blonde poker forum

We had our best ever month in May, so a big thank you to everyone who supported blonde by playing on the bpc.

"best ever" needs to be seen in context though. It's enough to pay the wages, & Update Costs for a normal month (not a WSOP month though!) but it's a long way from enough to do the things we need & want to, which include....

1) Investing in the Live Updates to make them better, with the aid of technology, & a bigger Team of Updaters.

2) Paying our wage earners better, we don't pay them nearly enough.

3) Adding others to the payroll who are currently working on a promise.

4) Improving the site generally.

blondepedia arrives soon, that's gonna be just terrific, but you could never imagine the hard work that's gone into it.

We have run a Mansion promotion for a goodly while now, & lots of members have benefitted greatly from that, which is great, but it'd be lovely if we could get more players supporting blonde.

I'm pleased to say that we don't have an overdraft, or borrowings, we pay all our bills, we are VAT compliant & Tax-compliant, & we are squeaky clean in all statutory areas. We have some committments (mainly as noted in 3) above), but that apart, we wash our face. Still, some of those that work hardest for blonde have never had a penny in Salary, & we need to address that sooner or later.

The Forum is very popular, & lots of folks enjoy it for what it is, a fun place to visit, & totally free. We just ask that in return, you try & support it's existence & improvement, you consider playing now & then on bpc.

We are trying to strike the right balance between being free & independent, & going "commercial". Some Members object loudly when we even whisper the word "commercial", but hey, this place costs an arm & a leg to run, & we are not asking for charity, just play on blonde now & then. It's astonishing how few blondes actuallly do! We get a bit of abuse here & there, that's fair enough, but it's easier to take if it's from "Clients" rather than Members who don't play on bpc. (We have to be nice to them, see?).

So if you can manage a few sessions on bpc, we'd be muchly grateful. Our long-term goal is for bpc to finance blonde totally, then we won't need to have advertisers, so the "commerrcial" aspect goes away. Except of course, we'll always need to "push" bpc, via the Forum, Home Page, & Newsletters. We don't think that's too big a price to pay for independence.

Thanks.

Well done, onwards and upwards.

Why would you want to play on a cardroom where the players are as weak as Colchester Kev and tikay? Surely you want to play against good players so you have a challenge rather than face mugs who are just going to throw money at your left right and centre.

Oh go on, you've twisted my arm.

Or, you could just play on the casino... ;scarymoment; ;hide;

Is there a loyalty bonus for casino play ?

No, if there was a LOYALTY BONUS on casino play, Kev would have told you by now.

Snoopy I have seen you play. By comparison Kev is a god and you need to show some respect to your older and larger peer. I have seen him enter a poker room and it fall silent. Every waitress in the place realises that an easy day of serving coffee and Tuna sandwiches will be replaced by hourly demands for ..double sausage, bacon, beans, hash browns, and two eggs. Four slices and seven cups of tea. 
The dealers will be rewarded with his wisdom on how to deal him AA every hand. While he leers down their blouse...and thats the guys.

The other players have to shove a sock in their mouth to stop the laughter of his play. Kev will throw his usual insults of "muppet" at us all. A small price to pay when he donates all his chips to us.

So Snoops, when you think you can raise your game to this level., then feel free to give this lovely chap some stick.

SIGH .... neverends !!!

is it safe?

Iwould love to play more on blonde but none of the deposit methods suit me.I have spoken to kev about it and once you cna deposit with a maestro card i will definately support the site.

You can deposit with maestro, thats the only card i own and i manage to..

ok, i've signed up, should get a deposit in tomorrow and off we go.
I'm in disguise though!!!!!

  For maestro cards use the switch option thats available

  cheers Mike

PM sent

I do have a blonde account and i must admit i hardly ever play on it, which i do feel a touch guilty about to be honest as I would miss this place if it went under due to financial pressure.

I am pragmatist though and like alot of winning poker players i go where i can make the most money. As an stt grinder ipoker is a no no, as tank's brief effort at playing there demonstrated.

