines. The trick about that third part is paying for it. I've no idea how to find sponsors and convince them to fund ventures like this. However, if the opponent database would be considered worth something, perhaps there could be a modest "entry fee" that would grant the participant license to use the compiled data from the event and whomever coordinated it all would then use the entry fees to pay for the prizes.
Obviously I'm getting psyched about playing again in Jan. and a nice little recurring challenge like this seems like a good way to keep the skills sharp against a wide variety of opponents as well as a good way to put some real analysis into finding the leaks in my game since in theory it's a doable task and trying to figure out why I can't (if that's the case) will probably be very beneficial.
So now I'm fully off on a tangent and am wondering if it would be feasible to coordinate a blogger version of this and have a three-fold purpose. First, a nice friendly challenge among bloggers to demonstrate skill and fill time between blogger tournaments. Second, as part of the challenge have each participant contribute their hand histories both as the tracking mechanism for progress but ultimately a nice opponent DB to be shared with the community. Third, some prize(s) for the winner(s). I'm thinking a seat at the next blogger tourney, a book (cert to amazon to pick up your desired poker tome), or something along those lines. The trick about that third part is paying for it. I've no idea how to find sponsors and convince them to fund ventures like this. However, if the opponent database would be considered worth something, perhaps there could be a modest "entry fee" that would grant the participant license to use the compiled data from the event and whomever coordinated it all would then use the entry fees to pay for the prizes.
Obviously I'm getting psyched about playing again in Jan. and a nice little recurring challenge like this seems like a good way to keep the skills sharp against a wide variety of opponents as well as a good way to put some real analysis into finding the leaks in my game since in theory it's a doable task and trying to figure out why I can't (if that's the case) will probably be very beneficial.
posted by Andres Silva # 12/10/2004 08:26:00 AM 
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