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Last Longer Bets

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, Steve

Last longer bets (aka LLBs) are a type of side bet on a tournament made between 2 or more players where the player that stays in the tournament the longest wins the LLB prizepool.Members on Pokerspace can create 2 types of last longer bets:...Read more...

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*Text		<p>Last longer bets (aka LLBs) are a type of side bet on a tournament made between 2 or more players where the player that stays in the tournament the longest wins the LLB prizepool.</p><p>Members on Pokerspace can create 2 types of last longer bets: Pokerspace Tourney LLBs and Non-Pokerspace Tourney LLBs.</p><p><strong>Creating a bet:</strong></p><p>To create a LLB for a Pokerspace tournament click "Create LLB" in the Last Longer Bets section of the tournament page.</p><p>To create a LLB for a non-Pokerspace tournament click the big green "Create Custom LLB" button on the Last Longer Bets page in the Lounge.</p><p>Note that to create a bet you must have at least 1 full reputation ball. There is no reputation requirement to join a LLB.</p><p><strong>Public Bets vs Private Bets</strong></p><p>When creating a bet you will have the option to add a password, which will make the bet private. Private bets can only be joined by members that have the password so if you do include a password make sure you give it to the member(s) you want to join. Public bets are open for anyone to join as long as the have the PS points buy-in.</p><p><strong>LLB </strong><strong>Rake</strong></p><p>Similar to tournament rake, 10% of the prizepool will go to the house.</p><p><strong>Selecting a Winner</strong></p><p>Once the LLB tournament has started all members registered in the bet will be able to select a winner on the LLB page. The bet prizepool can be paid out in 3 ways:</p><p>1. Any time over 50% of the LLB players select the same player as the winner and no other others have been selected, the selected winner will receive the prize.</p><p>2. 24 hours after the tournament started only 1 player has been selected as the winner, he/she will receive the points (even if only 1 player selected that winner).</p><p>3. 24 hours after the tournament started more than 1 player have been selected as the winner an email will be automatically sent to admin to investiage. The admin will then select a winner him/herself.</p><p>If someone is found to repeatedly select an incorrect winner he/she will be suspended from joining and creating last longer bets and/or be suspended from Pokerspace.</p><p><strong>Creating LLBs</strong></p><p>Here are a few rules when creating LLBs:</p><p>- Tournament start time must be in the future<br /> - Registration closes time must be in the future<br /> - LLBs may have between 2 and 100 players.<br /> - Filling in the password field makes the bet private.<br /> - The LLB creator MUST participate in the bet. Points are taken away as soon as the bet is successfully created.<br /> - It is the responsibility of the creator and then all participants that the tournament details have been submitted properly. If they aren't, the bet will be cancelled.<br /> - If there is only 1 player registered for the LLB when registration closes that player will be refunded his/her PS pts LLB buy-in<br /> </p><p><strong>Joining LLBs</strong></p><p>Here are a few rules when joining LLBs:</p><p>- You must have a correctly submitted poker room account. I<strong>t is the participants responsibility to make sure it is 100% correct.</strong> If it isn't, he/she will be disqualified from the LLB and should not be selected as the winner. <br /> - You will not be able to edit your poker room account name until the LLB is finalized.</p><p><strong>Leaving LLBS</strong></p><p>Any member registered in a LLB can leave the bet to receive a refund up until the registration closes. There will be no other refunds unless the bet is cancelled. If the creator leaves the bet the player who joined the bet first becomes the creator. If there is only 1 player registered in a bet and he/she leaves it, the bet is cancelled.</p><p>That should cover anything. If you have any questions or would like something clarified send a mail message to Steve with your question.</p><p>I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank PokerYall for all his hard work in 2009 running the Side Bets group! This group really got LLBs popular, which led to us building it as a automated feature.</p>

How you can help Pokerspace grow

Monday, December 21, 2009, Steve

While there are a ton of different ways you can help Pokerspace grow (many of the tools can be found on this page: http://www.pokerspac...ls/referral-tools/) there is a new method that we'd like your help with!Many of poker rooms out there ...Read more...

