Question for forum Administrator

[Poker Advantage]

Mat,


Would it be ok if I put a signature tag at the end of my posts with my website? Is that acceptable.

Thanks.

[Mat Sklansky]

it depends on the website.if it's commercial, then we would require you purchase a banner. go ahead for now. if there's a problem, i'll let you know.

[Sarge85]

Since we're doing questions...

What are the chance that a Search feature could be offered for searching the boards for topics?

Sarge /images/graemlins/diamond.gif

[Potless]

To save anyone visiting the site I have extracted the following:
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There are a couple things you must consider before starting to play poker online for real money. In short their are 5 basic principles you must know. They are:

1. You will be dealt far more hands online than in a live Brick and Mortar game.

2. Your opponents are probly a lot softer than your typical live player

3. Playing online has some disadvantages, such as lack of tells, and realism

4. Your money will not be readily accesable, as it is in a live casino atmosphere

5. Be prepared for heavy up and down swings, as online poker is very volitile
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I think Two Plus Two can sleep safely in their beds

[Glenn]

I think that people should be fined $100 for saying "probly". Writing "probly" should result in some sort of community service and/or jail time. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Oh crap...Potless, seeing you post reminds me...I never posted the WCOOP stuff...OOPS!

[Mr Radar]

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I think that people should be fined $100 for saying "probly". Writing "probly" should result in some sort of community service and/or jail time.

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actually, glenn, you may recall that inthacup's word of the day on July 19th was 'probly' ... i looked it up. it means "having underdeveloped foot-eye coordination" ... for example: in addition to his many shortcomings, phil was too probly to put on his own shoes.

[Inthacup]

LMAO!

[Poker Advantage]

Were you trying to insult me or something? Perhaps you have a better site that you made, if so lets see it. If not you better do yourself a favor and dont speak.

[thylacine]

For you skeptics:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=probly

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actually, glenn, you may recall that inthacup's word of the day on July 19th was 'probly' ... i looked it up. it means "having underdeveloped foot-eye coordination" ... for example: in addition to his many shortcomings, phil was too probly to put on his own shoes. Mr Radar


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[Poker Advantage]

Thanks mat

[tiltboy]

Santa's wish list:
1. A new spell checker for PokerAdvantage

[tiltboy]

Wow, 5 posts and you're already making threats. That's going to give ramadingdong a run for his money.

[Simon Diamond]

Thats 3 shots over par. Some don't even make the second post... /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Simon

[Mr Radar]

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Wow, 5 posts and you're already making threats. That's going to give ramadingdong a run for his money.

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hey i want in on this too, so ... rocklobster, you son of a bitch, you step to me one more time and your ass is grass.

[thylacine]

Mutter, Mumble, Groan, Grumble, Nag, Bitch, Whine, Snap!

Oops, my bad! I thought this was the internet grumbling forum!

[PlayerA]

you mean rec.grumbling.poker

[Mr Radar]

thylacine, you son of a bitch, you step to me one more time and your ass is grass.

[thylacine]

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thylacine, you son of a bitch, you step to me one more time and your ass is grass.

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hey i want in on this too, so ... rocklobster, you son of a bitch, you step to me one more time and your ass is grass.

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Are you a GrumbleBot?? /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Mr Radar]

i've been called alot of things, thycaline. but that may be the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me. i love you.

[HUSKER'66]

Poker Advantage,
Potless was PROBABLY being a little too harse. I didn't believe that he had quoted your site word for word, and guess what, I was right. He is the one that mis quoted your second tip (you don't even use the word "probly" in this tip). I do think that you might want to take a look at your tip section and make a few minor change's though:

tip 2) change the wording "most likely" to more likely
tip 4) the proper spelling is accessible not accesable as you have it
tip 5) volatile is misspelled
You must put your "best foot forward" as they say, and no one will take you seriously if you can't spell or conjugate words/sentences properly.I'm not trying to "slam" you, just wanted to pass on what I hope is some helpful info. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Mr Radar]

phil could not spell, conjugate or spell 'conjugate'. and he was too probly to put his best foot forward.

