Where: Larry Myers, Bridgeport
When: June 20 from 4-6
WINNERS: MATT DUTCHESS AND STEVE LIGHT
Where: Boomerangs, Clarksburg
When: June 24 from 4-6
WINNERS: SHERMAN SNIDER AND CRAIG ROBINSON
Where: Bailey's Auto, Buckhannon
When: June 26 from 4-6
WINNERS: BRAD SHAFFER AND ED BRAY
Where: Exit 132, Fairmont
When: June 30 from 5-7
WINNERS: BOB EMERSON AND HEATHER SPRUNG
Where: Country Club Chrysler, Clarksburg
When: July 1 from 4-6
WINNERS: JAMES M. GORDON AND VALERIE LYCETT
Where: Garfield's, Bridgeport
When: July 8 from 5-7
WINNERS: DOUG COFFMAN AND NICK FRAGMAN
Where: Benny's Boot Hill, Bridgeport
When: July 11 from 5-7
WINNERS: TOM CANO AND JIM ROHR II
Where: Snowshoe Mountain- FINAL EVENT
When: July 19
West Virginia Poker Tour 2008 Official Rules:
1. By entering the West Virginia Radio Corporation 2008 West Virginia Poker Tour Contest ("Contest"), sponsored by West Virginia Radio Corporation and (the "Sponsors") the entrant acknowledges and agrees to abide by these Contest rules.
2. No purchase necessary to enter or to win. Making a purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Entries are also accepted via email at poker@wvradio.com or by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to: (All Entries must contain name address, date of birth, phone number)
West Virginia Radio Corp.
2008 West Virginia Poker Tour
1251 Earl Core Road
Morgantown, WV 26505 .
3. To be eligible, contestants must be U.S. citizens, ages 21 and up by the date of June 9th 2008.
4. Void where prohibited. All federal, state, and local laws apply.
5. Sponsors reserve the right to change Contest rules at any time, for any reason, without notice, in their sole discretion.
6. The Grand Prize:
The Grand Prize consists of all of the following:
A. Airfare and Transportation to Las Vegas, Nevada with a ten-thousand dollar ($10,000) entry stake in the 2008 World Series of Poker.
7. Consolation Prizes:
Consolation Prizes consist(s) of all of the following:
A. 2nd Place = Prizes Valued at One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00)
B. 3rd Place = Prizes Valued at Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00)
C. 4th Place = Prizes Valued at Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00)
D. 5th Place = Prizes Valued at Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00)
E. 6th Place = Prizes Valued at Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00)
8. The radio stations WFBY, WBRB, and WAJR-FM will host fifteen (15) live “qualifier” remote broadcasts (Locations T.B.A. on respective stations). Each live event will qualify at least one (1) finalist through card contest (Rule 7a) and at least one (1) finalist through drawing (Rule 7b)
A. During the remote broadcast, the celebrity dealer will take a single fifty-two (52) card deck and thoroughly shuffle. Two cards will then be dealt. These two (2) cards will then act as the community cards for the entire length of the live remote broadcast that day. Participants will then turn in their registration form and be dealt five (5) cards off of the top of the deck face up. The participant will then make the best hand (five cards) out of the five (5) cards dealt and the two (2) community cards as earlier dealt by the celebrity dealer. The participant at the end of the remote broadcast with the best hand of the day (standard poker rules) will then advance to the finals. In the event of a tie between two or more hands at any particular live broadcast, the tying participants (still at the location or not) will be each dealt an additional hand or hands with the high hand of that situation earning the advancement to the final competition.
B. Each entrant will then have a second chance with a drawing at the end of each respective event. All entries received before the end of the broadcast will then be placed into a registration box and one entry will be drawn. That entrant who matches that entry will then earn advancement to the final competition.
9. Finalists will be given the option to substitute a representative to compete for said entrant in the final competition. Such substitutions must be made during entry at live remote broadcast, or email. Entrants can only qualify for the final competition once.