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*Text		<p>While there are a ton of different ways you can help Pokerspace grow (many of the tools can be found on this page: <a href="http://www.pokerspace.com/referrals/referral-tools">http://www.pokerspac...ls/referral-tools</a>/) there is a new method that we'd like your help with!</p><p>Many of poker rooms out there allow you to upload an image to represent your username. Some of the more popular poker rooms include: Pokerstars, Absolute Poker, and Reefer/Carbon/Walker/Rio (merge poker rooms).</p><p>We are asking the Pokerspace faithful out there to use a Pokerspace logo as their account image. It will help get the word about Pokerspace out there and hopefully get us some new members!</p><p>Here are the images we have now (we'll be adding more soon):</p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-1/1261418264-95764.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261610199-96024.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-3/1261418277-27605.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-1/1261610217-86520.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261418288-75336.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261610230-44906.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261418306-31383.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261610240-08972.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261418319-99795.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-1/1261610249-77835.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-3/1261418338-74145.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261610257-28432.gif" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p>Just right-click the image you'd like to use and save it to your desktop.</p><p>Here are some quick tips of how to upload that image to your poker room account:</p><p><span style="font-size:medium; line-height: 1.2em;"><strong>Pokerstars</strong></span></p><p>Log in, click the 'Account' menu item, and select "Select/Change Image. Then click the 'Select' button and find the image you saved to your desktop. Finally, make sure the full Pokerspace logo is displayed in the preview circle on the right of the 'Select Image' box (see below) then click select.</p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261419120-69943.jpg" /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:medium; line-height: 1.2em;"><strong>Carbon Poker and other merge poker rooms</strong></span></p><p>It's even easier. Just loggin and click "Player Admin" at the bottom of the Carbon window. Then select "Change Player Icon". Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the "Upload Custom Player Icon" and select to the image located on your desktop.</p><p><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><span style="font-size:small; line-height: 1.2em;"><strong>* For all merge poker rooms make sure you use the small to the right of the bigger ones *</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:medium; line-height: 1.2em;"><strong>Absolute Poker and Ultimatebet</strong></span></p><p>Log in and select 'Change Image' from the 'My Account' menu. Click the 'Change Image' and select the image you want to upload. Resize the dotted line box so that the full Pokerspace logo can be seen in the preview box to the right (see below). Click OK, then save and you are good to go!</p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.com/uploaded-images-2/1261420267-69845-470.jpg" /></p><p> </p><p>If you have any questions or comments post them below!</p><p>Thanks! Your help is very much appreciated!</p>

The Reputation System

Wednesday, August 5, 2009, Steve

The Pokerspace community is growing quickly and with so many members posting and commenting throughout the site it's difficult for members that aren't on the site every day to distinguish between respected/loyal Pokerspacers and those that ...Read more...

