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WCOAP 2014 Team Championship Discussion Thread
RILHO:
Hello to all...u may concerne..
For those who dont know me My name IS Bruno Rilho,and for the last 6 years i have been Portugals captain,My team will play this year.....and we have to say we dont like the changes you did......i play poker for quite a long time now and have to be honest we dont play much Omaha in Portugal,( live i mean).... But now PLO8 .....i had to google it because i never heard it......and i have played a lot of tournaments all Europe but mayby it just us...but i think the Team Events you had in past year where really great,why change something that not broken..if you want to change why not stud ...razz...five card draw........Next year i think you should put Chinese poker.....we quite really good at it........joking a side......We really desaprove of the changes PLO8 WHY?????????????
But any way.........just a thought ..........SEE u guys around the Felt......and for those who teams are good in this PLO 8 i guess and with no ofence must be good for Some teams......all the best.....we will just have to fold our hands and wait the somebody bustes before us hehehhehehehhehehhehhe..........GO go go.....
4KSuited:
--- Quote from: Vassago on January 31, 2014, 03:16:51 AM ---
Hello to all...u may concerne..
For those who dont know me My name IS Bruno Rilho,and for the last 6 years i have been Portugals captain,My team will play this year.....and we have to say we dont like the changes you did......i play poker for quite a long time now and have to be honest we dont play much Omaha in Portugal,( live i mean).... But now PLO8 .....i had to google it because i never heard it......and i have played a lot of tournaments all Europe but mayby it just us...but i think the Team Events you had in past year where really great,why change something that not broken..if you want to change why not stud ...razz...five card draw........Next year i think you should put Chinese poker.....we quite really good at it........joking a side......We really desaprove of the changes PLO8 WHY?????????????
But any way.........just a thought ..........SEE u guys around the Felt......and for those who teams are good in this PLO 8 i guess and with no ofence must be good for Some teams......all the best.....we will just have to fold our hands and wait the somebody bustes before us hehehhehehehhehehhehhe..........GO go go.....
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Bruno makes a reasonable point here. Des & Team, would you agree that it would be worth contacting the various non-UK-based international teams for some feedback on the PLO8? I"m sure everyone agrees that the attendence of teams like Portugal is one of the key ingredients that makes the WCOAP so special. There"s plenty of time to make adjustments to what is a small part of the overall schedule, and my own view (for what it"s worth) is that perhaps Razz or Stud should make up the extra variant for the poker purists rather than PLO8...
Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: 4KSuited on January 31, 2014, 11:50:19 AM ---
... perhaps Razz or Stud should make up the extra variant for the poker purists rather than PLO8...
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But then what"s the difference?....You"d just get teams saying we don"t have Razz/Stud players.
Either you have an all HE Team Champs (which would suck IMO) or you don"t. If you don"t...then whatever variants you chose you will always get some teams who won"t like some of the ones selected.
I think that HE, PLO & PLO8 are the top three most popular variants played (although I can"t back that up with numbers)...but it seems likely.
Personally, i think HU sucks but it"s just another "variant/option" and most seem happy with that.
AJDUK:
I"d argue that FLHE has much more sound reasoning to be included than PLO8, though I think that it would cause just as much upset. Stud would be a step too far (though I"d be delighted to see it). But the schedule is fixed now.
4KSuited:
It"s a truism that you"ll never please all the people all the time, but it"s worth optimising the number of people who are pleased....
IMO, and without really wanting to labour the point, the key people to please are those that are making the journey from overseas. After all, without them, it becomes the Home Championships. Isn"t it worth canvassing them and getting their view on which of the variants would be their preference? No-one would dispute that to make it exclusively NLH would be both wrong and dull, but the addition of PLO8 to a schedule that already includes PLO may not be the optimum option either.
If the schedule is set, then I guess this is the end of the discussion, but it will be a real shame if Bruno and his continental counterparts decide that the Comp is weighted against them and drop out in future years.
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