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[figmentofmyass]

no poker with steve tourney today? i just checked the lobby and it's not there.

What if a symbolic fee was charged for participation, say, 100 + 10 μBTC, or maybe even 50 + 5 μBTC? Thus, considering the prize pool, it would still be more like a free roll, but, at the same time, we would get rid of many unwanted participants.

yeah, doing it as a micro buy-in money added tourney rather than a freeroll would clean things up a lot. i'm all for it.

[efialtis]

Gotta LOVE eSoccer, seriously! Yeah, that one push sucked a bit but still!

Other than that even though many already know that I like sportsbet - still super quick withdrawals, no matter the amount while crediting freebets as stuff always in time. Keep up the great work guys!

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I have a suggestion regarding POKER with STEVE tournaments.

We all know that they are constantly being abused with multiaccounting, and that around 30% of the registered participants are never showing up at all, which makes the game, well, less interesting, to say the least.

What if a symbolic fee was charged for participation, say, 100 + 10 μBTC, or maybe even 50 + 5 μBTC? Thus, considering the prize pool, it would still be more like a free roll, but, at the same time, we would get rid of many unwanted participants.

Well I do not mind those alts. You just need to hang on for a while with them before you get those serious players on the table. I understand Steve wants as many traffic as possible and I am with him in this.

no poker with steve tourney today? i just checked the lobby and it's not there.

Not logged in on my phone but hopefully it will be up soon.

[ralle14]

no poker with steve tourney today? i just checked the lobby and it's not there.

Not logged in on my phone but hopefully it will be up soon.

I also think we won't have "poker with steve" this week because he usually announces it every Tuesday.

Is it me or aren't any of these sportsbet specials hitting at all?

It's not just you their specials are cursed.  

Edit : Guess I was wrong see you guys there. 

[sportsbet.io]

POKER with STEVE Wednesday!

Prizes:  40 mbtc Prize pool
Game: No Limit Hold’em
Levels: 10 minutes

Date: Wednesday 24th June!!

Start time: 7pm GMT

Name: Bitcoin Talk Private Tournament

Starting stack: 10,000 points
First level blinds: 25/50

Password protected: stevepoker

no late registrations

10 Mbtc bounty on my head, 5 mbtc bounty on a mystery player!

Apologies for the late set up, lost track of days!   Big amount of football on tonight in the lead up to poker too.. good luck all!!

Steve.
Sportsbet.io

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

b]POKER with STEVE Wednesday![/b]

Prizes:  40 mbtc Prize pool
Game: No Limit Hold’em
Levels: 10 minutes

Date: Wednesday 24th June!!

Start time: 7pm GMT

Name: Bitcoin Talk Private Tournament

Starting stack: 10,000 points
First level blinds: 25/50

Password protected: stevepoker

no late registrations

10 Mbtc bounty on my head, 5 mbtc bounty on a mystery player!

Apologies for the late set up, lost track of days!    Big amount of football on tonight in the lead up to poker too.. good luck all!!

Steve.
Sportsbet.io

There we have it @ralle14.
I will have two work simultaneously. Watching Utd and Liverpool match and play poker with Steve 😛 I already missed last few tourneys so do not want to miss this one.

Thanks Steve

[rhomelmabini]

By the way, what's with this mystery player? You mean this is a bounty on his head as well, am I right? Let's get some cards rolling later on.

[arallmuus]

Well I do not mind those alts. You just need to hang on for a while with them before you get those serious players on the table. I understand Steve wants as many traffic as possible and I am with him in this

Some people use this to their advantage, when they have their alts on the same table they might be transferring chips by going all in right from the start. Higher chip stack might gives you some advantages on the start to harass the others

Even if it is not on the same table, they could also gamble by going all in right from the start. If they win they get double the starting stack, if they lose they will just use the other account to play

By the way, what's with this mystery player? You mean this is a bounty on his head as well, am I right? Let's get some cards rolling later on.

Random Player choosen by Steve which has bounty on their head

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[panjul07]

By the way, what's with this mystery player? You mean this is a bounty on his head as well, am I right? Let's get some cards rolling later on.

