Poker Essay Competition - Winners Announced!

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10-02-2009, 02:24 AM
givememyleg

Poker Essay Competition - Winners Announced!

CONGRATULATIONS to Robb who won this contest with 31% of the votes with his article Exploitation and the FTC Theorem. If you haven't read it yet, do it now!

Robb wins his choice of FTR Gear, an FTR Fitted Hat, Custom Forum Title and of course, FTR IMMORTALITY, whatever that means.

In second place was our local shemale anti-pms chardrian, with his article What Makes a Player Top-Tier? He/she wins FTR Gear and Full-Tilt Gear!

Third place was a threesome of third world cheap action where Rage2100 came with his article Poker, the Beautiful Woman on spoonitnow who returned the favor with Preparation in Poker on Chopper who pleasured himself with Pot Equity Edge (LHE). They will all be pimpin' FTR Gear in their next hookup.

But of course, the GRAND PRIZE is split between the last FIVE authors who all received 2% of the votes and each win DINNER WITH BIGRED! kevster, WillburForce, PokerDiva (who?!), Illfavor, and yes, would you believe it, iopq, all will be taken out to a restaurant of their choice and given a complimentary foot massage from our man, bigred. Please contact him to setup a time and place.

Congrats to all and thanks for the quality articles! I will contact all of the winners for your required information. Next time we run this, I swear it will be ran much more smoothly.

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FTR's recent Poker Essay Contest has finally come to a close. (finally)

This thread will be the poll voting system where FTR will decide who wins and who gets dinner with bigred.

DO NOT vote unless you have at least 50 posts.

DO NOT out any of the articles, even if you know who wrote them. We want to keep this anonymous in order to avoid a popularity contest.

Please invest some time in your votes as well, don't just mash buttons.

After this poll runs for 7 days, it will be over and we will announce the winners. Obviously whoever has the most votes will win. However, it is up to management to make a decision if fraud is suspected. Anyone that is found to be making accounts to raise their position will be banned, that ain't cool yo. We don't want another MrBigCity incident.

Vote away, polls close on 10/9 at 2am!

PRIZES

1st - FTR Gear of your choice + Fitted FTR Hat + Custom Forum Title + FTR IMMORTALITY
2nd - FTR Gear of your choice + Full-Tilt Gear of your choice
3rd - FTR Gear of your choice
4th - Dinner with bigred.

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EDIT - Just realized you can't click the links in the posts, which sucks, so here are clickable links:

DON SnGs (http://www.flopturnriver.com/double-...y-pre-flop.php)
Preparation in Poker (http://www.flopturnriver.com/preparation-in-poker.php)
Poker, the Beautiful Woman (http://www.flopturnriver.com/poker-t...iful-woman.php)
What Makes a Player Top-Tier? (http://www.flopturnriver.com/what-ma...r-top-tier.php)
Getting Off the Bottom (http://poker-basics.flopturnriver.co...the-bottom.php)
Pot Equity Edge in LHE (http://poker-strategy.flopturnriver....y-edge-lhe.php)
Personal Attacks and the Check Raise (http://www.flopturnriver.com/persona...heck-raise.php)
Exploitation and the FTC Theorem (http://poker-strategy.flopturnriver....tc-theorem.php)
Practice Makes Perfect (http://poker-basics.flopturnriver.co...es-perfect.php)
Player Types (http://poker-strategy.flopturnriver....ayer-types.php)

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Notes:

Don't see your article? This is for one of two reasons: 1) It sucked or 2) I f'd up and forgot to include it. Please PM me if this is the case.

The DON SnGs are part of a series:

1) http://www.flopturnriver.com/double-...y-pre-flop.php
2) http://www.flopturnriver.com/double-...-post-flop.php
3) http://www.flopturnriver.com/double-...ubble-play.php
10-02-2009, 02:43 AM
daven

any way to rank them 1-10? Sorta like a stv election system or something.
10-02-2009, 02:55 AM
bikes

poker the beatiful woman lol/

moar like poker the dirty whore, just ask dogishead
10-02-2009, 03:20 AM
FTR_Calendar

Less than 3 hours to go until this event starts! http://www.flopturnriver.com/images/...onus_small.gif FTR has private money added tournaments with Full Tilt Poker! http://www.flopturnriver.com/images/..._yes_small.gif Full Tilt Poker accepts U.S. players!
10-02-2009, 03:57 AM
Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by daven

any way to rank them 1-10? Sorta like a stv election system or something.