Although it would be fantastic if everyone that has a blonde forum account played most of their poker on our cardroom,  we all know that will never happen.

What you could do however is download the card room, shove a few bucks on there and join in with the blonde comps/leagues etc.   its the support that counts.


 

Just joined the cardroom, made a small deposit and a chatbox has popped up, it's Vince from Poker Support.

He wants to call me to check that the phone number that I have submitted is correct!!

Ok, so I let him call then he wants to confirm my address etc. etc., I explain that if I deliberately input wrong details then I would confirm those to him!!! I asked where he was calling from and who he represented, from Mauritius and Blonde he said!

Now this may be normal but I have join more than a dozen online card rooms and never had this happen, I also have no intention of disclosing my private details to someone overseas!!!

Could you confirm that this is standard procedure for Blonde.

PM sent.

The pop up chat is to confirm details if there are any errors in the sign up process, its a relatively new thing and believe it or not, speeds up the process of signing up.

As always, if ANYONE has any problems with signing up or depositing on the poker room, PM me. 

CRIPPIN is sorted now ... welcome onboard fella.

I've been a member of blonde since bB2 but only started playing on the blonde cardroom since last month. Can't believe I didn't try it sooner, the cash games are soooo incredibly soft compared to pokerstars and full tilt. Well worth it, even without the 30% rakeback.

I raise my hands in defeat...  ;surrender;

the cash games are nice n juicy at times

and the 30 % keeps me here to be honest when the ol varience hits me hard

forget stt's though ,won a few recently but i have to admit..total crapshoot near the end

I swapped my nightly MTT (only $11 I'm afraid) onto Blonde a month or so ago after the demise of the PNL MTT and managed to take down the $6K gtd - woo-hoo!!!!!

I play a few mtt's on blonde and after I finish working off a bonus at FT, I expect I'll be playing more often on there.  I quite like the card room, but resizable tables would be really nice.  The small is too small and normal is too big :)

Keep up the good work guys :)


Nice result technolog ;applause;

Deposited for the 1st time last week as Kev sorted my missing deposit option out.

Is it public knowledge what % of the rake blonde get (like it is with DTD) or is it top secret? Just interested but I suppose I could make a close guess.

No, it's not public knowledge, & cannot really be made so. Each skin does it's own deal with i-poker or, as in our case, Bowmans or whoever, & if we all revealed the % we get, the market would go crazy!

I will say, that by any criteria, I am personally very comfortable with the way we split what we get from Bowmans with our players. You'd be happy if you knew, too. Trust me. On this occasion, you have to!

Thank you Sword, & all the others who have said stuff in the same vein.

You'd be astonished at how few of our "solid" & regular blonde Members do not play on bpc very much, if at all. We've failed miserably to "convert" Forum users to our cardrooom, & there may be many reasons for that. (see my next Post). Part of the reason for this thread was to try & address this problem.

Many thanks to those who are now switching across to blonde, also to those who have always supported us. It is the Cardroom, & Cardroom alone, that pays for everything blonde.

Quote "blondepedia arrives soon, that's gonna be just terrific, but you could never imagine the hard work that's gone into it"

I know that this name arises from a combination of 'Blonde' and 'Encyclopedia' but can't help thinking it sounds a bit dodgy?  ;carlocitrone;

What, in the same way as Paediatrician does?

Not sound funny at all, that is

It's no secret - why should it be? - that as well as playing on blonde, I play on many other Online Cardrooms. (But on i-Poker, I stick to blonde, except for Blue Square Fessie & GUKPT Super Sats).

That makes no sense, it just does not.

But I do so because there are some things about the i-Poker Network's software I just don't like, or struggle to get comfy with. I am not alone in this.

Kev & Denis are aware of these weaknesses, & working very hard with Bowmans & i-Poker to address them. I think they will get them all sorted in due course, I really do. Bear with them, please.

I have, personally, asked Kev & Denis to deal with these items, if you want to add to the list, please feel free!

1) I need bigger playing cards, they are too small for me. (No eyesight jokes purlease....)

