This Forum League is NOT an "official" Sky Poker competition, & Sky Poker have nothing to do with running it, & are not responsible for it.
I wanted to do it for "for fun" (yes, I'm an oddbod), & MereNovice (another oddbod....) agreed to help me, primarily, by sharing the Admin load, & by preparing & publishing, every weekday, the updated Spreadsheet.
He also agreed to help me with the workload, & Threads.
Without Mere's help, I simply could not run this.
I offered MereNovice some recompense, by way of a small fee, or a few Tourney entries (at my own cost) but he declined, & said he would just like to help.
I asked Sky Poker to donate the Prizes, & they readily agreed. That is their only involvement.
If there are any queries or disputes, ONLY myself or MereNovice can resolve them - there is no recourse to Sky Poker.
Given that both of us are doing this for fun, so to speak, I'd ask that no unreasonable grief or criticism is aimed Mere's way over the admin or management of the League. Send it my way if there is any, but I'd prefer that it was played in the intended spirit.
The League starts this evening, & runs for 20 consecutive weeknights. Only your EIGHT BEST RESULTS count.
Mere will publish an up to date Spreadsheet after each event.
To help justify the cost to the company (the Prizes) I will be widely spamming this League elsewhere, via other Forums, Twitter, & Facebook, & on Channel 865, hoping we can attract some players new to the Site. The more the merrier, as far as I am concerned.
Mere will not, I suspect, be able to publish the FULL results each night, due to the sheer number of "uniques" who play the TSP Classic. Based on performance so far, over a 4 week period, we would expect over 2,000 "uniques" to play this, & that's far too bulky a list to publish daily. I have no idea where he will draw the line, but I suspect he will publish top 50 or 100. But that's his department, & his call.
All the Team Sky Poker crew will be included, of course, though I doubt many of them will have time to play more than 8 Events. But I hope a few do, & I'll drop them a note making them aware of the League. It'd be quite interesting to see how they fare! Can you do better than them, over an extended period?
Finally, big thanks to Mere for his immense help in setting up & helping run this League. Incredibly, we have exchanged 20 or 30 e-Mails already in setting this up.
Good luck all, & please remember, it's really all about fun, & chirping & bragging rights.
They were offering 50/1 any Welsh players winning this.
However, they withdrew the offer after it became clear that Welsh players are at a severe disadvantage, in that those on this Site can't play poker vary well. You ever watched Daibooty play? Sheer com.
Plopper is disqualified already, though we heve yet to decide why.
We have one winner already - Dollie. He wins the over 80's award, & "Oldest Bloke" Award.
News in from Sky Bet. They were offering 50/1 any Welsh players winning this. However, they withdrew the offer after it became clear that Welsh players are at a severe disadvantage, in that those on this Site can't play poker vary well. You ever watched Daibooty play? Sheer com. Plopper is disqualified already, though we heve yet to decide why. We have one winner already - Dollie. He wins the over 80's award, & "Oldest Bloke" Award. Posted by Tikay10
LOLOLOL Did they withdraw it and put 5000/1 in its place?! For me only that is, and that's if I'm heads up! I reckon it was that recent outage for upgrades. Since then I've not won at all. Who put in the "welsh player" bias in the software, eh?eh?
Excellent stuff. Mere do you ahve my results for the past couple of weeks? Woul;dn't mind seeing them as I wanna know how bad I really am if it isn't too much trouble:)
Top man, thanks for organizing this vince and sky/tikay for sorting out prizes. Playing as many TSPCs as I can at the mo (largely for educational purposes!) so will definitly throw my hat in the ring.
Excellent stuff. Mere do you ahve my results for the past couple of weeks? Woul;dn't mind seeing them as I wanna know how bad I really am if it isn't too much trouble:) Posted by scotty77
It's probably better if you don't ask, Ryan. If I were you, I'd not.......
Let's put it this way.
Have you ever heard of something called the "upper quartile"?
Well you'd be in a new version of that, called the "lower quartile".
Let me put it more gently. You'd be in the upper ninetypercentile.
That's based on 13 attempts in the last 15. In fact, you are exactly half as good as Dollie.......which would make you 4 times as good as DaiBoot.
In Response to Re: *** TSP Classic League *** : Top ninetyninepointninepercentile then? In fact, your "score", for 13 entries, was 66.13. Dollie (who would have run a close 3rd) scored 33.25! To be right, you were probably top half. Just. Posted by Tikay10
Just in case you were wondering about the veracity of tikay's statement, I can confirm that the numbers are correct.
tbf, you came top of all those who played exactly 13 times in the last three weeks (although it is also true that you were the only player in that category).
