*** www.pokerswat.com official thread ***

meathman 007

Hey, www.pokerswat.com is launching today. Here is a brief rundown of our features, coaching team and sample videos.

• 50 launch videos
• Structured training programs for all levels of poker players
• 3 - tiered membership structure tailored relative to a players bankroll
• Coaching team with some of the best online and live poker professionals
• Content from a variety of games in the lowest – highest stakes online
• At least 30 videos added every month with at least 10 videos in each membership level
• A minimum of 10 PLO videos produced every month
• High quality video and sound quality on all content
• Video content produced on both US friendly and European only poker rooms
• Exclusive offers from PokerSwat’s platinum partners
• Loyalty Discounts
• Host of community features including chat rooms, blogs, forums and video uploads

We have signed some of the biggest winners in online and live poker and we will be adding more in the coming weeks; the current team:

PokerSwat Pros:

James “Andy McLEOD” Obst
Christoffer “-NoName-” Egemo
Aurangzeb “Ozzy87” Sheikh
Terje “Terken89” Augdal
Marty Smyth
Alec “Traheho” Torelli
Soren Kongsgaard
Stephen “PoorUser” Costello
Matt “Plattsburgh” Vengrin
Brian 'Brianm15' England
Morten “Pokergirl1” Erlandson
Andy “Bonified” Ward
Jon “LUFCBas” Spinks
Daragh “HectorJelly” Thomas
David “Pok3rplaya” Tuite
David “Roundtower” Murray


Full Length Sample Videos: Allow a few seconds for the video to load


Alec 'Traheho' Torelli NLH:

http://pokerswat.com/FreeSample/Traheho1000NLHE/TrahehoHeadsUp.htm



Matt 'Plattsburgh' Vengrin PLO:

http://pokerswat.com/sample/PlattsburghPLO/MattVengrinPlo.htm


Andy 'Bonified' Ward MTT

http://pokerswat.com/FreeSample/AndyWardBeginnersMTT/AndyWardMTT.htm



David 'Pok3rplaya' Tuite Classroom; C-Betting

http://pokerswat.com/FreeSample/Pok3rplayaCbetting/Pok3rplayaCbetting.htm


3 membership levels:

1. Platinum:

Monthly Fee: $24.99
Signup Fee: $49.99
Access to all video content in the library

2. Gold:

Monthly Fee: $19.99
Signup Fee: $39.99
Access to all videos up to 3/6 cash and all low - mid buy in MTT/SNG and guide videos

3. Silver:

Monthly Fee: $13.99
Signup Fee: $23.99
Access to all videos up to .50/1 cash and all low buy in MTT/SNG


Feel free to post any questions here about anything to do with the site.

The Little Guy

The very best of Luck.

Bru

tylerdurden94

Best of luck with this venture

bigslick

One sign up right here, been looking for training site and having one thats connected to boards has made my decision.

Hank Scorpio

best of luck , very unique ( good ) name

newbie2

just watched Andy Wards sample MTT video. Pretty good - If a little basic (i hear the cheap seats saying that's just what I need). Is this a good example of what videos to expect from the silver entry level? I'll probably pay for a month or two at rhe gold level though.

KevIRL

Best of luck with this guys.

nicnicnic

KevIRL wrote: »

Best of luck with this guys.

ditto, looks top class

Wreck

Good luck! Looking forward to watching some of these vids.

The Snapper

/was really looking forward to this site launch. But, samples still won't play for me:mad:

Tried firefox and explorer, I even tried Safari ffs:o

Any ideas ?

THEIRISHMOB

Vey best of luck....had a look at the sample videos. plo was good

HoLLLLLaments

The Snapper wrote: »

Any ideas ?

www.cardrunners.com

Lafortezza

KevIRL wrote: »

Best of luck with this guys.

Also, give free stuff for boards.ie ppl!

Requiem4adream

gl guys. i'm gonna sign up purely to see HJ's & RT's videos which i'm hoping will be utterly useless but i'll probably see masterpieces and be forced to kick the cat :rolleyes: ah no in all seriousness wish everyone involved success in the venture.

