[indi227]

if mods removed the "useless" posts which likely include the insulting ones (and this one), there would be half as many posts in this section....plus they'd need to hire more mods.

As for the "stupid" advice provided by lower stakes player (myself included), just ignore it. Someone mentioned that they'd been steared wrong by posts from lower limit players. what does that say about you? think about it.

[p00pymcp00perton]

Good idea about splitting lower stakes and higher stakes. I don't have the foggiest clue how to play in higher stakes cash games and I would love to lurk and learn. This idea could also extend to tournaments - Sunday majors having their own area perhaps? Just a thought. As for the OP being a snob or something, I don't get it. We are all at different stages in our poker careers and he obv isn't a beginner anymore. All he wants is an area to discuss issues and situations that occur at higher stakes. Just an honest request imo.

[xxjondxx]

If you want Strategy go to 2+2, if you want entertainment go to p5s.

[number1pen]

agree

yawn

[Frictionless]

 

Originally Posted by xxjondxx

If you want Strategy go to 2+2, if you want entertainment go to p5s.

This is so true and so sad especially given the amount of raw talent we have on this site. It would be nice to be able to use both forums for learning.

[djkelly69]

As a generally low stakes player, I agree with the high stakes forum idea. I mainly lurk the 2+2 HSMTT forum, and the discussion there is great to learn from.

I dont agree with the PLB/pro poll requirement to post in it however - plenty of people who can add value to a discussion wont have this, such as live players, mainly cash players or part-timers.

I think the forum can more or less be self-policing, with help from mods when bans, etc are needed. If lower stakes players want to post there occasionally, fine, but if they are posting crap they will be shouted down pretty quickly.

[Mennas Joint]

CO - F'in - Sign

Plz p5s make this happen

When I first became a member of this site, there was plenty of useful information going around, meaningful posts, etc.... This was approx 3 years ago and more lately than ever before, the amount of useful information in regards to the GAME have gone wayyyyyyyyy downhill!! As owners and mods of the site, you upgraded your server and your site, now PLEASEE upgrade the poker discussion!

MJ

[FishOnTilt]

 

Originally Posted by djkelly69

As a generally low stakes player, I agree with the high stakes forum idea. I mainly lurk the 2+2 HSMTT forum, and the discussion there is great to learn from.

I dont agree with the PLB/pro poll requirement to post in it however - plenty of people who can add value to a discussion wont have this, such as live players, mainly cash players or part-timers.

I think the forum can more or less be self-policing, with help from mods when bans, etc are needed. If lower stakes players want to post there occasionally, fine, but if they are posting crap they will be shouted down pretty quickly.

the thing is with a high stakes forum you don't want the clutter, so you need to have only certain people be allowed to post in it bc alot of ppl would still post the same junk and that isn't what the high stakes forum should be

[bonflizubi]

 

Originally Posted by swd805

cosign, also it seems the hand advice section doesnt get much traffic.

Have more HH questions been getting asked in PD over time because the HH forum was not getting read much?

Or, do people not wander over to HH because so often there are hand/line threads already posted in PD....

Or are the rules just lax on that.......?

I haven't been readin p5 long enough to know

[AJKHoosier1]

 

Originally Posted by Wretchy

What's idiotic is the low limit players NOT wanting this. With the collection of great minds on this site, if they want a high limit area for posting give it to them. Simply read all the shit they say so you can learn from that. I'm sure if there was a higher stake forum, a lot more ranked guys would post.

qfmft, and im confident this will catch on at p5s soon

[EyeKnows]

In favor. I have always thought this was a good idea.

[wtf]

would read

[archerace7 I watch the stats]

This would seem to be a no brainer for a poker site. It would seem to me that you would want to limit it to the ranked players in order to make the posts more legitimate.
While I am the lowest of the low stakes players, I strive to improve my play everytime I sign up for a tourney. I think this would help anyone that wants to move up in stakes.
Make this happen in some form Pocket Fives...it will help you as much as us.

[apeter20]

 

Originally Posted by squintster

Don't forget where you came from.

