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The QueenSix Poker League is a highly innovative, new poker league, with a uniquely original structure.  It is designed in such a way as to create an advantage for skilled players over the just plain lucky. 

Before QueenSix Poker was Born

In order to win with conventional pub poker leagues (grand finals and regular events), a player usually needs to double up at least once within the first three blind levels, most often within the first hour. Failure to do so means a player's starting stack will be down to only three or four big blinds, often forcing an all in bet with nearly any two cards. In order to double up so quickly, one of the following must happen in that first hour (Usually about 30 hands or so)

• You pick up a monster hand preflop, raise big, and someone plays against you
• You get lucky against a stronger hand after making a mistake pushing or calling in the first place
• You push in a lot of chips pre-flop, get called, get lucky and win
• You limp in and getting lucky by hitting a monster on the flop, while someone else hits well too.
• You make a couple of large bluffs and others fold

Unless you play a highly aggressive game it is unreasonable to expect any of these to happen in the first hour. Yet unless one of these does, you will be faced with playing as if you had a very short stack, even if your stack is average compared to the other players.

For example, if the starting stack is 3,000, then when the blinds go to 400/800 (often 1 hr into the game), unless you’ve doubled up you are faced with only 3 or 4 rounds of the table before being blinded out. You are in serious trouble once you get to that stage, and since you may still have around the average stack, plenty of other players are in trouble just like you. This also rules out making moves at a pot, because there are so many other players forced to call with any sort of strength.

So to win, you have three options:

• Play hyper aggressively and get lucky
• Play conservatively then push all-in with a hand and hope
• See a lot of flops and hope you flop a monster

Poker is a game of patience and information. Yet these games do not allow you to be patient, and subsequently don’t give you enough time to garner information.

Why QueenSix Poker is Better

To promote good quality play, and to swing the odds in the favour of better poker players, the QueenSix structure is as follows

• Every game has the potential for the blinds to be capped (depending on closing times for venues)
• A Grand Final is held at each venue, allowing you to use any information you have gathered
• Your starting chip stack in the Grand Final is based on your performance over the previous weeks in the season
• Every player has a chance to win the Grand Final game, so if you get unlucky during the season, or can't make it for a week, you are still in with a chance

Season Structure

• In each of the rounds, points will be awarded to players according to the following breakdown.

• A player must advise the tournament host immediately when he/she is knocked out, in order to be eligible for any points
  
  

Game Structure

• Blinds are raised every 15 minutes
• Blinds will be capped for an extra 5 minutes where they have become to large for the average chip stack
• Standard blind levels are as follows, but may differ depending on venue/game type

• Deals for a modified prize split may be made but must be ratified by QueenSix. No deals will be ratified until heads up play.
• Deals cannot include a gap of less than a 60/40 split between first and second place (there must be a single winner)
• No deals for the awarding of points in league games may be done
• Players can play in any regular QueenSix league event free of charge, but for events with a buy-in, a player must pay the buy-in to be eligible to win the prize on the night