Watched almost all the plo sample, excellent. H/U video excellent. Switched off the mtt sample after about 2 mins after he limped QT, AJ and KJ in multiway pots. Seen enough. The C-Bet video - i think it would be so much better if he actually said "c-bet" as opposed to the full word "continuation" every time :rolleyes: Minor gripe. Then again i wish Roy Keane would try not to use "to be fair" 63754 times a day.

cokedrinker

The Snapper wrote: »

/was really looking forward to this site launch. But, samples still won't play for me:mad:

Tried firefox and explorer, I even tried Safari ffs:o

Any ideas ?

Not working for me either, all i get is a grey screen in both IE and Firefox. Running Vista x64, I take it this may be the issue ?

Mellor

Best of luck,
will likely get involved

TheRock

cokedrinker wrote: »

Not working for me either, all i get is a grey screen in both IE and Firefox. ?

Same for me at first. But then after about 2 - 3 minutes all of sudden the sample started up.

Sound and Video quality is excellent.
PLO sample vid is decent/good, but I prefer a bit more structured in the vids personally. I think the PLO series's on Deucescracked are an excellent example of this.
I also think there's some very suspect play/advice in parts. (He raises 36510s in the CO in multiway, yet limps 9875s in the CO with the exact same action. Limps Q554ss on the BTN in a limped pot, doesnt raise AKQJs in position HU. Seems to be a lack of consistancy imo)
Some excellent other explanations of thought process though to be fair.

Doubt I'll signup as a few things dont suit me, these are;
Membership structure; DRM; (Obviously I understand your business decision for these)
One DC feature I really like is the ability to download in iPod format, as usually watch a lot of the content when on the move.

Good luck with everything.

Stoko

Best of luck!!

I am probably going to join.
Will be there enought SNG stuff? SNG Videos? Who is the SNG coach?

meathman 007

Ill get back to any questions later on today. Just wanted to update. We are putting the final touches to the site, might be a bit after 12pm that we launch, best estimate would be after lunch around 3pm. Thanks for all the support, Donal and I really appreciate it

doke

Best of luck with this, looks very interesting

T-b0n3

Yea looks good. Will join.

Just watched the MTT video there and liked it.

Hopefully there will be a good few small stake videos tho!

Adam

Hectorjelly

There will be plenty of low stakes videos. I've done a series for beginners going through the basics of 6max play, all at 5c 10c. There are three videos from this series available at launch.

bigslick

Waiting in work for this to come online lol. COME ON COME ON!! lol

pgodkin

bigslick wrote: »

Waiting in work for this to come online lol. COME ON COME ON!! lol

think this site is online now lookin good!! well done boys and good luck!

Tight Ted

Cool. Is there a discount to boards members?

bigslick

pgodkin wrote: »

think this site is online now lookin good!! well done boys and good luck!

Not working for me Still on the features and coming soon page for me

The Snapper

HoLLLLLaments wrote: »

www.cardrunners.com

Naughty boy

HoLLLLLaments wrote: »

Give the game up

were you tempted ?

T-b0n3

Hectorjelly wrote: »

There will be plenty of low stakes videos. I've done a series for beginners going through the basics of 6max play, all at 5c 10c. There are three videos from this series available at launch.

Okay cool thanks, I'll be signing up after work so

Adam

T-b0n3

Just went to sign up there but only PayPal accepted!

I don't have a PayPal account or anything will you be accepting credit card or lazer card or anything??

Adam

Brayruit

Shouldn't it be spelled "pokerswot" rather than "pokerswat"?

A swot is a studious person, somebody who studies diligently.... swat is like what you do to a fly. S.W.A.T. are also an elite part of the Amerian police? Maybe swat is intentional but it came across to me as a misspelling.

Either way - good luck with the business

meathman 007

Hey, site is up . You can pay by visa, mastercard and american express with paypal and takes less than a minute to pay using that method, even if you dont have a paypal account setup.
Additional payment methods will be added on Monday and early next week. We are also looking into site transfers as a method of payment and will confirm our plans for that next week.

Link: www.pokerswat.com

semibluff

nah it's meant to be swat. elite coaching team. But thanks for the comments!

Bear with us whilst we iron out the remaining issues, and during the first week of the soft launch we would appreciate all comments that are given. Everything is taken on board and will be used constructively.

Many thanks

Donal

OilBeefHooked2

Brayruit wrote: »

Shouldn't it be spelled "pokerswot" rather than "pokerswat"?

