Challenge of the Poker Forums !

[rookette22]

Hmm...I have this idea but don't know if it's possible or if you'd go for it, so I'm gonna mention it to you before contacting the other forum admin.

Was thinking.... how about we make it a $5 buy-in; payable to you in advance & then you use that to make it a freeroll type tourney using the $5/member? No need to call it a freeroll, just name it whatever you want; just asking to see if that's even possible to do.

See, this way you'll get more members from the forums involved, instead of just the ones with a big bankroll. More members, more fun...more of a challenge. (Maybe even more prizes)

Also we'd know for sure how many players would be in it once they pay their buyin. If you just make it the $10 buy-in, most members say they'll be there but might not even show up. This guarantees you that the players will show up; being they don't want to lose their buy-in.

We can also advertise on the outside too. Get new members to come in here to join our team in order to challenge the other team forum.

Did I tell you I'm a damn good PR person lol weeeeee....I'm lovin' this idea.

Just a few suggestions. Let me know what you think.

P.S: I don't have any real New Year's resolutions; so I'm gonna help you make one of yours happen.

[Nikita]

It's a good idea in theory Rook, but even though we don't want to call it a freeroll, without an actual buy-in at PS, it's a freeroll. If we do that, I can see a ton of crashers trying to get in. Look what happened to shabi and the forum with the RVP one. I don't think TP wants to go through that again. And personally, I'd be afraid to put my $5 in and then have a tournament with a bunch of crashers.

I've also actually been at that site. When I wanted to learn more about poker, I started searching for poker sites and stumbled on that one first. All I found there was a bunch of freeroll chasers. People begging for passwords to freerolls they weren't invited to and actually getting them. I've seen people over there that were banned from here during the first freeroll where there was a post requirement. I'd be worried that some of their forum members won't want to pay and will get the password anyway. I didn't like the site and haven't been since I first found it.

I also doubt very many of them will be competition. From what I gathered, it seemed only the admin and mods played seriously for real money.

P.S. I'm soooo glad I found TP.com.

[Talking Poker]

I'm in complete agreement with N1k... sorry rook, but it's actually a really bad idea. Not to mention how much extra hassle it would be for me. $10 should be fine. Unless, as I said, the other Admin wants to set something up wherever.

[rookette22]

Yeah you make a good point. Never thought about the crashers.

Hmm...but $10 is still too pricey for some members.

Let's just stop and think for a minute; do you really think that the members that put in their $5 would want to give the pw away? I would think once they put their money into this tourney they wouldn't want to give their pw away to crashers. And we'd only give out the pw 15 mins before tourney. I'll take care of that myself by emailing or pm'ing everyone involved once i have the list. I'd never post the password, that too me is asking for trouble.

[Talking Poker]

You're being really naive, rook. What's to prevent Person X from paying $5 for the password and then selling it to 10 of his buddies for $2 each?

It's a bad idea.... if that's how it's run, I can promise you that you won't get my $5.

If $10 is too much for someone to spend, then they probably shouldn't be spending $5 either.

[rookette22]

Don't give up on the idea so quickly.

Look at when pshabi sent out the password, all went well remember? It could work out if the right precautions are taken. Bad idea to post the password, Good idea to send pw 15-20 mins prior to start of tourney.

[BrianSwa]

this goes for the freeroll thing when you do a freeroll dont put the forum name in the freeroll or little buy in event or whatever.


do like TPfreeroll or something along those lines the other forum I belong to does PPPfreeroll and we NEVER have crashers. Im sure the ones that really want to figure it out will but most are lazy.

[rookette22]

I wouldn't even suggest putting down 'freeroll'. My friends have one every Friday night; they put whatever name. This way you don't get a bunch of crashers. Common sense if you put Freeroll in the name you'll get crashers; duh. And don't make it stand out so much by using a different color font. Blend it in with the rest of them.

You think it's a bad idea too Brian?

[Nikita]

I'm still interested in this, but I just think it needs refining. Brian seems to have a good idea, but I'm really worried about that other forum. What's to stop them from posting the password in their forum? Or PMing the pw days before the event leading to possible leaks?

