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HODLpoker start your poker journey entirely for free by playing with our faucet!!!

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Introduction

We are 2 friends and both very passionate about gambling and poker. We decide we are going to launch our very own online poker platform. Maybe nothing special about that but we are aiming to become the first crypto poker platform build for those with a tiny bankroll or even for people that do not have funds to put in poker.
Our goal is not to make a huge amount of money with our project, our main goal is to deliver a nice platform for poker players with any kind of bankroll.

We want to separate ourselves from all the latest poker related ICOs that have appeared. Look at coinpoker. Everything looked super cool but at this moment the price dropped to below 1 cent and hardly has any traffic on their platform. Even with launch of short deck poker and mobile apps there hasn't changed anything on player traffic and token value.

How are we different like this projects?

- Firstly we do not launch an ICO
The crypto and poker community aren't waiting for another poker token that will fail in time. Crypto and poker community just want a crypto pokerroom where they can have fun and just can play by using their BTC, ETH or other well established coins.

- We do not raise millions of $ to develop our project. We are a small project that until now has been developed with own funds and some donations from friends. And we will keep working in this way for the following weeks and months.

- We listen to our friends and supporters. We will open an option for people to join as early bird testers with very nice conditions. This group (max 100 people) will have the opportunity to interact with us and decide with us what to add, to exclude and how to improve our platform. This group will also be the test group to test our platform before it actually goes live.

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The HODLpoker platform

We can't show any screenshots at this moment. At this very moment we are working on coding the entire platform. We will have visuals of our platform as soon as everything gets migrated. So at this very moment we can only tell you how our platform will work.


Platform

We will start with our web version but we will start working on mobile versions asap. We will have a downloadable version or can be played in browser.

Accounts

New players will be able to signup on our platform just by using their email, phone number and password. No further personal details are necessary to join our platform.

Games

Primary we are going to start to offer the 2 most popular games No limit holdem and Pot limit Omaha.
This 2 variants will be available in cash games, sit&gos and tournaments.
We will offer different speeds of game play. from slow over regular to turbo and hyper turbo.

During upcoming months after our launch we will have polls with our community on what games to add. Some games that are in the pipeline anyway are KO and Progressive KO tournaments, live event qualifiers, spin&go SNGs,...

Rake and rake back

Our tournaments fees will include a rake of 5-10% and our cash games will have a rake of +-4% per hand and will be capped depending on the table blinds. Exact rake plan will be announced and primary be discussed with our group of testers.

We will offer a general 30% rakeback plan for every player. We do not want to benefit highrollers so we decided to give a general 30% rake back to every active player. We do not pay our rake back in points but every week your account balance will be credited with your weekly rakeback. Afterwards you can use your weekly reward to play more games or withdraw to your wallet.

platform currency

Our platform will work on credits. 1 credit has a fixed value of 1 uBTC (0.000001BTC) We decided to work with uBTC as base value for our internal credit because we want to attract players of every level and not only those that have more to spend on gambling/poker. Compared to pokerstars they offer games starting as less as 0.02$ for a game. By working with uBTC as basis we also can offer games of 0.02 credit (2satoshi). If we would work with mBTC than we would have to organize games with a buy-in of 0.0000...1 credit which isn't that convenient.

Deposits and withdrawals

As mentioned a couple times we want to offer a nice platform for those that don't have that much or even nothing to spend. So different like other platforms we do not have a minimum deposit of 10$ or more. We want to give people the opportunity to even deposit 1$ or 0.5$.
Cause even with a 0.5$ deposit you will have plenty of games you can choose from.

Faucets

Faucets will be another advantage for players that do not have any bankroll to spend. Every player will be able to claim a faucet 20-24 times per day. Every faucet will have a value between 25 and 100 satoshi. So in this way even players without a bankroll can play on our platform and try to make some money.
Especially for faucet players there will be a wide range of available games including cash games, SNGs and tournaments with micro buyins. Beside that we will also offer special satellite tournaments for faucet players to qualify for bigger buy-in tournaments.

Afilliate program

Nowadays a platform can grow strong by a huge supporting community. You can spend thousands on marketing but mouth to mouth is the most powerful marketing tool at this moment. That is why we are going to introduce our affiliate program. As an affiliate you will earn 10% commission on the weekly rake of your referrals.
so if one of your referrals produces 100$ rake this week you as affiliate you will receive 10$ rake.

Chatbox

We want to become a social platform. So an interactive chatbox will be included. So beside chatting at the tables our community will have the opportunity to chat with every online player. Our chatbox will have all basic functions but also a P2P transfer or tipping system will be included. Players will be able to transfer credits to any possible player internally. And once in a while we will randomly distribute platform earnings to our players. This will also run through our chatbox.

