The team tournaments are a good concept but seem to be underused, they are aimed at the low stakes market only for some reason; while the poker cams have their own tournaments for some decent guarantee’s and are well marketed, both of these formats got some good reviews on poker news sites when they were brought in

So how about adding some team games at a slightly higher level (up to $5)? And a “team’s challenge” once a week? Could possibly be on a Tuesday at 19.30gmt as Tuesday is the high roller challenge

Here’s a format and some reasoning

Tuesdays 19.30gmt (18.30bst) Buy in $9+$0.90 split $6 to main prize-pool $3 to team prize-pool

£3000gtd split $2000 to main prize-pool, $1000 to team prize-pool

3000 starting chips, 10 min blinds, (freezeout)

40-60 mins late registration

Splitting the pools 2/3-1/3 makes the main game attractive and still makes the team pool worthwhile, setting the buy in to $9 makes splitting the buy in easier, with a little over 300 players the game is break even and most of the challenges get between 500-800 entries, with the exception of the Tuesday challenge, maybe there’s a raft of players looking for a cheaper option for a well formatted game on a Tuesday night?

334 players is break even so I’ll work with that figure, luckily the teams are split perfectly evenly with 167 players on each team (strange how that happened) this means 334 players are playing for a pool of $2000 and 167 of them are going to get a share of an extra $1000 ($5.98) so half of the players are guaranteed 2/3’s of their buy in back and 40 players are going to get a share of $2000, they are attractive figures

You can run sats during the week at small stakes, either 1 sat for team “A” and 1 sat for team “B” or a single sat with the odd number qualifiers (1, 3, 5 etc) going into team “A” and the even number qualifiers going into team “B”

Something to think about to promote a format that got some excited write ups when it was announced