In Response to Re: *** TSP Classic League *** : Just in case you were wondering about the veracity of tikay's statement, I can confirm that the numbers are correct. tbf, you came top of all those who played exactly 13 times in the last three weeks (although it is also true that you were the only player in that category). Posted by MereNovice
News in from Sky Bet. They were offering 50/1 any Welsh players winning this. However, they withdrew the offer after it became clear that Welsh players are at a severe disadvantage, in that those on this Site can't play poker vary well. You ever watched Daibooty play? Sheer com. Plopper is disqualified already, though we heve yet to decide why. We have one winner already - Dollie. He wins the over 80's award, & "Oldest Bloke" Award. Posted by Tikay10
Of all the insults and rubdowns you have given me this is undoubtably the biggest...................WELSH????? am i really that BAD???????
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Morning all. I'm afraid I am late on parade here, I'm blown away by work & some other issues right now, so my apologies.
I'll deal with a few matters related to this right now, though, in the next few Posts......
If anyone has any queries, I will do my best to answer them on this thread.
The Prizes?
1st Prize - Seat to an SPT Leg of the winners choice. (NOT the Grand Final!).
2nd Prize - Entry to a £55 PRIMO.
3rd Prize - Entry to all four TOTTY's - that is Monday (£2.20), Tuesday (£11), Wednesday (£5.50), & Friday (£5.50 Rebuy).
This Forum League is NOT an "official" Sky Poker competition, & Sky Poker have nothing to do with running it, & are not responsible for it.
I wanted to do it for "for fun" (yes, I'm an oddbod), & MereNovice (another oddbod....) agreed to help me, primarily, by sharing the Admin load, & by preparing & publishing, every weekday, the updated Spreadsheet.
He also agreed to help me with the workload, & Threads.
Without Mere's help, I simply could not run this.
I offered MereNovice some recompense, by way of a small fee, or a few Tourney entries (at my own cost) but he declined, & said he would just like to help.
I asked Sky Poker to donate the Prizes, & they readily agreed. That is their only involvement.
If there are any queries or disputes, ONLY myself or MereNovice can resolve them - there is no recourse to Sky Poker.
Given that both of us are doing this for fun, so to speak, I'd ask that no unreasonable grief or criticism is aimed Mere's way over the admin or management of the League. Send it my way if there is any, but I'd prefer that it was played in the intended spirit.
The League starts this evening, & runs for 20 consecutive weeknights. Only your EIGHT BEST RESULTS count.
Mere will publish an up to date Spreadsheet after each event.
To help justify the cost to the company (the Prizes) I will be widely spamming this League elsewhere, via other Forums, Twitter, & Facebook, & on Channel 865, hoping we can attract some players new to the Site. The more the merrier, as far as I am concerned.
Mere will not, I suspect, be able to publish the FULL results each night, due to the sheer number of "uniques" who play the TSP Classic. Based on performance so far, over a 4 week period, we would expect over 2,000 "uniques" to play this, & that's far too bulky a list to publish daily. I have no idea where he will draw the line, but I suspect he will publish top 50 or 100. But that's his department, & his call.
All the Team Sky Poker crew will be included, of course, though I doubt many of them will have time to play more than 8 Events. But I hope a few do, & I'll drop them a note making them aware of the League. It'd be quite interesting to see how they fare! Can you do better than them, over an extended period?
Finally, big thanks to Mere for his immense help in setting up & helping run this League. Incredibly, we have exchanged 20 or 30 e-Mails already in setting this up.
Good luck all, & please remember, it's really all about fun, & chirping & bragging rights.
Bring on the rubs......
News in from Sky Bet.
They were offering 50/1 any Welsh players winning this.
However, they withdrew the offer after it became clear that Welsh players are at a severe disadvantage, in that those on this Site can't play poker vary well. You ever watched Daibooty play? Sheer com.
Plopper is disqualified already, though we heve yet to decide why.
We have one winner already - Dollie. He wins the over 80's award, & "Oldest Bloke" Award.
Did they withdraw it and put 5000/1 in its place?! For me only that is, and that's if I'm heads up!
I reckon it was that recent outage for upgrades.
Since then I've not won at all.
Who put in the "welsh player" bias in the software, eh?eh?
Let's put it this way.
Have you ever heard of something called the "upper quartile"?
Well you'd be in a new version of that, called the "lower quartile".
Let me put it more gently. You'd be in the upper ninetypercentile.
That's based on 13 attempts in the last 15. In fact, you are exactly half as good as Dollie.......which would make you 4 times as good as DaiBoot.
In fact, your "score", for 13 entries, was 66.13. Dollie (who would have run a close 3rd) scored 33.25!
To be right, you were probably top half. Just.
PS - Wanna side bet, who finishes higher, you or me?
tbf, you came top of all those who played exactly 13 times in the last three weeks (although it is also true that you were the only player in that category).
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PLOP!!!!!!