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Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!)

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  • Phantom66Phantom66 Member Posts: 5,542
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    I'll give number 12 a text.
    Posted by hhyftrftdr
    While you are at it can you remind him about the 220 at 220?
  • Phantom66Phantom66 Member Posts: 5,542
    edited December 2014
    PS I will sponsor someone. Just waiting for full declarations as I'll do it based on charity choice rather than win expectations.
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    Be fun... I'll not enter, but instead just match the winners £50 for their chosen charity. Gl all
    Posted by joesman1
    Just saw your win in UKOPS on the Sky Poker Channel (Replay). Congratulations mate! Great stuff!
  • Bromley023Bromley023 Member Posts: 274
    edited December 2014
    Evening all

    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)

  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    Evening all 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)
    Posted by Bromley023
    GREAT! Really glad you guys are in it! Looking forward to what is clearly going to be a very competitive challenge in 2015!

    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.
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    A friend of mine, Shirley Cole has sponsored me for £20 (To go to The Salvation Army Charity). She doesn't have a Sky ID, so posting this for her! Many thanks Shirley! Happy 2015!
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,626
    edited January 2015

    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.
     
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    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.  
    Posted by Tikay10
    Thanks TK, that's great! A brief summary of where we are at is below:

    After just two days of starting this more than £500 has been pledged!

    So far we have 7 "Competitors", listed below:

        COMPETITOR                            CHARITY
         ========                           ======

    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
  • Limp2LoseLimp2Lose Member Posts: 7
    edited January 2015
    I think Matt Bates is going to win! But as StayOrGo is my Dad, I'd better sponsor him! :=)

    £50 to my Dad's charity! The Salvation Army.

    GL all!

    P.S. Matt Bates, try not to beat him by too much! :=)
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    Hi guys, I have created a spreadsheet of Sponsor donation/selections that have been posted. I will keep this up to date. The "competitor" aspect is easy to keep track of as it is £50 per person (Currently £350) and will be divided 50%/30%/20$ for the top three finishers.

    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:

     
    DATESPONSOR NAME (IF KNOWN)SKY ALIASDONATION AMOUNTCOMPETITOR CHOICECHARITYDONATION FORMAT
    30/12/2014LARSON7LARSON7£20.00GRAHAMSALVATION ARMYSPECIFIC CHARITY
    30/12/2014Joesman1Joesman1£50.00NO SELECTIONWINNERS (50%/30%/20%)WINNERS (1,2,3)
    30/12/2014OmmOmm£25.00NO SELECTIONWINNERS (50%/30%/20%)WINNERS (1,2,3)
    01/01/2015Shirley ColeN/A£20.00GRAHAMSALVATION ARMYSPECIFIC CHARITY
    01/01/2015TikayTikay10£50.00TBDTBDTBD
    01/01/2015Gary CarterLimp2Lose£50.00GRAHAMSALVATION ARMYSPECIFIC CHARITY















    TOTAL SPONSORED TO DATE
    £215.00



    TOTAL COMPETITOR PLEDGES
    £350.00










    CUMMULATIVE TOTAL
    £565.00


  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited January 2015

    I'm not really sure how this works, but I'd like to 'sponsor' Bromley (m) as he is playing for my favourite charity. 

    In for the full £50. 

    GL all. 
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    I'm not really sure how this works, but I'd like to 'sponsor' Bromley (m) as he is playing for my favourite charity.  In for the full £50.  GL all. 
    Posted by DOHHHHHHH
    Great thanks Doh!
     
    Really appreciate it, I'm sure Adam does too! That's £50 to the RSPCA regardless of the result. I will update the spreadsheet accordingly. I will post the updated spreadsheet again, just before the live show on Sunday!
     
    Thanks again, have a great 2015! We are hoping Sky will provide some sort of a prize for those that sponsor the winning player. So if Adam won, you would qualify for that prize. Hopes this makes sense. It's still a bit fluid until we finalise details. 

    All the best!

    Graham
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    TOMMY TOPS THE LEADERBOARD!

    If ever I underestimated the challenge ahead, I only have to look at day1 of 2015 to see how good these guys are!

    I was knocked out of the £55 Speed B/H by nemesis Matt Bates and to top it all TommyD finished 2nd in the first Main Event of 2015!

    Outstanding Tommy!

    The gauntlet has been laid!

    Best not to talk about my results! :=(
  • Nutter5932Nutter5932 Member Posts: 349
    edited January 2015
    Hi,

    Nice thread happy to be involved and Tommy has got off to a flier ! 

    My charity will be cancer research uk purely because that awful disease has directly affected my family on multiple occasions and I'm sure many on this forum. 

    All good causes regardless and happy to help anyone of them should I lose ! 

  • SoLackSoLack Member Posts: 2,737
    edited January 2015
    I'll join the prop bet now that the Bromleys's have softened rhe field ;)

    Paul Garner - My charity is St. Nichael's Hospice.  It is a local charity to me which provides care for people with life-limiting illnesses.

    http://www.stmichaelshospice.org.uk/?gclid=CPCc5MS09cICFW3MtAodFUgAAQ
  • gandy83gandy83 Member Posts: 28
    edited January 2015
    I will not be in, as im going travelling for 3 months this year, but I will donate 50 to each of the top 3 charitys.
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    I will not be in, as im going travelling for 3 months this year, but I will donate 50 to each of the top 3 charitys.
    Posted by gandy83
    That's very generous of you Gandy! Just for clarification is that £150 total (£50 to each of top 3) or £50 split between top three.

    Thanks again, GL at the tables, and enjoy your travels!

    All the best

    Graham
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    Hi, Nice thread happy to be involved and Tommy has got off to a flier !  My charity will be cancer research uk purely because that awful disease has directly affected my family on multiple occasions and I'm sure many on this forum.  All good causes regardless and happy to help anyone of them should I lose ! 
    Posted by Nutter5932
    Great charity Ben! Glad to have you on board mate!

    All the best!

    Graham
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    I'll join the prop bet now that the Bromleys's have softened rhe field ;) Paul Garner - My charity is St. Nichael's Hospice.  It is a local charity to me which provides care for people with life-limiting illnesses. http://www.stmichaelshospice.org.uk/?gclid=CPCc5MS09cICFW3MtAodFUgAAQ
    Posted by SoLack
    Great stuff Solack! Have a great 2015. So glad you joined the challenge!

    All the best,

    Graham
  • gandy83gandy83 Member Posts: 28
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!):
    In Response to Re: Tournament Leader Board 2015 (Charity Prop Bet, Get Involved!) : That's very generous of you Gandy! Just for clarification is that £150 total (£50 to each of top 3) or £50 split between top three. Thanks again, GL at the tables, and enjoy your travels! All the best Graham
    Posted by StayOrGo
    150 total - 50 to top 30 each
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