Get PAID for Talking Poker!
 

Hello and welcome to the TalkingPoker.com Forums.

I created this board for a few reasons, but mostly because the other places that I look for poker discussion are being ruined by a bunch of idiots begging for money, spamming their sites, and/or flooding the board with bonus offers and whatever their latest scam is. It's not even worth my time to sift through all the crap posted on RGP any more.

I hope these forums become extremely popular with thousands and thousands of poker enthusiasts, but to help get things started, I've come up with a plan. For a limited time (at least through 12/31/04, and quite possibly longer), I am going to PAY you to post here. Here's how it works:

1. You get $5 just for creating an account.
2. You earn 10 cents for every post you make.
3. After you make 200 posts, send me a Private Message with your account name, and I'll deposit $25 in it for you ($5 + 200 x .10).*

That's all there is to it! Then keep posting away and keep racking up those 10 cents. When you hit your 500th post, you'll receive another $30 and when you hit Post #1000, I'll deposit another 50 bucks into your account. That's a potential $105 of completely free money, just for "Talking Poker."

All posts you make will count towards your total - All I ask is that you don't post a bunch of garbage solely for the sake of inflating your post count. If it looks like that's what you're doing, or if people start to complain about you, you're not going to get paid. I'm not going to scam anyone here, but you need to earn your money. Make quality posts, and you'll get paid.

You are under no obligation to play with the money I deposit into your account. You are free to cash it out immediately if you chose to do so. If you don't have a Party Poker account, you can create one here:


(Yes, my afiliate link is included there - hopefully I'll get a few new players through this to help cover the expenses I'm about to incur).

Happy posting!


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*Edit - It turns out Party has a minimum transfer amount of $50, but we still have plenty of options:

1. We can wait until you hit 500 posts and transfer the money ($55) to your Party account then.

2. I can deposit the $25 into your account. If you don't have one yet, I can give you a special link to use to sign up and also give you an added bonus - even more free $$ for you.

3. This is the best option, so I saved it for last. If you open a NEW account through my links (), make a real money deposit of at least $100, and then play a minimim of 250 raked hands, I'll pay you double what I owe you ($50 instead of $25) once I confirm you met the above requiements. And to top it off, will give you a 25% bonus on your deposit as well!

1st page, site looks good

Good luck. I'm always looking for informative poker discussions.
I've played on 40 or so different poker sites and am always looking for
new ones to try.

So will this actually be a moderated forum or will people just be allowed to run amuck and wait for a chance to flame anyone and everyone like RPG?
Good luck
Penguinfan

It's a private forum. Obviously, it's moderated.

It's moderated, but I think I'd like to keep it as censor-free as possible. If people want to argue, so be it, but unless they are arguing about poker strategy, it belongs in the Off Topic section. I won't delete that sort of thing, but I will move it to where it belongs so people looking for poker discussion don't have to wade through tons of garbage to find quality threads. Hopefully I won't have to.

Thats more or less what I meant, just hate to be part of a board where people sit around and jam the refresh button looking for someone to argue with.
Thanks and good luck with the forum.

site looks good

used only pokerstars before..just regg'd party poker under your link

200 posts here i come

and to think I used to post 10+ messages per day for free on my other forum. where was this 5 months ago?..lol

hehe... welcome aboard - glad to have you!

This $0.10 per post thing is just enough to get me hooked, but not enough to allow me to talk poker all day and night. It's perfect.

I hope this forum is successful. RGP is out of control.

CF

:D

I hope soo too!

Suggestion
 

You should have a referral system.

I understand referral systems are the way of the future. You should get on the bandwagon.

I'm thinking a one-level referral system where the referrer gets 1 cent for every post made by the referree.

I have a lot of friends and, to be honest, I will probably get around to telling them about this forum eventually, but a referral system will make me tell them a lot sooner.

Think about it - 2+2 will be creamed if you have a referral system.

You can thank me later ;)

CF

This sounds like a great idea, I hope this turns into a actual "poker" forum.

Funny you posted this, because I actually had this idea. I wasn't going to pay a referral per post, but rather a flat fee for each new member referred ($1 or $2 or something). Two problems with this:

1. People could sign up tons of useless accounts that never contribute anything (this is a proble with the pay per signup method).
2. This would be WAY too hard to track (the multi-tiered pay per post method).

It's a good idea, but it's just not going to happen. I hope you refer a bunch of friends here anyway. So far, I'm happy with the success of the forum. People are actually TALKING POKER, and seem to be really enjoying it.

i think im going to like this
 

im tired of the useless posts at RGP. Look forward to posting and reading posts here

Nice Job
 

This looks like a good forum to actually discuss poker. I got very tired of RGP and all the OT discussions and personal attacks.

:) Looks like a great forum, hope it catches on.

Well, instead of reading useless posts on RGP, you can read useless posts here as people try to up their post count to reach the threshold for free money.

Jackass is a perfect example. :)

Sweet deal. Im all in for this :)

is there a post counter somewhere so i can keep track?