[ApesAreFun Moderator/Euro Donk]

 

Originally Posted by orucker

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

cosign this and basically what wretcy just said, it doesnt have to be blocked to a certain level player to read, just blocked for certain level players to post. IDK could make it 2500 plbs or top 95% in rankings to be able to post or something like that, but I think this is a good idea and one that needs to be done

I like this idea

yeah, make it happen!

[SCTrojans]

P5s has needed this for a looooong time.

[bbbbb33]

p5s may need this.

id rather it not happen.

if you wanna talk high stakes... most likely you have friends aims.... yadda yadda.

[adam_mc]

If you want to post in a high stakes forum there should be one test, and one test only to see if you are worthy.

You have pocket nines....what do you do?

No more questions. Just fucking answers. 2+2 can't answer my questions so why don't you? What is it pocketfives? Raise, fold or call. Those are your options. Do your worst.

I have the final say in who is allowed in such a forum, and this is the admission question. My vote is to limp re/raise/limpcall/allin/call equity.com/fold.org

What do you say?

[ApesAreFun Moderator/Euro Donk]

 

Originally Posted by joshinho

 

Originally Posted by FishOnTilt

when will there be the high stakes forum, the idiocracy of all these low limit people coming into big buy in threads and replying with their awful advice is really just getting out of hand and it is insanely frustrating when there could be good discussions from high stakes regs these guys just fill up threads with garbage information and i think p5s HAS TO GET ON IT. im sure all high stakes players can agree with me on this, the bumping of posts these people do when they have no clue what they are talking about it getting way out hand and poker discussion posts are becoming noticably worse. also i think hand advice threads should go in hand advice, i dont know who started the trend but it is really getting old.

pz

FU elitist donks. The more and more I see you 'pro's' act like this, the less and less respect I have for you. I'm a doctor and post on medical forums from time to time with people much less knowledgeable than myself.

The 'elite' doctors don't all just decide to go and talk to ourselves in an elite forum section to fob the worse ones and patients off that 'know less', and that begin to 'annoy' us because we are so far above them.

You are POKER players. Not doctors. Lots of you are hopeless degenerates who are 18yrs old with no prospect for the future. You have no life skills or personalities and and are already in your own little world of online poker, succumbing to elitism. Congratulations. You're the best.

ANYONE with a little money can buy in to the 'big buy in' tourney's. This doesn't make them good players (or haven't you worked that one out yet?). It doesn't even make them good posters- read Waco's stuff for example. Why don't you mofo's get off your high and mighty asses.

Poker is non discriminatory. It ascends above race, sex, physical skill and mental skill. Anyone can play, and anyone can post.

dont U get it?? a high stakes forum is great for everyone! I hate when im looking through HH that I have to filter out what morons like me say. If only it was a HS forum for like top 95% it would be great for everyone involved! get a clue! no one really wants to hear our generally stupid opinions about hands! thats why we need this HS forum in place ASAP! so to all of U micro donks (like me): "nobody wants our opinion (I dont, I guess the crowd agree), we should just watch the ppl that actually understand poker do the talking!" just my opinion.

[adam_mc]

 

Originally Posted by adam_mc

If you want to post in a high stakes forum there should be one test, and one test only to see if you are worthy.

You have pocket nines....what do you do?

No more questions. Just fucking answers. 2+2 can't answer my questions so why don't you? What is it pocketfives? Raise, fold or call. Those are your options. Do your worst.

I have the final say in who is allowed in such a forum, and this is the admission question. My vote is to limp re/raise/limpcall/allin/call equity.com/fold.org

What do you say?

Good question, what are people's opinions on this?

adam_MC FTW......... imo

[POKER_PANDA]

lolol at the Dr. comparing the moral responsibility of a doctor giving sound advice to a doctor "below" them or even someone who is just a patient for health reasons to a poker player giving advice to a pleyer below them. Their is no moral responsiblity for the poker players above us to help us, listen to us, or even respect us.

u signed up to be a doctor to help people. ITS UR JOB!!!!!!!!!!

