It's pretty strange to see that while our forum police is spending countless hours on less important stuff, nobody cares about 1xbit being promoted via banner advertising here on bitcointalk. Yeah, we all knew their ads are everywhere all over the internet, including big crypto sites such as CMC etc. but - I didn't think this day would come so early - bitcointalk administration granting them advertising space.

Long story short: You are right then, we should remove all flags and negative feedbacks? If they can buy advertising directly on bitcointalk, so should they elsewhere, no? I mean that when I say you are absolutely right - this is a mess...

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@1xbit I have just sent a PM - please check and get back if you are serious about it.

In the mean time all I can say is... proposing to have a look at various cases posted by users here on bitcointalk and then bringing up such generic responses (arbitrage bs etc.) with NO evidence at all - that's actually worse since you try to act as if you were willing to regain trust while not a single user has been helped - pretty unrealistic each and every case was made up and you guys were in the right, no? Well, that's not gonna do it, it's not good enough.

Yeah - been a bit tough but eventually, it looks like we found a "solution".

Yeah, I edited and made it min. 2 participations - regarding Grand Finalists, tbh, I would prefer only places 10+ to be eligible for the Small Finale, no matter what. Opinions guys? Again, I think we shouldn't worry too much about this - the Small Finale really is just a generous bonus by SwC.


I know you will! Good to have you man.

4th Series announced - posting here, too, to make sure everybody gets the news: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5271735

Nb. Yeah, I still need to edit this thread's OP... 

I am happy to announce that our 4th Bitcointalk Poker Series @ SwC is happening and it's coming soon, very soon! The first qualifier will already be played on this coming Sunday. SwC is once again our host and and adds the following prizes: 0.05 BTC guaranteed Freeroll for the Finalists, BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC, 0.01 BTC guaranteed Runners Up Freeroll  & a SwC Flexfit Hat!

The qualifiers are already live in SwC's tournament lobby - I have already received all passwords and will share them with the regulars shortly. Even the Runners-Up Finale has already been set up.

I feel the lottery was a nice addition and so the rules and conditions will remain the same as in season #3. Below you can find all the information regarding Series #4.

See you at the tables and let's see how many players (and new players) we will be attracting this time around, so spread the word please!

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Index

• General Information & Series Structure
• Entry Fees & Passwords
• The Qualifier Tournaments
• Internal Point Structure
• The Grand Final
• The Small Final
• The Lottery
• The Spreadsheet
• Miscellaneous

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General Information & Series Structure

The Bitcointalk Poker Series sponsored by SwC Poker can be joined by any interested poker player with a Bitcointalk account. If you don't have a Bitcointalk account yet, feel free to make one. We would be happy, if you engage in discussions about the series and/or Poker, but it's not mandatory. We welcome players of any skill level, any age, any gender, any colour. The tournaments will be played on Sundays 5 PM GMT.

The series will feature 8 qualifier tournaments, a Grand Final, a Runners Up Final, a lottery and hopefully lots of fun and suckouts. There is an internal points structure, where you accumulate points to qualify for the Grand Final. Every participation will also give you tickets to the lottery. If you are a regular player, you will automatically qualify for the Small Final.

We play Texas No Limit Hold'em, the starting stacks are 5,000 chips, blind levels are 10 minutes and there is no late registration available.

You might also want to join the Bitcointalk Poker Community Server on Discord: Join here.

The first three series:
Series #1
Series #2
Series #3

Entry Fees & Passwords

The entry fee per tournament is 1,400 Chips or 0.0014 BTC.
1,000 chips you pay for registering for the tournaments directly at SwC.
400 chips you send to the SwC account "youcantwin" via P2P transfer. 200 of those chips go towards the prize pool for the Grand Final, the other 200 chips towards the lottery.

There are no entry fees for the Grand Final and the Small Final.

The tournaments are password protected, you will get the passwords via Personal Message (PM) in this forum, after you have sent the 400 chips per tournament to youcantwin. If you intend to join all 8 qualifier tournaments, it would be helpful, if you send all extra fees (3,200 chips) upfront.