Yeah, I like that idea. Wonder if it's possible?
10-02-2009, 04:10 AM
givememyleg

Not with our current board and features, sorry!
10-02-2009, 04:24 AM
WillburForce

can people vote for themselves?

would this be

a) not cool
b) cheating
c) fine - prizes to win, gogogogogogo.
10-02-2009, 05:17 AM
givememyleg

c
10-02-2009, 05:20 AM
FTR_Calendar

Less than 1 hour to go until this event starts! http://www.flopturnriver.com/images/...onus_small.gif FTR has private money added tournaments with Full Tilt Poker! http://www.flopturnriver.com/images/..._yes_small.gif Full Tilt Poker accepts U.S. players!
10-02-2009, 07:17 AM
kevster

My ass is going to get totally kicked - there's some good stuff here.
10-02-2009, 09:27 AM
Chopper

why dont we vote for the best, but mention our top 3 in the comments after we voted?
10-02-2009, 09:58 AM
flomo

Quote:

Originally Posted by FTR_Calendar

Less than 1 hour to go until this event starts! http://www.flopturnriver.com/images/...onus_small.gif FTR has private money added tournaments with Full Tilt Poker! http://www.flopturnriver.com/images/..._yes_small.gif Full Tilt Poker accepts U.S. players!

pass plz?
10-02-2009, 10:19 AM
frosst

Quote:

Originally Posted by daven

any way to rank them 1-10? Sorta like a stv election system or something.

you could number them, and then pm them in ranked order to a mod
10-02-2009, 01:09 PM
givememyleg

idk, if we have like like 30+ votes, which we will, that would be a hassle. won't vote for 1 work?
10-02-2009, 02:45 PM
Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

idk, if we have like like 30+ votes, which we will, that would be a hassle. won't vote for 1 work?

There's a theorem in mathematical voting theory that goes something like: for any set of constituent preferences, there is an election that can make any of the candidates a winner.
10-02-2009, 03:49 PM
Chopper

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

idk, if we have like like 30+ votes, which we will, that would be a hassle. won't vote for 1 work?

There's a theorem in mathematical voting theory that goes something like: for any set of constituent preferences, there is an election that can make any of the candidates a winner.

you "math guys" kill me. have a beer once in awhile. ;)

:drunk:
10-02-2009, 05:57 PM
kmind

This is hard to vote. We somehow have to arrange the vote so the "winner" gets 4th. Sucks that 4th place gets the best prize.
10-02-2009, 06:07 PM
Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chopper

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

idk, if we have like like 30+ votes, which we will, that would be a hassle. won't vote for 1 work?

There's a theorem in mathematical voting theory that goes something like: for any set of constituent preferences, there is an election that can make any of the candidates a winner.

you "math guys" kill me. have a beer once in awhile. ;)

:drunk:

Just got back from happy hour with a bunch of my math colleagues, though I'm not quite drunk. Damn. Another missed opportunity...
10-02-2009, 06:25 PM
kevster

Quote:

Originally Posted by kmind

This is hard to vote. We somehow have to arrange the vote so the "winner" gets 4th. Sucks that 4th place gets the best prize.

toddanderson in da house!
10-02-2009, 07:25 PM
givememyleg

i have a theorem that's something like, more work than i have to do is no fun.
10-03-2009, 11:30 AM
daven

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

idk, if we have like like 30+ votes, which we will, that would be a hassle. won't vote for 1 work?

There's a theorem in mathematical voting theory that goes something like: for any set of constituent preferences, there is an election that can make any of the candidates a winner.

there are also some interesting facts about phone numbers where getting any single digit wrong won't matter.
10-03-2009, 12:22 PM
BennyLaRue

What kind of dinner is it? Are we talking Sonic or table service?
10-03-2009, 01:57 PM
daven

edit: I just realised that this is poker in the commune - where should it go instead?