Its a poker players job to win money.

anyway i am ALL for it, but I would hope their would be some measrues taken to allow low limit donks to particiapte, not give advice, but participate. dont know if thats possible. imean what if i cant wrap my head around a concept and need to ask some questions? guess i could just im and pray s/he replies.

I hope this happens.

There was someone in Rock347 great step 5 sng thread that made my head almost assplode. it was god awful advice.

you know, it could be argued that their is a moral responsiblity for mods to delete awful advice, since it could end up costing someone alot of money when they infact came here to get better.

[stsitron]

Id actually vote no for a high stakes thread only because I think it would further improve peoples games that suck..... that being said that would cut into my profit margin :).

If the low limit donks dont want the high stakes thread on here we can make an aim chat or something. So that they can't even read it at all......

oh wait you want the high stakes thread afterall??? oh ok

[Frictionless]

So if I Shaundeeb it and play 5k tourneys this year and sneak into the top 95% of players you'll somehow value my poker opinion more than someone who played 500 tourneys and was in the top 90% ???

That makes a lot of sense.

[BigDShaggyJ]

cosign 100%
I made a thread on sunday about folding AA in level 1 9 hands deep in the $215 sunday 2nd chance when I c-bet and got 4x RR in a 3-way pot on a 5c6s8c board a spot where it is very possible to fold cuz i'm likely beat there a ton and the responses I got from all low limit players w/ 0 scores were TERRIBLE. mostly were "LOL @ ever folding AA there, if u fold kill yourself imm." "y would you ever fold AA, insta-shove"

LOL.
plz make a HS forum imm

MAHOLLA

[squintster]

friggin do it! Can't hurt can it?

With my luck, hopefully a bunch of low-limit/midstakes players will immerse themselves in it and do all kinds of spewtastic plays in ABC tourneys. weeeeeee.

[ibluffheaps]

I'm not yet sure if this is a great idea or not... I guess it entirely depends on how it is implimented.

One of the posters in this thread mentioned that there are plenty of players who aren't going to qualify via PLB's or whatever, bt have something of value to add regardless. Also, yes the forums are getting too trashy lately and something does need to be done to fix it, but one of the great things about this site is I get help from some of the greatest online players in the game today.

In the short time I have had great advice given to me by apestyles, annette and many many more. If this high stakes forum is created I am worried and I'm sure P5's management is worried that we little ppl would no longer have our questions answered by all of you.

Why not make the Poker Discussion an actual Poker Discussion. I mean FFS who gives a shite about Tiffany Michelle, little bitchy poker player fights and Jamie Gold. We need a forum dedicated to poker strategy where mod's are ruthless in suspending accounts for flaming and down right retardedness.

[holdplz]

 

Originally Posted by Wretchy

needs to be whoever has a propoll can post and thats it

thanks for excluding me

[BerkeleyBoss]

ya me2....how the hell do i get a pro poll? i wanna rank myself #1 obv

[rocksolid124]

I think this would be a great idea, and I'm a low-mid level player.

I understand the high limit players reasoning. I know if I were a skilled high stakes player, I wouldn't want to read the responses by those playing 2 dollar donkaments who don't have a clue and would give awful advice. Hell, I play those stakes and I don't want to read the responses by those playing 2 dollar donkaments.

The high stakes forums would allow the high stakes players to speak amongst themselves, but also allow the less knowledgeable players to learn. It CAN'T be a bad idea to have a high stakes forum.

(That said, hopefully if there were a high stakes forum, the high stakes players would still give their advice to the low stakes guys when people post in whatever forum there is for the regular low players)

[tcstunna]

I dont think that anybody should be excluded from the high stakes forum. There are some very good cash players (that also play tournies) that may have an opinion that they may want to contribute. there are also some guys that dont put in volume, etc, but are still strong players and should be able to contribute.

2+2 is mod regulated. why cant this be similar (with ranked players as the mods or something)? Im not sure why a low limit guy would WANT to post in a high stakes forum knowing that they are going to get flamed.

...just a thought