[HUSKER'66]

Ok, I'll bite.......who is this Phil your refering to?

[Poker Advantage]

Thanks..I made the changes.

VOLATILE is spelled correctly FYI


Actvol·a·tile ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vl-tl, -tl)
adj.
Chemistry.
Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.
That can be readily vaporized.

Tending to vary often or widely, as in price: the ups and downs of volatile stocks.

Thanks for ur help again.

[abc123]

Why yes it is... You were railbirding on Poker Stars last night (the 100/200 game), spamming this pathetic site. Do you have a crew, like OC, that you have send out to spam Party and UB?

Poker Advantage? What advantage? The site is really a joke and you should reconsider spamming it. You've embarrassed yourself enough.

I get a kick out of all the "Informational Poker Sites", that have popped up, offering so called "Advantages"...again Joshman...what a f'n joke this site is.

[Potless]

Mis-quoted? I only used cut and paste, how much time you think I've got? Good to see the site has improved out of all recognition since its inception.

Visit my website if you wanna find your way back here!

Potless Does It Here (http://www.geocities.com/notnewbied/home.html)

[thylacine]

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Thanks for ur help again.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ur

We of Ur are proud of our Ur-help. Now, er, don't you err and slur or blur Ur. Come sample our fur and myrrh.

Schnurr Fnurr
The right honurable
Mayur of Ur

[Poker Advantage]

LoL sorry just have to abbreviate some times when I am typing a lot.

Josh

[HUSKER'66]

I apologise,(apologize-if your British) I could have sworn that you had it spelled vol-i-tile with an "i" and not an "a". You need to look over your warning about checking with your local law "emforcement" before playing online.(enforcement /images/graemlins/wink.gif)

[HUSKER'66]

Duh! I'm such a sucker /images/graemlins/tongue.gif It DOES bring me right back to 2+2.......ROTFLMAO.......classic /images/graemlins/smirk.gif /images/graemlins/wink.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Poker Advantage]

First of all I am not spamming, I wanted peoples thoughts on it. Second I have no crew. Furthemore is your life this dull that you must put down a site that is only 4 days old. Why don't you make a better one if you dont like mine ok? CYA

Josh

[Mr Radar]

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Ok, I'll bite.......who is this Phil your refering to?

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starts with an H. ends with an ellmuth.

[Poker Advantage]

Thank you again..corrected lol

Josh

[Poker Advantage]

Thats a good question.

[Simon Diamond]

Why don't you make a better one if you dont like mine ok?

Seeing as others have tried to offer advice, heres mine - take it or leave it.

You would be better advised to concentrate on your own site than consistently bait others to, as you put it, make a better one. Be careful - the people of two plus two can be fantastic allies, but even harsher critics (sorry guys, you know its true). There has been quite a bit of criticism about your site, some being constructive and helpful to you. Make the most of it.

Commenting on how dull our lives our is irrelevant - and seeing how you want peoples opinions on your site it is best not to antagonise.

As an aside - Personally, I don't like your site, so if you want to see a better one click the link in my signature. Matter of taste of course. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Simon

[Poker Advantage]

Yes simon your critisism is real constructive saying "personally I dont like your site" Is that supposed to help me or something? I mean my site is a bit more than two page dedication page. No need to flame me man. I dont even know you.

[Simon Diamond]

To quote you - Why don't you make a better one if you dont like mine ok?

King of the Zoo homepage (http://www.geocities.com/kotzpoker)

You asked for it my friend. Also - you asked for opinions and I gave you my honest opinion. If you cannot accept that, then you shouldn't expose yourself in the public light.

Still, I'm sure your site will last a hell of a lot longer than mine or anyone elses round here - what would we know!

Best of luck to you all the same, like I said, personally I don't like it. Others may do and it is those people you should worry about.

