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Prizes for WRGPT19

There are no prizes for WRGPT19.

However, if there were and this was a $10,000 buy-in tournament (similar to the WSOP main event), they would go something like this:

Place Amount
1 $2,057,394
2 $1,270,000
3 $822,960
4 $568,147
5 $407,822
6 $306,730
7 $240,995
8 $197,409
9 $168,250
10 $144,475
11 $144,475
12 $144,475
13 $104,851
14 $104,851
15 $104,851
16 $74,981
17 $74,981
18 $74,981
19 $58,522
20 $58,522
21 $58,522
22 $58,522
23 $58,522
24 $58,522
25 $58,522
26 $58,522
27 $58,522
28 $48,260
29 $48,260
30 $48,260
31 $48,260
32 $48,260
33 $48,260
34 $48,260
35 $48,260
36 $48,260
37 $39,929
38 $39,929
39 $39,929
40 $39,929
41 $39,929
42 $39,929
43 $39,929
44 $39,929
45 $39,929
46 $34,341
47 $34,341
48 $34,341
49 $34,341
50 $34,341
51 $34,341
52 $34,341
53 $34,341
54 $34,341
55 $30,175
56 $30,175
57 $30,175
58 $30,175
59 $30,175
60 $30,175
61 $30,175
62 $30,175
63 $30,175
64 $27,127
65 $27,127
66 $27,127
67 $27,127
68 $27,127
69 $27,127
70 $27,127
71 $27,127
72 $27,127
73 $25,908
74 $25,908
75 $25,908
76 $25,908
77 $25,908
78 $25,908
79 $25,908
80 $25,908
81 $25,908
82 $23,470
83 $23,470
84 $23,470
85 $23,470
86 $23,470
87 $23,470
88 $23,470
89 $23,470
90 $23,470
91 $21,946
92 $21,946
93 $21,946
94 $21,946
95 $21,946
96 $21,946
97 $21,946
98 $21,946
99 $21,946
100 $20,015
101 $20,015
102 $20,015
103 $20,015
104 $20,015
105 $20,015
106 $20,015
107 $20,015
108 $20,015
109 $20,015
110 $20,015
111 $20,015
112 $20,015
113 $20,015
114 $20,015
115 $20,015
116 $20,015
117 $20,015


Again, there are no prizes.  These numbers will start to show up in the standings as players are eliminated "in the money".

Server outage / table corruption

The WRGPT server is a virtual private server.  The hardware running the server went down without warning early Sunday morning (1/31/2010).

It appears that several tables were corrupted by the sudden outage.  The tables found are being corrected.  The rest are being checked.

During this time timeouts will be disabled in case your table had an issue.  

Please continue to play normally if your table allows and protest if your table does not allow so that the problem will be noticed.

We hope to have everything back to normal by the end of the day Monday.

Thanks for your understanding.  Good luck in the remainder of WRGPT19.


Slow email to yahoo.com

Email is being temporarily deferred to yahoo.com, most likely due to someone reporting email from the dealer as spam.  When you are eliminated and no longer wish to receive email, please send the command READ NONE to the dealer to stop receiving email.  If you do nothing, you will stop receiving email when your table is part of a redraw or the round ends.

For those that have only one email address at yahoo.com, you can add another email address with the ADDR command.

e.g.:

ADDR email1@domain1.com,email2@domain2.com

Changing Your E-MAIL Address

Second round starting issues

There were two problems found in starting the second round of WRGPT19.

First, the automated redraw did not kick off due to an error in the automated checking script.  This meant that the round "c" started a few  hours later than it otherwise would have.

Second, the railbird email address was incorrect due to a change made in testing the new server.  This caused the first day and a half of hands to not be sent to the railbird list.  These hands are online and can be seen via the hands.wrgpt.org site.

Both of these issues have been corrected and will function correctly for the end of the second round.

First round of WRGPT19 ending

The first round of WRGPT19 is coming to a close.  All tables will finish their current hand then wait for the rest of the tables to finish.   Once all tables have finished then all the remaining players will be redrawn randomly onto new tables.

Removing players that never showed up

About 30 players signed up for WRGPT19 and did now show up.

Most of these have been removed from the tourney with the rest to be removed over the next few days.

Because of the high number of No Shows we extended the live redraw window for the first round so that the removal of these non-players does not cause the complete, full redraw that would normally occur after 30 days of a round.

Server was down tonight

The WRGPT server was down earlier tonight from 18:39 to 20:54.

Timeouts have been disabled to allow mail that may have been incoming and stuck on the sending server to catch up.


WRGPT19 Starting NOW!

The 19th annual World Rec.Gambling Poker Tourney is starting NOW!

If you have registered correctly you should be receiving your initial message and new ID within the next hour or so.  You will need to reply BACK to that message to come off of vacation.

Once everyone on your table comes back from vacation OR 24 hours pass your table will start the first hand.

Good luck.

Remember to read the friendly manual (RTFM) at:

http://www.wrgpt.org/manual.html

Notes on the start of the real tournament

When the real tournament starts, you will receive a new ID.  Reply BACK to the "Start of Game" message to play.  "No Shows" will be removed after 30 days.  Your practice round ID, which starts with a "p", will no longer be valid so do not use it in the real tournament.

Please remember that changes made to email addresses and start times during the practice round will not carry over to the real tournament.  You can change them with the ADDR and START commands after the tournament starts.  Your current settings can be viewed with the WHAT command.

Good luck.

Practice Round almost over, Real tourney starts in a week

We are planning on ending the practice round this Saturday or Sunday in preparation for the real tourney starting on Monday, November 16, 2009.

During the practice round we made several small bug fixes and added formatted email processing.  This processor has been tweaked a few times to handle various email formats that we have been receiving.  If you are still having problems you should send the floorman an email about the issue and/or check your email application settings to send text only email to the dealer.  We don't want to keep changing it once the tourney starts.