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*Text		<p>The Pokerspace community is growing quickly and with so many members posting and commenting throughout the site it's difficult for members that aren't on the site every day to distinguish between respected/loyal Pokerspacers and those that haven't proven to be reliable resource of information and opinion.<br /><br /><strong>Types of Reputation:</strong><br /><br /> The reputation system helps solve this problem by tagging every member with a reputation that encompasses various qualities of a reputable Pokerspacer. A member's universal reputation is broken down into:<br /><br /><strong>Cool reputation</strong>: Members can rep any post (forum thread/reply, blog post/comment, hand post/comment, etc.) as "cool". The more reps you have the higher your cool rep will be. If you think a member has posted something you find cool or interesting, let him know by rep'in it as cool.<br /><br /><strong>Useful reputation</strong>: Member's can also rep the same posts as "useful". This type of reputation is focused on the poker aspect of Pokerspace and member's should a rep post as useful if they feel it was helpful or valuable in some way. You can also give useful rep for non-poker posts. If someone posts how to delete your cookies so you can get your account linked to Pokerspace for example.<br /><strong><br /> Poker play reputation</strong>: This type of reputation is based on the amount of poker you play on accounts linked to Pokerspace. In our minds an experienced poker player should have a higher reputation that someone that doesn't play poker at all. Unfortunately, we can only track the play of members linked to Pokerspace but it should still be a solid representative of your poker experience.<br /><br /><strong>Referral reputation</strong>: Are you friends or buddies with experienced poker players? If so, we think you should be awarded with reputation. Your referral rep will increase as you refer new members to Pokerspace that earn you referral revenue.<br /><br /><strong>Tournament reputation</strong>: Winning a tournament or even placing in the money isn't easy and therefore Pokerspace members have a tournament rep that increases as they win $ and PS points in Pokerspace tournaments. This includes PS point buy-ins (but not qualifiers), cash buy-ins, and members freerolls. Note that Crew tournaments are NOT included. You will receive your reputation as soon as the tournament is finalized on Pokerspace (typically takes 1-2 business days).<br /><br /><strong>Popularity reputation</strong>: Although reputation is NOT a popularity contest, we do think that the # of profile visitors you have is a good representation of how reputable you are. If you are a well known member or poker player and others are constantly checking out your profile for new posts and info about you, your popularity rep will rise!<br /><br /> So those are the 6 types of reputation that all contribute to your "universal" reputation that will be shown on your profile and in many places where you post.<br /><br /><strong>Calculating reputation type levels:</strong><br /><br /> Every Pokerspace member will also have something we've called "Reputation Power". The higher your reputation power, the more cool, useful, and popular reputation you will give your fellow PS'ers. <br /><br /> Reputation power = 1 + (universal reputation level) + (# years you've been a PS member)<br /><br /> Each reputation type has a level associated with it and you will level up when you earn enough rep. Here is a breakdown of how much rep you need to level up for each type of reputation:<br /><br /><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0);"><strong>* Note that ALL of these numbers will likely change in the future as we perfect the reputation system but we have included them here so you have a basic understanding of how it all works *</strong></span><br /><br /> Cool reputation: 250 reps. You will receive reps equal to the "reputation power" of the PS member rep'ing you. For example, you need to be rep'ed 50 times by members with a reputation power of 5 to level up once. <br /><br /> Useful reputation: 125 reps. Reputation power applies the same way as it does for cool rep.<br /><br /> Poker play reputation: A secret formula that takes the PS Points as you play and rakeback you've earned on accounts linked to Pokerspace.<br /><br /> Referral reputation: Earn $10 in referral revenue. Also, any member that referred someone under the old referral program (receiving 100 PS points for each referral) will receive $2 worth of referral reputation.