Simon

[Poker Advantage]

Thanks

[dux]

You keep putting yourself back in the ring for more it seems.

This was a good post from Simon - a freindly post. He tells you to listen to the advice written by others in this thread. So he doesn't like your site.

I think the common vibe from most posters is that we have seen it all before when it comes to your site. It has nothing special or individual about it, bar a weird article about OC, which seems to be stooping to OC's level. I'd take the moral high ground on this one and distance yourself from this argument.

[Poker Advantage]

Dux,

I understand what your saying, but why does everyone have to be so negative twords it. I mean I am faling to make the connection here. I asked for some advice and im getting slammed. And now you tell me just to let myself get slammed? I am a nice guy I dont really derserve the critisism. If it were constructive that would be a totally different story.

Josh

[dux]

Not all of it was constructive, I will admit that, but some of it was. For example, when a few people made fun of your spelling. That wasn't so constructive, but then somebody explained that when running a website or buisness (and I will add when writing anything for that matter), you should be as crystal clear and accurate as possible. You have to make it as easy as possible for people to read your advice.

[Simon Diamond]

Josh,

I think dux made a good point, and probably the reason I am not enamoured to your site - there is very little originality in its concept. We have seen this kind of thing laudered here over the past months and in all honesty are a little tired of it.

If there was some feature on there that was original, maybe it would be more worth viewing. As it is, the only original thing (as dux pointed out) was an article about Onlinechamp. I totally agree with him on that one - I would let that it go and forget about him, the hassle is not worth it and you are only making a fool of yourself. Though of course it is up to you how you deal with it.

None of the criticism made by myself was personal towards you as an individual. I would imagine you are a nice guy - but you asked for opinions on your site and opinions are what you have got.

In life you have to be prepared for some bad press if your product is not up to scratch. I have been slated for things in the past, and no doubt will again in the future but one thing is for sure - I will not take it personally. Without that criticism it would be a lot harder to make any progress.

It is in the face of adversity that we find a lot out about ourselves. Take all this criticism on board, sit down and have a think about it, and try to come up with some solutions.

At least you have one thing on your side if nothing else - you are having a go. There will always be a lot of critics about, but thats life.

Simon

[jek187]

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Furthemore is your life this dull that you must put down a site that is only 4 days old. Why don't you make a better one if you dont like mine ok?

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My site, www.bonuswhores.com (http://www.bonuswhores.com) is also under a week old. I think it's substantially better than your site.

Does this mean that my life is not dull in your eyes? God, I hope so. I however welcome any and all comments on my site. I don't care if the commentor can build a better site or not.

[Adde]

Oh yes, that is exactly what I have been looking for, jek, an updated (I hope?) bonus tracker site.

But I don't like you sandbagging your pocket aces against me at Party yesterday...:-)

[Adde]

Yeah, good site? It almost costed me a pot! Was looking too long at the bounty page, and the orange background fooled my eyes and made the green and blue cards (4-color deck) at Party look almost the same.

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[jek187]

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that is exactly what I have been looking for, jek, an updated (I hope?) bonus tracker site.

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That's exactly what you'll have. We'll also update other promos where there's an overlay. The sites we currently have up, will be updated from this point forward. We also have information mostly done on 3 more sites, but are waiting for the sites to respond to us on a couple minor matters.

Our tentative plan right now is to get reviews done on all the sites listed on Poker Pulse + True Poker. While keeping all of them updated we will add all the really little sites. After that, if keeping everything updated doesn't eat up all our time, we have ideas for some "special features" which should be of interest to most internet card players.

As for the AA...I just went and looked it up (I was playing 5 tables at the time...so if you said hi and I didn't respond, don't feel slighted.) Moral of the story: Don't 3 bet me preflop. It's not very nice. And poker is all about being nice.

[Adde]

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Moral of the story: Don't 3 bet me preflop. It's not very nice. And poker is all about being nice.


