For new members: My feelings about the green star system

Basically I am making this thread for new members to liquidpoker so that they can understand the GREENSTAR system.

The Green Star was handed out once upon a time to posters on liquidpoker.net that had shown they were highly skilled poker players. In its heydey there were posters this autistic looking dude TalentedTom who was making beaucoup bucks in midstakes poker by being an autist and he would provide comments in poker hands discussion that were bomb. The Green star allowed members to filter out advice made from noob posters like Loco as well as providing some sort of aspiration to follow in your poker journey.

However as the poker economy fell into disrepair even the most successful players found it tough to beat the games and eventually most players on this site are no longer in poker.

It has come to our attention recently that the Greenstar has a glitch on this site that does not allow for it to be removed from a user.

On September 06 2021 00:33 Baalim wrote: the green star thing has a weird system that mods can't give or take away v.v

Because of this I created this thread to provide a list of active liquidpoker.net users that ARE NOT deserving of the greenstar to try and eliminate any confusion new posters might have. I will periodically update this list as I am active on this site.

As of 9/12/21 the following users are NOT WORTHY of the Greenstar :

RiKD

Anyway thats it for now. As I mentioned I will continue to update this thread. Thanks for reading!

lmao that was fucking hilarious, bravo

On September 12 2021 06:37 hiems wrote: Basically I am making this thread for new members to liquidpoker...

The only new members LP has picked up in the last 5 years are spambots, whos post quality > yours

Have the mods also lost the power to ban you for this absolute shit thread talking smack about green star posters or do they just need a testosterone shot?

Hmm, it's plainly obvious that you want it stripped from him because you don't like his social/political views, or him personally.

I wanted the green star a couple years ago and I got the bracelet instead. So apparently it's still possible to give people bracelet icons, (even though I didn't win one). I'd prefer a Greenstar btw, It has more value to me than a bracelet icon. Maybe Meat or Nazgul can hand them out? Drone666 is long overdue for a greenstar as well, as is anyone currently beating midstakes (in my personal view). So I guess Lemon would be as well. Might be an idea to make a list of people who missed out.

Lemon beats midstakes now?!?!

On September 12 2021 13:28 Stroggoz wrote: Hmm, it's plainly obvious that you want it stripped from him because you don't like his social/political views, or him personally. I wanted the green star a couple years ago and I got the bracelet instead. So apparently it's still possible to give people bracelet icons, (even though I didn't win one). I'd prefer a Greenstar btw, It has more value to me than a bracelet icon. Maybe Meat or Nazgul can hand them out? Drone666 is long overdue for a greenstar as well, as is anyone currently beating midstakes (in my personal view). So I guess Lemon would be as well. Might be an idea to make a list of people who missed out.

haha ya baal offer me a bracelet too but i didnt even win a donkmanet so its not for me. i ask for a green star too

On September 12 2021 13:28 Stroggoz wrote: Hmm, it's plainly obvious that you want it stripped from him because you don't like his social/political views, or him personally. I wanted the green star a couple years ago and I got the bracelet instead. So apparently it's still possible to give people bracelet icons, (even though I didn't win one). I'd prefer a Greenstar btw, It has more value to me than a bracelet icon. Maybe Meat or Nazgul can hand them out? Drone666 is long overdue for a greenstar as well, as is anyone currently beating midstakes (in my personal view). So I guess Lemon would be as well. Might be an idea to make a list of people who missed out.

I had hopes of getting a greenstar once upon a decade ago ;(. tbh not like theres much poker discussion of note on this site at all anymore though, Its more of a hangout. Realistically discussion mostly comes from questions IMO and no one is really asking any useful ones for improving. Only talk of strat is people posting hands in the hand window and waiting for handouts of people wanting to give them the answers to whats wrong with how they are playing them not even asking questions, or just display them for others to see. Also i doubt theres almost anyone playing anymore. AFAIK its just you and me and mezmerizeplz actively playing midstakes+ for a living still. Theres probably a handful of others that never post. I know pooruser was playing still a couple years ago. This is definitely not a strategy forum anymore lol

On September 12 2021 07:15 Jelle wrote: lmao that was fucking hilarious, bravo

I think you are the only one who has a sense of humor about this lol.

On September 12 2021 23:21 hiems wrote: Show nested quote + On September 12 2021 07:15 Jelle wrote: lmao that was fucking hilarious, bravo I think you are the only one who has a sense of humor about this lol.

