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[zipppy]

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Why in the heck are you bringing this up now?

Let's wait a month for everything to settle down. Then maybe we can have this discussion with actual data about hands posted and give the new structure time to sink in with everyone. There's a ton of noise right now because of everything going on (STTF, party structure change.)

In the meantime, how about the high-stakes players try posting a few hands and see how it goes?

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This was my initial thought too. Someone did a tally of the last 100 posts, but it's a bit misleading as there are sooo many posts right now concerning party's structure.

ZJs latest post in this thread makes a lot of sense, though. It's easy in STTF (even when there isn't so much noise) for interesting/challenging high stakes hands/situations to disappear since few low stakes players will respond or even know how to respond.

I voted for a split, but mostly because I already read multiple forums and it wouldn't bother me to have to read two different STT forums to find the good threads. If splitting them up interests the high stakes players, so be it, IMO.

[wpr101]

I think definetly split it. I posted a hand from a $100 earlier and literally had 4 people tell me I suck and shouldn't be playing poker. Only to find out later they play the 11s and 22s! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[cakewalk]

all of the OT stuff are from high-stakes posters btw

[Melchiades]

Small stakes posters will miss curtains and tigerites simple explanations for why a play is the correct one. Oh well.

[Yanks02]

Here's my .02. Most $215ers are not going to reply to my $11-$22 questions, which is fine/good. A lot of posts get littered with people saying "easy push", or a cut and paste of someone else's "easy push", or something else similar. Then the post is done and we move to the next one. This is where the frustration of a higher level person comes in. Although I don't think a post about a $215 hand should automatically get more discussion than an $11, it does. And as many higher level posters have stated, they would prefer a place where they could post amongst themselves, so we should let them do that. But let them know that the forum would be made up of the 10-20 of them (if that many) that play those levels. There would not be that much extra commentary because it wouldn't be the low level SNG'ers place to talk. And I assume that is how you would want it to be, otherwise this wouldn't come up. So why not try this out on a trial basis? If ZJ gets tired of talking to the same 7 people about each hand, then maybe it wasn't a good idea. If 50 new posters come out of the woodwork because there is a new High Stakes STT forum, then it was a great idea.

[11t]

I support this so that I don't have to filter through all of the basic push/fold hands that get posted here that are pretty basic

[suzzer99]

I think that there are good arguments both ways. But I'm still leaning towards the split. For anyone who wants to peruse both forums, each is just a click away and not *that* much different than scrolling down through all the clutter now. Different yes, and I think it will absolutely have some impact on the low stakes forum. Probably a negative one to some degree.

But if not having to scroll past 39 PP-$6, 22 LC and 15 OT posts makes guys like ZJ, Jman, curtains, etc. feel a little more comfortable waxing on for a week in intense strategy threads, then ultimately I'm for it. Generally change is better than standing still, it keeps people's juices flowing, and is at least worth trying if there's a good argument for it.

[rwesty]

Split it. $200s+