Let's say you bought tickets to a weekend poker convention. What sort of things would you expect or like to do for the weekend? What would make it a good weekend for you?
Would having it in Kitchener/Waterloo be a detractor because you're not close to real casinos?
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Remember that convention that was supposed to happen a few years ago?
Yeah. I'd like to contact the guy to see what really happened. Perhaps Dave Scharf knows as he was scheduled to be one of the guest speakers.
For everyone else's reference, think legal and more along the lines of an educational con; seminar, trade show, venders, Q&A,etc. Any poker played would need to be legal.
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Hrmm.... I was hoping for something more gamey, but okay...
Seminars:
- Personally, I'd like a workshop type approach to train oneself to pay attention to the table / tells of other players, best practices on how to look for, catalog, and remember tells
- Tracking - what to keep track of, how to, and where to, and when and where it can best be applied to improve your game
- Money management strategy workshop: How to build a bankroll, when to move levels etc. etc.
Vendors:
- Best bet would be specialized manufacturers. KEM/COPAQ etc cards, specialty poker tables would be of most interest to me. I've got a set of chips that works for me, but maybe one of those.
- Possibly something along the lines of "weekend poker dreams". Almost like a poker themed travel deal?
Q&A:
- Clearly it'd be great to get a professional or two down. I think I'd love a chance to sit down and pick Mike Caro's brain for an hour or so 1:1...
Mark
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I would think a format similar to the WPT Boot Camp would be the most feasible. Daniel Negreanu held a boot camp in Toronto last year and it got good reviews.
Famous poker authors can have book signings. Local vendors can sell their poker supplies. Poker sites can offer promotions. The best time would be in late October when a lot of the poker professionals would be in town anyway for the WPT NAPC.
In terms of poker games, a legal charity game can be held. For example, I was a dealer at the Auto Show shootout tournament where the player's donation went to Ronald McDonald's House. Another option is to have fun tournaments with no money involved to keep it legal.
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Originally Posted by Zithal
For everyone else's reference, think legal and more along the lines of an educational con; seminar, trade show, venders, Q&A,etc. Any poker played would need to be legal.
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Hrmm.... I was hoping for something more gamey, but okay...
Seminars:
- Personally, I'd like a workshop type approach to train oneself to pay attention to the table / tells of other players, best practices on how to look for, catalog, and remember tells
- Tracking - what to keep track of, how to, and where to, and when and where it can best be applied to improve your game
- Money management strategy workshop: How to build a bankroll, when to move levels etc. etc.
Vendors:
- Best bet would be specialized manufacturers. KEM/COPAQ etc cards, specialty poker tables would be of most interest to me. I've got a set of chips that works for me, but maybe one of those.
- Possibly something along the lines of "weekend poker dreams". Almost like a poker themed travel deal?
Q&A:
- Clearly it'd be great to get a professional or two down. I think I'd love a chance to sit down and pick Mike Caro's brain for an hour or so 1:1...
Mark
Come on now.....you mean 1:0.75 right Mark?
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We can all use some extra redundancy.
No 'fun' tournament..charity game is the way to go, maybe play to a buy in a casino tourney or something like that. I also think it is more fun to make it a weekend event instead of a one day 'fair' (possibly a two-prong event..Two night convention with tourney/more lectures and an open admission Sunday afternoon fair - for the less devoted...catches everyone.)
The series of lectures at varying skill levels is good..from learn to play -to the Navarro-like tells. (One I would love to see is POKER ETTIQUETTE)
You're right about the practical and novelty items for sale.
and lastly MO NAKED HOES
Very interesting idea Rob, hope you're actually considering doing this-you're definately the guy to pull it off!
I think if you were to do a Poker Convention you would have to try and get a location closer to Toronto (or in Toronto) so you could get more "walk-in" traffic.
If it was out the K/W area people in Toronto and East of Toronto would have to make it a day and would have to plan to attend several days in advance and so on.
But if it was in the Toronto area you would get more people that heard about it last minute and drop by plus still get the plan to attend people from the areas outside of Toronto.
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i think this is a great idea. i would attend for sure. although i agree it would have to be geared more away from just playing poker to all other sorts of aspects, i'm sure some actual poker games would creep in anyway. you can't get a convention full of poker players and not expect a game to start up sometime
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