Welcome to the new ranking website of PokerTH. Those which played with us during the beta stages know already that we take the results of the ranked matches and put them into the ranking here at Poker-Heroes.com

With the release of PokerTH 0.8 we reseted the ladder today.

As you already know, everybody will get his beta3 ladder results as entry in his user profile. The first 3 beta stages were a lot of fun. But also a lot of discussions, suggestions and many thankfull mails. Thank you for participating at the development of this project.

WHAT´S NEW
Into the new ranking we will add an "activity malus". As soon as we have impemented it, we will tell you more about it.

NEXT STEPS
Now we will simulate some new score algorythms during the next weeks and test it with a another reset. You will be informed in time. As soon as we have a good working system, we start the "global ladder". The global ladder ranking will be the accumulated results of the ladder seasons. We think about seasons, in which you can play your matches. Your final rank in each season, which could run 4, 6 or 8 weeks, will recalculated to points which will be added to your global ranking.

It´s the current status of what we are planning. But we will discuss this with you in the PokerTH forum, before we will start it.

LIVESTREAM EVENTS
As a new goodie we have added a livestream to the menu. We will stream poker matches from the desktop to the website. If you want to be part of one of these machtes just watch out for the player "Checkraiser". He will stream the matches.

Have fun and "luck on"

Your Poker-Heroes.com Team

Downtime and 0.8 release

Today on 2010-09-25 around 10 pm German time (convert to your local time here) we plan to release PokerTH 0.8. The beta server will be shut down, and there will be a downtime of the stable server which should not last longer than 2 hours. All rankings will be reset (and stored in the hall of fame).

Please be patient during the downtime. We will start the new server as fast as possible. During the downtime, PokerTH 0.8 will already be available on the download page, so that you can start right away once the server is running.

Bear with us!

Your PokerTH development team

Wanna be the first, who knows, what comes next?
Wanna keep in touch with the community and publish their stories? 

We are looking for reporters, which cover the PokerTH rankings on Poker-Heroes.com.
Do you think you can bring out some heroes?

Become part of the Poker-Heroes.com Team and apply yourself as editorial staff.

Send us a small example of a Poker Heroes Community Story to: info@poker-heroes.com

Also everybody else ist invited to send us their stories, we should publish for you.

The Top10 was shaken a bit during the last 24h.

4 players left the "rumble box": Sparkle, Profess...., Lacrimosa and Loveboat.

4 Players entered the box: BobbyBaldwin, Zananzelm, LuisCypher and Valy.

	yesterday		this morning
1	win me??	1	BobbyBaldwin
2	Sparkle	2	win me??	(-1)
3	yomismo	3	yomismo	(0)
4	John la marr	4	Data_	(+3)
5	Sumikam	5	Zananzelm
6	Profess....	6	Sumikam	(-1)
7	Data_	7	LuisCypher
8	BRACK	8	John la marr	(-4)
9	Lacrimosa	9	Valy
10	Loveboat	10	BRACK	(-2)

There are still a lot of good players with a very good average score, which did not played their 20th game. So we can still expect some more new faces in the "box". There is doitux with am average of 13.08, risk with 12.46, sevenfour with 13.67, nada with 12.85 or wayne5 with 13.54.

But the unchallenged hero of the moment ist BobbyBaldwin with an unbelievable avarage of 14.9 ! He was the shaker of the day.

It will be a hard mission to reach his score of 240.8 .

Finally we don´t want forget our manners: The top Lady is Schneck at place 15. She is leading the female ranking with a score of 167.52 . Congratulation!

Luck on

Your Poker-Heroes.com Team

A few days are gone with the new ranking and it seems that it works well. The chance to achieve a first record as "first winner" of the Beta3 season was taken by "yomismo". And he still plays quite well and is one of the players who breaks the "italian dominance". The italians currently are the best nation. The players around "win me??" rule the top10 (5 players) and the top20 (9 players). Just "Sumikam" from hungary and "data_" from germany are able to pin their flags into the top10 too.

One player we spotted had an increadible average score at the beginning: "Profess...."
Until yesterday. After a real impressive start at the first day all his efforts seems to be destroyed yesterday. In the first 13 games he made 7 1st places. But with the 14th game he started to wobble. However, he is still good in position and it shows to us, that it is quite hard to play at a high level for a long time. Especially here at PokerTH, where we have a wide range of skill.

So here is the Top10 of the moment:

1     win me??
2     Sparkle
3     yomismo
4     John la marr
5     Sumikam
6     Profess....
7     Data_
8     BRACK
9     Lacrimosa
10   Loveboat

Congratulations, enjoy your moment of glory.

The community will hunt you ;)

Luck on

Your Poker-Heroes.com Team

Yesterday we made the reset for BETA3. We added a lot of new features. Some of them were already requested in the PokerTH forum. The major modification was made with the algorithm. It is still beta and we surely will change it again before the final realease of 0.8. But with the last modification, we have a stronger focus on skill.

First of all we discussed the distribution of the placement points. Since PokerTH delivers also the placements of each match, we needed to adjust this point. Finally we decided to give points for the places 1-7. In Formula1 just less than 50% of the drivers get points. We wanted to have some pressure at the last 3 places, to invite our "Alliners" for a better gameplay. We also wanted to have an exponential points curve, to add attracitivity to the first places. The current points distribution is:

1. 24 points
2. 16 points
3. 10 points
4. 6 points
5. 3 points
6. 2 points
7. 1 point

By adding all placement points and divide them with the number of played games, everybody gets his individual average points. These points will be set in ralation to the cummounity average points. This we call the "Score". We did this, to see, how strong a player is compared to others playing PokerTH.

To reward our frequent playing users we added a bonus to the Score. It is 0.01% for each played game and will be given up to the 500th game. So the maximum "frequent playing bonus" is 5%. Our opinion is, that we would like to give these players a chance to diistance players with similar average points but less games played. We don´t want, that a player is able to make significant jumps in the ranking, just by playing a lot of matches. So the bonus is small and it´s limited to 5%.

The malus was reduced to 20 games, because the games with 10 players are longer. And it´s more difficult to win games now. The malus starts with 95% for the 1st game. It will be reduced in 5% steps down to 0% at the 20th game.

We know, that there are still a lot of ideas and suggestions flying around. We still have an eye at all these points, especially the algorythm. What we will add very soon is something like an AFK malus, which reduces the score of players, which play an insufficient number of games per week / per month.... This is important to keep players playing which could stop playing as soon as they have a good ranking. We will also test several algorythms in simulations, to see how they work for the PokerTH Community.

So have a look at our news and our changelog. We keep you posted.

Now we hope that you like the 0.8 Beta3 ranking and wish you a lot of fun and always the right card on the river ;)

Your Poker-Heroes.com Team