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[P.Dirty]

Hey stevea,

I just want to thank you for putting this up. I saw this post about 5 weeks ago and decided that I would use it to organize games with the guy I play with at NYU. It seems a bit difficult for some people to sign up and get into the correct group, but other than that, I love it.

Some things I wish were different though:

1. We play mostly cash games. I can still use the site to put up games (I just have to remind people that it's a cash game). If your site had a button, New Cash Game, instead, that would be awesome. It would just be nice to clarify when we actually play tournaments opposed to when we play cash games.

2. I wish there was a message board, so that people could communicate with everyone, and not just via email. Otherwise, why not just use email for organizing games as well?

3. The sign up seems redundant. I invite a bunch of people, who then sign up for my club, and then I have to confirm them? This seems unnecessary, especially if I'm the one that has invited them.

Again, thanks for the site. It has made things (for the most part) easier on my end, especially after I got everything set up.

Ryan "pokerdirty" Shafer

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I'm not steve, but I've been known to harass them, so I'll take a stab at your questions [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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1. We play mostly cash games. I can still use the site to put up games (I just have to remind people that it's a cash game). If your site had a button, New Cash Game, instead, that would be awesome. It would just be nice to clarify when we actually play tournaments opposed to when we play cash games.

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I haven't had this situation yet (we run a tournament followed by a cash game), but what I would do is simply to create a News Item with the details, and leave the box for 'email members' set. Although if you wanted to use the reservation system, that wouldn't work....I'm guessing that was your point. NEVER MIND! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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2. I wish there was a message board, so that people could communicate with everyone, and not just via email. Otherwise, why not just use email for organizing games as well?

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Steve has programmed it, and it is in testing right now. I would imagine it will go live very soon, otherwise, I will have to kill Steve.

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3. The sign up seems redundant. I invite a bunch of people, who then sign up for my club, and then I have to confirm them? This seems unnecessary, especially if I'm the one that has invited them.

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What I did was create everyone's account for them, logged them in, set their email correctly, logged out, then emailed them with the info and told them to log in and change their password. This avoided any invitation confusion.

I think the signup, and asking for permission to join clubs stuff is there in case you find a club in your area and would like to join, but you don't know them.

[stevea]

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Hey stevea,

I just want to thank you for putting this up. I saw this post about 5 weeks ago and decided that I would use it to organize games with the guy I play with at NYU. It seems a bit difficult for some people to sign up and get into the correct group, but other than that, I love it.

Some things I wish were different though:

1. We play mostly cash games. I can still use the site to put up games (I just have to remind people that it's a cash game). If your site had a button, New Cash Game, instead, that would be awesome. It would just be nice to clarify when we actually play tournaments opposed to when we play cash games.

2. I wish there was a message board, so that people could communicate with everyone, and not just via email. Otherwise, why not just use email for organizing games as well?

3. The sign up seems redundant. I invite a bunch of people, who then sign up for my club, and then I have to confirm them? This seems unnecessary, especially if I'm the one that has invited them.

Again, thanks for the site. It has made things (for the most part) easier on my end, especially after I got everything set up.

Ryan "pokerdirty" Shafer

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Thanks for the feedback.

A cash game option will be available in the future but probably not for a while.

Message boards will be available this week.

Regarding the complicated joining process...I designed it this way because I didn't want to give people the ability add their friends' (or enemies) email accounts without their consent. I have been re-considering this though. Evite allows people to do this, and I think it would be OK as long as I notify people that someone has added them to the website, and give them the option of leaving the club and/or unsubscribing. If I move forward this you would not need to accept/decline their registration request. The reason I have that is so that poker fans in your area (that you may not know) can request to join your club - I need to give you the ability to decline their request.

steve
<font color="orange">North Shore Low Rollers</font>

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Found another bug a while back that I forgot to tell you about.

On the "club info" page, I enter the following in the description:

"WE ARE CURRENTLY PLAYING THE POKER CHAMPIONSHIP DEL MUCHO GRANDE!




We are a group of Hold 'Em enthusiasts in a podunk town in Florida. We had regular poker nights, playing cash and tournament NL hold 'em. The games were/are mostly held @ Jesper's house.

