Challenge of the Poker Forums !

[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]

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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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

[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]

lol ....

Thanks for the laugh...needed that.

[Tony Cheval]

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

[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.

[rookette22]

LMAO... out of context!

[Robbie Robb]

Whichever way the decision falls regarding buy-in, count me in. The one thing to consider though regarding transferring the money to TP: this would require the players from the other forum to transfer the money to TP as well (I *think* it would require all moneys to go to the same person). WE all know and trust TP - I'm sure the admin over there realizes that TP is a trustworthy guy, but will the users accept that? Honestly, if I were a member of the other forum and was told to transfer my money to a 'Rogue23' at PS, I'd be very hesitant. A lot of those folks have probably heard of the forum, but that doesn't automatically mean they trust it. After all, we could be in one giant conspiracy to bankrupt the other forum by fleecing them $5 at a time

I think this is a great idea and, as mentioned, I'm in! We just need to flesh out a way to set it up so that there is no hassle for anyone and is affordable for the maximum number of players! (after all, if I'm going to win, I want to maximize my winnings )

[rookette22]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, much appreciated.

I'd trust both admin to look after their own members.

[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.

[PShabi]

Great minds think alike.

[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]

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.

[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.