Haha it’s semi funny

On September 12 2021 13:28 Stroggoz wrote: I got the bracelet

typicall champaigne socialist with a golden bracelet

I value my green star mostly in a nostalgic way. I joined this site in November or December of 2005. I found the poker thread on TL and came right over here so was probably one of the first on the site. I don't remember when they gave out the green stars but at that time if it was summer 2006 or later I was at least a blue belt especially 2007 or later I was really crushing the mid-stakes and basically giving it my all in the hand discussion. Active and not withholding any information. Later years, maybe I got to a purple belt or a brown belt or maybe not and maybe I was not active and I was withholding information but just as I had trained in Renzo Gracie Academy under Warren Stout and many others I never lose my color or stripes unless I level up. I always kind of thought of this place as Naz's place. Also, Meat because I enjoy Gijoy but Naz was a real killer at the tables from what I could tell. Maybe thorladen was a stronger black belt in the beginning but he was never that active. Hell, I don't think I ever actually played a hand with either of them unless thorladen had a PLO smurf account later in my career.

It's 2021 today. I would assume anyone beating mid-stakes today is a way better player than I am 10 years later. Of course, it is true. There may be some things I figured out with math about bankroll management and win rates and risk and stuff like that but as far as solvers and playing hands I would need a lot of work. I had a lot of tricks up my sleeve back in the day but solvers beat all of that. You don't need LP anymore you need to study solvers and get a discord group.

I know my blog is like it's own creature that ebbs and flows and can be volatile almost like a kudzu invading the blog section here and that has just been the way it has been at times.

I'll happily give my star to Stroggoz or drone666 but that is just puffing up my chest because now I know I can't do that. Those are 2 players that I know are better than me because I have followed their hands.

I think I probably pissed hiems off somewhere early in his development here and he just gets more angry with me as time goes by. I would love to see my suggestion(s) to him as a poker player. There has got to be some of them out there. I may try to search tonight.

I looked up some posts. I was annoying as fuck in a number of his blogs. Especially, when I was in my buddhist phase. My poker suggestions while more wordy than it needed to be was spot on though.

I am sorry hiems for being annoying as fuck in our relations on this site.

Poll: Would you choose
(Vote): Rikd's mental stability
(Vote): Rikd losing green star

Betting on my mental stability is like betting against the tide will be really high at some point or really low

Betting on me losing green star is just troll'y

It's a fucked up poll obviously but par for the course for Santafairy

I should have never even responded to this thread but I have problems sleeping and get bored

I'm defending you you stupid asshole

Taking away the one thing you can be proud of would not be humane

hiems doesn't need a star to know who to listen to any more than he needs a blue check to know who to listen to on Twitter nor is removing one because someone is a retard helpful to new users of which there are none

On September 12 2021 18:15 DooMeR wrote: Show nested quote + On September 12 2021 13:28 Stroggoz wrote: Hmm, it's plainly obvious that you want it stripped from him because you don't like his social/political views, or him personally. I wanted the green star a couple years ago and I got the bracelet instead. So apparently it's still possible to give people bracelet icons, (even though I didn't win one). I'd prefer a Greenstar btw, It has more value to me than a bracelet icon. Maybe Meat or Nazgul can hand them out? Drone666 is long overdue for a greenstar as well, as is anyone currently beating midstakes (in my personal view). So I guess Lemon would be as well. Might be an idea to make a list of people who missed out. I had hopes of getting a greenstar once upon a decade ago ;(. tbh not like theres much poker discussion of note on this site at all anymore though, Its more of a hangout. Realistically discussion mostly comes from questions IMO and no one is really asking any useful ones for improving. Only talk of strat is people posting hands in the hand window and waiting for handouts of people wanting to give them the answers to whats wrong with how they are playing them not even asking questions, or just display them for others to see. Also i doubt theres almost anyone playing anymore. AFAIK its just you and me and mezmerizeplz actively playing midstakes+ for a living still. Theres probably a handful of others that never post. I know pooruser was playing still a couple years ago. This is definitely not a strategy forum anymore lol

Im not actually playing poker for a living anymore, quit a while ago.

So what do you do now stroggoz? I'm surprised I always thought u did that for a living. I actually play poker for a living but mostly NL100, doesn't ASDF/the unicorn also beat midstakes too? I'd be very surprised if only 2-3 people play poker for a living here. I guess it's on and off for most people.

Playing poker for a living isn’t gto unless u live in the states with soft sites or know good homes games

On September 12 2021 23:21 hiems wrote: Show nested quote + On September 12 2021 07:15 Jelle wrote: lmao that was fucking hilarious, bravo I think you are the only one who has a sense of humor about this lol.

maybe we have no sense of humor and everyone else is in on the next level joke by super seriously discussing the merits of green stars in 2021