2) I want better structured Tourneys. Give me Deep Stacked, long clock jobbies, & I'll play them 24/7.

3) I want "blonde only" Tables, so we can have "private" evenings.

They are working on 1) & 2), & I believe they have in fact already sorted 3).

So very soon, in the next week or so, we can have private blonde only Tourneys, & we plan to have evenings set aside for that. Anyone fancy a little cash action with the mug that is tikay, or even some Heads-Up?

Kev will Update you on this very soon.

In response to all our feedback on the switch across to Ipoker we sent a long list of "wants" to the network, and we worked with blue Sq on this too

On each software release, some are sorted.

A number remain outstanding and we continue to push for these, in response to your requests.


If you would like to see what we requested I am happy to post them up

All I was saying is that blondepedia sounds like some sort of pornographic database, which you cannot deny.

I guess there is always someone who will turn any name into something that amuses them!

I was in the queue for the 0800 Ryanair Dublin to East Mids flight on Monday, along with all the weekend hen parties & lager louts returning home from a booze-fuelled weekend in Dublin. (Sorry, but I don't "get" drinking for the sake of it, so I was growly & tetchy already). Two, single brain celled, reprobates, stood behind me & started idly discussing various airlines.

"I like Aer Lingus" said one.

"Aer Lingus, I call them Aer Cunninglus" said the other.

"Aer cunninglus, yeah, thats great", haha".

"Aer cunninglus, haha".

I'm sure if I said "bum" or "tit" they'd all have split their sides laughing.

"Bum", hahahaha.....".

They were, in the physical sense, by the way, grown ups, mid-thirties.

I guess I've had a sense of humour bypass.

You are of course, absolutely correct in this case, though, between you & me, snoopy, the author of the great work, modelled it, I think, on "wikipidea". Oddly, "wikipidea" does not evoke any such comparable comments, but already "blondepedia" has. Ah well, if it elevates us up the Search Engines, no bad thing I guess, but I am sure snoops never "invented" the term with that in mind.

It is possible to mod the iPoker software to change the cards/table graphics.

I use these cards - much easier to read than the normal ones.

Oops...

Good grief - I can almost see them! How do you do that?

I will in a few more years - but for now they're fine.


If they had these 24/7 I think I'd have to give up work!


These 'appear' to have already started (or do you mean cash tables?) and I will continue to play them with relish - be nice to get a few more in to bump the pot up though. I now a lot of people wouldn't want this but would there be a mailing list I could go on to remind me when the blonde tourneys are?

Carry on the good work though Kev & Dennis - onwards and upwards...

A guy has developed a little piece of software which does it. It costs $20 to register with him but it's well worth it.

I'll stick a link up if you give the yay to it.

Please PM it to me or Kev please Andrew, & we'll take a butchers at it. Thanks.

Yes, sorry, I meant private Cash Tables.

Who wants me?

Are those the cards that you can get on FT Andrew?  I'm sure I've seen them or something very similar to them before.

Don't mind the cards myself, I'd just like resizable tables (or something between the full size and the small size)

Card size IS a big issue, I have today sent in a request for us to change our cards to a larger multi colour type.

I will let you know the timescale as soon as i get confirmation

They're very dapper Kev

I presume these will be optional?  I fear change.

lol

They will become the standard card  on our poker room, They are MUCH easier to see when multi tabling.

They look a bit camp though Kev.

lol how well did KK play that hand in the screenshot

Yes, its all part of my master plan to get flushy playing more on blonde ;)

He did only have $7.50 at the start of the hand and got it all-in pre-flop with the other guy, so it wasn't just him being ultra-nitty.

ah, the old "give someone a monster hand before they get a chance to reload after losing a big pot just to send them on tilt" trick.

I love the bigger cards but I personally don't like the four colour deck

As Above

Are you playing poker there or Uno?

yep - that's what I don't like either.  Will get used to it though I'm sure.

The next software rlease, we are going to introduce Boggle, Yahtzee and Ludo.

tikay wanted a 4 colour deck so he doesnt keep missing his flushes ;)

wicked.  this better not be a wind up.