Promotions

we will organize different kind of promotions as soon as we launch our platform.
Some examples: deposit or reload bonuses, rake race, free rolls, badbead jackpot, referral contests, live event qualifiers,....

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Support

At this moment we are in development phase of our platform. But we already open applications to expand our team.
For now you can apply for.

- Moderator on our chatbox
- Support staff
- Top affiliate
- streamers, bloggers, content writers,...

Contact us through telegram and we can discuss in private if you are qualified to become part of our team.

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Contact and/or follow us

At this moment we do not have a website, we are still building our platform. So for now you can contact us through are telegram group, pm us through telegram or send us a pm here on bitcointalk.


 Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/LY6ivVfMFME5ITS7bFcR0Q) Twitter (https://twitter.com/HLpoker)
@mistergambler or @copytrader1983 to pm us through telegram

email, website, contact forms will be added soon.

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First of all, how are we suppose to play by using faucet on a poker game? If I think this is possible, then there must be some room where only faucet abuse might able to play. Second thing, why there is only 25 sat and 100 satoshi? Do you mean the range is between 25 to 100 sat? And the last one, why should we deposit our money here before we can get a positive review from your site? It is too risky to spend $50 without having anyone reviews on

How much wagered do we need to withdraw our money? Because you giving us 10% of the rakeback, then there must be some requirement to withdraw

Regarding faucets:
Like Many gambling sites they offer faucets , for example primedice, stake.com where people can use their claimed faucets to place bets. We also going to offer faucets that can be claimed. For people that only play with claimed faucets there Will be special tables and tournament with micro buyins. So that also those players can build a bankroll.
Regarding faucet amount. We havent decided yet how much the reward for a faucet claim Will be. Niet iT Will be in the range between 25 and 100 satoshi.

Last. You do not have to deposit first. IT is only an offer that we make. We want to compose a group of early supporters that Will be involved in the entire process until launch of the platform.
As reward for those we offer
- their contribution Will be added to their balance if the platform launches
- extra bonus on top of their contribution.
- top affiliate position.
- and 10% of our general rake Will be distributed to rhis group as kind of thank you for supporting our project.

Those who qualify to receive a part of the 10% rake do not have to wager anything to withdraw that money. Those rake Will be send to early supporters personal Wallets Every week on a fixed day.

So we do not require the deposits. IT would be Nice so we have additional funds to put for example in promotion. But as Said we do not need those deposits. But we just offer This to those who hant to be part from the very beginning of a new poker room. Ans the benefits we give as reward have much more value as the 25 or 50$ contribution

this is the shadiest thing I have seen in ages , do you realize that usually testers get bonuses for their time and testing ? but you are asking them to send you money (donation ) first so they will be able to test the site ?
this is really shady and you are the first site I see doing that , there is no guarantee that you won't run with the money and I guess you deserve a negative trust for just posting this

We Will give testers bonuses. As Said we do not rely on donations. We are going to compose a test group Any way. All testers that are approved Will receive a bonus. We are looking at several different ways to give them bonuses. But we are thinking about a no deposit bonus or special tester freerolls.

But we like your feedback. If you think iT looks shady by offering the opportunity we would be happy to exclude that from the post, cause we do not rely on that.

Just our opinion on that was that ICOs raise millions for a possible poker project. So we thought we could make an offer as well. But we do not need to do that.

But if we would do that iT would all be determined in an official document. For the Development we have an official registered company and VAT number in belgium. As soon as the room officially launches we Will see where to register our lisence

But thanks for the feedback. I am going to talk with partners and possibly exclude the contribution part from the post

We followed your advice. We are going to do iT in another way.
We firstly going to create a testgroup where people can become part of.
As soon as we are ready for testing we release the platform to the testgroup to try out the platform and possibly report bugs.

As soon as our software and platform is fully approved by community then we Will offer early testers to become a donator. Those who do Will receive the earlier mentioned benefits and those who just want to stay tester Will receive the refular tester bonus that Will be determined in following days.

Thx for the feedback. A negative feedback is the last thing we want. So we followed your advice and we first want to build the trust of the community before opening possibility for donations

that's for sure way better , glad you understood my concern cause you know how many scams happen in this forums and scammers use new methods and techniques day after day so that's why I was concerned
hope you all the best cause we really need a good poker place , not that much optimistic though cause many sites had tried and failed but there is always hope for poker

will keep an eye on your project cause I used to be poker player , not playing these days but I will always be a poker fan

a poker room with a faucet is definitely something new
usually faucets are just a waste of time while you are doing something else, but if someone is able to build bankroll from scratch and win
if he plays good poker, that is , this could be a good chance to actually earn by gambling,as crazy as it sounds
and I agree with sysgambler that this early bird donator system looks shady at best
not sure why would you want people to donate money to become testers , this is weird
7.5k$ won't make a difference if the site is legit, but it does give it this subtle scammy taste when you read about it
well , lets see , maybe this is going to be one of the good online  poker projects that is not plagued by cheaters