After a flurry of work and personal activity in May/June of 05, I suddenly realized I hadn't hosted a poker game in nearly two months. The thought of doing a tournament series to keep everyone's interest, keep it regular yet not too ofter, and a big cash prize for someone at the end. And thus was born: POKER CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES DEL MUCHO GRANDE!

The season will consist of 10 tournaments (unless we squeeze in an extra tournament or two along the way) and end sometime in November, if my math is right, which I can not guarantee.

Each event has an entry fee of $10, PLUS a $5 club due! The entry fee goes to the prize pool for the evening. The club due goes to the season finale tournament. The winner of the evening, in addition to the cash, also receives a travelling trophy (clams playing poker), as well as the honor of being referred to as POKER KING OR QUEEN FOR TWO WEEKS!

At the championship final table at the the end of the season will be the 6 point leaders of the season, playing in a free roll for the prize pool collected throughout the season! Also at stake will be a championship trophy, as well as a prize to the season points leader.

The final table will be with different starting stacks, depending on where your standing was"

When you go to the club page you get:

"WE ARE CURRENTLY PLAYING THE POKER CHAMPIONSHIP DEL MUCHO GRANDE! We are a group of Hold 'Em enthusiasts in a podunk town in Florida. We had regular poker nights, playing cash and tournament NL hold 'em. The games were/are mostly held @ Jesper's house. After a flurry of work and personal activity in May/June of 05, I suddenly realized I hadn't hosted a poker game in nearly two months. The thought of doing a tournament series to keep everyone's interest, keep it regular yet not too ofter, and a big cash prize for someone at the end. And thus was born: POKER CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES DEL MUCHO GRANDE! The season will consist of 10 tournaments (unless we squeeze in an extra tournament or two along the way) and end sometime in November, if my math is right, which I can not guarantee. Each event has an entry fee of $10, PLUS a $5 club due! The entry fee goes to the prize pool for the evening. The club due goes to the season finale tournament. The winner of the evening, in addition to the cash, also receives a travelling trophy (clams playing poker), as well as the honor of being referred to as POKER KING OR QUEEN FOR TWO WEEKS! At the championship final table at the the end of the season will be the 6 point leaders of the season, playing in a free roll for the prize pool collected throughout the season! Also at stake will be a championship trophy, as well as a prize to the season points leader. The final table will be with different starting stacks, depending on where your standing was."

So BR's are not getting inserted.

Also, I still seem to be having problems having the site "remember" me, in some weird way. Yes, cookies are enabled...but maybe I should try clearing them.

It's weird, I go to the login page, my info is there, I hit login, it takes me to the club home page as it should, but I am still not logged in. I do not see the admin options on the left, only the standard options, and the link in the upper right still says login. I click the link, login again, and now it's fine.

[stevea]

I'll add the formatting to the club description.

I don't know how I can troubleshoot your login issue though. What version of firefox and what OS are you using?

steve
<font color="orange">North Shore Low Rollers</font>

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I'll add the formatting to the club description.

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Thanks.

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I don't know how I can troubleshoot your login issue though. What version of firefox and what OS are you using?

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v1.06 w/ XP Pro SP2. It ONLY seems to happen on my laptop, not my desktop or work machine.

Tonight I'll upgrade to the new 1.07, clear the cookies, and try it again. I'll let you know the results.

[stevea]

Weird i'm running the same os/version on my desktop.

After thinking some more about the message board, I think your idea is better and mine is ass backwards...Most web portals you see do what you suggested...I guess I picked the wrong one to copy. I'm going to make it so that all news posts are in the message board (actually the news database table will be the base table for the message board), and all new discussion topics are posted to the message board and not the news.

steve
<font color="orange">North Shore Low Rollers</font>

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Once again: \m/ \m/

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Steve, wherefore art my message board? [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Cleared cookies, still acting up, but only on this pc. weird. obviously a problem with my machine, not the site.

[Etaipo]

Upgraded to 1.7, still the same thing. Too strange.

*cough*messageboard*cough*