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GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
December 09 2009 22:15 GMT
#201
On December 07 2009 18:41 Xantos wrote:
Hey pangshai & gogokodo,

I brought up both your cases with our customer service internally & I hope you both will have a solution (i.e. no problems in getting the $50) soon! Thanks for your patience & sorry for the inconvenience - sadly, our fraud prevention processes are not perfect - and probably never will be, as there is always a grey zone where you either accept fraudsters or deny honest customers.

Regards,
Lutz

Thanks Xantos, just wanted to say that my account looks to be all good now.
twitter: @terrancem
Xantos
Profile Joined November 2009
Germany187 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-14 17:53:33
December 14 2009 17:47 GMT
#202
Besides our raffle of a trip to Korea here on TSL, PokerStrategy.com currently offers another chance to a trip:
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/pokerstrategy/Christmas-Promotions-Win-a-trip-to-Las-Vegas-with-Tell-a-Friend_27624

Refer a friend to PokerStrategy.com in December & you both have the chance to win a common trip to Las Vegas - and Vegas is for poker what Seoul is for StarCraft!


PS: the new Miss World comes from our tiny town of 30k - Gibraltar
http://confidential.pokerstrategy.com/The_beautiful_women_of_Gibraltar
bITt.mAN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Switzerland3693 Posts
December 15 2009 21:02 GMT
#203
I have a question about the raffle. In the OP you wrote that US citizens/residents cannot participate, so I have a question if I am eligible:

I have never lived in the US but I have a US passport. I live in Switzerland and am in the process of becoming Swiss aka. not only American. Am I still allowed to participate?
BW4LYF . . . . . . PM me, I LOVE PMs. . . . . . Long live "NaDa's Body" . . . . . . Fantasy | Bisu/Best | Jaedong . . . . .
Xantos
Profile Joined November 2009
Germany187 Posts
December 16 2009 11:11 GMT
#204
A Swiss person from Switzerland should be allowed to participate. If you emotionally & legally consider yourself one, you should participate.
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
December 17 2009 21:02 GMT
#205
You guys didn't say that the forced shortstacking for beginners is almost purely to protect your investment (You get higher rake faster when people aren't actually trying to beat the game from where they should -NL$2)

I would like to seriously discourage any Starcraft player to start up with shortstacking, its boring and you never learn how to destroy other players as good as at NL$2 with full stack.

Its like starting playing ICCup from D+ directly only memorised with <5 minute rushes. Easy to learn, it will bring short term results but you will suffer long term.
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
December 17 2009 21:06 GMT
#206
And ROFL
I have forgotten that I have started with Pokerstrategy Bankroll myself rofl
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
Phrujbaz
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Netherlands512 Posts
December 17 2009 21:28 GMT
#207
Shortstacking also reduces variance FWIW

Start buying in for the minimum at PLO8 and you can build up from $5 rolls nearly every time. ;-)
Caution! Future approaching rapidly at a rate of about 60 seconds per minute.
Xantos
Profile Joined November 2009
Germany187 Posts
December 21 2009 17:44 GMT
#208
@LemOn: Whatever is in the long-term interest of the player also suits our long-term interest. A completely new poker player needs to maximise his chance of survival with the initial $50 investement. So if you really want to risk needing own deposits - you can also chose higher limits / other styles. But if you want to try out with the $50 and no own money - we encourage you to chose one of our four different beginner strategies - of which SSS is just one.
Kullosus
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada18 Posts
January 30 2010 22:06 GMT
#209
All I can say is thank you so much for sponsoring the TSL It takes a company with balls to take a leap and sponsor a sport which many would consider an underground phenomenon. E sports has the potential to be huge, and your early sponsorship of E sports will not go unnoticed.

Thank you
Theres the Panda Bear Guy!
Vic.nQQ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Bulgaria88 Posts
February 01 2010 11:05 GMT
#210
I just received the mail from TL and decided to post

First of all thanks A LOT for what you did to the community. The tournament so far is going great and I doubt many of the "big" names would put that much effort into practicing without the good money you guys are offering.

Next I would really like comment on how good PS.com really is for total beginners. I'll actually do that with a short story:
+ Show Spoiler [short story] +

Until TSL I had no idea what poker is. When it came, naturally I regged myself @ PS for the raffle, because who doesnt want to watch OSL live for free? But after that I totally forgot about it for a bit.
But soon after I read some very inspirational biographies of successful poker players, and being the naive guy I am I decided that I can also do that and tried out some poker with the 50$ that PS gave me. Naturally I just watched the very basic tutorials and rushed to playing, which led to me bringing my capital to a close to scary number (25$ with the lowest tables starting from 4NL), so I got annoyed and stopped again.
Recently I started a new job, night shifts at a cyber cafe, which basically gives me a lot of free time on a computer with internet access, and there I saw quite some people playing micro stakes and play money. Seeing the level of the competition, I asked myself - can I really not beat this guys? So I went back and just like a sponge, soaked up every bit of information for the micro stakes that I possibly could (a lot from PS.com, but some other sites too; tho I really want to say here that PS's tutorials are the best organized and easiest to understand from beginners from all sites that I visited), then started playing again.
Well after doing that I can safely tell you that right now I absolutely crush the low stakes. And I don't even play that much, usually no more than 2 hours on 2-3 tables. Right now I've climbed my way to 70$ (all from the 25 I had left from PS money) and growing with $4 to $10 per day!


Anyway, the moral of this story is that as long as you have some patience and the will to learn, poker can and most probably will be a profitable thing to do. So if you're a total beginner looking for a starting point, I can safely say that pokerstrategy.com is the best place for you.


