PS Trivia

When did PS introduce FPP?

We are not allowed to post the passwords!

I found this out in this thread.
PokerStars $1,000 Trivia Freeroll (passwords)

yeah 4 minutes left, could not find it either, guess they want a small tourney.

Tip: I just did a search from jan2001 upwards
Clue: It doesnt take long

What good is a group of fellow members if they cant help out thier brothers and sisters?

well it started so what was the password?

That was a hard one. They didn't even get 5k in it.

It was sep2001.

I know, top 600 get paid.
Im up to 4,300 already

(edit)
Down to 2,800, KK ran into AA!!!!

Ok looked everywhere, could not find it, tried the blog, google, main page, hell you can see from the number of entrants it was hard, thats pretty screwed up to that, to that many people over a freeroll. And I would have helped my bros out, but not until the last 5 min. I asked when it was down to 4 minutes, after searching everywhere first. This sucks cause I placed yesterday.

I am a night owl. So I will try again for the midnight one. I was up til 4am in one the other night lol

If it still existed I'd give 4aces a gigantic -rep for his stingyness.

He was told he could not post the password here per forum rules.

Oh well out 800th.
QQ vs 88... guess who had QQ.

Just out of curiosity, why? And which particular rule would that be?

With the whole internet to search, and so many zillions of permutations to consider, why would this be covered under the rules?

Brings up a question as to whether this is a community or not.

My apologies 4 aces, I would +rep you if I could for your help in previous days, and your willingness to help today if you thought it was possible.

Still, according to what rule is it verbotten to post the PS TRIVIA password?

None that I can find.

Rules are rules right.

The short answer is because we don't want our passwords simply posted for the taking in other forums.

We go to great lengths to protect our passwords and minimize the sitouts in our games and wouldn't like our passwords simply strewn about. That's why the passwords aren't even posted until one to two hours before the events. It's also why you must be a registered member to get the FR password. And it's why we look for 15 quality posts to get the buy-in passwords. We do not allow postings as a courtesy and hope that other forums will respond in kind.


Well, it's a good point you raised. It is sort of vague, to be sure. You could easily lump this under the "promoting a commercial site" rule. Failing that, drop it under the catch all "admin/mod decisions are final" and accept as the "I'm the mom, that's why" answer. Either way, I'm looking into spelling it out more clearly to avoid future misunderstandings. However, that doesn't change the fact that posting passwords for other private events when you are not the owner is not allowed.

Thats for that reply Jack.

However, these particular PokerStars Trivia freerolls fall way outside the 'other forums' notion.

If you do this with these, then any mention of any game played anywhere whether passworded or otherwise will fall into that grey area.

PS's intent here is to gather folks interested in PS, and maybe , if such a person exists, PS historians. They set it up so that one has to search for many of the answers, or to have blundered on it somehow, and still remember where they blundered on it.

In yesterdays case, I made an honest attempt to find that password before I posted that question. I was actually hoping I would be able to tell others the password when they failed to find that illusive trivial fact.

I still think the bigger issues is whether or not this is a community, or is it more like a insider/private chat room or semi public blog?

I see a clear distiction for example about posting another forums password here, or posting the password's from here there. But these PS trivia freerolls are so totally different.

As for the 'promoting a commercial site rule'. CC is already in cahoots with PS, and ,I'm guessing here, part of those cahoots are to avoid anti PS posts where appropriate. I could be so far off the mark here but common sense suggests good taste prevail.

When you invoke the 'admin/mod decissions are final' rule, along with the 'I'm the mom, thats why' argument, my response ends up being something along the lines of ....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......

Its Sunday Morning here on the West COast of N.America, and I was just remembering ;

The xmas month 2 years ago.....

Incidently, I got todays answer by remembering that I had read it in an old Card Player Mag. Blundered on it and actually remembered where I had blundered on it.

I guess the issue appears to be when you try to draw the distinction between forums and poker sites. The simple rule at CardsChat is this: You are not allowed to post passwords on this site for password protected tournaments that you personally do not own. I'm guessing that you don't own/didn't create the PS trivia tournaments, therefore you posting their passwords is not allowed. There is no gray area. If you call their support team and ask for one of our passwords, they will tell you to contact us. Therefore the concept is the same, whether forum or poker site.

And what admin chooses to post here or affilliate with is irrelevant. Cardschat can promote who it wants as affilliates and can dictate what members can post. It isn't a totally open and free community. We still have rules. CC requires you sign up to be able to post and also has the loyaler section which is very limited, invite only access.

Your point is well taken about the PS trivia fr's being a bit different - however it is probably best for the sake of consistency and to avoid issues in the future to just not allow password sharing at all unless it is for a tournament or event that you set up yourself.

If you have read many posts here at all you know that sites we support and have tournaments at are regularly criticized by members - everybody has their favorites and ones they don't like and can freely talk about it. (tho the rigged junk is always gonna get heated responses lol). So - "in cahoots" only applies if you mean we support them by posting events to be held at their sites and they support us by letting us have our name on the events we do set up.

And as for the mod's decisions being final - somebody has to do it.

From Websters On-Line Dictionary;

Main Entry: ca·hoot
Pronunciation: k&-'hüt
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps from French cahute cabin, hut
: PARTNERSHIP, LEAGUE -- usually used in plural <they're in cahoots>


Though I might at times invoke a sense that there is something underhanded involved when I use this term, it was not meant that way here.

I took it to mean the same way it is defined here - was just clarifying that avoiding anti ps posts was not part of the partnership.

In any 'cahoots', there might be an implied condition to not allow too much anti-the-other-guy.