I propose a bad beat pot.
50% of the cup money.
We will start it at quad A’s.
Every week we make it a bit easier.
Next week its Quad kings’s…etc.
Maybe no lover that A’s full of queens or something
Both cards have to play in the losers and winners hands.
Hand has to play out to the end with no rabbit hunting.
Anyone can win, even if you come out and win on your first time.
What do you think?
..Rich
I like the bad beat idea but here is my only issue.
The winner of the cup run doesn’t get any prize money, so why should a bad beat get prize money? Just a thought.
I agree with Wayne the beauty of the money in the cup is that we can pay for chairs, chips, cards, food for events.
Either way we should decide before the start of the next game as that is the start of the next cup run.
Maybe we introduce a $30 prize for winning the cup + the cost of the plate comes out of the cup ($45 value) and a $40 Bad Beat for each cup run. So $80 or 20 rebuys come out of the cup each run.
I’m cool with the fact not everybody contributes but everyone benefits from cup money. However giving half the cup money to someone who has never contributed is kind of weird. Maybe $30 or $60 max? That’s two buy ins. Keep the bad beat high and not every session. only if and when it happens.
I like Chris’s suggestion better than Rich’s but I think we should cap it at $50. I think the cup money should continue to be pooled for new chairs as well as food for our special event games like Super Bowl and Grey Cup.
Should be worse bad beat of the series (- cup win) so there’s only one winner every few months.