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Re:Bring back Riley
I, for one, am glad this story was never finished. What happened on that night should remain between Giga, me, and the guy with the red umbrella.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Jul 31st, 2008
Re:PLB Sliding Score Question
Yes, there is a lag between when the score appears on your "Recent Scores" page and when your Sliding PLB score is updated.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 25th, 2008
Re:Books on math of poker
In the Bahamas last year, I picked up a copy of "The Mathematics of Poker" by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman (I believe it had just been released). It is by far the most comprehensive and thorough read on the subject I have found. Read the review at for a closer look at the topics covered in this exceptional book.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
May 18th, 2008
Re:petition to bring back old server error screen
Error Executing Child Request at XXXX-...-XXXX.aspx Note that "child" here is an adjective modifying the type of request (a request that was executed, i.e. implemented, by a parent process), and not a poor helpless infant awaiting the swing of an axe, as Microsoft's poor terminolgy might otherwise be interpreted. At any rate, the two messages are related, and were/are both occuring because the server is being asked to do too much at once. The team is working on improving the efficiency of things both by cleaning up the code and by upgrading the hardware, and hopes to have ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Apr 7th, 2008
Re(1): Fantasy Filmmaker Update
I know this looks a bit like sour grapes since I'm not very close in the running here, so let me preface this post by saying I've had a lot of fun with this game, and I'm not suggesting that anything should change for this particular competition. I do think, however, that we should re-evaluate the scoring if this game is ever played again (I, for one, hope that there's a 2008 version). Averaging the Rotten Tomato "Fresh" percentage scores with the IMDB average ratings doesn't make any sense to me. The IMDB ratings are average scores from users voting a scale of 10 score, whereas the Rotten ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Dec 27th, 2007
Re(1): Question about Sortable Rankings.
The Sortable Rankings do not reset at the first of the year. They use the scoring rules of the Sliding PLB, namely, all scores from the last sliding year count, with more weight given to more recent scores. If you are motivated to move up in your own personal region/category, you'll certainly move to the top or near the top of the list if you have the best track record over the last 3 months.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Dec 27th, 2007
Re(1): Free $
Free $5.00 on PS to the 1st person who figures this out. Edit: The first time through I figured out the first few characters in my head and speculated on the ending. Free $5.00 on PS to the 1st person to PM me saying "I Love Kate" P.S. Keep the $5 for another contest. I enjoy these, like what it adds to the community, and would like to see it go to someone else.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Oct 18th, 2007
Re(1): What do the highlighted blue scores in "my scores" for rankings mean..
From the Leaderboard FAQ, Question 3: How does the sliding leaderboard work': "The Sliding Leaderboard is the leaderboard that factors into the results portion of the World Wide Rankings. The Sliding PLB is also the sole source of information for all Sortable Rankings (i.e. rankings by country, age, and other criteria). The Sliding Leaderboard combines a player's top 40 finishes, with a maximum of 24 from any single site and spans the most recent 12 months of data collected by . Scores that are 3-6 months old retain 75% of their original PLB value, scores that are 6-9 months old ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Oct 9th, 2007
Re(1): what qualifies as the triple crown?
From the Triple Crown Wall of Champions page: The Triple Crown celebrates a great accomplishment in online poker. The Triple Crown winner is the latest person to win three different tournaments on three different sites over the course of one week (any seven day period). The qualifications and rules for this award are as follows: A player must win three multi-table tournaments, each of which start within the same seven day period across three of any of the sites we track for our player rankings. Each tournament must have a prize pool of at least $10K. Each tournament must have at least ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Sep 2nd, 2007
Announcing the On the Rail Forum!
With today's Sunday majors, we are releasing a new forum on PocketFives for railing your favorite players and for announcing to your friends what tournaments you are playing, the On the Rail forum. I've just added the forum to the Public Forums list, but you may need to logout and log back in before seeing it. In the meantime, you can get to it here: On the Rail Forum The forum also has a special console where you can enter any site/tournament you are currently in so that your friends will immediately know where you are. I've entered a sample tournament in the list so that ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Sep 2nd, 2007
Announcing the On the Rail Forum!
