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  1. Circpsycho Circpsycho is offline

    Carlsbad, NM
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    Jul 13th, 2006 (7/13/2006 11:24am)

    Have any of you played on this site? I play there all the time and it is starting to lose steam, I was wondering if you could enlighten me to any problems you saw with the site. There isnt many large tourneys there, I know. But the structure and the skin seem decent. Please give me some feedback, as I am an affiliate and want to know what can be done to make it better. I have the ability to create and host private tourneys as well, with buyins as high as $250. Let me know what it would take to get you to play the site.

    Thanks
    Circpsycho
  2. 2Slick4u 2Slick4u is offline

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    Jul 13th, 2006 (7/13/2006 12:35pm) in reply to Circpsycho

    I do not play there nor do I know anyone who does. If the site is drying up, then it clearly isn't offering the kinds of incentives other sites are employing to build and keep their traffic. While I don't pretend to know all the answers, here are some things I look for when contemplating playing a new site:

    1.) A sick bonus for first-time players which is NOT tied to some hard-to-understand, time-consuming, almost-impossible-to-clear conditions. bodog is a good example. When you deposit, your bonus instantly is added to your real money account. Now, if you attempt to withdraw that money before you've worked off the bonus point requirements, you aren't allowed to, but still if I'm supposed to be getting a bonus for signing up, GIVE ME MY DAMN BONUS up front.

    2.) A lot of Guaranteed Money tourneys with reasonably low buy-ins. I'm talking about $1,000 tourneys for $3+.25; $2,500 guaranteed no limit hold'em tourneys for $5+.50 to $7+.50; $4,000 or $5,000 tourneys for $10-$12; $15,000 for $20, etc. I know sites can't offer guaranteed money without knowing they will have enough participants, but bodog did EXACTLY THAT... they offered the guaranteed tourneys knowing full well they were going to have to come out of their pockets to make up the short-fall in prize money, but they built up traffic to their site and guaranateed tourneys in a phenomenally short amount of time.

    3.) Offer a lot of freerolls and small-dollar buy-in tourneys and lots of small-buy-in cash game action. Why? Because the more smaller players that are on the site playing, the more attractive the site will be for players with bigger bankrolls who are looking for easy action where they aren't known yet.

    4.) You mentioned the lack of many larger tournaments. I also think adding more big tourneys at reasonable buy-in fees could also attract more players to the site. The big tourneys are even more attractive if there are plenty of cheapie satellites running throughout the day and night to give small-time players the chance to get a seat into the big tourneys.

    With the phenomenal growth on-line poker has experienced in the past few years, it's only natural that some of the smaller sites will start to suffer if they don't take a hard look at the successful sites and copy their good ideas, then get the message out to the players through forums like PocketFives that there are good things to be had at the site.

    2Slick
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