Chuck's ready to make a change

[Mat Sklansky]

"HUSH becomes:
-Mid-High Shorthanded (MHSH)
-Small-Stakes Shorthanded (SSSH)"
MHSH and SSSH should be specific to limit hold'em

"The 3 current limit hold'em forums become:
-Micro Limits(ML)
-Small Stakes(SS)
-Mid Stakes(MS)
-High Stakes(HS)"

"A rant and rave, designated no content, or whatever forum sounds like a fantastic idea. People want to post these things. Many people even want to read them. However, I just don't like a slew of NC posts pushing strategy off the front page. Look at the designated NC threads in Micro. Those threads have a ridiculous number of replies AND views. I would seriously be dancing in the streets if I had a way to move threads of this sort to some sort of designated area."
(I like this notion of a trash can of sorts) I think it should be called the forum of low content: a place where posts are moved from strategy forums rather than deleted or locked. This will include bad beat posts. The name can always be changed if there is confusion.


Also, the forum suggestion forum.

[Surfbullet]

Awesome Mat, that looks great.

Are we forgoing a HU/3handed forum for the time being? That's fine by me, hopefully we can give it a shot after the next software upgrade if mid-high hush gets enough HU traffic.

Surf

[Mat Sklansky]

Yes, I want to wait on that.


And by the way, It's you guys that are awesome. I just quoted . Thanks.

[Greg J]

Since there is talk of splitting other forums (which I think is a good idea btw), I had a thought about the WPT/other TV poker forum. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that ostensibly for strategy and analysis? I saw a Matasow hand on TV I would have liked to have discussed... but thought better of it. It would have degenerated into some discussion of how Matasow is a jerk, or made fun of his mental illness, or something equally assinine. I'm sure there are some good posters there, and I don't want to offend anyone, but it seems that forum is dominated by fanboy types who like to bitch about how Chris Moneymaker or Tiffany Williamson are total fish and nonsense like that. If you are going to have a "rants and raves" forum, why not one dedicated to gossipy discussion of poker and TV stuff?

[astroglide]

i think it would be pretty difficult to discuss how OTHERS played hands without it being gossipy:

'he played that hand like crap'
'i would have played that totally differently'
'so why aren't you a millionaire?'

and so it evolves.

NVG is probably the appropriate place for pure-gossip tv threads, but it's not my area and i'd rather leave such decisions up to the moderators of those forums.

[bobbyi]

This looks good to me.

[Mat Sklansky]

What about Astroglide's concerns regarding mid/high?

[bobbyi]

I'm going to start a poll to see what people think if that's okay with you.

[Mat Sklansky]

OK

[astroglide]

i see and agree with surf and bobby's points regarding a midhigh split. there are probably a lot of people out there in mid-limit limbo with SS readers not being useful and MH posters finding their questions annoying.

mid stakes 8/16-15/30?

i think if you make it 20/40 and push higher stakes to 30/60+ it might be a little too exclusive. people with basic 20/40 or even 30/60 questions could still post them in the mid forum. if you set the high limit range too high and make a high limit HUSH i think you're really running a thinning risk since everything over 100/200 is shorthanded already. there's no telling where the mindshare will end up on the shorthanded posts. people should be more likely to abide by certain quality standards in the higher forum just because of the company too, so i wouldn't expect as many garbage hand history type posts.

i'd call the 20/40+ forum 'higher stakes' instead of 'high stakes', just because 'high stakes' has that nosebleed kind of connotation (which doesn't make sense even for 40/80).