FREEROLL INFO - Password - Read Me...

[BDMK]

its a shame. we had 35 crashers out of 66 total entries. despite that, thankfully, a few crashers forgot to play and few others yet were actually (gasp!) honest enough to agree to sitout, and one other still even returned his cash (the chinacat dude, who i think we should invite to join the forum).

i truly enjoyed playing against the forum regulars. this is the first time i played a pvt event where every single one of the forum regulars actually...knew how to play well! and thats exactly what im looking for in my pvt events, as part of my overall poker education. i want to have fun, practice and improve my game against those who can challenge me, not play slots on a poker table.

for the future, though, TP, pls release any passes only 10 mins before gametime (by PM of course). if there are any leaks again, dont worry, we'll catch them. but at least, in such a short time period before the tourney starts, there wont be a huge stampede of outsiders.

[Ando05]

I just wanna thank you TP for giving me the opportunity to play in the freeroll, i didnt play as much for the money, i just wanted to know how i stack up against you guys. and i guess i have to be proud of myself since i finished 4th. i wish i could have played the whole tourney but i had to go somewhere when there were 5ppl remaining. i guess i did pretty well cuz i got second(after BDMK) in this forum. i hope there are other tourneys later on and i hope i get a chance to play in them too.

ps: nice job BDMK

pps: i am looking to stick around and post in this forum from now on. thank you for the opportunity again.

[BDMK]

i could have used ur 'help' when we got 4-handed. glad all is well and ill see u around the tables.

[Talking Poker]

After he saw the posts here and realized he was busted, the "leaker" sent me $125 on Stars for my troubles. He then PM'd me and asked me to remove his IP addresses from this thread.

I replied, wanting to know the reasoning behind his actions, because for the life of me - still - I can not think of a non-malicious reason why someone would leak the password. Keep in mind, this person didn't spam the forum, and tell people to come here to get the password. What they did was go to RGP, create a brand new account there, and then anonymously post a few simple lines, stating the name of the tourney and the password to get in. Not one mention of this site or the requirements everyone else had to go through to get the password. All this, after watching how closely I was guarding the password for the past few weeks and what everyone had to go through to get it, including all the new people having to wait until 5 minutes before the tourney started.

If anyone can come up with a possible non-malicious reason that someone would do this, I'd love to hear it. Because all I can come up with is that they wanted to wreck the freeroll for everyone here... namely me.

I do appreciate the $125 repayment gesture - but I am CERTAIN that would not have come if not for this person getting busted. But what I would really like to see is a public apology and explanation for these actions. Of course, when I asked him to make such a post, the PM reply I got was:

So I guess I can take that as a no.

I haven't banned him for this, and I don't plan on it.... I'm still just in disbelief. Keep in mind - this was a trusted poster... someone who has been around for a very long time and contributed a lot to this forum.

[BDMK]

anywho...in the future, i'd suggest all passes to everyone invited go out by PM 5-10 mins prior to gametime, no exceptions.