<br /><br /> Tournament reputation: Finish in the money 15 times in Pokerspace tournaments (this includes any event there are PS points in the prizepool). Winning a tournament will get you 3x the tournament rep as finishing in the money. <em><strong>Note that PSOP and other qualifiers are not included.</strong></em><br /><br /> Popularity reputation: 1000 rep. You will receive reps for every profile view equal to the reputation power of the member viewing your profile. Non-PS members viewing your profile will give you 1 rep.<br /><br /><strong>Calculating Universal Reputation:</strong></p><p>Your universal reputation goes up as your individual reputation levels increase. Here's how it works:<br /><br /> Your universal reputation is depicted by 5 medals and 5 PS balls. As seen here beside your profile picture in the quicklinks section.</p><p><img src="http://www.pokerspace.test/uploaded-images-1/1248888326-36761.jpg" alt="" /></p><p><img alt="" src="http://www.pokerspace.test/uploaded-images-3/1248888282-72410.jpg" /></p><p>You fill up the PS balls as your individual rep type's increase. However, filling up the PS balls becomes increasingly difficult your universal reputation level increases:</p><p>0 medals -> you only need 1 rep type level up to fill in ¼ of the PS ball.<br /> 1 medal -> you need 2 rep type level ups to fill in ¼ of the PS ball.<br /> 2 medals -> you need 4 rep type level ups to fill in ¼ of the PS ball.<br /> 3 medals -> you need 8 rep type level ups to fill in ¼ of the PS ball.<br /> 4 medals -> you need 16 rep type level ups to fill in ¼ of the PS ball.<br /> 5 medals -> you need 32 rep type level ups to fill in ¼ of the PS ball.<br /><br /><strong>Community Statuses</strong>:</p><p>You will also be tagged with a community status in most areas of the site where you post. Your community status is determined by your universal reputation. Here are the community statuses available:</p><ul><li>0 medals and 0 balls - "10 high"</li> <li>0 medals and 1/4 ball (1 leaf) - "J high"</li> <li>0 medals and 2/4 ball (1 leaf) - "Q high"</li> <li>0 medals and 3/4 ball (1 leaf) - "K high"</li> <li>0 medals and 1 ball - "A high"</li> <li>0 medals and 2 balls - "Pair of twos"</li> <li>0 medals and 3 balls - "Pair of sevens"</li> <li>0 medals and 4 balls - "Pair of kings"</li> <li>1 medals and 0 balls - "Fives and fours"</li> <li>1 medals and 1 ball - "Aces and twos"</li> <li>1 medals and 2 balls - "Trip deuces"</li> <li>1 medals and 3 balls - "Trip jacks"</li> <li>1 medals and 4 balls - "Trip aces"</li> <li>2 medals and 0 balls - "10 high straight"</li> <li>2 medals and 1 ball - "K high straight"</li> <li>2 medals and 2 balls - "9 high flush"</li> <li>2 medals and 3 balls - "Q high flush"</li> <li>2 medals and 4 balls - "A high flush"</li> <li>3 medals and 0 balls - "7s full"</li> <li>3 medals and 1 ball - "9s full"</li> <li>3 medals and 2 balls - "Jacks full"</li> <li>3 medals and 3 balls - "Kings full"</li> <li>3 medals and 4 balls - "Aces full"</li> <li>4 medals and 0 balls - "Quad 6s"</li> <li>4 medals and 1 ball - "Quad 8s"</li> <li>4 medals and 2 balls - "Quad jacks"</li> <li>4 medals and 3 balls - "Quad queens"</li> <li>4 medals and 4 balls - "Quad aces"</li> <li>5 medals and 0 balls - "Straight flush - 5 high"</li> <li>5 medals and 1 ball - "Straight flush - 8 high"</li> <li>5 medals and 2 balls - "Straight flush - 9 high"</li> <li>5 medals and 3 balls - "Straight flush - J high"</li> <li>5 medals and 4 balls - "Straight flush - K high"</li> <li>5 medals and 5 balls - "Royal flush"</li> </ul><p><strong>Limitations on Cool, Useful and Popularity Rep</strong></p><p>To ensure the integrity of the reputation system we have set limitations on the amount of reputation you can give another member. After you give a cool or useful rep to a member you cannot give them another cool or useful rep until you rep 5 other members. You can also only rep 10 items over a 24 hour preiod.</p><p>Similarly, you can only give a user popularity rep by visiting his profile once every 24 hours and must visit 10 other profiles before your profile visit will give the member popularity rep again.</p><p><strong>Accolades</strong></p><p>Note that the accolades are seperate from the reputation system.</p><p><strong>Leaderboards and Reputation Benefits</strong><br /><br /> Once we are comfortable with the #s associated with the reputation system we will be adding a reputation leaderboards page that showcases the PS members with the highest reputation in each of the categories. We will also be adding rewards for members that increase their universal reputation and earn the 5 medals. More details about these will be posted down the road.</p>

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