I read them all, and decided to grade them. Hopefully nobody gets upset!

don - basic, meh, standard good, but empty. I also disagree with some of the content, and do poorly in DoN tourneys - so i guess the content is correct. 6/10

preparation - the worthwhile content in this article was written by Tommy Angelo, the rest is self-evident once this quote has been read. 3/10

beautiful woman - I like the story. Reading it won't make one much better at poker, but that isn't the point. NH. Polish it a little and submit it to card player or the like 5/10 for making you better at poker, 8/10 for the article

top tier - funny reading this a second time ;) This is a great article. 8/10

getting off the bottom - all good advice. Not written badly. Nothing new. 4/10

pot equity - this sounds like the stuff I was debating with the limit forum back when I was FTR noobie posting in September 2007. http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ws-t60040.html I hope everyone debating this concept has read Abdul Jalib's work on this concept.
This article is good, Abdul's is better. Those who aren't familiar with this stuff already will gain a lot from this. It also applies in NLHE, sorta. 7/10

checkraise vs personal attack. I think this very rarely applies in the games that most of us play. The guts of this article is to play with some aggression and to make money. 4/10

exploitation and FTC - very good content, but kinda wordy. Worth the read, with cliff notes this would be great 8/10

practise article - telling people to study. Standard stuff, but good analogy and content 7/10

Player types - I got a bunch out of this. Poker is incredibly situational, and the opponent(s) is a key component of the situation. Add even more info for those of us too lazy to do so ourselves and this becomes great. This article would be a great basis for an FTR discussion thread. I still lament the unfortunate demise of the Poker Strategy (or was that theory?) forum on FTR, whenever the forum rejig happened. If that forum had been well modded (does that verb exist?) and only appropriate content left there, the rest moved to BC etc, I think FTR would have been a better place. 7.5/10
10-04-2009, 03:42 AM
daven

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

Not with our current board and features, sorry!

this is a shame, it's going to be very hard to separate 2nd from 3rd from 4th from 5th from 6th from 7th, yet to me there are an obvious "top 4" as per my post above
10-04-2009, 11:08 PM
chardrian

vote for me, I need a new hoodie.
10-04-2009, 11:10 PM
a500lbgorilla

I voted because I'm cool
10-06-2009, 05:56 PM
kevster

Yes!!!!!!!!!!! Headshot!

No votes = dinner with Bigred, right?
10-06-2009, 09:49 PM
givememyleg

VOTE VOTE VOTE
10-06-2009, 10:14 PM
daven

thoughts on another poll - award 1st then vote for second, so that you get a decent sample of readers' opinions?
10-06-2009, 10:48 PM
JKDS

Quote:

Originally Posted by daven

thoughts on another poll - award 1st then vote for second, so that you get a decent sample of readers' opinions?

+1
10-07-2009, 11:54 AM
Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by JKDS

Quote:

Originally Posted by daven

thoughts on another poll - award 1st then vote for second, so that you get a decent sample of readers' opinions?

+1

+3

Seems like we might have to break a tie anyway.
10-09-2009, 03:26 AM
givememyleg

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

VOTE VOTE VOTE
10-09-2009, 08:13 AM
a500lbgorilla

BLOAT MOAT WROTE
10-09-2009, 12:15 PM
Galapogos

GOAT COAT NOTE
10-11-2009, 05:07 PM
chardrian

ship me some schwag!!
10-11-2009, 08:26 PM
Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by chardrian

ship me some schwag!!

maybe you'll get pms
10-19-2009, 04:59 AM
givememyleg

HEY GANG

Sorry again about the delay, I cross my fingers hope to die will get this all figured out tomorrow. Also, congrats Robb for killing the competition with your Exploitation and the FTC Theorem article!
10-19-2009, 05:02 AM
gabe

first time i've came across this... nice piece robb
10-19-2009, 08:59 AM
Robb

Quote:

Originally Posted by gabe

first time i've came across this... nice piece robb

Thanks, gabe. I thought several of the articles were very good, so I am really darned excited about winning. Can't wait to sport an FTR hoodie to the game theory class I'm teaching next semester :)
10-19-2009, 09:51 AM
Extremophile

Congrats Robb! It is a nice article. I hope more will come later!
10-20-2009, 10:40 AM
Xianti

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robb

Can't wait to sport an FTR hoodie to the game theory class I'm teaching next semester :)

Nice!

Well done, Robb.
10-20-2009, 11:16 AM
givememyleg

CONGRATULATIONS to Robb who won this contest with 31% of the votes with his article Exploitation and the FTC Theorem. If you haven't read it yet, do it now!

Robb wins his choice of FTR Gear, an FTR Fitted Hat, Custom Forum Title and of course, FTR IMMORTALITY, whatever that means.

In second place was our local shemale anti-pms chardrian, with his article What Makes a Player Top-Tier? He/she wins FTR Gear and Full-Tilt Gear!

