4th year of Pittsburgh Deaf Poker League

To view the PAD Poker game results, go to http://www.pghdeafclub.org/poker/

WHEN START:
September 12th, 2008 and every Fridays. The starting time will be at 8:00 p.m. and takes about 4 hours to finish.

HOW MANY WEEKS:
We will have 3 sessions in one season.  The 1st session - 1/3rd of 16-week game schedule, starting on September 12th and ending on Jan 2nd, 2009. The Finals will be on Jan 9th.  The 2nd session of 1/3rd of  season will start January 16th  and ending April 24th the Finals will be on May 1st. The 3rd session of 1/3rd of the season will start on May 8th and ending Aug 21st the Finals will be on August 28th. You can play in all 15 games in one session and the 16th week will be FINAL session of tournament. Most people do have some other commitments so we decided to give every player an opportunity to sit out 2 games throughout the each Third of the session. If a particular player decides to play in all 15 games, we will eliminate the lowest 2 games. There will be no SUBSITUTION TO REPLACE YOU FOR ONE GAME!!!

OVERALL TOURNEY (FINAL NIGHT):
All players who have played at least once in our League are eligible to play in the Final Tournament. For Who showed up between 9 to 13 games each player’s points will be multiplied by 50 (rounded up to the nearest 25) and receive that amount in chips. For who showed up between 5 to 8 games each player’s points will be multiplied by 30( rounded up to the nearest 25) for less than 4 games each player’s points will be multiplied by 10 (rounded up to the nearest 25) If there are 54 players in our league then we will have 7 tables and the top 7 point leaders will be seated at Seat #1 in each table. If a person doesn’t show up that night, he/she will be placed in Seat #3 and the chips will go in the pot during Small Blinds and Big Blinds until the half-hour mark and then the chips will go in at the highest amount of Big Blinds that time in every hand until the chips run out.

PLAYING YOUR HOLE CARDS
You are required to show both of your cards in a showdown and if you only showed one card, the other card automatically goes into the muck. If you have both cards together and one of the cards is face up and the other one is face down, the “facing down” card is automatically into the muck. If you had both cards together (face up), and then lay it down, sliding the top card sideways, that is acceptable.

COMMUNICATION DEVICES
Using cell phones, pagers, or any other communicable devices during the league is PROHIBITED. If you need to make a call or answer message, you can do so but you have to leave your table first and then making call. After the completion of the call, you may return to the table and play the next available hand.

POINTS SYSTEM:
Depending on the number of players playing that night… For example, if 20 players show up on one Friday, the 1st place will earn 20 points, 2nd place gets 19 points, all the way to the 20th person getting 1 point.

We also give out bonus points to the final table (8 players), 1st place will get 8 extra points, all the way down to the 8th place finisher getting one point.

We will still have the “Bust-Out” chips but the points will be different than last year. You will get 1 point for busting a player out and 2 points for busting out this season’s weekly champions. For the first week, all chips are worth one point and in the 2nd week, if that 1st week champion plays in that night, his/her chip is worth 2 points.

In order to win the Royal Flush pot, you have to have a showdown between yourself and 1 or more player(s). If everyone else folded and you are the only one left, you CANNOT win this points. The points will be carried from week to week, and continue throughout the season.

If you plan on coming to that night and will be late, please give us a call at PAD VP 412-566-7778 or e-mail me at BIGJEFF@sprint.blackberry.net That way we will put your chips at a particular table and the blinds will be put in accordingly. If you are not there within 1 HOUR, The Chips will be taken away.

MEMBERSHIP:
I encourage all of you to be a member of the Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf Club. If you are not a member of PAD and you win prize, some of the prize will be allocted to cover the PAD membership fee.

Steelers Party 2008 video and photos

In the photo, Thomas DeFazio (center) was Steelers best costume in 2007, and he shares with 2008 winner of Steelers best costume, Ricky Bloom (left) and Emily Noschese (right) at our PAD clubhouse.

Don’t miss to see photo album taken by David Fulmer.

Steelers was lost by Tennessee TItans, and we do believe that both teams will rematch in playoffs, we want to make this happen like what Steelers did with Indianapolis Colts in 2005!

Let’s go Steelers!

Active Holiday Dinner 2008 Photos

We have Holiday Dinner at Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf clubhouse annually. David Fulmer took some photos, including one video inserted here in this page, for your taste on our PAD album.

PAD wishes all of you the warmest Christmas holiday!

New Officers for 2009

Yesterday we had a election every end of the month of the year for new 2009 P.A.D. officers. Cheryl remain the President of P.A.D. for the third year in the row. Most of the officers are back from 2008, except three new officers:

2nd Vice Prez - Thomas DeFazio
Assistant Treasurer - Elaine Mifflin
Secretary - Kathy Campero

Congratulations all to the officers!

Children’s X-mas 2008 Pictures

Merry Christmas! We are giving you the good Christmas present: we shot a set of 125 photos in our Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf gallery. Sit back on your chair and take a relax to view the marvelous slideshow.

No Smoking Dates for 2009

PAD is having no-smoking day on first Saturday of the month and fourth Friday of the month.

PAD Active Monthly Meeting

PAD passed a proposal in the new business at the last meeting that the PAD’s Active Monthly Meetings are to be held on second Saturday of every month at 7:30pm, replacing the second Friday of every month at 9:30pm. This is now effective, beginning in January 2008.

Don’t forget to schedule your times for these new dates of PAD Active Meetings.

January 12, 2008
February 9, 2008
March 8, 2008
April 12, 2008
May 10, 2008
June 14, 2008
July 12, 2008
August 9, 2008
September 13, 2008
October 11, 2008
November 8, 2008
December 12, 2008

Happy holidays!