A swot is a studious person, somebody who studies diligently.... swat is like what you do to a fly. S.W.A.T. are also an elite part of the Amerian police? Maybe swat is intentional but it came across to me as a misspelling.

Either way - good luck with the business

Pehaps they mean (in a deep dublin accent) pokers wat?

Best of look with it guys site looks great.

T-b0n3

Just set up a PayPal account and register for the site but still not able to access any of the videos. Any one else having problems??

Adam

**Working now just took about 10minutes for it to notice I paid, its all good **

The Snapper

Just looked it up and finally got to see some vid,

Problem is, getting loads of lag especially on audio. I know my connection is slow but it isn't a problem with some other sites, so vids are pretty much unwatchable for me :mad:

bohsman

Tell the HU guy to stop saying um.

Looks quality, best of luck with it.

meathman 007

The Snapper wrote: »

Just looked it up and finally got to see some vid,

Problem is, getting loads of lag especially on audio. I know my connection is slow but it isn't a problem with some other sites, so vids are pretty much unwatchable for me :mad:

thats very strange, nobody else has reported that issue. In terms of the general speed and flow of the site. We will have a second server up and running within the next 2 weeks. So there will be one server is the US and one here in Ireland. So obviously ip addresses in Ireland will access the server running from Ireland. Ultimately it will result in a faster site (videos buffer quicker etc) and we will continue to add more servers around the world over the next few months.

bubbleking

i tried to pay with a credit card but it just defferred me to paypal and now i have to wait to get some 4 digit code to join the site??

iv a feeling this is due to my own stupidity but wtf?

T-b0n3

bubbleking wrote: »

i tried to pay with a credit card but it just defferred me to paypal and now i have to wait to get some 4 digit code to join the site??

iv a feeling this is due to my own stupidity but wtf?

If you just click on the link to pay on the pokerswat site it brings you to paypal and you can pay that way, after you have created an account and added your card. I thought I was going to have to wait four days to but its grand you don't. Hope that helps.

Adam

meathman 007

bubbleking: thats weird, can you pm me your username and email address and ill look into it for you. T-bOn3 explained it...

bubbleking

pm sent

HoLLLLLaments

The Snapper wrote: »

were you tempted ?

huh?

OutOfPosition

tell the mtt guy to stop playing bad and make some good videos or let someone else do it.

semibluff

there are videos for different standards of players. From the basics of hand rankings upwards.

There are 50 videos for launch, and will be 30+ videos a month added. Each of these videos will not be of the liking of everyone.

We will be reviewing each video on a number of points, one of the main ones being the ranking each video receives from our customers. This facility is available for all members of the site.

As mentioned before hand, this is a soft launch, and going forward we will be taking everything suggested by members of both this forum and others seriously on board to allow you help us design it to make it most attractive to all poker players from different ends of the spectrum.

Thanks again guys

RoundTower

is the mtt guy Andy Ward?

he has the only poker blog I ever read so I expect his videos to be really good, surprised anyone is criticizing them

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

I was interested in the plo vid as the smallball approach is not that bad and it came across pretty well. Best of luck guys and btw tell trahino to min his screens so you do not keep scrolling top to bottom to see the action

Requiem4adream

RoundTower wrote: »

is the mtt guy Andy Ward?

he has the only poker blog I ever read so I expect his videos to be really good, surprised anyone is criticizing them

Did you watch it? Limping AJ, QT and KJ in 5/6 handed pots cant be good advice for anyone imo. I only watched the 1st 2 minutes but it was enough. Look there's a million ways to be a winner in mtt, tons of different ways to skin a cat but i fail to see how doing the above is +ev.

Edit - thats not to put a dampener on it. I'll be joining up. people might disagree with me and think it's good strat.

RasTa

Seriously lads since your net only, invest some money in a decent web site designer. The front page is horrible and whoever cut out the pics doesn't know how to use photoshop, even your logo wasn't compressed right.

Looks very unprofessional in comparasion with cardrunners etc.

meathman 007

^^ we appreciate the feedback. As Donal was saying, the first couple of weeks are considered a soft launch where all of the issues either big or small will be rectified. The two main issues you identified above are on the to do list and will be sorted in the next 2weeks.

T-b0n3

Watched all of Hectorjellys beginner videos and enjoyed them & found the helpful. Just wondering should I be expecting more videos in the silver level soon??
Thanks

Adam

dwayman

Good luck with it lads..