So again a big THANKS for everything Poker Strategy, you guys are awesome
I believe!
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
February 01 2010 20:15 GMT
#211
On February 01 2010 20:05 Vic.nQQ wrote:
I just received the mail from TL and decided to post

First of all thanks A LOT for what you did to the community. The tournament so far is going great and I doubt many of the "big" names would put that much effort into practicing without the good money you guys are offering.

Next I would really like comment on how good PS.com really is for total beginners. I'll actually do that with a short story:
+ Show Spoiler [short story] +

Until TSL I had no idea what poker is. When it came, naturally I regged myself @ PS for the raffle, because who doesnt want to watch OSL live for free? But after that I totally forgot about it for a bit.
But soon after I read some very inspirational biographies of successful poker players, and being the naive guy I am I decided that I can also do that and tried out some poker with the 50$ that PS gave me. Naturally I just watched the very basic tutorials and rushed to playing, which led to me bringing my capital to a close to scary number (25$ with the lowest tables starting from 4NL), so I got annoyed and stopped again.
Recently I started a new job, night shifts at a cyber cafe, which basically gives me a lot of free time on a computer with internet access, and there I saw quite some people playing micro stakes and play money. Seeing the level of the competition, I asked myself - can I really not beat this guys? So I went back and just like a sponge, soaked up every bit of information for the micro stakes that I possibly could (a lot from PS.com, but some other sites too; tho I really want to say here that PS's tutorials are the best organized and easiest to understand from beginners from all sites that I visited), then started playing again.
Well after doing that I can safely tell you that right now I absolutely crush the low stakes. And I don't even play that much, usually no more than 2 hours on 2-3 tables. Right now I've climbed my way to 70$ (all from the 25 I had left from PS money) and growing with $4 to $10 per day!


Anyway, the moral of this story is that as long as you have some patience and the will to learn, poker can and most probably will be a profitable thing to do. So if you're a total beginner looking for a starting point, I can safely say that pokerstrategy.com is the best place for you.


So again a big THANKS for everything Poker Strategy, you guys are awesome


You really make me wish I wasn't from the US so I could join this awesome site.
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LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
February 03 2010 11:38 GMT
#212
I would like to ask you something considering a friend of mine. I said to him that not to worry about sending a photo ID with an address.
Now that he is ready to send one he worries about something else. The address he wrote in pokerstrategy is the same as in the Photo ID with the difference that in the ps registration in the first place he wrote the street (without the home quarter) and on the Photo ID the address includes the home quarter without the street. : ) Other parts are the same (block, entrance, apartament etc.). It is basically the same address but they do to match perfectly but like 95%. Is that aproblem?
Enjoy the game
Mynock
Profile Joined September 2002
4492 Posts
February 10 2010 14:11 GMT
#213
First of all, sorry for the slow response - as the thread's activity diminished, we don't notice things quickly enough.

TechnicS: I have asked our CSR guys, and they told me it should probably be OK - but also it depends on the person who checks the ID. Your friend should send it (unless he did already), and if there is a problem you can contact me directly, and I will try to help.

Vic.nQQ: Thanks for the story . Just as you said, it's a rather fool-proof way to learn if you do everything right from the beginning, and once you get a little bit into it and start acting more on your own, you will also have increased your capital to a more comfortable level by that time.
theSAiNT
Profile Joined July 2009
United States726 Posts
February 10 2010 14:47 GMT
#214
Just want to confirm, the 50USD registration bonus only requires the passing of a test? I've signed up for other sites which have such bonuses but they later slap on a condition that you have to play a certain number of hours in 3 months. I'm only a casual player so it seemed extremely underhanded.
infinity21 *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada6683 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-10 14:57:28
February 10 2010 14:57 GMT
#215
On February 10 2010 23:47 theSAiNT wrote:
Just want to confirm, the 50USD registration bonus only requires the passing of a test? I've signed up for other sites which have such bonuses but they later slap on a condition that you have to play a certain number of hours in 3 months. I'm only a casual player so it seemed extremely underhanded.

You need to play a certain amount in order to keep the $50 but if you don't, then you simply lose the $50 (after something like 90 days)
Official Entusman #21
Aiden
Profile Joined February 2010
Denmark13 Posts
February 10 2010 15:44 GMT
#216
Fair enough :-)
Proud C-
lepape
Profile Joined November 2005
Canada557 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-12 11:35:11
February 12 2010 11:32 GMT
#217
Just a question about clearing the initial 50$ : So basically, instead of getting the +100% deposit bonus that people normaly get when depositing their own $50 for the first time, so they can make an easy 100$, it's pretty much like we gotta clear your own bonus with burrowed money so we can each get our share at the end?
Xantos
Profile Joined November 2009
Germany187 Posts
May 05 2010 16:06 GMT
#218
On February 12 2010 20:32 lepape wrote:
Just a question about clearing the initial 50$ : So basically, instead of getting the +100% deposit bonus that people normaly get when depositing their own $50 for the first time, so they can make an easy 100$, it's pretty much like we gotta clear your own bonus with burrowed money so we can each get our share at the end?

Sorry, been a long time and I thought the thread went inactive already before your question.

The conditions to clear the $50 are depending on the poker room - they are explained in the respecitve articles, e.g.:
http://www.pokerstrategy.com/party-poker/free50

On top, you will always have the option to use the deposit bonus - but the $50 do not count as a deposit in that sense.

But you will of course get all bonuses etc. as if you would not be a free $50 player.


By the way, some months later now:
What were your experiences with our offer?
Some of you still playing with your initial $50?
Or all went back because of the gorgeous SC2 beta timing?
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