Aussie Millions Player of the Year 2012 (unofficial)

[Monkey]

are Crown using the bad 5k bright yellow chips from the crappy plastic set along with the normal set for the Main Event? I thought I could see some mixed in with the decent ones

Surely not

[bigfatbastard]

Hey Dalek,
Can't contribute much as an interested observer, but I did wonder how, in spite of
the buy-in, a single win in a 22-man tourney can be weighted so strongly (270 pts?).
Otherwise it seems okay to someone as ignorant of these things as I!
Good luck with it,
BFB

[dalek]

@BFB re the 100k, I too am concerned at the weighting of big buy-in events.

As per the Bluff / WSOP Player of the Year formula, a 100k buy-in means a Buy-In Multiplier of 3.00. The lowest Field Size Multiplier is 1.0 for 27-75 entries, and from there the Multiplier increases by 0.1, so I decreased it by 0.1 for 22 entries. So, Buy-In Multiplier x Field Size Multiplier = 3.00 x 0.90 = 2.70. The points allocation for 4 players cashing is 100/70/50/44, hence for Dan Smith: 2.70 x 100 = 270 points.

I have updated the table to include all events up to Event 14 (excluding ME and HU which are in progress). I have made a slight adjustment to the Chinese Poker results as the buy-in was $4750 not $5000, so the Buy-In Multiplier was 1.25 rather than 1.50.

Including ME points (yet to be allocated):
Michael Pedley - 175.75
Oliver Speidel - 225.30 (at least)
Ali Ghezelbash - 142.63
Borge Dypvik - 135.75
Rob Angood - 115.38

##  PLAYER               ITM  FTs  WINS        $$$     Pts
1   Dan Smith             1    1     1   1,012,000  270.00
2   Dan Kelly             3    2     1      92,875  195.25
3   Brendon Rubie         1    1     1     200,000  190.00
4   Mikhail Smirnov       1    1     -     616,000  189.00
5   Ross Parkhill         2    1     1     123,500  159.50
6   Tom Middleton         1    1     1      84,200  150.00
7   Aaron Lim             2    1     1      44,234  145.00
8   Joe Hachem            2    1     -     333,115  142.50
9   Michael Pedley        1    1     1     122,670  137.50
10  Sandeep Pulusani      2    1     1      42,500  135.00
11  Oliver Speidel        2    2     -      40,750  133.50
12  Scott Wilson          1    1     -     125,000  133.00
13  Ali Ghezelbash        3    2     -      30,925  123.50
14  Mark Segal            2    1     1      16,230  119.00
15  Tony Guoga            1    1     -     242,000  118.80
16  Joel Dodds            2    1     -      62,135  114.50
17  Ben Breadsell         1    1     1      50,000  112.50
18  Paul Ravesi           1    1     1      12,480  110.00
19  Michal Polchlopek     1    1     -      73,000  105.00
20  Tony Tran             1    1     1      18,800  105.00
21  Borge Dypvik          1    1     1      19,130   97.50
22  Jonathan Karamalikis  1    1     -      88,830   96.25
23  Rob Angood            1    1     -      80,000   95.00
24  Martin Kozlov         1    1     -      25,000   84.00
25  John Thomson          1    1     -      61,000   83.60

[dalek]

Looks like David Bach agrees, and he's won a 50k WSOP event:

https://twitter.com/#!/gunslingerbac...98520405622784

[thret]

If you first accept POY as a marketing tool, then the score system seems perfectly logical.

Making no distinction between 8-game and holdum is clearly absurd. Seems like all poker variants should have a multiplier. Chinese should have a <1 multiplier, maybe x0.5. Say FR NLHE x1, 6max, HU & PLO x1.25, NLHE/PLO x1.5, HORSE/8-Game x2...

I also think for AM field size restrictions should be abandoned. We do not have WSOP numbers. No tournament other than NLHE or PLO will ever qualify these days. I suspect even HU may not, although I haven't looked.

I do think the higher buyins should have a multiplier also, but nothing over 2.

Something needs to be done so my solitary cash is recorded, that's all I'm saying

[moffo47]

Making no distinction between 8-game and holdum is clearly absurd. Seems like all poker variants should have a multiplier. Chinese should have a <1 multiplier, maybe x0.5. Say FR NLHE x1, 6max, HU & PLO x1.25, NLHE/PLO x1.5, HORSE/8-Game x2...

Just lol.

Why should people be rewarded at a different rate for simply having a different skillset?

[dalek]

I'll post up final results when I can.

Safe to say Oliver Speidel tops the list with 3 final tables including the Main Event victory.

I think it would be good marketing for Crown to offer a trophy for the AM 2013 Player of the Year/Series, maybe even offer a free Main Event entry for the following year. That might encourage players to play more events while they're here, especially some of the later events.

[dalek]

At some point I did mean to finish this off but I guess I can't be bothered.

I just wanted to get Crown thinking of having a Player of the Year (POY) award, hopefully they implement it next year.

The contentious issues are how to award points for the Main Event and low field, big buy-in events. Winning the Main or the 100k alone shouldn't be enough to win the POY.

The WSOP is coming to Melbourne in April 2013 and my guess is the WSOP POY will be applicable for the WSOP-APAC bracelet events.

So come on Crown, before the WSOP comes to town, have an Aussie Millions POY award/trophy in place. If it's good enough for the WSOP, and if we consider the Aussie Millions to be one of the pre-eminent festivals of the year, let's "crown" a series champion in January next year.

[Yorkshire Pudding]

I would say the WSOP APAC will count towards POY points, although it was only last year's WSOP Europe that started to be awarded points and that's been running since 2007