The Qualifier Tournaments

A total of 8 qualifier tournaments will be played inside 8 weeks, Sundays 5PM GMT. If possible, register as early as possible, since there is no late registration available. Just send 400 chips to youcantwin, get the password and register for the tournament for a fee of 1,000 chips.

Q#1: 08/30/2020
Q#2: 09/06/2020
Q#3: 09/13/2020
Q#4: 09/20/2020
Q#5: 09/27/2020
Q#6: 10/04/2020
Q#7: 10/11/2020
Q#8: 10/18/2020

Internal Point Structure

To determine who will qualify for the Grand Final, we have an internal point structure, where you get a number of points for each tournament, when you finished inside the Top 10.

10th = 1 Point
9th = 2 Points
8th = 3 Points
7th = 4 Points
6th = 5 Points
5th = 6 Points
4th = 7 Points
3rd = 8 Points
2nd = 9 Points
1st = 10 Points

If two or more players have the same amount of points after 8 tournaments, the average finishing position in all tournaments participated will be the tie-breaker.

The Grand Final

The 9 players with the most points from our internal point system will be eligible to play the Grand Final, which will take place on 08/23/2020. You will automatically get registered for this tournament and don't have to pay an entry fee. As in the past, SwC is sponsoring 0.05 BTC among other things for this tournament and the 200 chips per tournament and participant from the qualifiers will be part of the prize pool as well. This additional prize money for the Top 3 will get sent to you via P2P transfer on SwC.

1st: 50% of Prize Pool + BIG BTC Ticket worth 0.01 BTC & a SwC Flexfit Hat
2nd: 30% of Prize Pool
3rd: 20% of Prize Pool

The Small Final

Every player who joined at least 2 of the 8 qualifying tournaments, will be eligible to play in the Small Final, no matter how many points they accumulated. That is in case both Finals will run simultan You will receive a password for this tournament and don't have to pay an entry fee. TBD: I prefer only players to participate in this who have not qualified for the Grand Finale.

The date and prize money is TBA.

The Lottery

To give anyone the chance to win some money, we introduced a lottery for the third series, which will be funded from the extra fees you send to youcantwin. With each participation you will get 10 tickets for the lottery. For every point you get via the internal point system, you will get one additional ticket. So if you played 6 tournaments and accumulated 18 points, you will have 78 tickets for the lottery. If you played only one tournament and did get no points, you will have 10 tickets. Etc.

After those 8 qualifying tournaments, the draw from a trusted member will take place via a random number generator. Each player can only win one prize from this lottery, so if you win a prize in first draw, the rest of your tickets will get voided. The number of prizes depends on the amount collected for the lottery. For every 10,000 chips, there will be one prize. If the total pool is 18,000 chips, there will be two prizes of 9,000 chips each. If the total pool is 24,000 chips, there will be three prizes of 8,000 chips each. Etc.

The prizes will get sent to your SwC account via P2P transfer. The date of the lottery is TBA.

The Spreadsheet

You can follow and monitor all happenings in the spreadsheet: Bitcointalk SwC Poker Championship Series

If you have any questions or find any mistakes, feel free to mention it in the dedicated threads or PM @efialtis or @tyKiwanuka.

Miscellaneous

If you paid extra fees upfront, but aren't able to participate in a tournament for whatever reason, the extra fee will be considered a donation, unless you request a refund. You won't get any tickets for the lottery, if you don't participate in a tournament, even if you donate the extra fee.

Any dispute should get resolved via majority decision.

You are great at what you are doing - thanks for everything bud - stay tuned guys, webtricks is preparing some amazing stuff for BTCGOSU!


Thanks for coming by and sharing feedback - I am glad you like what you see and please note - this is only the beginning. And if you are missing something, shoot and I will see if it makes sense and try adding it.


Glad you are having a great time at Blackjack.fun, I really like them. Regarding Tower.bet, let me know in case there are problems regarding the free DOGE - as mentioned earlier, the crediting will be done manually so it may take 2-3 days.


Hey Panjul,

good to see you - yeah, I know the site even though I haven't used them personally - these days I am pretty busy with some other stuff but I will definitely have a closer look as soon as possible!

Hey guys,

first of all - sorry for the little delay - after watching the CL Finale on Sunday, the friends and me took a spontaneous trip and I only came back yesterday at night.

