100,000th Post 100,000 cent ($1000!) Contest...

[Talking Poker]

That's right, kids... We're quickly approaching the 100,000th post mark here at Talking Poker, and I'm putting $1000 cash (and some other cool stuff) up for grabs! This contest is designed to reward the winner an amount of money based on how many posts he or she has contributed during the lifetime of this site. Here's how it works: SHOW ME THE MONEY
Posts.......... Base Prize Amount
1-25............ $5
25-199......... $10
200-499....... $20
500-999....... $25
1000-1999.... $50
2000-2999.... $75
3000+.......... $100

COOL TP LOOT BONUS
In addition to the prize money listed above, the winner will also receive a sweet TalkingPoker.com Prize Pack, including:
-A Sweatshirt
-A Baseball Cap
-A Mousepad
-A Pen
-A few Poker Chips
This is a $60+ value! Pics of these items can been seen in the .

BIG $$$ BONUS
If the winner guesses the EXACT MINUTE that the 100,000th post is made, I will pay them TEN TIMES the Base Amount shown above, up to $1000!!! In other words, if your guess is January 2, 2007 at 3:45 AM and the 100,000th post is made at EXACTLY 3:45 AM on January 1st, then you win ten times the amount shown above, based on your starting post count. You still only get one prize pack though - not 10.

Close But No Cigar Prize
The runner up (second closest guess) will win a small TP Prize pack, including the following loot:
-A Baseball Cap
-A Mousepad
-A Pen
-A few Poker Chips


*Over the years, a number of posts/threads have been deleted for various reasons - duplicate posts, SPAM, and so on and so forth. Because of this, the number of posts listed in the TalkingPoker.com Forum Statistics section at the bottom of the main page does NOT match the numbers you see in URLs for post IDs. When I started typing up this post, for example, the Stats box showed 96,688 posts, but the most recent post was this one from Reel Deal, made just a couple of minutes earlier:


For the purposes of this contest, even though it will be a little bit harder to track, we are going to use the number in the Statistics box on the main page (96,688 in this example), and NOT the actual number shows in the post IDs (97,363). This way, we're celebrating the 100,000th legitimate post and not the 675 and counting posts that have been deleted.


Fine Print
In order to be eligible for this prize, the following must be true when this contest begins (right now):
---You must have GREEN Rep
---You must have made at least 1 post during November, 2006.

For the purposes of this contest, all times will be Eastern Time (GMT-5).

In order for a guess to be valid, it must include a month, day, and exact time (hour and minute).

One guess per person. Multiple guesses will be ignored.

If two people's guesses are the same number of minute off from the winning time, the person who posted their guess in this thread FIRST will be declared the winner.

I reserve the right to deem anyone ineligible to win this contest for any reason, especially if I believe there is anything shady going on. In other words, don't try to manipulate the results by going on a posting spree or deleting posts you have made or anything like that. I'm not stupid, and I will be researching the winner's recent history on the site before declaring him/her the official winner.

If for whatever reason the winner is declared ineligible, then, I will still award the prize, but to the next closest ELIGIBLE person.

The same is true for the bonus - No funny stuff. If you hit it, great, but don't force it. For example, if the 100,000th posts happens to be yours at the exact minute of your guess, consider yourself ineligible for the bonus, and possibly for the Base Prize as well.

My decisions are final.




The Guesses
Here are all of the eligible guesses, listed in chronological order. All times are ET:

12/09 21:45 - jimmym
12/10 12:11 - melioris
12/11 20:45 - Boobie Lover
12/12 03:46 - Kurn
12/12 20:00 - New Guy
12/13 13:37 - X-Longshot-X
12/13 14:15 - MAYHEM45
12/13 16:55 - Quint
12/14 09:07 - Gordogg
12/15 19:00 - meanness
12/16 18:40 - lightfungus
12/16 20:22 - N1kita
12/16 23:00 - bdawg31
12/17 13:23 - Spidey44
12/17 16:45 - murkosk
12/17 19:07 - GeoffM
12/18 06:07 - JDMcNugent7
12/18 12:00 - 2Tone
12/19 12:38 - johnp158
12/19 19:19 - Robbr25
12/20 20:45 - Aequitas58
12/20 22:18 - ChipFish
12/21 14:15 - Dodoubled
12/21 16:20 - pshabi
12/21 22:45 - thrash1294
12/22 11:00 - robthedlphin
12/22 14:22 - drewjax
12/22 18:23 - Talking Poker
12/23 12:23 - bunny
12/23 20:21 - Tony Cheval
12/25 19:01 - Reel Deal <--Winner! Winner! Winner!
12/26 12:26 - 100,000th post was made.
12/27 19:00 - Windbreaker <-- Close But No Cigar winner
12/29 16:38 - omahilo
12/30 19:12 - nflchad
12/31 08:00 - HEwong
01/01 00:00 - kkirk1329
01/10 19:00 - Spuddy
01/15 15:27 - juiCe[3x]
01/23 01:42 - Robbie Robb
02/02 14:22 - BlibbityBlabbity

Note: Guesses in this color are not eligible to win, but I may toss them something anyway if their guess would have won.

