Originally Posted by
Keith
The qualified members club is to reward those people that have actively participated in the forums with access to the money added events . New members can get access to some of the freerolls and money added events by signing up through FTR to poker rooms. New members that show that they are here to learn and actively participate will be noticed by the mods and may get pm'ed the password by Jyms or myself to get access to the qualified members tournaments on a one off basis until they become qualified. Anyone asking to get access is likely to be turned down not only for that request but for later tournaments where we might have decided to reward their participation with a one off password.
I'm not sure what you mean by ignoring newbies. If its not giving them access to the freerolls and money added events for no participation, it means that the members that are helping to provide content to atttact new members and helping to therefore drive ad income for the site are not getting rewarded for their contribution as they will be up against a large field of people who have contributed nothing towards creating the prize money. The qualified members tournaments are an incentive to get people to actively learn and improve their game and help others improve their game. Its a win win situation for those people willing to put the time in and study and improve as they will get better , win more , move up stakes and get access to the tournaments on top.
Those people not willing to participate in the forums will continue to stagnate and make the same mistakes time and time again , keep deposting or stay in the freerolls for ever more. (This sentence removed as it was specific to the question i was responding to) . To emphasize the point , look through the money added tourney threads and you see that they are mainly very low post count members asking how they can get access to the tournaments. Look in the beginners circle and other strategy forums and people posting real money hands generally have much higher post counts unless they are new to the site. Those people who are active , learn quicker and move up the stakes.they don't have to spend there time trying to get access to tournaments because they are busy winning real money at the tables.