With today's Sunday majors, we are releasing a new forum on PocketFives for railing your favorite players and for announcing to your friends what tournaments you are playing, the On the Rail forum. I've just added the forum to the Public Forums list, but you may need to logout and log back in before seeing it. In the meantime, you can get to it here: On the Rail Forum The forum also has a special console where you can enter any site/tournament you are currently in so that your friends will immediately know where you are. I've entered a sample tournament in the list so that ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Sep 2nd, 2007
Re(1): card calculator error
This isn't really an error, just a product of the way the calculoator works. From the calculator landing page: The Card Calculator then runs 25,000 simulation hands [to calculate results]. You will notice a very slight, insignificant change in the odds after each calculation. For a thorough explanation of this variance, click here.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Aug 31st, 2007
Congrats to M8kingmoves for winning the July MPLB!
Congrats to M8kingmoves for winning the July MPLB race! For his efforts, M8kingmoves will face timex, the defending MPLB champion, for a $1K prize later in the month. You can see all of our MPLB winners on our MPLB Wall of Champions page.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Aug 7th, 2007
Re(3): Most Final Tables In A Week
He very well may already have. I'm just looking at the last month.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 20th, 2007
Re(1): Most Final Tables In A Week
From the PocketFivers Stats Page, SCTrojans has made 41 final tables in the last month. That's an AVERAGE of 10 per week and that's in a month when he was constantly playing live events in Vegas (including his deep finish in the main event). Going into his recent scores page off his profile, this stretch between 6/15 and 7/22 looks to be the most recent impressive week. I count 15 final tables in the ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 20th, 2007
Re(2): Question about omaha hi/lo card calculator
poker4jab, Results do not add up to 100% because all the events listed are not mutually exclusive. Winning the HIGH at 34.16% says nothing about whether you win, lose, or tie the LOW (or whether or not a LOW even comes). Some of the 34.16% times you win the HIGH, you win the LOW, some of the 34.16% times you win the HIGH, you tie the LOW, and some of the 34.16% times you win the HIGH, a LOW doesn't even come, so adding the events together doesn't make sense. It would be like taking the chance I roll a 4 or greater on two dice and the chance that I flip heads on a single coin toss, and ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 20th, 2007
Re(1): Question about omaha hi/lo card calculator
EyeKnows is correct. In the case of the two hands you have entered into the calculator, IF a low comes, the first hand will win (or at least tie) it. If a low does not come, there is a 0% chance that the first hand will lose the low, and therefore a 0% chance that the first hand will lose both. In other words, with a board of KKKQQ, the first hand DOES NOT lose both, but instead loses 100% of the pot by losing the high. Cheers, Riley
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 20th, 2007
Top 20 Users by Word Count (aka: Yes, BFactor writes some long-ass posts)
USERNAMEPOSTSWORDSWORDS PER POSTAdam847152997462.56333373supermoves678950378974.20665783BigGunX1164045690039.25257732jtown10101073345423342.32115904wowswift1727944925325.99994213Dumb Walrus1439644782831.10780772bfactor3648423566116.10910091.21Gigawatts876339487445.06150862Mr. ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Jul 13th, 2007
Re(3): Back by Popular Demand! Top 20 Users By Post Count!
HTML tags do actually count as words, but only as one word each.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Jul 12th, 2007
Back by Popular Demand! Top 20 Users By Post Count!
USERPOST COUNTWORD COUNTWORDS PER POSTSluggerWV18,466276,54214.9757392wowswift17,278449,02825.98842459Dumb Walrus14,396447,82831.10780772BigGunX11,619455,66039.21680007jtown101010,703453,19342.34261422jerichoholic10,135353,44034.87321164Mr. ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Jul 11th, 2007
Re(3): Sortable Rankings Links
As we get more members from different countries, we do plan on having default rankings for regions based on provinces or counties. As it stands, however, we currently have 20,000 members with US listed as their country in their personal profiles (justifying a breakdown to the state level), whereas we only have 1013 members with Canada listed as their country. I'm not yet sure where the cutoff is for breaking down countries into regions, but I'd like each subcategory (provinces in the case of Canada) to have an average of at least 100 members each. I really like your idea of measuring ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 1st, 2007
Sortable Rankings Links
With all the talk about people being number one in their region, it seems people are trying to get to the list being talked about without an easy way to do so. With that in mind, there's now a link in everyone's profile below the location field, that points to the sortable rankings page for the particular member's state (if they live in the United States) or country (if they live outside the United States). Hopefully this will make easier for people to get to some of the rankings everyone is talking about. Enjoy, Riley
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jul 1st, 2007
Re(1): Error when i click on my username or unread PMS
The name you chose, Con, causes a problem with IIS. I've renamed your account to cchan, the name you use on PokerStars.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Riley
Jun 22nd, 2007
Please Update Your Location Information!
