Hi Teppo and all, I’d be happy to play. I live in the south of England so most evenings would be ok that tie in with anyother players.

Regards
Civi

In theory I’d love to do it, not sure precisely what times would be best for me since I can’t play either at home or at work!

So there’s enough people without me, and you can arrange a time which fits with the east coast of the US, then I’ll try to sneak off somewhere and join in…

Allrighty, I took the liberty of choosing the time and other details for the tournament, and it will be on Sunday, January the 10th at Full Tilt Poker.

I thought this was the best time considering people may be away for the holidays, and how we live in different parts of the world with different time zones. It will be morning in the U.S. and evening in the Europe at the time of the tournament.

Full details can be found here: http://www.correspondencepoker.com/tournamentinfo.php

One trick some sites use is to have a trusted users list that gets the passwords. Each tournament you can add some new names to the list. Then if someone leaks the password you have a good chance of identifying the culprit.

…Personally I would prefer a buy-in upwards of $50 or $100 (that way it hurts a little to lose, and the winner can afford a nice dinner or equivalent), … .

I’d also like to see other games than NL.

John Deer, are you trying to hustle us?!

John Deer, are you trying to hustle us?!

Considering I’m life time loser in all games except nl, limit hold’em, pot-limit draw and stud8 I don’t think you need to worry too much about that.

So I’m confused … what happened exactly … do people really trawl websites looking for passwords to freerolls and then post them for all to see?! Surely not…

(Even if so, amazing that 700 people bothered to sign up! Perhaps you should employ kidology and call it "tournament of mediocre dull people" or something to disuade glory seekers?!)

And now it’s actually ~1,600 people who’ve signed up (and I expected maybe 10-20 people to join). Too funny! Don’t know exactly how the password leaked out so quickly, but freerolls don’t seem to work so something else will need to be tried the next time – and thanks to everyone for sharing your ideas!

Akorps’ suggestion of "trusted user list" makes perfect sense, but I personally don’t think it’s the best solution due to the fact that it would force us to "play favorites" instead of keeping the tourney open to all of us who are interested.

Running a real money tourney like John Deer suggested would seem to solve most of the problems, since if there was no extra money added and it wasn’t free, there shouldn’t be any incentive for outsiders to "crash" our tourney either as there wouldn’t be any added benefit for doing that compared to playing one of the regular tourneys they keep running almost non-stop. It might cut down the number of participants a little, but that’s a minor issue compared to what we just witnessed with our attempt to organize a freeroll.

So, if the same date and time works for you, I could try setting up a new real money tourney with the minimum allowed buy-in (probably ~$5 USD)? And if we got 5-10 players to join it would be a decent start and I’d be happy with it. So please let me know if you’d be interested in this and able to do it with <10 days notice, and if even a few people "commit" to it I definitely want to give it another try. (Sorry John for suggesting the minimum buy-in, but I think initially that’s what we need to start with to know how many people we are interested in these types of tourneys, and if it works we can always try to increase the buy-in for the future tournaments.)