[Talking Poker]

I haven't read through this entire thread yet, so my replies might be a bit dated, but I figured I might as well respond as I see thing. So, for this post:

My answer is still "No." And it's still going to be "No" even if you keep trying to convincce my how good this idea is. If you need a better reason that what I've already listed, how about the pain in the ass of collecting money from people, having to email the Stars affiliate people to set up the tourney, etc, etc, etc.

As I said, I'm not interested, but if the other forum leader wants to go through all of that, so be it.

I guess I just don't see the point though. I mean, how many people CAN afford to spend $5 but CAN'T afford to spend $10? I really think you're making this huge issue out of less than 5 people, if I had to guess... probably more like 2.

[rookette22]

Call me whatever you like; Pshabi's idea to pm the password worked out fine...I think if you give this a chance it will too. But then again if you want to do it your way at the $10 buy-in and play with 7 or less ppl that's fine. Whoop-ti-doo... wonder how much fun that'll be?!

All that within 15 mins prior to tourney???? Nice of you to give them all THAT idea now.

Think about it? I said I'd take responsibility for the pm of password; I think you're making it sound worse than it actually is.

[HEwong]

ill participate in a challenge between poekr forums.

[Tony Cheval]

...and we have an early candidate for Post of the Year!

[rookette22]

LMAO... out of context!

[PShabi]

Did you read the freeroll thread, rook? Everything hardly went fine. I had to weed through endless idiot posts and retarded PMs to get the password out. It was annoying and it brought a bunch of assholes to the forum. That's it.

$10 buy-in. Print it.

[rookette22]

That's cus it was a freeroll...this one isn't!

Edit: that's what happens with freerolls; this one will be set up almost like the league thread ...it should run a lot smoother than telling everyone it's a Freeroll cus it really isn't a Freeroll!!!

It will be advertised as a $5 BUY-IN tourney! Payable in advance to their forum adminstrator. We will have the list of players prior to tourney. I'll be looking over the list, if I see someone I know on there that I don't trust I might even disallow him/her from joining.

Another thing; if PS allows it maybe we can close the registration to tourney a few hours beforehand. Maybe we could even set a player limit.

I'm really fired up about this, and I really do think it will work. It won't work if none of you are interested in even giving it a shot, though.

[PShabi]

Great minds think alike.

[kmb13592]

Sounds good, as long as my bankroll isn't too small at the time I'm in. Hope I can help out the forum.

[BrianSwa]

your bankroll? what bankroll?

[rookette22]

Would you also agree to play if it were to be a $10 buy-in instead of $5 ?

[BrianSwa]

click link provided

[rookette22]

lol ....

Thanks for the laugh...needed that.

[PShabi]

Alright, I can't take it anymore.

If $10 is too pricey, then really, should you (not YOU, rook) even be spending $5? Probably not.

[rookette22]

Have you been spending lots of time with TP? Cus that's exactly what he said!

The whole point to this is to make it fun and maybe get a few new members in here and make this forum well known. Only way to do that is to make it cheap enough for members to join in the tourney. If you make it too pricey then you'll be the same ppl that you were when we had the last tourney that you were in charge of. How many were we? 13? Ok since there is 2 forums, maybe you'll get 20 peeps at most. Is that what you all want??

It was fun mind you but same o same o. We want a big turnout. We want people to talk about this tourney. Well those were my plans. Guess you guys just want to play each other. If that's the case, I'll suggest it to the other admin.

I think we need a vote on this....we need "Superman" ..wait.... no; wrong dude lol....we need Blibbity to set up a vote count thing-a-ma-jig.

[BrianSwa]

I hate to be the one to say this but I will, if the new users cant afford $10 I DONT WANT THEM HERE , I know alot of people were thinking that I just had the balls to say it.

I dont want a bunch of cheapo morons here begging for $1 or something like that. I have been busted out online before but I never asked for a damn cent from anyone. Thats just not in my personality to beg for change from people, frankly if you cant afford $10 then go to some freeroll forum not here.


I only have $160 on pokerstars but Ill play if its $10 buy in.