4 colour decks are the nuts, give em a couple of days and you'll never go back. but don't every poker site on the internet give you the choice of whether to have them or not?

Bagsy red!!

4 colour decks are great, waffy Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen cards not so.

So Claw, lady in waiting to HRH,

I have just thrown with my 5 dice...5 4 3 2 2

empty pad


do I mark down low straight or 4 for 2x2?


dilemnas in yahtzee part 1

Have to agree - switched on stars when starting playing again recently and i wouldn't switch back now.

Made it difficult when playing on blonde event 1 on monday because i had to stay awake and concentrating because i couldnt enlarge table to see difference between spades and clubs from a distance.

trick question - you don't mark anything down until you've had your other two rolls.  Of course you go for the high straight, and take the low if you don't hit.  Next.

1) Four colour decks are the best thing ever. The thing I love about my cards is that they don't even have suits on them. They're simply colours. I don't need to remember if it's clubs or diamonds which are green - it doesn't matter. Five of the same colour is a flush - easy.

2) Sod Yahtzee - when will Pass The Pigs be incorporated into Blonde?

very good

what score is acceptable to take as your "chance" throw?

I have a book on Yahtzee strategy you can borrow if you want...

Lol, hours of fun sitting there finger on nose waiting for some unattentive soul to realize that while he's deciding which card to discard the game has finished!! :D

oooh - tricky.  Depends on the circumstances.  If you've completed all your boxes and chance is the last you are left with, I would say it is acceptable to enter a chance score of only 6 if you roll five ones on your first throw and don't hit whilst attempting to get your bonus yahtzee points. 

Yahtzee tourny at the next bash then .... Im in !!

Hmmmm.

Pass the Pigs is the game with the two small pigs that you throw, and get points as to whether they land on their feet, or snouts, or side or whatever.

The game you describe is what I know as Donkey.

anyone for Risk?

Now that you mention it the throwing pigs does ring a bell!!

not sure of a game called donkey, the game i'm thinking of involved numerous players and three cards of same value being removed for each participant. Then everyone used to pass a card face down to the players on their left while receiving a card from the player on their right. When you got 3 of a kind you put your finger on your nose and the last one to put their finger on their nose got a letter next to their name. First a P then an I then a G - once you get all three letters your out!


Now your talking, can we have a combined risk/monopoly handicap tournament?

Oh YES, Pass the Pigs is WICKED. I got trophies for it.

I suppose you represented your county at it ??   SIGH !!

Yes please, we have unfinished business from the walsall blonde bash

Getting back to business, I HAVE to use 4 colour decks Online these days, & it's a real struggle for me "live", especially in dimly lit Venues. I can see the difference between Red & Black, but to see the difference betwen hearts & diamonds, or clubs & spades, I need to be in Seat 4, 5 or 6. I bet a flush draw last night on a padooki turn.....

Speaking of which this would be a tiny complaint about the APAT Dublin event, i'm guessing it wasn't the fault of the APAT rather than the cardroom but the numbers on the cards were so big that i found i had to lift the card right up off the table to see the suit underneath the number

You are ON.

If Kev sets up a little Cash Table - maybe $1-$2, or $2-$4, we'll get it on, you & me. Now don't be crying when I  bluff you again. I've got 2 bluffs through in the last 18 months, one against you, one against Kev.

Can the cards look like this?  :dontask:

(With the 4-colour option of course)

Is there another way of seeing one's hole cards? I put them under my nose, better to see them.

Seriously, I was not aware of that problem, sorry. Maybe in 2008, APAT should insist on cards of a certain specification. Venues now give us pretty much everything we ask for, including our own Rules, timings, structures, everything, as we fill every Venue we go to, so I'm sure that's possible.

Yep, very similar to Donkey, except we got five cards and collected suits, and losing players were D-O-N-K-E-Y.

Perfectissimo!

Normally i just lift the bottom left hand corner of each card and i can see both number and suit, sometimes with the big Kem cards i have to lift it slightly more than normal.