Yes it is IMO, it is called by mystery player because we do not know which player is having 5mbtc bounty on his head.
It will be a surprise prize to beat this mystery player, and it will make participants try to beat all players in order to get this additional prize.
I wanted to play in this Poker with Steve since sometime but the starting time is not really good for me as it is on 2am.

[sportsbet.io]

By the way, what's with this mystery player? You mean this is a bounty on his head as well, am I right? Let's get some cards rolling later on.

Yes it is IMO, it is called by mystery player because we do not know which player is having 5mbtc bounty on his head.
It will be a surprise prize to beat this mystery player, and it will make participants try to beat all players in order to get this additional prize.
I wanted to play in this Poker with Steve since sometime but the starting time is not really good for me as it is on 2am.

Yep,

Correct.

I will credit the account tomorrow morning with a bonus 5 mbtc if you knock out the mystery player

Steve.

[boltz]

Uuuh we have a mystery player , that is so nice and I think it's some of us right ? Maybe someone who finished top 10 last game so it could be any of us haha. In my opinion the mystery player could be the last winner of the tourney so watch out for him and try to knock him off but until then enjoy some top football from Premier league alongside with a beer.

[rdbase]

Uuuh we have a mystery player , that is so nice and I think it's some of us right ? Maybe someone who finished top 10 last game so it could be any of us haha. In my opinion the mystery player could be the last winner of the tourney so watch out for him and try to knock him off but until then enjoy some top football from Premier league alongside with a beer.

Yes Cheers to all who are enjoying the matches before the tourney with steve!
Seems like the only premier league match which is producing anything is manchester united with 2 goals from martial at the half.
All others are goal less.
Let's hope this picks up for those who have the other teams on their foursome multibets for their new promotion.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5253786.msg54671501#msg54671501

Good luck to the new players on the best site for sportsbetting in the world!

[darewaller]

The good thing about Leroy Sane deal is, dude is German himself so playing in a German team could maybe help him out a bit? I don't know how much it matters to play in your own nation but it sounds like it could be beneficial for you instead of playing in a foreign country (these are professional players so I doubt the difference is huge). And Bayern is by far the best team in all of Germany as well which means he will not have that much difficulty adopting and winning games there as well.

Ever since Ribery left there was a trouble with the wings at Bayern to fill that void, sure they had some good players but never at a level where they said "this is it, we are not getting anymore new players until this retires", if they are lucky and hit it off, Sane could be that player.

[boltz]

Someone already knocked off Steve from the tourney but congrats to whoever did this. First break of the tourney and I don't see that many inactive players but I saw a lot of shady all in between players with low cards so I think they're doing all in with each other from other accounts ( don't forget about karma guys haha ).

Oh my , Lazio already has 2/0 with Atalanta. Lazio deserve to win Serie A this year man.

PS : Lost AA vs KK ...unlucky.

[ralle14]

Someone already knocked off Steve from the tourney but congrats to whoever did this. First break of the tourney and I don't see that many inactive players but I saw a lot of shady all in between players with low cards so I think they're doing all in with each other from other accounts ( don't forget about karma guys haha ).

Oh my , Lazio already has 2/0 with Atalanta. Lazio deserve to win Serie A this year man.

PS : Lost AA vs KK ...unlucky.

You're lucky that your table only had a few inactive players, on our table there's only three (sometimes four) of us playing then after the break some of inactive players started playing and did some all ins too.

I also had one unfortunate round where I had a full house then the other guy contested it with four of a kind. 

[arallmuus]

I saw a lot of shady all in between players with low cards so I think they're doing all in with each other from other accounts

You're lucky that your table only had a few inactive players, on our table there's only three (sometimes four) of us playing then after the break some of inactive players started playing and did some all ins too.