Thans for giving the feedback and not giving negative feedback straight away. And a stouw er we followed the advice. And thats what we want to so with the test group as well. We really take notice of what people suggest and are even open for constructieve feedback

Yeah thats what we have in mind. There are Many faucet sites you can claim for months and not reaching the withdraw limit. That why we want to iintegrate special tables and tournaments where players can actually use there very first claimed faucet and try to build a bankroll
And its also a great way to attract traffic to the platform. In This way we can get ‘play money’ players or players without a bankroll to our platform.

About the donations, we followed the advice and deleted iT from the post. As soon as we had the testers ran through the platform and when iT is fully ready to launch then we are going to offer This opportunity again. At that point testers Will already have a Good vision on the project.
Within next 24 hours we Will open a form where possible testers can apply to join and we Will have a testers bonus ready by that time

ok,makes sense, lets see the final product when the testing is done
I don't consider myself a good poker player (or a player at all, haha, play rarely)
but I would love to test my skills for free with a chance to win small amounts of coins in the process
could be a good place to spend some time playing poker with no ties or money spent

indeed, perfect for people that want to learn play poker or improve their skills. by using faucets and the possibility to earn affiliate commission on referrals rake you can build a small bankroll without risking any money.
Thats why we want to offer an wide range of games. On the one hand for regular poker players but also games adjusted to the bankrolls of people only playing with faucet claims.

90% of people on faucet sites give up cause it take ages before they are able to withdraw. In our case players can use their faucet straight away, win for example a faucet buy-in tournament, after that buy in a regular 0.00001BTC tourney and make some nice coins.


This afternoon or tonight we will announce the test group application and the reward attached to it.

I love playing poker and after reading everything posted here about your project I think it would be interesting to join your test group. I have only one question regarding your registration process. As it is stated in the OP:


Is it so necessary to require phone number for signing up? I mean this is a very personal information and it looks a bit strange when it is required for signing up on an absolutely  unknown site.

We are not entirely sure yet. the only reason why we would use it to avoid faucet abuse and people signing up multiple accounts as referrals of their main account and abuse affiliate commissions.
But as said. We are in stage of development. So we have space to change or improve several things.
We have seen others using the civic app but there are many people that don't have a mobile compatible for that app.

But as soon as we launch the test group there is room for discussion and suggestions.

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Test group update! Capped at 100 testers maximum!!!


Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce that we are opening applications to join our test group.

At this moment we are working on the development of our online poker platform. We really would appreciate the comments and feedback of our group so we are really searching for people that show interest in our project and not only want to be in the group just for the tester reward we are going to offer.

How to join our test group?


STEP 1 Fill in following application form https://goo.gl/forms/f9M76kNx6ayziw5c2 (https://goo.gl/forms/f9M76kNx6ayziw5c2)
STEP 2 Reply in bitcoin thread you filled in the form
STEP 3 If you get approved you will be added to the private telegram test group.

After you get added to the private group you will keep up to date and we will announce when people should be ready to test.



Rewards for testers!!

-All testers will be invited to a testers only freeroll. Price pool will be determined in a later stage.
-Testers will receive a NO deposit bonus valued between 5 and 20$ depending on their involvement during the development process and being active in our social media groups and bitcointalk thread.
- All testers will get the privilege to become the first affiliates for HODLpoker

Extra

As soon as our platform is entirely tested and approved by the test group we will offer tester exclusively the opportunity to earn a weekly slice of our rake. more info later!!

i filled the form and very excited to try your new platform . good luck to the team , it's alway's cool to see a new poker project  ;D ;D ;D

Your application Will be reviewed within 24 hours. After thwt you Will be added to the private group and you Will be notified by Pm or e-mail

Guys, in my opinion, if you want your platform to be tested, you should make joining the test group less complicated.  For example, I would test your site for free, I don't need the "NO deposit bonus valued between 5 and 20$" with all the strings attached. And I'm sure there are people like me, who could potentially be your testers, but, mark my words, you won't see many applicants with your current terms and conditions. Face it, you have 1 follower on Twitter, no reputation here on bitcointalk or anywhere else, you use stolen pics for your promo posts etc. and you are asking people to do although a small but still a job for you promising to pay them somewhere along the line. Why do you think people should trust you?

So, my suggestion, make it as simple as possible. Don't promise money, just ask to test your platform and we will do it, not for the money, but for the love of the game. Good luck!

