No snark taken.

1) Am still learning the protocol for this site. Up until recently, have pretty much ignored the forums.
2) I thought a medium-low dollar buy-in for WTA would be a step up from PPSC, but I could be mistaken. Mainly wanted to attract intermediate without tempting the sharks to come in and having a feeding frenzy.
3) Never set up a password protected game before so I hadn't considered it. Don't really know enough people yet, but I suppose it couldn't hurt to keep a mental list of the people I've enjoyed playing with.
4) Cash bets would be fun, but I don't have a character insert for DipCoins, which was what I meant. Mods feel free to edit that dollar sign out with a (D) thingy.

gameID=151967 quick ancient med. starts soon join now

Honestly, to me 10 webdippoints seems to be beginner territory still. I don't even think most newbies will check the game style. I suggested going with a 25 point bet to make the pot large enough to pull the victor out of newbie point range ( <100) with a bit of a cushion. But really, 101 is the place where newbies no longer show up because they don't have that many points. Ever.

There might be some sharks joining the feeding frenzy, but that's not always a bad thing. You'll improve much more rapidly when confronting stronger opponents. I know I've still got a lot to learn.

You could also make the game non-anonymous. There is sometimes a tendency for players with fewer points to gang up on players with more points. Once the alphas are eliminated, the game evens out. And so, players with a big balance sometimes avoid those games because of that out-of-game consideration with respect to betting. That could be the way to attract intermediate players.

Or you could prey on the newbies once you see who they are. ;)

Okay, thanks Jeff. I will keep that in mind. Next one I will up the ante a little.

What do you mean by 101 (D)? You mean 101 and up ante games?

@Winston: Please keep live game adverts to the live game thread.

@Marquis: Organising games through the forum is a great idea.

Another thing that you can do is to run "semi-anon" games, where the players know who is in the game, but not who is playing which country. To do this, you advertise for players in the forum and collect names. Once the roster is set, you create the game and hand out passwords to the players via pm.

This is especially effective, as you can attract players who are interested in playing with new people this way.

Sorry I can't play in your game - I don't have the capacity for any more games right now. But, I'm interested, since we haven't played together before. And, I like your name :)

Shark checking in (well, not a true shark. I won't deem myself that good yet)

Don't listen about the points. Most games I play are less than 100 buy-ins, and always among high quality opponents. If its password-protected, as you said it was, then points don't really matter when attracting top quality play. Most top quality players on the site don't really care about points anyways.

And Jeff was saying set the buy-in to 101 so new people who join the site (and have the standard 100 ) can't get into the game

^ I agree with gold. Although I'm not a shark either, I don't care about the buy in, high or low (as long as I can afford it).

As he points out, you can set whatever criteria you like for password protected games, so the buy in shouldn't determine whether or not someone is a newbie.

Also, having a lot of points doesn't necessarily mean you're dangerous (although there's probably some correlation). Similarly, having few points doesn't mean you're a pushover. It could just mean you're awesome enough to invest all your points without your play suffering.

For this reason, I don't think I'd advocate ganging up on the players with lots of points - though if someone suggested that as a reason to ally with me against a third player, I wouldn't argue against it :)

Well, also some players with a lot of points create dummy games to hide their points in so it appears that they are lower ranked (and hence don't get ganged up on newbs)

"Although I'm not a shark either"

Not by a long shot. You're about as dangerous as (wait for it)....a tin can.

I fear the day that Can_Opener joins this site.

Nice, thanks for the tips here guys. The password games arranged off of the forum sounds like a good idea. I'm going to try that soon.

I like playing anonymous because then the name and win/draw/etc. rate isn't in the back of my mind. Although, I have been able to recognize some players from the press style.

I almost wish I could create a new account to do that. I'll just settle for making bad puns

@goldfinger: i have a few spares that you could borrow. They're named tvrocks 1, tvrocks 2, tvrocks 3, and bob.