I really hope everyone had a great time this summer playing 1/2 No-Limit Holdem/PLO at the Palms. I know I did even though my own poor performance over the past couple weeks kept my summertime bankroll graph a little below sea level. But still, it was great to sit down for just some good old-fashioned poker with so many friends, colleagues, old Dallas players, low-stakes Vegas grinders, poker media hangers-on as well as various new players from multiple continents with whom I got to enjoy some incarnation of sucking out. Thanks to all who played and especially thanks to those who embraced the Pokerati Game commitment to keeping the best low-stakes action in Vegas douchebag-free. (A bigger challenge than you might think.)

Tonight, weve got a little game-sweetener: The two best players in the game will get satellite seats for the Epic Pro-Am (also at the Palms) one for a Saturday $340 and one in a Sunday $180.

And to determine who these players are, were gonna vote. Totally subjective and very unscientific, befitting of my ongoing social poker experiment, aka The Pokerati Game and hey, if you dont like the way we do it, youre welcome to heckle from the rails. (2-drink minimum, though.)

Thats pretty much it. Well be playing the game as usual tonight 1/2 NLH/PLO round of each, $100 min $400 max buy-in, game changes on the one seat, option to run it twice in both games, $5 button straddle gets ultimate last action except everyone who plays will also get a ballot. And on that ballot they get to cast two votes:

+1 ____________

-1 ____________

Give +1 to the one player in the game you liked best for whatever reason, whether it be skillful play, gutsy calls, rebuy frequency or breast size and a -1 to whichever one player you liked least, whether its because they played bad cards and got lucky to stack you or just didnt shower enough pre-game. Well add up the final totals, and the top points-getter gets the $340 seat, 2nd gets the $180.

Simple enough. Cool? Cool. Oh, well also be taking votes from dealers, floor personnel, and cocktail waitresses because really, shouldnt they have a say in whos the champion, too? Game gets going at 7 pm at the Palms Poker Room. Ballot box closes at 12 midnight.

The Saturday 340s, btw, are the ones where 20 percent of the field wins seats into a $1,500 Epic pro-am, and this weekend theres apparently a few bounties on some players the bounty being a $180 seat in a Sunday satellite (which sends a more typical 10 percent of the field to the $1,500 event).

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