Article Contest Voting

[Venice]

Voting

1. You must have 100+ posts to vote
2. Select your 3 favourites and vote for them
3. You cannot vote for your own article
4. Voting closes at 19:00 ET on Tuesday 15th Jan

8 entries were submitted in total. They have been uploaded and are located below. Please take the time to read them. If you read them accross a few sittings, then you may want to jot a few notes on paper so you remember your favourites.

1. UIGEA
2. Hand Selection and Strategy - Early On
3. Rule of 4 and 2
4. Steal or No Steal
5. Freeroll Play
6. Hand Selection and Strategy - Middle Stages
7. WSOP Talking Points
8. Poker Advice - The Poker Puzzle

Prizes
1st : $20
2nd : $10
3rd : $5

Originally Posted by Summary of Guidelines and Rules from Initial Thread

Guidelines
1) The article must be specific. Not a generilasation on your thoughts or approach to poker.
2) It must be poker related.
3) It must be unique. You can obviously research facts on the internet, but never copy any paragraphs of text from anywhere.
4) PM me your topic sooner rather than later. Getting my approval isnt necessary at all, but I will say to you if someone is already doing that topic.
5) Please use good grammer, and check your spelling.
Rules
1. You may make as many entries as you wish, and you will be eligible to win more than one prize. In theory you could win 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
2. Do not duplicate/copy any article/paragraph or sentence from another source
3. If 4 entries or less are made, then there will only be a 1st prize
4. Only members with 100+ posts will be allowed to vote.
5. If there is a tie on the voting, the first tiebreaker will be receiving most votes from a member with 500+ posts, the second tiebreaker will be a decision by a nominated high level member.

[TomPerez]

One thing, at the top of the pages, the Surfers logo goes over the text.. Just thought I'd tell you, I'm going to start reading them all now

[Venice]

Originally Posted by TomPerez

One thing, at the top of the pages, the Surfers logo goes over the text.. Just thought I'd tell you, I'm going to start reading them all now

They all look fine from here. Must be browser specific. Or maybe stretch/narrow the window size

[TomPerez]

Yep, guess it was too wide.. Thanks.

[tramp1579]

It goes over the text on mine as well.

[Venice]

Originally Posted by tramp1579

It goes over the text on mine as well.

Just narrow the window width. Occurs if you have you have extra wide windows.

[TomPerez]

Question, do you have to vote for three or can you also vote for 1 or 2?

[Venice]

Originally Posted by TomPerez

can you also vote for 1 or 2?

No, vote for 3 only

[BlueRain]

According to my calculations, 22 votes were made, which cant be a multiple of 3.. Some help venice?

[TomPerez]

Andres only votes once.

Anyways, I can't seem to choose.. There's one or two I like, but the other either don't give me anything I didn't know, or I just didn't think they were good.. I'll take my time to choose

[RiverWheel]

I had the opposite problem. I wanted to vote for 4. I had a hard time cutting one out.

[DrJustice]

Some very good articles, hard to choose 3, but i made my choice.

Compliments to all the authors

[Venice]

Voting closes in a day and a bit

[Venice]

Bump. Any remaining voters, should do so today

Cheers

[rockster]

Originally Posted by DrJustice

Some very good articles, hard to choose 3, but i made my choice.

Compliments to all the authors

ditto

[PB-SP-SC]

I can't vote, but Iread them all and really liked the one about Freeroll playing (maybe because I play those alot). The first one (about the Internet Gambling Act) deals with a very complicated subject and will lead to plenty discussion. Hope that law is revoked.

[BlueRain]

I certainly have to agree with you

[TomPerez]

Yeah I think the Freeroll Play one doesn't have many votes because only members with 100+ posts can vote, but I think that if you let all the freerollers that come here vote, it would get a lot more

[BlueRain]

I hope some 2 guys bump in and vote for my article, while they both dont vote for the other favourites! But that wont happen I gues..

[Venice]

The Writers

1. UIGEA.....by Blue Rain
2. Hand Selection and Strategy, MTTs Early On.......by no1yidmax
3. Rule of 4 and 2.....by Lemon11
4. Steal or No Steal....by bj316
5. Freeroll Play....by TomPerez
6. Hand Selection and Stategy, MTT Mid Stages.....by no1yidmax
7. WSOP Talking Points.....by bj316
8. General Poker Advice - The Poker Puzzle....by quicklysir

The Result

1st - bj316 (Steal or No Steal)
2nd - bj316 (WSOP Talking Points)
3rd - Blue Rain (UIGEA)

(SurferChick's vote for UIGEA didnt count due to lack of posts. She PM'd me after realising afterwards)

A few of the articles will be added to the poker strategy page (including the winning article) and a few will be added to the News and Articles page (including the runner-up articles)

Congratulations to the winners, I will ship the money tomorrow.

If the contest was enjoyed I may do another at a later date

[sotheysay]

Congrats bj and BlueRain!

I enjoyed reading all the articles everyone, thanks for writing them

[TomPerez]

Congrats BJ, the Steal or no steal one was really good Also congrats to BlueRain

[ouchbadbeat]

nice work bj + bluerain, good articles everyone

[paula1966]

nice work and congrats u2!!

[no1yidmax]

WD guys, I tried my best but was beaten by worthy winners

no1yidmax

[BlueRain]

Nice articled BJ, especially the Steal or no Steal one, I believe the rest, including me, couldve done better, maybe something for the next one

[BlueRain]

Thanks SurfersChick for giving me hope with your vote, and for voting on my article though