Challenge of the Poker Forums !

[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?

[BrianSwa]

could be yes could be no, putting TPfreeroll is fine because if someone can figure out what TP stands for good for them. But like you said putting no name is fine also. I wont be joining because I got too many things going on right now and dont have alot of money to spend right now.

there are reasons why its good idea and reasons why it is bad idea just have to weigh the good against the bad and see if its worth it. I honestly dont want to see the forum go through the mess it went through a couple weeks ago so id probobly vote no on freeroll idea. If you make it a $10 buy-in id probobly say sure.

[Talking Poker]

Stars does the color coding automatically. So even if the word "freeroll" isn't in the title, the freeroll chasers still no where to look.

[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?

[rookette22]

This is my idea...I'll take responsibility for it. I won't tell anyone the pw until the right time. The other admin will have to do it my way or no way. And he's kewl enough to agree with it, I'm pretty sure of that; now we wait for TP.

I did it this way so as not to let TP or the other admin make it a freeroll out of their pocket. Didn't think it was fair, cus TP's given us so much already. That was the first idea mind you. But that's a sure fire way to get all kinds of crashers.

We have lots of time to work on this; we're not doing anything till TP comes back from his trip; but I would however like his blessing on this, if not then forget the whole idea.

[Nikita]

It's a great idea Rook, don't get me wrong. And as I said, I'm interested and if the criteria is right, I will be joining. I'm glad you are taking on this project, but just be warned, planning and implementing might lead to headaches. But if it works out, I think it will be a really amazing tourney.

[rookette22]

I know I could do it & make it work; infact if it would be my forum it would be in the works already. But can't do anything without TP's vote. His forum, his rules. And as it stands now he's not budging on the $5 pre-buyin.

[Talking Poker]

If you are hellbent on douing this, fine, do it. But I don't want my name or the name of this forum associated with it in any way. People from here are welcome to take the risk in playing if they choose to, but when all hell breaks loose, I don't want people coming to ME looking to get their $5s back, etc. You'll need to do this all on your own. Call it "Rook's Peeps vs. PokerFlea" or whatever, and feel free to recruit your peeps from here any way you please. You've got my blessing to spam your tourney here, but I want it made VERY CLEAR that I have nothing to do with the unconventional buy in procedure, nor will I take any responsibility if and when anything (big or small) goes wrong.

[Talking Poker]

You're not going to get my blessing on the added freeroll complexity. But you've already been given my blessing on the tourney itself.

Put yourself in the showes of the other forum's members. "If you want to play, transfer $5 to soandso on Poker Stars and we will PM you the password on a forum that you don't even belong to 15 minutes prior to the event starting... provided nothing goes wrong in the entire process, like my internet connection going out, or TP giving me the names of the people who paid fast enough or matching those Stars names to the TP.com names that you don't even have yet, etc, etc, etc."

No way would people be stupid enough to go through all that. I wouldn't be, anyway.

[Talking Poker]

EXACTLY. No way would *I* participate in a tourney set up like this. I trust Stars with my buy in money, but not dozens of "unknowns." It's just a BAD IDEA.

I'm certain we'd lose more people if they had to go through all this to play than we would because the tourney costs $10 instead of $5. 100% certain.

Not to mention all the headache, hassle, chasers, beggers, and hard feelings from the people who want to play but the password hander outer decides aren't trustworthy enough, etc, etc...

[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.