Internet Series of Poker - Page 6

sthief09 · #51 12-19-2004, 06:14 PM

this is really going to open the floodgates for the trolls and morons into this site

Freudian · #52 12-19-2004, 10:55 PM

Good luck.

I do suspect the size of the poker room will have a massive influence on the size of the tournament though. Since the buy-in is what it is, I suspect many will focus on satellites. But if you are making good money 4-tabling on Party, you probably don't want to spend all that much time at Absolut playing satellites.

Furthermore, I think marketing might be a nightmare. I can't really see Party making a big deal about the other qualifiers (providing Party is one of the sites) simply because they have no incentive to send players to their competitiors.

Anyway, it is early still. I am sure you guys are working hard to figure it all out.

GrannyMae · #53 12-19-2004, 11:55 PM

simply because they have no incentive to send players to their competitiors.

that is certainly what a site like party would think about this on first glance. however, upon further analysis, it becomes clear that the point of participation for party would be to show support to this community. this community pours a crap load of dollars into the party poker holes every day, so it would probably be EV- for them to snub the tourney.

we certainly are hoping that party realizes this and is involved, but who knows...

thanks for the rest of the encouragement though.

LondonBroil · #54 12-20-2004, 12:51 AM

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i had mentioned in a post the other day that 2+2 is the 9,700th busiest website on the internet. while i am not poking fun at anyone, in comparison, UPF ranks 197,000 in traffic.

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How do you find out this info? Is there a site that lists the amount of traffic for the busiest sites?

bdk3clash · #55 12-20-2004, 01:20 AM

Alexa.com keeps rankings like this.

sublime · #56 12-20-2004, 02:17 AM

this is really going to open the floodgates for the trolls and morons into this site

yeah but they might buy a book

MelchyBeau · #57 12-20-2004, 02:26 AM

wow, lots of postings, I scanned most of them and didn't see an answer to a question that's been sitting in my head. What events will this poker series have? I personally would like to see other games besides Hold em played.

Oh and will we get bracelets or something of the sort?

When it comes around I'll be looking at my bankroll to see if I got the cash to enter and still be safe with my money situation.

As for educating the fish, Theory of poker is #368, SSH is 987, and HEPFAP is #221 on Amazons best sellers list. The fish are already getting the materials to learn. You can own the text book, and go to class, yet still come out failing. I wouldn't worry about more fish being educated. In fact things like this tend to create more fish than educate them.

Melch

Joe Tall · #58 12-20-2004, 02:49 AM

Very interesting development, Granny, jek and the czars, well done.

Good luck with your venture.

Peace,
Joe Tall

Freudian · #59 12-20-2004, 10:49 AM

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that is certainly what a site like party would think about this on first glance. however, upon further analysis, it becomes clear that the point of participation for party would be to show support to this community. this community pours a crap load of dollars into the party poker holes every day, so it would probably be EV- for them to snub the tourney.

we certainly are hoping that party realizes this and is involved, but who knows...

thanks for the rest of the encouragement though.

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There is no reason for Party to snub it (especially if by size they can claim the right to have the finals). Just that they will for all intents and purposes treat it as a single (or two, if they have the final also) tournament at Party more than anything.

I suspect the risk of any Party player deciding to boycott Party because it doesn't promote the tour as a whole enough would be close to zero.

I have no idea how everything works out. I am just saying that online casinos/pokerrooms have much more reason to be protective of their current playerbase than the participating casinos in the WPT. I suspect none of them wants to lose customers to their competitiors and all of them plan to steal some customers from their competitors.

It is hard to to discuss though since we don't know much about the tour and how the casinos will act. It is possible that there is much more love and altruism between pokerrooms than I would give them credit for. I will follow it will interest. It will be interesting to see how much support a tour like this will have from both online players and the real-life tournament pros.

Steven Punk · #60 12-20-2004, 11:13 AM

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Well, you people didn't understand my Steven Punk persona, and you don't understand poor tyfromm. <sigh>

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Tyfromm,

You sir may be a lot of things but 1 thing that you are not of never will be is a Punk.

I may have been on sibattlecle but can not, NAY, must not allow your insolin to continue. Never ever try to pass yourself off as a Punk lest you reep the constaquence of losing your soul.

-Punk

Time passes and a thing changes yet Punk remains purched like a jeraff