Third place was a threesome of third world cheap action where Rage2100 came with his article Poker, the Beautiful Woman on spoonitnow who returned the favor with Preparation in Poker on Chopper who pleasured himself with Pot Equity Edge (LHE).

But of course, the GRAND PRIZE is split between the last FIVE authors who all received 2% of the votes and each win DINNER WITH BIGRED! kevster, WillburForce, PokerDiva (who?!), Illfavor, and yes, would you believe it, iopq, all will be taken out to a restaurant of their choice and given a complimentary foot massage from our man, bigred. Please contact him to setup a time and place.

Congrats to all and thanks for the quality articles! I will contact all of the winners for your required information. Next time we run this, I swear it will be ran much more smoothly.
10-21-2009, 07:36 AM
WillburForce

yes yes yes! Dinner with BigRedaments. My poker dreams have now all come true.
10-21-2009, 12:09 PM
IowaSkinsFan

Robb's was really awesome, gj
10-21-2009, 02:09 PM
Rage2100

Congratulations, Robb! Very good article.
10-21-2009, 05:46 PM
chardrian

haha suckers, I got free full-tilt gear!! My full-tilt ensemble is now almost complete - I just need pants of some sort.
10-21-2009, 05:48 PM
BennyLaRue

Don't you hate pants?
10-21-2009, 05:54 PM
chardrian

skirt would work too.
10-21-2009, 06:59 PM
a500lbgorilla

Do you think you've got the legs to wear a skirt?
10-21-2009, 07:13 PM
bigred

yall gon get raped
10-21-2009, 07:35 PM
BennyLaRue

Quote:

Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

Do you think you've got the legs to wear a skirt?

This can be overcome by conveniently forgetting certain things. I mean, were you really looking at Sharon Stone's legs during the scene in Basic Instinct with Newman?
10-21-2009, 07:40 PM
a500lbgorilla

Quote:

Originally Posted by BennyLaRue

Quote:

Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

Do you think you've got the legs to wear a skirt?

This can be overcome by conveniently forgetting certain things. I mean, were you really looking at Sharon Stone's legs during the scene in Basic Instinct with Newman?

Forgetting what? Certainly not Newman's powerful performance in Basic Instinct. He makes you just really believe that he's a sweaty fat guy.
10-21-2009, 07:45 PM
BennyLaRue

Quote:

Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

Forgetting what?

I don't remember. I got distracted Googling "uncrossed legs upskirt".
10-21-2009, 08:15 PM
chardrian

Quote:

Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla

Do you think you've got the legs to wear a skirt?

I know I do.
10-22-2009, 02:52 AM
Xianti

What should the custom forum title/logo say? Something short and sweet.
10-22-2009, 03:53 AM
Galapogos

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xianti

What should the custom forum title/logo say? Something short and sweet.

Robb.
10-22-2009, 05:58 AM
Xianti

Too short and not enough sweet.
10-22-2009, 06:24 AM
bigspenda73

Player Hater
10-22-2009, 07:10 AM
bjsaust

Math R Good!!
10-22-2009, 07:11 AM
a500lbgorilla

Writin' prose, bangin' hoes?
10-26-2009, 08:27 AM
bigspenda73

Player Hater is clearly the best, on many levels

also I haz supersick mod title yet I iz no modz
10-26-2009, 12:55 PM
jyms

MPP's=Maths per Post
10-26-2009, 02:51 PM
kevster

Quote:

Originally Posted by givememyleg

But of course, the GRAND PRIZE is split between the last FIVE authors who all received 2% of the votes and each win DINNER WITH BIGRED! kevster, WillburForce, PokerDiva (who?!), Illfavor, and yes, would you believe it, iopq, all will be taken out to a restaurant of their choice and given a complimentary foot massage from our man, bigred. Please contact him to setup a time and place.

Missed this. Presume that 'red or FTR is paying? If so, any nice Michelin star restaurant in the UK will do nicely thankyou very much.
10-26-2009, 04:05 PM
BennyLaRue

You didn't read the fine print. Let me magnify that for you:

*Dinner will be by conference call. Conferencing and/or dinner charges may apply and are the participant's responsibility. Void where prohibited.
10-28-2009, 03:51 PM
Xianti

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigspenda73

Player Hater is clearly the best, on many levels

also I haz supersick mod title yet I iz no modz

oops... thanks for pointing that out, Culo. GONE!

:twisted:
10-28-2009, 04:58 PM
surviva316

soooo if iopq declines his dinner invitation, it goes to me right? i mean, i live in the same city as bigred and all