about the forum & 4kingpoker
hi
just refound this thread ;-)
How 4kingpoker started
yep the site was founded by me in 2005 as a bit of a sideline / experiment as I've been playing online for a couple of years previously (I think around 2003 maybe a bit earlier)
I looked around for info on poker rooms - recommendations / reviews etc and found alot of sites always rated them oddly as some sites I had played were rated well that were not so great and new unknown sites were ranked very highly with little track record
I looked into how the business side worked and decided against all the advice to go for a big site that tried to cover as much as possible and have a forum (even then their were a hell of alot)
so 4kingpoker was born - mainly out of an enjoyment of the game and partly to start an online business but in an area I was passionate about.
From the outset I wanted to have honest reviews of sites that I genuinely felt offered players something - either great all round sites or sites that offered particular features that made them worth adding to players desktops + an active community orientated around decent and friendly discussion about poker (and avoiding as much of the "me too" general chat that alot of forums had) + a focus on league and member tournaments to put something back into the community if I got a decent amount of visitors signing up via our links to pay for running the site and my time.
Most importantly I continue to be a passionate believer in NOT having moderators - most sites have webmasters who either get bored with running poker forums or dont play poker so they rely on unpaid moderators doing all the work and the webmaster earning the money ... I feel that moderating / admin is a thankless task that quality posters should not have to do ...
much better IMHO for quality posters to keep posting and enjoying the forum rather than have to get involved in the day to day admin keeping them away from what is all our passion ... playing poker and discussing poker.
4kingpoker tournaments & plans
We currently have 2 leagues each with 2 weekly games - meaning 4 games per week running over 12 weeks x 4 seasons per year
this leaves us with slots in the 13, 26, 39 & 52nd weeks where I also try to setup one off games at some other sites
I plan to add more tournaments in the next season of leagues (would start roughly July) we will provisionally be setting up a Full Tilt Poker only league at a mid time slot (between the Euro and US league times) ... the details are not totally sorted as I need to figure the best times / days that I can cover and also members will be able to play
This will mean we will add another new site to the US league to fill the FullTilt slot - I have a good one in mind for this but as yet unconfirmed
We also have added the monthly forum posting jackpot prizes and also the monthly forum posting draw prizes
Recently one of our active members GypsyTea has started setting questions for the 4kingpoker Brain 2008 Poker Quiz and again I will be adding a closed monthly freeroll
for members who enter the quiz and some overall prize money for the overal top 3 poker brains of 2008
Current league prizes, overal league winner pries & monthly forum prizes now exceed $12,000 for 2008 and with the addition of a Full Tilt League this will increase again
It's always a balancing act between members who want games at sites they already play at and introducing new sites to members (to either try in the freerolls or really get into and benefit from our smaller field $1 buy-ins)
hope thats a help and as always feel free to contact me
cheers scrawnybob
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Last edited by scrawnybob; 05-28-2008 at 01:39 PM.
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