As many of you have noticed, we have been changing the way the "Location" field is stored in your personal profiles as preperation for International and State Rankings here on PocketFives. We have attempted to match your location firstly by taking the zip code you had previously entered in your profile, and secondly by matching your location from your ip address. The success rate for these matchings was decent, but not 100%, so if the location information in your profile is currently wrong, please take the time now to change it. You can edit your location by going to your home ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jun 22nd, 2007
Congrats to Aaron Kanter for winning the May PLB!
The winner of the May PLB race is none other than Aaron "gotcha55" Kanter, with a whopping 3447.81, the highest point total since we have been awarding the Monthly PLB award. It gives me special honor to announce this acomplishment, having met Kanter a while before his 4th place WSOP appearance in Aruba in 2004. We were playing a side tournament at the Westin with a horrible structure that forced some crazy action, and I got in with Kanter with AJ against his J9. The flop was (of course) nothing other than 999. Since we always remember our beats more than our suckouts, I'm ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jun 5th, 2007
Re(2): Absolute Poker now included in the Rankings!
Slugger, We would like to include every major online tournament site in our automated rankings, and as PocketFives grows we will undoubtedly add more and more sites to the list. Since we obtain all of our tournament results directly from the sites themselves, the largest issue we face in including tournaments in the PocketFives rankings is the sites' willingness to work with us in order to provide the data. -Riley
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jun 2nd, 2007
Absolute Poker now included in the Rankings!
Just in time for this week's Sunday Majors, as of June 1st, tournament results for AbsolutePoker will now be included in the Online Tournament Rankings! Scores are already being pushed into our database, and there are several scores on Absolute by PocketFivers already. The current best tracked score by a pocketfiver on Absolute is 12stacks with this gem: $100 buy-in, $10K Guaranteed SS on AbsolutePoker, 6/1/2007, 5th for $716 (39.95 points) Make sure you have your Absolute names filled out and verified in your profiles! Cheers, Riley
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Jun 2nd, 2007
Fan Results are In (562 Participants!)
Over the course of the last week, we had over 550 fans cast in their votes for their favorite online poker player. With Imper1um's recent success, it's no surprise that the fans picked him number one. Filling out the second and third fan poll positions, separated by less than one tenth of an average fan score are none other than JohnnyBax and Annette_15. The rest of our top 10 fan picks are shown below: RANK AVG FAN SCORE 1.Imper1um6.212.JohnnyBax9.243.Annette_159.294.P0KERPR03310.175.BeL0WaB0Ve10.626.atimos10.707.PearlJammer12.548.mr. menlo13.019.Andy McLEOD13.2210.t ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
May 10th, 2007
Pro Poll Distribution Page
Pro Poll Distribution Page Accessible via the Pro Poll Page is a new data page related to our rankings, the Pro Poll Distribution Page. This page shows tons of data about the pro poll, including how many polls make up the pro poll section of the rankings (67 at the time of this posting) and how frequently the top 20 were ranked 1-200 by these 67 pollers. The chart at the top of the page compares vote ranks for the top 4 pro poll players. As you can see from both the chart and the graph, Imper1um currently has the most number 1 votes with 22 and P0KERPR033, despite having an average that ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
May 7th, 2007
Re(1): Problem with PLB scores?
I'm not entirely sure why your FullTilt non-cash was included (this problem should be fixed by the time you read this post so it no longer appears in your recent scores), but as for PokerStars, we are in a transitional period where we will start including all buy-in tournaments as long as the prize pool is greater than $10K. There should be an announcement about this soon.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Riley
Apr 12th, 2007