Betnomi Poker series discussion thread

[yahoo62278]

As mentioned in the other poker thread, Betnomi has expressed to me interest in sponsoring the tourney on their site. I have been playing the software for a week or 2 now and it's not bad at all.

The purpose of this thread is to get information from all of you interested in playing. What we need to figure out are the following:

• Day of game
• Start time of game
• Number of games in the series
• Starting stack
• Buy-in
• Extra fee for pool weekly
• Blind levels

Anything I have left out also needs to be mentioned. Anyone interested can also pm me for my affiliate link. Noone is required to do so, but if ya don't mind then shoot me a pm.

It's worth noting that Betnomi has bitcoin deposits but the balance is shown in USD. We should keep this in mind when deciding the buyin and extra fee for pw.

Betnomi is willing to put up $1000 for the championship and $300 for the losers tourney. I'll have them post here shortly to confirm.

• Bitcointalk name/Betnomi name
• yahoo62278/rak3y0urchips
• Steamtyme/steamtyme
• seek3r/str888flu5h
• famososMuertos/Fmbet
• webtricks/webtricks
• Improved/TrayvonKang
• Trofo/Trofo
• arallmuus/arallmuus
• Betwrong/betwrong
• TGD/TGD1000
• Globb0/Globb0
• so98nn/so98nn
• icopress/icopress
• jayce/NoobHere
• 1r0n1c/1r0n1c
• Iv4n/Iv4n
• sahyadri/Igniter
• seoincorporation/BtcBoss
• EliteCrash/elitecrash
• aysg76/PokerMaster10
• Teethow/Teethow
• worle1bm/worle1bm
• hopenotlate/woodenpickle
• babygun/babygun
• iTradeChips/iTradeChips
• Leviathan.007/Leviathan.007
• HEvangelista/HEvangelista

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[Trofo]

I gave it a try yesterday as well after it looked like we could shift our game to Betnomi. Software is quite good and I don't have any objection to that.

@yahoo62278
I would for start keep all the things same as on SwC poker, meaning,
Game on Sunday, same time as before
8 games per series (about 2 months)
Starting stack 5000
Buy in per week about 1.5 mBTC, 1 for tournament and 0.5 for the rest if keep the lottery as well

[seek3r]

I gave it a try yesterday as well after it looked like we could shift our game to Betnomi. Software is quite good and I don't have any objection to that.

@yahoo62278
I would for start keep all the things same as on SwC poker, meaning,
Game on Sunday, same time as before
8 games per series (about 2 months)
Starting stack 5000
Buy in per week about 1.5 mBTC, 1 for tournament and 0.5 for the rest if keep the lottery as well

Would sign that...

I believe that the old conditions were well balanced.
Matchday should be sunday as most people usually have time there, start time should be considered for EU and NA players since most of the regulars are from there?!

With further rising bitcoin price one would have to consider the buyin perhaps but for now 1,5 mBTC (buyin + fee) should be fine for everyone.

[webtricks]

At the current price, sponsored money sits out at 0.075 BTC for the championship and around 0.022 BTC for the losers tournament. With that being said, I don't see any reason why shouldn't we host the next series on Betnomi. That's roughly 0.04 BTC more than what SwC was sponsoring so far.

About day, time and starting stack, I agree with @Trofo. It would be good to leave those as it is. 5PM GMT, Sundays, one game a week, 8 qualifiers and 5000 starting chips are fine.

About buy-in, $15 entry fees imo would be perfect. We can maintain rest of the pool in BTC itself. 0.0002 BTC for championship and 0.0002 BTC for lottery pool. So that would be $15 + 0.0004 BTC for every qualifier.

We can start the series from 8th November.

[yahoo62278]

Buy in per week about 1.5 mBTC, 1 for tournament and 0.5 for the rest if keep the lottery as well

I was thinking something like a $15 buy in and 5$ for the championship game. $20 in total for each game. I would have to look at the lottery you guys did in last series, hadn't planned on adding it to this.

There is player to player transfers on betnomi, so someone could hold the added pool money.

