Rules for staking requests in the English community
The following guidelines will hopefully improve the quality of stake request and somewhat screen the stakees but the responsibility lies fully and exclusively in the potential staker to check and judge whether the stakee is trustworthy and reliable.
The rules are applicable for any new stakes request or any stakes request that have not received an offer yet. Any stake request not following the guidelines will be either closed or requested to be modified at our discretion.
• Important:
PokerStrategy.com cannot be held responsible for Deals and Stakes between members and will not aid in investigation of problems or potential fraud cases.
Rules to follow:
1) The title needs to be in the following format:
Type of stake CG, SNG, MTT
BAP or long term
Limit played and amount requested
2) Requests need to be made in English and Stakees must create a separate thread in Staking: Discussion and Feedback and link it in his staking application. There is only one feedback thread per member allowed.
- Any member seeking a stake must have a minimum of 300 posts within the English Community, but this is determined at a moderator's discretion whether it is enough or not based on whether the user has spammed to reach this number or contributed to the community
- Members with Bronze status or higher are allowed to create staking requests.
- Members with Bronze status or higher are allowed to create staking offers as long as they themselves have 100 posts in the English Community.
- Stakers cannot dictate where stakees play. All offers will be vetted by PokerStrategy.com. Offers will be rejected if there is evidence that these terms and conditions have been breached.
- Stakes cannot be advertised outside of our partner rooms. Other rakeback/affiliate deals included will be rejected.
- Employees of PokerStrategy.com cannot be staked or stake others.
- Members with Coach- or Moderator avatar can only be staked or stake others upon sending their application to HeadAdmin Marta and be approved before placing the stake.
3) No coaching offers are allowed by stables to advertise in the English Community. Only PokerStrategy.com coaches are allowed to advertise coaching as part of their offering.
3.a). No promotion of staking stables except for SpinLegends. This includes but is not limited to: posts, avatar images, signatures, crosslinking to Twitch channels containing competitors' links
3.b). No private staking offers - no investors seeking "horses" allowed to advertise
4)Posting of contact details is not permitted in the staking forum. First contact must be made through our community tool. For more information see: IMPORTANT: Contact details and first contact
5) The relevant screennames must be posted. Also, the screename of stakees can be disclosed by other members in the designated subforum.
6) The amount requested must be adequate and relevant. (eg you dont need a 100BI to play 100SNG if you are a winning player).
7) The actual deal must be worded clearly including rakeback, stakeback, percentage, bonuses, mark up, make up, how many tournaments, SNG or Hands will be played during stake, timescale of stake but also sponsorship/ followup tournaments etc if applicable
8) You must clearly state why you want / need a stake
9) No begging
10) No excessive bumping (we will not accept bumping to always make your post to the top of the page)
11) Do NOT send members not having explicitly shown interest in the request unsolicited PMs for stakes
12) Only 1 stake request per thread
13) Moderator will quote opening post for reference. any change of the opening post for personal gain or advantage will not be tolerated and OP will be added to the blacklist and not allowed to request for stakes again
14 )Threads or single posts in the subforum might be closed or deleted, but the OP (original creator of the thread) has no right to request this.
15 )Stakees can only have one application running at any one time. The stake must be finished in order to open another stake.
♦ To be considered "Finished" one of the following must occur:
♦ A post from the applicant stating that the application is Abandoned for lack of interest, or Withdrawn due to a change in circumstances.
♦ The Final Result are posted in the application, along with the amounts due each staker AND a statement to the effect that the money has been sent.
♦ An exception to the "One person On Stake" rule may be made by applying to the staking moderators before applying for the stake. An exception will be made if and only if ALL of the following are true:
♦ The applicant has a history of positive feedback.
♦ The request is for a single event that begins and ends during the period covered by an existing application
♦ All payouts from all previous stakes have been make.
16) Every thread must contain the disclaimer that is in the message field by default. ( I have read and accepted the staking rules. By posting in this thread, every member acknowledges the same. )
17 )PokerStrategy.com reserves the right to make changes to the rules at any time.
18 )It is not permitted to seek staking outside of the staking forum.
Below the quote of the reference we will add the following disclaimer:
WARNING: BY STAKING THIS MEMBER YOU ARE RISKING A POTENTIAL LOSS BECAUSE OF FRAUD OR PLAYBAD/RUNBAD. AGREEING TO THIS STAKE IS YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY. POKERSTRATEGY.COM TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR STAKING DEALS BETWEEN MEMBERS. FURTHERMORE POKERSTRATEGY.COM IS NOT EXPECTED TO TAKE PART IN VERIFYING ANY PLAYER NOR GUARANTEEING AGAINST ANY LOSS