Yup... at the top of every post. Next to where it says "Posts:"

Imagine that! :rolleyes:

This is, without a doubt, one of the best things I have ever heard about. The site is superb, the offer is royally generous, and hopefully the posts will be insightful.

I like this a lot, and I hope it works out great. :)

I have alot of Poker mad friends I will inform about the forum, we all mad brits tho!

Hey TP, can we promote you site, like rave about it on other newsgroups to get people to come over? whats your take on this?

^why not?

Absolutely. I was mentioning it on RGP for the first few days, but so many people signed up and posted so much so fast, I thought I better cut back for a while :D

There's also currently a problem with some people getting the registration confirmation emails... I've been trying to get that resolved too.

But sure, you can do whatever you like. I'll ask that you don't spam it annoyingly, but if you like it here and want to tell other people about it, go for it.

this happened to me when i first signed up, i didn't get my confirmation for about a week, so people probably just haven't waited long enough for their confirmations to send.

I like it already
 

After I learn my way around, I will hopefully be reading and posting. I will be putting up a link to talking poker on my web site this weekend. Very interesting concept. :)

Richard

You say here that you can deposit the $25 into an Empire account...
Is the min deposit there $25? And if so why is it different from partypoker, if both are pretty much the same thing?

I never understood this relationship. Are they the same company, but two different skins? Or are they run entirely differently, but using the same database of players?

I can answer some of your questions and only speculate on the others:

1. Yes, the minimum transfer amount on Empire is $25 - On Party it is $50.
2. No, they are not the same company.
3. Yes, they are different skins, pointing to the exact same real money tables (but with different multiple table tourneys).

hi everyone, another poker forum to join, 1 post down, 499 to go.

Cool I didn't even see this thread until now, get paid to post, what a great idea.

Judging from things, I believe I've attracted two new members by linking to this site from mine. :)

This pleases me. Thanks!!!

DAM 500 posts is a long way

Hello TP.

I joined yesterday and I can honestly say I didnt join because of your bonus sceme, I didnt even know about it.
I joined because I like poker and play every day, so to break my time up I needed a site like this were I can talk to other players, thus am not playing all the time but still in a poker community.

Anyway great Forum and good Luck.

Jim.

This is now my 450th post. I can honestly say that this site kicks ass, there are many characters on it and I enjoy trading strategies and thoughts with all of you.

That being said, I have to admit that when I first joined this site, I was thinking "Hey, easy way to make a couple of bucks on top of doing little at work". I thought that maybe a couple of 2 bit sentences here and there would qualify as a post and I'd be at 1000 in no time.

However, being on this site for about 4-5 weeks now, and having posted so much, I can now say that most of my posts have been very well thought out and not quick little one-liners for the old post metre. Whether it be talking about stupid US gambling tax policies :p (sorry for the low blow guys), or the Red Sox (Pedro met with Steinbrenner on Tuesday, for those of you wondering), or even, dare I say it, POKER (discussion that no longer occurs on rec.gambling.POKER).

One more thing I can say to everyone is that if TP is giving you guys money to post, pay him back and use his links. He is still going to be less thn breaking even when you use them, but using them none-the-less will offset the costs of him bringing us this wonderful site. If I make a 1000 posts before he stops paying out, yippee, if not, who cares, I enjoy message boards and will continue to post on whatever I want in the future.

Phew, now that my rant is over, TP, check pms.

Thanks to the long lost brothers (jimmyM and GeoffM) for their kind words and for supporting this site!

You'll have your cash today, Geoff.

Wouldn't we be more like brothers from parallel universes, seeing as how he said he was joining for the chat and I said I had initially joined for the $$$?

Thanks, TP, and check your PMs. Give me an answer 'cause I am breaking my month long absence from online poker this weekend. I took a month off as I grew increasingly bored, despite making a decent profit.

Check MY private messages? I've been waiting for you to write me back!

sounds good
 

Good idea for a forum.

thanks talking poker
 

Just signed up, wanted to thank you for this new site, rpg is getting ridiculkous with all the pokerchamps crap, and arguing.

Thanks for this opportunity. It looks like a quality site and hopefully, we'll get some good poker discussion going.

There's plenty of the crap here too, but it's all nicely isolated in the SPAM section, keeping the poker sections nice and clean and available for Talking Poker!

Welcome to TPF. Enjoy your stay.

Post 200!
 

Show me the money!! heh. SirFWALGMan on Empire. Since your lousy backing money has already lost me the money (heh, j/k), I will be crying until it comes.

I'd have known about this sooner, cept' I got tired of RPG a long time ago. I go back to see if it's gotten any better, so I saw the link.

Looks good as far as I'm concerned. :)

Regards
4Flusher

MY 200th post!! Ya Baby, Ya.
TP this is a great forum, I will certainly be here for the duration. Thanks and keep up the good work!
DREW

hi, TP any word on whether the $25 will go beyond new year's for existing members?

cheerio.