NEW Monthly Forum Posting Jackpot

[gnk2727]

The competition is over now and i think im not going to post anything for a few days or maybe weeks. lol

I have to say i hope Shad can receive some money because he has been posting since day 1 and he deserve the prize much more than these two guys that entered 3 days ago and had been posting wildly ever since.

For the new guys i hope they continue posting that much now that the competition is over, because thats what is all about, making the forum grow up.

Thats all i hope u all have a happy new year and i hope we can all make this forum a reference in the poker world.

I couldnt agree with you more. I will be here for a long while and I will be posting lots of tutorials and informative things for all members new and old....

[Killermanner]

lol I did not came 3 days ago, take some holidays cause you really need it man

[scrawnybob]

hi all

well I hope everyone had a good new year's night (I'm still recovering having had man flu and trying to party too)

anyway apart from crossing my fingers on getting this weeks tournaments to run (as I'd left it a bit late to get them scheduled) & trying to get the 2 new leagues for Euro times running also starting this week (maybe a bit optomistic) - we'll see what I can get fixed but we may have to play catch up next week

anyway - on the forum posting front a couple of things to clarify / put into perspective - as the forum posting idea has been tried before as has the "posters monthly freeroll" ... all a bit deja vu really

but my general thoughts are as follows + some clarifications of perception and reality ...

the December post total was - 2708

previous months postings have not recently been anything like as low as 500 posts ...

Novemember - 1460

October - 1272

September - 1402

Quality of posts and new members posting alot in short time

While it was a bit unexpected to have a very keen new member (gnk1221) posting enough in a few days to make the number 2 slot

I've looked through their posts and I dont see any great problems in the posts - clearly gnk1221 has been prepared to put in a decent amount of time posting maybe short but certainly relevant posts - so fair play to them IMHO

The order of results by the raw numbers

this makes the raw results as follows

1. mafalda34
2. gnk1221
3. shad
4. killer

I dont think anyones posts are problematic or just posts for the sake of getting the $20 given that it's a competition and none of the above seem to me to have done anything wrong other than decide that a hell of alot of hours posting relevant posts is worth the time to earn $20

so to that end I intend to payout a total of $80 - $20 to each of the top 4 posters this month

This will be paid out by latest the middle of January so that you could use some for the $1 buy-in at FullTilt January game which will be towards the end of the month

Please bear in mind if we run the forum posting jackpot on a monthly basis - the plan was that the previous months winners would NOT be eligiable to win two consecutive months to keep it open to all - but this may not actually be the best way to reward ALL active posters / members.

so ...

Future plan / suggestions / posting freeroll instead of forum posting jackpot

ok so the forum posting jackpot has, like the last time we ran it ended up with a race for the top positions so maybe it is better to have an additional monthly freeroll (say $100) open to ALL active posters in the previous month ?

We previously ran this idea and we ended up with me sending out PM's to the top 100 posters in previous month - and then the freeroll was signed up to by I think approx 50 of those players and then only 30 maybe turned up and played ...

The problem frommy POV was sending out 100 individual PM's to qualifiying players to then only have 30 turn up ... too much hastle for the turnout

Possible Solution is to have a $100 freeroll - which would be at Carbon / Poker.com BTW where anyone who posts in a given month (maybe min 5+ posts) can then request via PM the password from me (say within the week before the game)

I would then be PM'ing out passwords only to qualifiying members who actually wanted / planned to play in the freeroll ??

My only concern with this is the password security

Anyway in short my decision given how tight this month was is to payout to the top 4 posters

but we need to make a decision on the best way forward for January onwards ASAP

cheers scrawnybob

[jeffsbabe]

Congrats to you guys. I have really enjoyed reading your posts. Keep up the good work!

[gnk2727]

Scrawnybob u are the man! What an awesome idea that was. I am glad to have contributed to the site and I will continue to do so in the future!

Congratulations to everyone here. It was lots of fun and I look forward to helping this forum grow as a whole!

[Shad]

Let's keep posting!

I probably couldn't make the freeroll anyway. It's hard to have it fit 100 peoples' schedules.

It was a close competition guys! Good job.

[scrawnybob]

hi

glad everyone has enjoyed it - personally I'd prefer to keep with the jackpot as its a bit different to just running another freeroll

plus we should now be having 2 freerolls and 2 buy-ins per week

the forum posting competition isn't then dependent on being able to make a one off tournie date as this was I think why the previous forum posting freeroll didnt work too well

at least this way it's open to anyone who is will to post and get into the competition

so January's forum posting jackpot is starting - $20 each for the top 3 posters

the January prize money is open to all excluding Decemeber's winners - but keep posting all the same guys ;-)

cheers scrawnybob

[gnk2727]

Sounds good to me Bob! Keep up the good work sir. I like what you are doing here. I think this site has the potential to become bigger than some of the other existing ones out there.

[Killermanner]

Omg here we go again!!!

[Shad]

I'll still be posting like crazy just to say I did!