[Talking Poker]

Here are the official starting post counts for everyone with > 200 Posts. It should be noted though that a number of these people are ineligible due to either being inactive or for having Red Reputation. I've marked those with the Red Rep, but did not mark everyone who has not posted this month (that's easy to figure out later):

Talking Poker 16,386
pshabi 5,005
BrianSwa 4,449
eejit101 3,690
Zybomb 3,610
Aequitas58 3,505
GeoffM 2,978
Reel Deal 2,657
JDMcNugent7 2,514
omahilo 2,290
ChipFish 2,225
Penguinfan 2,107
BlibbityBlabbity 1,719
MAYHEM45 1,622
lightfungus 1,619
junYUN 1,477
Robbie Robb 1,352
rookette22 1,272
2Tone 1,224
Gordogg 1,171
Boobie Lover 1,170
SirFWALGMan 1,142
Tony Cheval 1,112
bunny 1,036
kkirk1329 996
melioris 807
johnp158 790
Hawt 773
Kurn 765
eddo31 751
studiopet 731
drewjax 677
sjay2k 636
HEwong 627
X-Longshot-X 602
N1kita 580
thrash1294 568
Windbreaker 508
bdawg31 507
Akverno 495
bigjohnstud2o 490
jaeh00d 478
johnbaker 471
GTDawg 467
Defendant 430
jimmym 430
jillaj 425
redbank09 423
Robbr25 413
meanness 361
Spidey44 358
jdiana86 352
Dodoubled 333
nflchad 327
PunkyChikn 311
nutbag 306
FatRufus 306
ashmc2 302
MathBabe 288
badblood44 284
New Guy 281
left68wing 279
greenbuckets 275
jimmytheg 273
Quint 269
TajaUk 263
Spuddy 262
Gutzz 250
BDMK 248
Jackass_man 247
Tuff Luck 245
kmb13592 229
Tilter 224
Kidd7138 219
juiCe[3x] 212
hackers238 211
Govman6767 207

[HEwong]

ill guess december 31. 8:00 AM

[Boobie Lover]

December 11th 8:45 PM EST

[juiCe[3x]]

Wild Guess: January 15th, 3:27 PM , 2007.

[Quint]

Dec. 13 4:55pm

[Kurn]

December 12 - 3:46 AM EST

[2Tone]

12/18 at high noon

[Nikita]

I'll say Dec 16, 8:22PM.

[thrash1294]

Dec 21 10:45pm EST

[jimmym]

Dec 09 9:45pm EST

[mufc112]

i will say january 1st 2007 2.05pm

[Talking Poker]

Sorry, but you don't meet either of these criteria to take part in the contest:

In order to be eligible for this prize, the following must be true when this contest begins (right now):
---You must have GREEN Rep
---You must have made at least 1 post during November, 2006.


In fact, you had 0 posts EVER until this one, so you wouldn't have even reached the 1-25 post prize category anyway.

[Tony Cheval]

Might as well shoot for my birthday:

December 23, 2006 8:21pm EST

[ChipFish]

December 20th 10:18pm

[Reel Deal]

December 25, 2006 at 7:01 p.m. EST.

It will truly be a Merry Christmas!!

[Windbreaker]

Dec 27th 7 PM EST

[Talking Poker]

There are at least THREE people in the contest so far who had made EXACTLY one post in November before this thread started.

I should have made the requirement 2.

[MattMatt]

wow thats sick 100,000 posts nice duuuuuddees!

[Talking Poker]

Here is the list of guesses. Please check to make sure I have your guess recorded properly, as this is going to be the official list. If I screwed up your guess (adding 12 to all those PMs gets tough!) or if I left you off the list entirely and you think you are eligible to be on it, speak up ASAP. Because as soon as we cross jimmym off the list (when his time passes), this will be the official list, even if I made a typo somewhere.

[drewjax]

drewjax=12/22 14:22

[Talking Poker]

TP = idiot.

I forgot to add yours to the list I was working on, even though we were talking about it.

Fixed.

[Talking Poker]

Just for fun... Some of you may remember that we had last year. 14 pages of nonsense later and you'll find a link that takes you here:


It was a contest to see who would post our 50,000th post. There were a lot of fine pront rules and it's a good thing because of the freeroll that was going on around that time (lots of crap on the board), but the eventual winner was Robbie Robb for making this post right here:


Now, you will notice that he made said post on 12/20/05... approximately 345 days ago. If I press submit right now, this will be Post #97890 (actual post number), meaning we've had 47878 posts in the past 345 days. Do the math and that averages out to 139 posts per day.

Now, you need to remember that that includes some CRAZY times, like , some crazy railbird threads (like my thread from this summer), and even the ever so popular, "" thread. That said, it also includes some weekends where this place was completely dead, like this past holiday weekend, for example. So the 139 is better than nothing.

Right now, the main page of the forum says we have 97,210 posts, 2790 shy of paydirt. At 139 posts per day, that means we're 20 days away from 100,000 - bringing us to right around 12/20.

How crazy woud it be if the 100,000th post came exactly one year to the day after the 50,000th??? Ironically, if this happens and depending on the exact time the post was made, ChipFish (aka Mr. Exactly one post made in November prior to the contest) would be the winner.

Anything can happen, of course, but I'd be very surprised if the 100,000th didn't fall within a week of 12/20, either way.

[lightfungus]

After a long period of statistical analysis, too long since I waited till after the deadline, I say we are going to hit it 14 days 18 hours from now...but accounting for weekends (less posting I believe) but adjusting for the TOC and all the posts that will generate (this cancels weekend down times out)...we will hit it at Dec 16th 6:40 pm.

[Talking Poker]

915 posts to go.

The potential winners are dropping like flies!