It is freeroll and on top of that it is 40mbtc freeroll. Lots of people will do anything to get lots of their alts into this freeroll. It would be nice if sportsbet start noticing all those people that tries to ruin the fun and ban them but again it is easy to hide their connection with each another using VPN

On another side, it has alot more 'players' this way and perhaps sportsbet would like to keep it that way

Another option is to add a 1mbtc buy in for this wednesday poker. Sportsbet will keep on sponsoring 40 mbtc each week and all buy in will goes right back to the prizepool.. Instead of micro buy in that was proposed before, this is much better to provide higher prizepool

If we could get just 50 players to join with this system, that would be a total of 90 mbtc prizepool. Less 'players' but higher prizepool and higher quality game instead of numerous account keep throwing chips at one another

[figmentofmyass]

i was knocked out in 99th---flopped top pair and turned a flush, but then ran into a bigger flush. oh well, i knocked out one player. maybe it was the mystery bounty.

Well I do not mind those alts. You just need to hang on for a while with them before you get those serious players on the table. I understand Steve wants as many traffic as possible and I am with him in this.

the problem with all the sitouts is it creates a very obvious advantage for some players and a disadvantage for others. when there are only 2 active players at a table (as is often the case) then the player to the right is OOP 7 out of every 9 hands, whereas normal HU play means switching position every hand. that often leads to nonstop bullying from the player in position.

it's great when you're the one at an unfair advantage, or when you're at a table full of sitouts collecting blinds without ever playing a hand, but that isn't an ideal game of poker in my view.

i'm also not sure how all the sitouts help overall site traffic.

First break of the tourney and I don't see that many inactive players

i was seated at 2 tables before getting knocked out ~ 1.5 hours in. one had 7 sitouts and the other had 6.

[arallmuus]

i was seated at 2 tables before getting knocked out ~ 1.5 hours in. one had 7 sitouts and the other had 6.

If you want to play some nice poker game then this is a bad table , atleast in my view. If you want to increase your chances to win some money then I'd say this is a good table with 7 sitouts. I can project myself keep raising my chips to collect all those free chips from all those sit outs 

Great weekly event from Sportsbet but this needs to be tweak a little so people can enjoy the most of it. One option is to add buy in as I have posted above and the other option that I have thought of would be to give free entry only to account that wager X amount of mbtc in a week ( 5 mbtc or less perhaps should be sufficient )

[figmentofmyass]

i was seated at 2 tables before getting knocked out ~ 1.5 hours in. one had 7 sitouts and the other had 6.

If you want to play some nice poker game then this is a bad table , atleast in my view. If you want to increase your chances to win some money then I'd say this is a good table with 7 sitouts. I can project myself keep raising my chips to collect all those free chips from all those sit outs 

exactly---except if you are out of position (OOP) vs the active players. then you are at a great disadvantage since you constantly have to act first. dead money is nice but playing handicapped is not.

none of this matters all that much. it's a freeroll after all. i just find the whole thing mystifying tbh. i've never seen anything like this sitout phenomenon before on any other poker site. i don't understand why it happens.

if they are alt accounts intent on chip dumping, why are they sitting out? so many of these accounts just blind out to 0.

[arallmuus]

i was seated at 2 tables before getting knocked out ~ 1.5 hours in. one had 7 sitouts and the other had 6.

If you want to play some nice poker game then this is a bad table , atleast in my view. If you want to increase your chances to win some money then I'd say this is a good table with 7 sitouts. I can project myself keep raising my chips to collect all those free chips from all those sit outs 

exactly---except if you are out of position (OOP) vs the active players. then you are at a great disadvantage since you constantly have to act first. dead money is nice but playing handicapped is not.

Too bad

if they are alt accounts intent on chip dumping, why are they sitting out? so many of these accounts just blind out to 0.

My crazy lunatic theory about this would be Some guy could be throwing tons of alts into this freeroll because the number of participants are high therefore throwing tons will ensure some of it will be seated on the same table. If he can get a head start of 20 or 30 k after 2 or 3 chip dump, that would be enough because continuing further will raise alot more suspicion on him so he let all the other alts blind out to 0

Another one of my not so crazy theory would be, some people just register and never shows up