Just a question???

[Larrdawg69]

Hey all, I was curious about how long has this forum been on the net? Do you plan to increase your tournaments at different poker rooms? If I had it my way I'd be playing every day all day. Thanks

[kingjames07]

this site was founded and ran by our man scrawnybob...opened around September 2005 i think....the answer to your other questions only bob has the answer to those...welcome to 4king poker the best forum on the net

[Larrdawg69]

Thanks for that bit of information and I think your forum is very informative & to the point. I think I'll really enjoy being a active member. It looks like you guy's are growing each day, can't wait to get at those tables and improve my skills. Hopefully making alot of final tables to get that bankroll growing. So thanks again, CUL8R

[scrawnybob]

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

[luzipher]

Nice to read about the beginning of this great forum.

It must be a great satisfaction to remember what was in 2005 (at the beginning) and what is nowadays.
Thanks for telling us, the new members of the comunity, how this forum was growing up.