Team Poker.co.uk make final

[Gus Mango Fish]

Aye, I have an account on PokerRoom I think, so will be able to log in to watch if that's what's needed.

To be fair, I think a few players who said they would sign up (myself included) tried to, but then gave up after all the hassles. I gave up after about 2 weeks of emails back and forth, and following the useless eSports representatives on here trying to answer players questions and making absolutely no sense.

Do you have a full team for the final? Is probably going to be hard if you only have 6 to take on the other teams, who I assume all have 10 players?

[waltypies]

I also tried signing up for this but the process was just so strange i gave up.

Well done though guys. Ship it

[CitrusSR]

Originally Posted by Breadfan

Hopefully, if we do do it again, we`ll get genuine players to sign up. At the beginning, there were loads, some very prolific posters on here included, but they never even bothered to register or play.
Guess some people prefer talking about poker more than they like to play it.
Perhaps eSports might consider a Champions League of forum posters, perhaps that will interest them.

Quite a few of us played in the first freerolls, which turned out to be for nothing - it was just to see what team we got put in - and then we got put in teams with people we didn't know, didn't speak English, etc. They didn't even say what we were playing for, just vague mentions of "prize money". The whole thing was a shambles.

We all want to play poker, just most of us aren't willing to go through all the hassle you did when there's plenty of other games going on that state what the prize is and don't require you to be phoned up and repeatedly emailed by "Ze Germans"

[Breadfan]

Matt, we`re all set for the finals.
Teams have always been 5 players, and for the 1st time ever, we actually have the quandary of which of the 6 we have get to play.

Walty and Citrus, yes the beginning was shambolic, and it certainly looks like, even though twice as many German teams as any other country were accomodated, some UK teams were used to dump even more of them into it.
Also, we never had control of anything until near the end of the UK leg, all decisions team related seemed to be taken by some faceless organisers.
But we stuck at it, and railed at them to give us a fair crack at this.
Slowly, it started to pay off, and even though we were short-handed through most of the qualifiers, we played the system as best we could, making sure of qualification from each phase, rather than attempting to win outright at each turn.

[Gus Mango Fish]

Aha, that's even better then

Top stuff BF. It's looking pretty exciting. Apparently we (well you really lol) could even get promoted to some kind of Premier League if good enough results are obtained in the final? Is this right?...

[Kevathallam]

Could'nt have put it better myself Breadfan ,as a member of the Poker.co.uk team I know the technical difficulties the team suffered ,I myself couldnt play the first 10 games or so,I had to watch myself get blinded out because it wouldnt let me join the game.But we persevered and made it to the final.So congrats to the team, and i'm proud to be part of it

[Breadfan]

I have noticed that there seems to be another layer after this Matt, but to be honest, all the focus has been making this particular final. Once we`ve got that out of the way, then I guess we can take stock of what happens next, but for this week only, we`re busy earining our bonuses.

Hi Kev, yes, you did us proud once we got you back from that dreaded Poker Room limbo.
Let`s have fun tonight, and good luck with that live league too.

Mike.

[Gus Mango Fish]

Good luck for tonight!

I've looked in the PokerRoom lobby but can't find the game listed. Can someone tell me where to find it? (fancy a bit of railage)

Edit: Found them now. Under the 'Team' tab as you said on your post above

[teaulc]

good luck with this,,,i`m still waiting to see whether we will get paid,,my team actually won the league but got put into 2nd place as they didnt include week 15 then out of the air they post week 15 and we are the winners (cvg poker champions) so we dont know if we will get the $5400 or $2700

[Breadfan]

Hi teaulc, thanks.
Yes, we`re still waiting for the payout for the UK League.
Been promised "soon" for ages, but Poker Room seem to be sitting on it.
That Week 15 fiasco mucked us up too, we had points deducted when someone complained that our sitout was awarded points (correctly seeing as his chips were higher), and bizarrely, they reversed the points.
As it happns, it did not affect our overall position, but left a nasty taste in the mouth all the same.