Congratulations to all series #3 winners - very well done everybody and of course a special mention for Betwrong, who took down the Grand Finale!

Special note:

I am also particularly happy for my friend tyKiwanuka's 3rd place, good job mate! It's very well deserved, especially when also taking into consideration the amount of work he put in, helping me out and then his awesome spreadsheet, statistics etc. Thanks for your support man!

Prizes:

I have paid out all the prizes yesterday, please check your accounts to make sure I didn't send to Nirvana.

@Betwrong Your BIG BTC Ticket has already been credited to your account, too! Good luck for that tourney, keep us in the loop! Wouldn't be the first time some Bitcointalk Series Elite player rocking it! (Goes to show the level has increased significantly over time!)

@Beethoven92 Sending your lottery prize in the next hour, too - just wanted to verify it's your account. Sent!

SwC are still investigating what's wrong with the flex-fit hats, will update when I know more.

Misc.:

Thanks to everyone for your participation and also for your understanding with regards to updating delays from my side every now and then. It's been quite the ride but looking back, overall, I am happy with how things went and I hope you are, too.

Have a great rest of the week, enjoy this last week of August with Summer (unfortunately) coming to an end soon!

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Nice find! Not a mistake...

I have now sent the Runners Up password to everybody - I originally also had in mind this one should be for Top 10+ but then again, now that finals will be running simultaneously... HF and GL everybody tonight!

Hey Loyce,

do you think you could probably work out some fancy „btcgosu“ address? 

Looks like you didn't get my point, maybe I didn't explain myself correctly, so plz let me try again - what I posted is of course relevant, how would it not be, while not my cup of tea - just curious as already mentioned.

1. Not referring to you or adsense in any way but even your site may get a penalty for selling backlinks
2. How would you not depend on Google, you don't care about receiving traffic from Google?
3. I know and people buy backlinks all the time even though it's prohibited - that is why I am saying go ahead but don't do so publicly

Long story short: We are talking about very basic seo here - Anyone is free to decide whether he is going to pay for links or not (almost everybody in competetive niches is doing this ofc) but I would not want my site to be openly listed as buying a link on site x, y, z. Links are one of the most important ranking factors in google's eyes and they are supposed to come naturally.

Google even actively asks people to report sites selling and/or buying backlinks: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en

Eyxaristw, episeis!

Edit: Didn't mean to criticize and of course not to spam your thread, sry!

Nice project - congrats on that!

I am curious though - hope you don't mind me asking - why are you publicly sharing domain name and stating you are selling backlinks? Big G doesn't like that and that's a reason for me as an advertiser not to buy. You could just post stats and share the domain privately via PM instead of letting the whole world know people can buy backlinks on your website.

Just my 2 cents though - other than that, some really strong figures.

They were online yesterday but unfortunately haven't responded to my PM, nor addressed the issue.

Hey there,

not sure if you had a look at the site? I would say I am featuring (most) reputable casinos. Regarding shit casinos - I like that expression! - I have already added a blacklist that is not 100% finished though, you can find it here: https://www.btcgosu.com/bitcoin-casino-blacklist/

Regarding being unbiased - I feel the way I have set this whole project up, with a big focus on bitcointalk community - I will have a hard time going the other route even if I received some unreal offer! Seriously though - no, I think this industry is profitable enough even without becoming as lame as 99% of the rest by literally getting paid for rankings.

With all that drama here, I feel it's time to share that there are also great things happening. SwC Poker have been hosting exclusive Bitcointalk Poker Series for the last couple of months, sponsoring these and the 9 best players of our current series (#3) will play the Grand Finale tomorrow - posting this 1) to up the mood 2) to express the thanks of everyone participating in the series.

Thanks for having helped establishing a regular poker game among bitcointalk users - something like that didn't exist before.

Runners-Up Finale is now live, too - both games will run simultaneously. The Runners-Up Finale is password protected, I am going to share the password via PM later today.

Attention please: The Grand Finale will start at 6:59! 