With the cards they used and the fitz i had to lift nearly 50% of the card off the table to see whether my all black AJ was suited or not :D

Hope the link is ok, this maybe where AndrewT got his card mods from. You can change the table here.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=9598969&page=0&fpart=2&vc=1&nt=3

I swear by modding my cards and tables now it makes it so much easier to multitable.

For a small fee you can incorporate the cards that I have designed. I've just done the Queen of Hearts for now, but it gives you an idea of their superior quality.

I'm jealous! The problem I have with APAT weekends is that I spend all weekend watching folks play, but can't play myself. It hurts, I tell ya! Personally, I like the big font Kem cards best.

You should be a comedian, I am wetting myself here. You sure you never nicked that from sofa-king?

So beautiful... :'(

They have opposable thumbs, but they're still far behind in so many ways... ;D

you just need to put a heart in the corner (and possibly a picture on Tantrum in the middle) then they will be perfect.

Please leave t & I alone to get on with our lives with a little privacy. We feel like Diana & Dido sometimes.

rotflmfao

 ;iagree;

He is the Leonardo Da Vinci to my Michaelangelo.

He's the Pollock to your Picasso more like!

I had my first proper sit down at the "new" Blonde card room today. How do you work out what sort of rake back in cash you will be getting - do you do a little sum with your poker points??

I am thanking you.

LOYALTY SCHEME payments are made in 2 parts, during the course of the month some are released in small $7 payments according to the amount of poker points you gain.  The rest is made as a cash payment to your account in the first week of the following month. The lump sum payments are made to your holding account and to access these you go to CASHIER >> TRANSFER FUNDS >>> TRANSFER TO POKER.

Your STATEMENT (also found on the cashier page) will also tell you all transactions to and from your account.

As for guidelines on working out what your LOYALTY SCHEME reward is likely to be, it is difficult in your first month of playing, however once the first month is completed you can gauge what you can expect the following month by comparing playing time to the previous month.

As ever, any problems with any aspect of the card room, please PM me and I will deal with them promptly.


Welcome aboard Suffolk, and good luck at the tables ... unless of course you play the blonde comps and are on my table ;)

Thanks boss!

Let's hope that increase traffic then.  ;)

You'd be surprised how many hits our gallery page gets... 'blonde & gallery' being quite popular words in the Google search.

In that case, may i suggest you also set up a Blonde Suck Out page for all those nasty bad beat stories

and perhaps a list of the times the site went down?

and heaven forbid anyone wishing to straddlewhen the cash games come in :|

this could get very bad

Just don't shove your big stack all-in blind.

She wasn't impressed with the flop apparently...:dontask:

and the unfortunate turn nearly put her back out

This is probably getting wayyy off topic, but I was wondering why APAT dont comission their own chips. I had a slight grumble about the quality of chips being used in Dublin - they were very light and thin, meaning that I kept dropping them all over the place when I was confidently trying to push them into a pot.

I guess there is a natural problem, though of trying to carry upwards of 20,000 chips from venue to venue....

....and we've been so good at keeping it on topic :D

Does PAHUD work on blonde?  Can't seem to get it working anyway.

I cannot get connected to bpc, login page appears enter details then the 'logging into blonde poker' popup appears but does not connect.  Only seems to be at certain parts of day though, can connect just now, but couldnt at 10.  but i can get on to betfred at any time.

I get that sometimes but if I close it then reopen it, it goes in straight away

cheers will try that next time

Good idea Laz, & one we'll certainly give some thought to.

They weren't great in Cardiff either - as many of the chips had random numbers on them (3, 7, 5) which wasn't ideal. 

I did like the brown ones in Ireland though - they looked like chocolate coins.  Brendan was tempted to eat his...

Nope, not yet.

Apparantly it's on the list of features to be added, but new dev work has seemed to be a bit slow of late.

...errr, which PAHUD would that be. And, umm, what do YOU understand PAHUD to mean?

Ah, cheers Andrew.


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Whatcha talking about Willis?

Poker Ace HUD.

Err, HUD?

http://pokeracesoftware.com/ (http://pokeracesoftware.com/)