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I will 3 bet again, be sure of that, but I am not too pleased with my post flop play in that hand, so that you wont see again /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Re bonuswhores.com, a feature I would like to see is a time estimate of how long it would take to clear a bonus at a given site. Also, maybe a summary of what deposit options are available for a site.

[jek187]

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a feature I would like to see is a time estimate of how long it would take to clear a bonus at a given site.

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We will put in the hourly rates for the bonuses. This is preferable to stating how long it takes to clear the bonus beacause some people won't deposit enough to qualify for the whole amount. So, if you plan on playing 1/2 to clear your $100 bonus at Party, and we state that it's worth $12/hr then you just divide 100 by 12 for 8.3 table hours. If someone only qualifies for $60 of the bonus, then they can easily determine it will take 5 hours until they clear it. I think this route is better since it will allow us to avoid having to put large tables on page. Also, I personally find it better to think in dollars/hr when I decide if I'm going to go chase a bonus down.

Also, please note that of the 3 sites we have done, only one (Party) currently offers a 1st time bonus. And they're being *very* slow responding to a key bonus question we have for them (surprise surprise.) So, I realize that you haven't seen the $/hr bonus info.

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Also, maybe a summary of what deposit options are available for a site.

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This is a good idea. We're going to expand the front page to give some more introductory information. Possibly adding a line like "unless otherwise noted all sites accept Neteller, Firepay, Prepaid ATM, etc." If a site accepts additional sources of funding, then we'll add that in the specific review for the site. What do you think?

Thanks for you comments. If you come up w/anymore, please let me know.

[Adde]

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So, I realize that you haven't seen the $/hr bonus info


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I have now:-), but I'd rather have this info on the Bonus page rather than on the Site page. What I think would be most worthwhile for a bonus whore is a single-one-stop-page where you get all the info you need about current bonuses and promotions.

As for large tables on a page, there are ways to both maximize info AND minimize space. For instance, you could have the hourly rate table as text only in a hovered link.



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If a site accepts additional sources of funding, then we'll add that in the specific review for the site. What do you think?


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Again, I would like this info at the Bonus page (too). If I see at once that a site don't offer Neteller deposits, I save some time /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Also, a feature I would like is a definitive guide to poker skins (Party, Microgaming, Victor Chandler?, etc)...

I used to work with creating web sites (focusing on content and usability aspects), so I'd be happy to help with comments and constructive critique. Now I'm laid off, sleep til noon and play poker /images/graemlins/smile.gif /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Poker Advantage]

Hey jek nice site cept every time I go to it my windows explorer crashes. Heard of that before? Maybe something needs to be fixed.

[David]

[Simon Diamond]

LOL - accept my sincerest apologies /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Weighing in on the debate around jek's Bonus Whores site - good work mate. If you need any logos or artwork let me know, but I can see you are concentrating on the content side of things and doing a good job so far.

Keep it up,
Simon

[mongeron]

Hello jek,

One comment from me. The blinking text on the web pages looks terrible. Please, use any other effect than that to highlight things.

- mongeron

[crockpot]

hey jek, if you're tracking deposit bonuses for those new sites that have 10 real money players online at peak hours, think we could collude to get enough people there to actually clear the bonuses without sitting around all day waiting for a game?

by the way, i would just like to say for the record that your site may be fledgling, but it's far better than O:PG, OC, and PokerAdvantage put together. i'm beginning to wonder if any similar URLs are still available so i can go partners with someone on this concept.

what exactly is the 'advantage' in going to this site, unless you happen to be the physical manifestation of the webmaster's neteller account? i don't mean to put the site down, but you could at least offer something between banner ads, even if it's a big flashing "give me money!" sign.

[Adde]

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what exactly is the 'advantage' in going to this site

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For me that would be visiting the Bonus page once a week and look out for the present promitions going on, instead of lurking through various message boards to find the info (if it even can be found there at all).