[Closed] [Leaderboard] Hand discussions

Originally posted by nitrol
If a person wants to teach, he will have to be very well educated on the matter first and then he can try to spread his knowledge among the others.
I do not feel that way at poker, so I do not even think to try and teach.
As I improve my game and my understanding of the game, I will definitely want to share it with other, more inexperienced players. So far I am just giving my humble opinion and do not pretend to be always right.
If that helps others, I would be very happy.

What is your experience? What limit do you play yourself?

Nl2

I hope you are trolling?

The decision is not done yet...

Hey Guys,

Sven (who is in charge of this promotion) is on holidays. He will be back next week and will give you updates on this.

Cheers

I hope some terrorists didn't take him hostage while on vacation.

Hi nitrol,

Have to check that with Achmed "The dead terrorist", who is our undercover agent in their circles.
Stay tuned.

(Шегувам се )

Kind regards,
Alex

oki oki guys, before you go to the police and report me missing, here the updates for April!
More spectacularly, I can already announce that in June we gonna change the system a bit to give more users the chance to a payout. We will announce this system on June 1st!

nitrol: $50 in your Tell-a-Friend account + feel free to use the below picture as your Avatar for the forum
la55i: Status upgrade + 2 for one month + feel free to use the below picture as your Avatar for the forum
YoHanN7 & SDK1987: Status upgrade + 1 for one month + feel free to use the below picture as your Avatar for the forum
...oh, wait la55i & SDK1987 are mods already! Let me speak to my B2B contact and organize some tournament tokens for your William Hill account- would that be alright?

Congratulations you 4!

CU guys next m... in 2 weeks, it will be on time!

Thanks for status upgrade Sven

Tournament tokens would be great

Ha, already on the first of the new month! Let me quickly get to the payouts, but we will also do a news on the results and small changes that are coming, asking more users to contribute to our awesome discussions:

nitrol: $50 in your Tell-a-Friend account + feel free to use the below picture as your Avatar for the forum
la55i: Status upgrade + 2 for one month + feel free to use the below picture as your Avatar for the forum
SDK1987 & Hesticus: Status upgrade + 1 for one month + feel free to use the below picture as your Avatar for the forum

As mentioned in the previous month, we will change the system slightly to encourage more users to participate in the hand discussions and award prices differently and also adding one more spot.

• Main prize: 50$ are raffled among everyone who made at least 20 contributions. Posting on 20 different days also gives you automatically silver status because you earn 5SP per day for participating in strategy- and hand discussions!
• First place: 1 Month Diamond Status
• Second place:1 Month Status +2
• Third place: 1 Month Status +1

Sounds good Good job SvenBe! Really quick this time. Look forward to this new color at my screen

Hi guys,

nice competition I've totally missed because I've not played a lot poker for last 18 months or so. I'm definitely going to take part and snap those daily 5 points as often as I can.

I see it's been trolls and spammers game earlier. Hope you fix the rules this month. I quickly checked SNG HA page and one thing about rules came in my mind. I found out that there a lot of posts where the original poster sends the hand history on post #1 and then the question in post #2. I can't help my self thinking it seems like "stretching" the rules.

When I last time posted hand histories the common way to do it was to have both hand history and the question in same post.

If rules are that you get points from post #2 for your own post, then I of course do so my self. How you guys see the rule or how SvenBe define it to be this month?

For the SP we will only do occasional checks. For the winner of the 50$ we will raffle among all guys with the number of qualifying posts. We than check the winner for "spam" and would raffle again if we find too much. I will not post %, numbers or so, as this is hopefully for everyone just an addon to the awesome disucssions you guys have.
For the posts: It depends - if it is a question that needs some explanation, I surely will not mind a 2nd post. If it is only a "and,would you fold?" it hardly qualifies as useful extra post.

Can you clarify "Posting on 20 different days also gives you automatically silver status because you earn 5SP per day for participating in strategy- and hand discussions!"

If I post one hand history per day does that gain me 5SP?
Or
Does it have to be a reply to a hand history?
If so, does a reply on my own hand history count as a post?

Thanks

that is a nice spam inducing idea

So far I'm not seeing any more spam than before. The old system wasn't perfect either and I think this new system might even reduce spam
Also you have to remember that spam posts won't count in this promotion and if anyone starts really spamming their account will be restricted

Originally posted by slippyjim
Can you clarify "Posting on 20 different days also gives you automatically silver status because you earn 5SP per day for participating in strategy- and hand discussions!"

If I post one hand history per day does that gain me 5SP?
Or
Does it have to be a reply to a hand history?
If so, does a reply on my own hand history count as a post?

Thanks

Hi,

You only earn points when you reply to an existing post created by someone else.

If you want to read more about get 5 SP promotion you can find it here https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/content/Earn-Strategy-Points-just-for-discussing-poker_94550/

Hope this clear all your questions, good luck and have fun

Rompas

Hi guys, to clarify further to Rompas: (thx!)

- any reply, even to your own post counts. That's how our system works. We do know that this can be abused by posting a hand, asking "do you like it?" and collect 5 points.
- We do know that in a few cases people will do this, still the points are awarded automatically.
- What we do know here is occasional checks from Gibraltar side + have our moderators and coaches who also frequently visit topics + checking thoroughly the winner of the raffle for the $50 + in case we see anything questionable we will retroactively change the point allocation for that user.

hope that helps, Sven!

Hi Sven,

Also a question. I was rewarded a status upgrade but also went to Silver again based on my post count. This means I can't get a status upgrade from the reward system of turning 4th on the forum?

Cheers,

Hesticus

Originally posted by Hesticus
Hi Sven,

Also a question. I was rewarded a status upgrade but also went to Silver again based on my post count. This means I can't get a status upgrade from the reward system of turning 4th on the forum?

Cheers,

Hesticus

It is entirely possible that the status upgrade went to the wrong dude (me). I shouldn't have gold atm.