Thx for the comment we Will take iT into account and adjust the post today

exactly that!
I wanted to introduce a friend of mine to the site, she loves playing poker and says she is a pro
would love to join and was excited ... untill she saw the forms and all that jazz with "donations" and no website addy and such
so it went from "yay! I will join it now" to "meh, will check it out one day"

Faucet as a drawing point is just going to create a ton of headaches for you and bleed you slowly in multiple ways.
If you look at faucet sites like PD and Stake that you mentioned, they have problems with begging and scammers.
Looking at Nitrogensports they have issues with multi accounting which also kills any legit action because people see obvious cheating going unchecked.

You need to solve the issue of the player playing one guy on 4 accounts or this is just going to bleed funds and be closed in 4 months time.

Would join the test group but I do not do telegram at this time.

Best of luck

I seldom see a casino site which encourages the players to build a bankroll from scratch by using the casino faucets, this might be a new way to attract players to the site but I do not think it would work in the long term as there would definitely be players who would abuse the faucets with multiple accounts in the future.

hi all Its 天才Senpai from the telegram group. I'm just posting to be a part of the community project here @ btcTalk. looking forward to the test. I'm working on getting a few of my friends interested, hopefully atleast 4 or 5 ppl i know from a couple sites that are serious about poker and enjoy being part of the start up communities.  Anyways cheers, and Feel free to contact me for any reason.. here or on telegram.  I have a BA from MIT in mathematical logic, and MIT basically forces you to learn how to develop and code no matter your major, so i have a little know how Smiley

It's great that you reacted on what Sygambler mentioned about the donations thing being shady. Happy to know that the policy has changed! Faucets are a great idea as well and your withdrawal/deposit policy looks absolutely fair, but IMO some people might feel uncomfortable with phone number being a must for registration. It's just usually not required, so maybe you should make a poll about it to see whether people find it problematic. I agree with others that filling in the form, awaiting instructions etc is just too many steps to become a tester. Why not to require a post in this thread about the wish to test the platform and then just pm the link to join?

Identity verification is a simple solution to that.  The topic is worthy of discussion. Hell though, that's an easy fix IMO. Just make secondary verification app specifically for the use of this site/software containing a DNS proxy shield. That required Identity verification, like most do.

that's why we excluded the donations. joining the test group is entirely free. And yes there is no website yet. We are working on the coding of the website, pokerplatform, affiliate program,....

thanks for your opinion. At this moment we are looking at several ways to exclude multi accounting,... We really want to avoid people taking advantage than 4 seats at the same table and squeeze the 5th persons money

yes you are right. We have been thinking about Civic but we know from other projects that a lot of people struggling cause their phone isn't compatible with the latest version.
Beside that we are considering phone verification. but some people think thats already to much personal details.

But we are sure we will figure something out by the time when its necessary

We fully agree with that. The only reason why we would use phone verification is to avoid multiaccounting in some way.
One of our main concern is to avoid that same guy has multiple seats at a table and squeezes all other peoples money

We are aware of that. We are reviewing multiple ways to avoid multi accounting. However its not that easy without id or phone verification. But we will find a way.

According to avoid multi accounting etc we are considering multiple things.

what would you guys thing about a face recognition tool when creating an account and every time logging in

Face recognition? I dont think that this would be effective yet most gamblers do like anonymity and showing off their faces would really be contrary on what they do like and with
having a faucet condition " Every player will be able to claim a faucet 20-24 times per day" with having 20-100 sats asking face recognition would be too much.

I like the idea being posted on having a specific room for faucet players.

thx for the advice. We are just making suggestions. We just want to use a way we can exclude multi accounting at the tables. But we will keep figuring out

that would be totally against he cryptocurrencie's anonimity idea
I highly doubt there would be many people who want to share their face on the net for a chance to claim faucet and play poker
probably, look for different methods, maybe phone verification , maybe some other form
but you have to balance the multiaccounts fight with popularity of your site
if your KYC procedure are too invasive there will be no players, if too lax- too many multies

You are running into the biggest issue with crypto and gambling. People use it for two reasons, one to get funds in and out quick. Two, they want to remain anonymous for multiple reasons.

Its not a easy thing or people would have taken the bull by the horns and ran with it.

I agree with the anonymous thing here, people on bitcoin world really need to keep their identity safe, that is why they playing here but to think that they will get some profit and runaway is not something that they will do because gambling is actually not a place to get some cash in general. It is use for people to have some fun, getting profit or not is just based on your luck

We keep every opinion into consideration.
We will keep you updated about our progress. Due to personal reasons we have some delay in the development process but we will certainly get back.

we will figure out a way to keep our players anonymous but in same time handle the attempts to benefit from multi accounting.