10. All finalists must be checked in for the final competition no later than 3:30 P.M. Saturday July 19th 2008 at the finals location Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Finalists who do not register by 3:30 P.M. Saturday July 19th 2008 will be replaced by an alternate as appointed by the sponsors. No exceptions.
11. Limit one entry Per Person per event. Each entrant must provide at entry proper identification to verify age requirements are being met.
12. Entries will be used before finals to gain alternates for the final event. At least Five (5) alternates will be guaranteed a spot in the final competition. Number of alternates drawn is exclusively through deliberation of the “sponsors”. Sponsors reserve the right to change Contest rules at any time, for any reason, without notice, in their sole discretion.
13. Highest hand is determined by the following guidelines:
A. Straight flush (the best straight flush hand: A-K-Q-J-T, all of the same suit)
B. Four-of-a-kind (the best four-of-a-kind hand: A-A-A-A-K)
C. Full house (the best full house hand: A-A-A-K-K)
D. Flush (the best flush hand: any Ace-high flush)
E. Straight (the best straight hand: A-K-Q-J-T)
F. Three-of-a-kind (the best three-of-a-kind hand: A-A-A-K-Q)
G. Two-pair (the best two-pair hand: A-A-K-K-Q)
H. One-pair (the best one-pair hand: A-A-K-Q-J)
I. No-pair (the best high hand: A-K-Q-J-9)
14. Odds of advancing to the finals depend on the number of entries received.
15. The final competition will consist of ninety six entrants (96). These entrants will be a combination of finalists from six (6) other radio stations under the West Virginia Radio Corporation/AJG Broadcasting Umbrella, entrants through online and mail in entry, and alternates.
16. Final Competition Rules:
A. Initial seating is determined by random draw or assignment.
B. A change of seat is not allowed after play starts, except as assigned by the director.
C. The appropriate starting amount of chips will be placed on the table for each entrant at the beginning of the event.
D. Limits and blinds are raised at regularly scheduled intervals.
E. If there is a signal designating the end of a betting level, the new limits apply on the next deal. (A deal begins with the first riffle of the shuffle.)
F. An absent player is always dealt a hand, and will be put up for blinds, antes, and the forced bet if low.
G. If you are not present when it becomes your turn to act, your hand is dead. This includes situations in which a live blind is not present to act, since an absent player cannot exercise the option to raise.
H. As players are eliminated, tables are broken in a pre-set order, with players from the broken tables assigned to empty seats at other tables.
I. The number of players at each table will be kept reasonably balanced by the transfer of a player as needed.
J. A player who declares all in and loses the pot, then discovers that one or more chips were hidden, is not entitled to benefit from this. That player is eliminated from the tournament. The then discovered chips are removed from the tournament.
K. All players must leave their seat immediately after being eliminated from an event.
L. Showing cards from a live hand during the action injures the rights of other players still competing in an event, who wish to see contestants eliminated. A player may not show any cards during a deal (unless the event has only two remaining players). If a player deliberately shows a card, that hand may be ruled dead and the player penalized.
M. Inappropriate behavior like throwing cards that go off the table may be punished by eviction from the tournament.
N. The deck is not changed on request. Decks change when the dealers change, unless there is a damaged card.
O. In all tournament games using a dealer button, the starting position of the button is determined by dealing for the high card.
P. The dealer button remains in position until the appropriate blinds are taken. Players must post all blinds every round.
Q. New players are dealt in immediately unless they sit down in the small blind or button position. In these two cases, they must wait until the button passes.