Anyone who wants to help out with a few things, feel free to reach out and message me. I am pretty busy on Sundays and may not participate in all the games. My family holds Sunday dinner every week, so Family 1st.

Need someone to handle spreadsheet, Someone to hold funds from added buyins, and anything else I can't think of right now.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Hello yahoo62278, this is excellent that you carry, my congratulations for that great work so spectacular and professional that you always do, it seems to me that the conditions of SWC are good, 1.5mBTC is good because it is more accessible for many players, because from now on they can gather it . The number of games is fine per series, and in 2 months is enough time for each player to study their strategy well.

[Trofo]

I would have to look at the lottery you guys did in last series, hadn't planned on adding it to this.

Lottery is a good thing since it gives incentive for people to join the tournaments in the end of series even if they don't need the points anymore. It also gives a chance for somebody who has not won even a single point to get most of his money back. I believe we should keep it in the same form it was before. We had 4 series up to now and we pretty much settled on the rules and time that works best for most of the players. Make it easy for you and don't change what is working if there is no need for the change.

I can help with some stuff if needed but I will wait first for our past handlers to show up. They did a great job and if they are willing to continue, let them keep doing it.
If nobody comes forward I can act as escrow for the money, of course if nobody objects to it. Already doing it for two pools here on the forum so I have a seperate wallet already set up. That goes if we decide to keep the extra funds in BTC away from Betnomi which could be problematic because of the fees. If we decide to go other route and keep extra funds on some other player Betnomi account than I would prefer if somebody else do it. I gamble a lot and I would not want to mix those funds with my own.

[arallmuus]

About day, time and starting stack, I agree with @Trofo. It would be good to leave those as it is. 5PM GMT, Sundays, one game a week, 8 qualifiers and 5000 starting chips are fine.

We have 5000 starting stack on swc but with 10/20 blind and ante doesnt kick in until level 5 IIRC so that means we are getting 250 Big blind but in betnomi , most of the time blind start from 50/100 and ante kicks in from the very first level so 5000 stack would only be 50 Big Blind

Unless Yahoo can set the blind structure exactly the same as in swc then with 5000 stack, the game would be done in less than 1 hour probably. 25000 would be optimal for betnomi ( 250 Big blind with 50/100 blind structure )


I suggest that we do a trial run for the very first time this weekend to get everyone accustomed with the new blind structure. How about $5 buy in for this trial run and top 3 or top 5 places paid perhaps?  

[yahoo62278]

I am filling out a request for a freeroll to be setup sunday 6pm UTC. I'll give you all more details once the request is granted.

I have sent in the request. 250$ freeroll Sunday 6UTC. The tourney will require a password which I made and players will start with 20000 chips 10 minute blinds, no late registration.

Make accounts and post your betnomi name here please. Use my affiliate link if you don't already have an account. Just pm me to get it. Once you get the password don't share it with your friends. If they wanna play they can make an account and post their name in this thread.

Only players who posted names in this thread will get the PW.

[Globb0]

Looks like Im out,

What happened?

The owner of this website (www.betnomi.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (GB) from accessing this website.

I was also looking at arranging a game. Have discussed with a sponsor as an initial idea, they are getting back to me.

[seek3r]

Hm, looks like I got a problem aswell with betnomi.

Was about to test the poker client, downloaded it and tried to register but there is no registration for me.
Is the registration banned for my country (Germany) or is it banned? Also tried it with VPN from different countries. No registration at all.

[yahoo62278]

Some countries will have to use a vpn. There are vpn services that accept bitcoin and its not very expensive. ProtonVPN being 1 of them.

[betnomi]

Hm, looks like I got a problem aswell with betnomi.

Was about to test the poker client, downloaded it and tried to register but there is no registration for me.
Is the registration banned for my country (Germany) or is it banned? Also tried it with VPN from different countries. No registration at all.

As for Germany, you should be able to access the service. Kindly reload the page and should be fine.

[Steamtyme]

Thanks for this Yahoo - and side note Betnomi have been pretty awesome to deal with; which can be expected from a new company trying to bring in customers.

