Project Mayhem - Season 09

Goals

We have a few motives in setting up Project Mayhem.  First up, we think having a big prize-pool tournament with deep stacks and a longer structure is a lot of fun.  Secondly, we are motivated to have a more consistent set of participants showing up for our weekend games (recruiting is probably right up there with cleaning up the next day as being the least-fun aspect of hosting poker night) and PM is set up to reward folks for showing up more regularly. 

Participation

There is room at the Final Tournament for up to eighteen players, so we can only accept that many Project Mayhem members.  The first eighteen folks to physically buy into a Regular Season tournament as a PM member will be entered into Project Mayhem.  

PM-eligible tournaments happen on our Episodic (Regular Season) Saturday nights.  Members of Project Mayhem have the option to play as PM-eligible for our regular Saturday night tournaments (1 tournament in the case of a Standard Tournament weekend, or any of the 2 tournaments when we have a Quick Tournament and a Main Event).  To be PM-eligible you have to pay the $5 fee (for the two-tournament nights) or $10 (on Standard Tournament nights) at the time you're playing and all that money goes into a separate envelope.  Playing eligible in a tournament earns you two types of points: 1) you get one Attendance Point (which ultimately gets used to determine your starting chips in the final tournament, see below for more details), and 2) you earn Project Mayhem Points (a.k.a. "PiMPs") based on how well you perform in the tournament.  PiMPs also get you some starting chips, and they also have one other specific use for the final table which will be explained below.

If you've already established yourself as a member of PM you can decide to not buy-in to a tournament as PM-eligible.  If that's the case, then it's just like you didn't show up for that particular tournament: you don't get an Attendance Point, nor would you earn any PiMPs.

As of Season 9, on our Standard Tournament nights, a Project Mayhem entry costs $10 and all associated Attendance and Project Mayhem points are doubled for that tournament (just like it was two $5 tournament entries).

If you're not a member of Project Mayhem, you can attempt a direct buy-in to the PMFT assuming any seats are remaining.  Details are below. 

Players for Season IX

1. Shannon

2. Neal

3. Tom

4. Mike F

5. Elina

6. Charlie H

7. Brad

8. Dallas

9 -18. open

Points

As indicated above, you need to buy into a PM-eligible tournament to earn Attendance Points and PiMPs.  Even if you've already committed to being a Project Mayhem member if you don't pay at the time of entering the tournament you're not earning either of these things.  Money up front, 100% of the time.

Attendance Points and Starting Stacks

Attendance Points are earned for each eligible tournament you enter.  Each tournament is worth T2000 chips to your starting stack at the final table.  Additionally, if you hit certain attendance thresholds, you get T2000 additional bonus chips (occurring at the 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15-tournament thresholds).  

Before the Final Tournament starts, folks will have the option to buy additional starting chips at the cost of T2000 chips per $5 spent.  The maximum starting stack, however, is capped at T50,000 chips.  Obviously this money all goes straight into the prize pool.

APs are doubled on the evenings we only play a Standard Tournament, and PM entries cost $10.

PiMPs

Things which earn you PiMPS:

1 PiMP.... Enter a tournament

1 PiMP.... Per player that finishes worse than you in a tournament (they do not have to be Project Mayhem-eligible players, players who chop prizes all finish one spot ahead of the last person not included in the chop)

1 PiMP.... Per knockout you put on a fellow tournament player (not affected if they rebuy: does not have to be a permanent KO; note that for the Add-on Extravaganza, making someone use a rebuy token does not qualify as a knockout)

1 PiMP.... For finishing in the money (based on prize allotment on Structure page, alternative pay-outs such as Bounty money do not affect this PiMP)

2 PiMPs.... For finishing in first place [Change new to Season VIII — was 1 PiMP in the previous seasons]

All PiMPs are doubled on the evenings we only play the Standard Tournament (with $10 PM entries).

Note that we will issue partial PiMPs in the case of folks chopping a tournament before it would be considered in-the-money (say 4 people chop a tournament which has 3 pay-outs: each PM participant who is part of the chop would earn 4/3rds of a PiMP), and [new to Season VIII] also for the two winner PiMPs as well.  Additionally, [new to Season IX] first place PiMPs are similarly fractioned: 2 × (actual difference between first and second pay-outs) / (announced difference between first and second pay-out).

PiMPs are good for two things.  First, for every 15 full PiMPs earned (no rounding: 29 PiMPs is just as good as 15), you get another T2000 to your starting stack, so even if you don't make all 20 tournaments, if you can make it to 14 or 16, chances are pretty good you'll start with the max starting stack.  Second, seating at the final table tournament will be based on the order of PiMPs.  Whomever finishes with the highest number of PiMPs will have their first option of seats at the table, with the option to defer if they so choose.  Each time someone selects a seat at the table, we will scroll back up to the top of the PiMP list and allow the top remaining person their option of seats.  Once you've picked a seat, there's no changing your mind.