R. All hands will be turned faceup whenever a player is all-in and betting action is complete.
As a condition of being selected as a contestant, entrants:
1. Authorize Sponsors and their designees to investigate, access, and collect information about the entrant, about any of the statements made in any entry materials, any supporting documents, or any other written or oral statements made in connection therewith;
2. Agree to execute any authorizations, consents, and releases that Sponsors may request in connection with any background investigation activities;
3. Unconditionally and irrevocably release and forever discharge all parties and persons from any and all liability arising out of or in connection with any background investigation;
17. The Grand Prize Winner(s), in consideration of winning the Grand Prize, grants Sponsors the rights to, and agrees and consents to use and reuse by the Sponsors and any of their respective licensees, assignees, parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities and each of their respective employees, agents, representatives, officers and directors of his or her name, photos, image, voice, actions, appearance, biographical material, information contained in entry materials, and likeness, for purposes of publicity, advertising, trade and promotion, without further compensation, unless prohibited by law. The Grand Prize Winner(s) acknowledge that Sponsors may video and audio record the Grand Prize Winner(s) before, during, and after, and that portions (selected in Sponsors' sole discretion) may be aired on various West Virginia Radio Corp. owned stations. The Grand Prize Winner(s) specifically consent to any such audio recording and its use and reuse by and on various West Virginia Radio Corp. owned stations.
18. Entrants and the Grand Prize Winner(s) must release, discharge, relinquish and hold harmless the Sponsors and any of their respective licensees, assignees, parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated entities and each of their respective employees, agents, representatives, officers and directors ("Releasees") from any and all liability for medical care assistance, treatment, or services provided at any time, whether such treatment or services are provided by health care professionals, paramedics, or any other person.
19. Grand Prize Winner must execute all waivers and release agreements required by any or all of the Sponsors. Refusal, inability, or incapacity to execute any waiver or release disqualifies the refusing, disabled, or incapacitated Grand Prize Winner.
20. Grand Prize Winner(s) must accept all components of the Grand Prize. Failure to do so automatically disqualifies the Grand Prize Winner, and an alternate may be selected from the remaining entrants.
21. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize of comparable or greater value in the event the offered prize is unavailable.
22. Transfer of prizes is strictly prohibited. Receipt and use of all prizes shall be conditioned upon compliance with any applicable federal, state and local laws.
23. Any federal, state or local tax or other fees or charges associated with the receipt or use of any prize is solely the responsibility of the Grand Prize Winner(s). To meet Federal Tax Regulations, Grand Prize Winner(s) may be required to present his or her Social Security Number to Sponsors upon request. Prizes may be considered income.
24. Grand Prize Winner may be required to submit valid identification to the Sponsors and to execute an affidavit of eligibility and a liability release and a publicity release, where legally permissible, prior to being awarded the Grand Prize or any component thereof. If a Grand Prize Winner fails to submit any such information, as requested, such Grand Prize Winner will be disqualified and a new one may be selected from the alternates.
25. Releasees assume no responsibility or liability for damages, losses or injuries resulting from use of or acceptance of any component of the Grand Prize. In consideration for winning the Grand Prize, Grand Prize Winner(s) agree to release all Releasees from any and all liability for claims, actions or proceedings for injuries (INCLUDING PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH) or damages sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership or use of any component of the Grand Prize, or while traveling to, preparing for or participating in any Grand Prize or Contest related activity, except as otherwise limited by applicable law.
26. The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole and absolute discretion, to interpret compliance with the letter and intent of these rules, and to disqualify any entrant deemed to have violated these rules or to have filled out any application or submitted any entry materials incorrectly, incompletely, or untruthfully at any time prior to the distribution of the Grand Prize or any of its components.
Any attempt by an entrant to tamper with the proper administration of the Contest will disqualify the entrant and may result in the discontinuation of the Contest. All decisions are made by the Sponsors in their sole discretion, and are final.
27. The complete set of rules is available at our main office, 1251 Earl Core Road, Morgantown, WV 26505. Official rules supersede all other published editions.
28. These Contest rules shall be interpreted in accordance with West Virginia law, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or connected with this Contest or any prize awarded under these rules, shall be brought in Morgantown, West Virginia and entrants, Semi-Finalists, and Grand Prize Winners specifically consent to jurisdiction and forum in Morgantown, West Virginia