I reg'd and deposited a couple days ago, and traffic is low for my timezone but had a chance to play with the software a bit on my day off and was impressed. I would say it's equal to or better than SWC out of the box, and blows away the client sportbet had available. I'll touch more on that later.

In regards to the tournament structure. What we have been running with as far as date and time seem to be best for everyone as a whole.

I would like to see 8 minute blinds and maybe play it as 8-max or 6-max something like that. I think this would be a more exciting structure for the games on a weekly basis. If we went as low as 6-max a 10K starting stack might be a good idea.

Buy-in wise I can go either way on keeping or scrapping the lottery. Some players might be more partial to it than others so I'm still open to it if some were playing only because they felt it evened the field a bit.

15$ to 20$ total is reasonable, I just remember when we were hammering it out before this was causing concern for some feeling the buy-ins were a bit steep. My ideal would be something like 12.50$ entry and 3$ championship.

I'm open anything and will keep popping in to discuss with everyone.
Yahoo I'm steamtyme on Betnomi

Edit: I'm also willing to help out in any capacity, we can hammer some of that out as we get closer.

[seek3r]

Hm, looks like I got a problem aswell with betnomi.

Was about to test the poker client, downloaded it and tried to register but there is no registration for me.
Is the registration banned for my country (Germany) or is it banned? Also tried it with VPN from different countries. No registration at all.

As for Germany, you should be able to access the service. Kindly reload the page and should be fine.

Ok that worked for me now. Registered as str888flu$h, poker nickname is str888flu5h since "$" is not allowed at the poker client
Is there a way to referal codes? Might recruit some of my mates.

[betnomi]

Ok that worked for me now. Registered as str888flu$h, poker nickname is str888flu5h since "$" is not allowed at the poker client
Is there a way to referal codes? Might recruit some of my mates.

Good to know you are all set and yes, you are able to get your referral link by joining our affiliate program here.

[webtricks]

I am filling out a request for a freeroll to be setup sunday 6pm UTC. I'll give you all more details once the request is granted.

I have sent in the request. 250$ freeroll Sunday 6UTC. The tourney will require a password which I made and players will start with 20000 chips 10 minute blinds, no late registration.
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Only players who posted names in this thread will get the PW.

Okay that's cool! Nice freeroll to get started with. $250 will be good amount to play for.

My username as always: webtricks

By the way, any specific reason to slide it to 6pm? Isn't 5pm a better time slot for everyone?

[iv4n]

I am in!

I would like to see 8 minute blinds and maybe play it as 8-max or 6-max something like that. I think this would be a more exciting structure for the games on a weekly basis. If we went as low as 6-max a 10K starting stack might be a good idea.

This can be a nice change! I like to play 6-max tables, 8-max sounds good too! Probably with fewer people on the table 8 minutes should be fine, but I wouldn't change blind levels, I like 10 minutes! I would like to see 10k starting stack for the final game!

I will register later and try Betnomi poker and site! Thanks to Yahoo and Betnomi for trying to organize poker for us!

[carter34]

I think I will check this site out as reviews seem to be good. The site looks a new introduction and the poker games too. Is it only the one game in the series to view in the site.

[Steamtyme]

I think I will check this site out as reviews seem to be good. The site looks a new introduction and the poker games too. Is it only the one game in the series to view in the site.

I might be missing something in translation.

Right now for a "Forum" tournament there is the one freeroll  mentioned below, not sure if it's live yet but will be soon.

I am filling out a request for a freeroll to be setup sunday 6pm UTC. I'll give you all more details once the request is granted.
I have sent in the request. 250$ freeroll Sunday 6UTC. ~snip~
Make accounts and post your betnomi name here please. ~snip~
Only players who posted names in this thread will get the PW.

Apart from that they have a full line-up of tournaments running daily. Currently Yahoo62278 is also working on organizing an ongoing forum series for us. If you keep checking back here you will see updates, currently it's in the planning stages as details get suggested and hammered out.