Stupid question from a beginner

limpdd

Hi,
I ahve never played online before (waiting for broadband ) but I was looking at PaddyPowerPoker.com to get to grips with some of the sites and am wondering about something I saw on the touney schedule page.
It had a list of the tournaments coming up and the following headings "Name Time Game Buy in Fee Registered", but i have no idea what FEE is, as opposed to buy in.

Also when people talk about PPP, do they mean Paddy Power poker?

Any help would be great

ditpoker

ppp: paddy pwer poker.
fee: is the registration fee that you pay in addition to your buy-in. i.e. 50buy in + 5 reg fee. you're paying $50 into the prize pool and $5 to ppp

hoep this helps.

limpdd

Thanks, all cleared up

staringelf

see? easy. done and dusted with no slagging of newbies, banning or unbanning, subforums or any other nonsense. and an enlightened new poker player to welcome to the forum. this thread will die a peaceful death on page 17 over the coming days. good work all.

btw, this was in relation to this thread --> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054902032 :rolleyes:

Marq

/something sarcastic.

cardshark202

Marq wrote:

/something sarcastic.

/something even more sarcastic along with a verbal assault on the OP for posting a moan thread in the main forum.

Lafortezza

/dire threats of bannings and pointers to read charter etc etc

JustMac

limpdd wrote:

Hi,
I ahve never played online before (waiting for broadband )

Just FYI, you do not need broadband for playing online unless your dial-up connection is very bad. I've been playing using dial-up for a few months with only a handfull of annoying disconnects which haven't really cost me.

RMcG

Yes but the risk, that a disconnection could cost you money at any time, from using a dial up connection is unfortunately -EV.

And everyone knows that -EV is bad.

Scotty #

RMcG wrote:

Yes but the risk, that a disconnection could cost you money at any time, from using a dial up connection is unfortunately -EV.

And everyone knows that -EV is bad.

I'm on broadband for about a year now and I still get disconnects, only from poker sites it seems and poker-stars is by far the worst especially if I'm wireless. When I get disconnected from the poker site I can still use the net as normal. I was in touch with stars and they said it was to do with port triggering and firewall and such but were not really able to help me. They DO seem to have done something though since the last couple of upgrades the problem is almost completely gone.

RoundTower

staringelf wrote:

see? easy. done and dusted with no slagging of newbies, banning or unbanning, subforums or any other nonsense. and an enlightened new poker player to welcome to the forum. this thread will die a peaceful death on page 17 over the coming days. good work all.

See - this is what happens when a beginner posts his questions politely, accurately phrased, and without a mention of how he won $35,400 in the last two weeks and it would have been more except for how this moron called him with JQ when he had AJ. This makes me more likely to take limpdd's questions seriously in future.

okidoki987

poker-stars is by far the worst

I've only had Pokerstars fail twice in 2 years on me due to my connection
both on dial up.
Used Party Poker for a month and had to give it up as it dropped so many times.