Hey guys,

making this official - if you would like to give Tower.bet a try, sign up via one of our links on https://www.btcgosu.com/review/tower-bet/ and send an email to support@tower.bet to claim your free DOGE (plz mention you signed up via BTCGOSU). Please note that the crediting is going to be done manually, so it may take a little while.

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No, you weren't - good luck with your free hands! If anyone else would also give Blackjack.fun a try with free cash, sign up via one of our links on https://www.btcgosu.com/review/blackjack-fun/ and PM me to get a free 0.001 DASH. I think I have only like 3-4 bonuses left here.

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I will try to finally post my 4th GOSU update later today - let's see if I will get to it. If not, a great weekend to all of you!

Lol... can you believe I wasn't aware I don't qualify even though I just posted this...

I am referring to the Small Final that will be played at the same time as the Grand Finale.

Correct - I heard back yesterday finally and we are all set for the Grand Finale!

SwC also confirmed we will have a 10K REAL GRAND FINALE running at the same time - this one will most likely be password-protected but I will post an update as soon as I know more!

@Trofo LOL... I seriously messed up and forgot - home in an hour or two (consulting a rl friend now) and will send, lol. No Balkan Mafia pleaseeeeeeeeeee!  

Edit: Yeah @Globb0 - that's better!

I am positive they will add players early enough but yeah, quite annoying.

Würde ich so nicht unterschreiben - klar, es gibt "einfachere und schwierigere" Anforderungen und zu dem Kurs muss jeder selber wissen, ob er da mitmachen möchte oder nicht - geht durchaus großzügiger (Stichwort an dieser Stelle). Schaut man sich nämlich einmal an was 95% der Leute, die an Signaturkampagnen teilnehmen, so zu Papier bringen, naja... Man hat überwiegend Nutzer dabei, die tats. einfach nur der Kampagne wegen posten, was nicht zu übersehen ist, die Posts sind fast schon genau abgezählt, ebenso die Mindestanzahl an Posts in den gewünschten Kategorien etc. Ich verstehe das alles schon aber von "Identifikation" kann da echt keine Rede sein. Das ist auch okay aber dann müssen wir die Kirche auch mal im Dorf lassen - man sollte eben auch mal die andere Seite sehen.

Aus eigener Erfahrung kann ich sagen, dass selbst erfahrene und höchst respektierte User teilweise wirklich nur das absolute Mindestmaß "erfüllen" / sogar bei echt guten Konditionen vergleichsweise - das finde ich ehrlich gesagt schon auch n bisschen traurig.

Last but not least und das ist wirklich nicht böse gemeint: Man erwartet supergut bezahlte Kampagnen, die für immer laufen aber tut im Gegenzug halt echt mal so gut wie nichts dafür, meckert noch wie doof doch alles ist etc. An dieser Stelle sei noch erwähnt, dass es natürlich symptomatisch ist, wenn manch ein User hier im Thread netterweise erwähnt hat "unterstützt doch mal den efialtis" - nicht, dass ich das erwarte oder so aber einerseits wäre es ne coole Geste (die ich nicht nur menschlich/persönlich, sondern auch monetär zu schätzen wüsste, kurz/mittel und langfristig) - bis auf zwei User, die beiden, die eben jenes auch im Thread vorschlugen (DANKE JUNGS), kam diesbezüglich genau nichts. Das ist halt auch taktisch einfach unklug, mal abgesehen davon, dass ich den Egoismus hier im Forum teilweise schon echt unnormal finde.

Mal ehrlich Jungs - ich habe in den letzten Monaten ein paar Dinge gelernt:

1) Keine öffentlichen Langzeitkampagnen (stattdessen private Deals mit Usern, die mir zusagen)
2) Wenn überhaupt Massenveranstaltungen mit möglichst vielen Usern, minimaler Bezahlung über einen Zeitraum von 7-10 Tagen (mache ich wohl bald)

Was anderes macht imo keinen Sinn, wirtschaftlich nicht und auch finde ich, dass der Anspruch ein bisschen heruntergefahren werden muss

Lange Rede, kurzer Sinn: Man muss sich auch mal in die Seite versetzen. Ich fand der Post passt ganz gut und ich war einfach mal so frei meine geistigen Ergüsse zum Thema Signaturkampagnen und Attitude zu teilen.