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Can we get markup to help with hand histories?
Similar to this question, it would be useful for the site to support markup for hand histories. If nothing else, markup for suits could be helpful when I say I have AsKc (a little spade and club next ...
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Is Poker a site we should keep around?
I'm a community manager here at Stack Exchange, and part of our jobs here on the Community team is to periodically review sites in beta to see how they're progressing. Part of this involves ...
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Is it possible for us to get a plugin that would make it simple to show images of the table situation a particular question is in the context of?
Many poker books such as the Harrington on Holdem series include images of tables showing the current situation as a visual aid to the questions asked. It would be great if there was something like ...
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Latex commands request feature
Poker is a game that needs a heavy use of probability theory and statistics. Then will be usefull to use the latex commands. Is this possible to have this feature available on this site?
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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What are we doing here?
The short answer is we are doing a beta. This means a couple of different things to me, we are testing our concepts, and we may be modifying our concepts to become usable. Please go to area 51 to look ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Strategy for advertizing poker stackexchange
It seems like we need more users to really get this beta going. How do you guys want to promote this site? The easy solution is to post on popular poker forums like 2+2. Any other sites we should ...
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Blatantly incorrect accepted answers?
A couple months ago, we got the question about the legality of playing online poker in the US. John Dibling wrote an informative answer that, unfortunately, is wrong on a couple of key points: https://...
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add open face chinese
I posted a question about pineapple OFC and was told that it was not within the scope of the poker stackexchange. I was wondering if we could add Open Face Chinese (OFC) and its pineapple variant POFC ...
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Dealing With Overly Broad Questions
The odds questions noted before are one example of this, but we will see others. For instance, there was just as question about "How should I play AA?"
Questions like this are too broad to have an ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Poker Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2021-...
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Do we need a hand history converter?
Like Deuces Cracked and and Two plus Two forums, I think if we had a hand history converter, that would be nice.
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When asking for advice on playing a hand, is it best practice to not tell the outcome?
When describing a single hand in poker is it best to give all possible relevant information for that hand(your hand, table cards, opponents range/vpip/pfr/bluffs, etc) EXCEPT the outcome?
I say this ...
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Can we have a glossary of common abbreviations?
I'd like to participate more, but I'm finding the sea of acronyms and abbreviations quite difficult to navigate (e.g. this question).
Can we please have an official glossary of common abbreviations? ...
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Questions about forbidden software
Should these be allowed? This question about the hypothetical zoom bot, for example, is talking about creating a tool that is explicitly forbidden by the PokerStars TOS. It could certainly have been ...
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Should this have been deleted?
This answer was deleted and converted to a comment
Should this have been deleted?
The 48 is all in. There must have been a side pot.
Why did I win a portion of this hand?
The stated standard ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Poker has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
Toby and Grinch91 will retain their diamonds after serving as pro-tem mods, and Jon will ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Announcing an upcoming election
Summary: Poker Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on September 27, as your "graduation" election (as a result of having lost your beta label a while back).
The ...
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Enabling the MathJax plugin?
Several other stackexchange sites have enabled the use of the MathJax plugin to allow for typesetting of mathematical content using LaTeX code. On this site, however, this functionality does not ...
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What should hand history posts look like?
I just asked a hand history question. Is there a certain tone or amount of information we are aiming for? Do we want hero-insight vs. a third-party view of the hand? What about hands with multiple ...
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How could we improve participation?
Seriously. This site has very low engagement. Even when it reached a beta stage I see very low activity. Please let's discuss how to get more people's attention.
Some time ago I participated in a ...
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What can we do to encourage more "Chen derivation" questions?
In many of their podcasts, the founders of Stack Exchange have made comments that the secret to having a successful site is in attracting expert level participation. They noted that in-depth, detailed ...
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How do we treat questions about law/news?
With the volatile situation surrounding the state of poker and US law, we can certainly expect some questions about these subjects. How should they be treated? Are they welcome at all? Does any ...
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Where are the expert-level strategy questions?
It is vitally important in the early days to ask high quality, expert-level questions. It looks to me like too many of the questions right now are about rules and odds. Right now we are defining ...
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Why has this abusive comment not been removed
hand analysis
This guy left a comment I need professional mental help. I flagged it several days ago and it has not been removed. How is that kind of language OK?
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Can we, somehow, sticky-mark popular questions to serve as a kind of starting documentation?
It surprises me a lot that there are popular questions like these ones:
Who wins? I have no clue
What happens if there is royal flush on board
Flush confusion
Just to name that particular topic. ...
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Asking a question about material in poker book
I have a question that came directly from a poker book. To be precise the reasoning and how the writer came to a solution. So I can't 'mask it' using simple 'villain' and 'hero'.
The question is, can ...
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Why is this question closed as off topic?
The question: Why did I lose a Flush in Omaha?
The reasons it was closed:
closed as off-topic by Radu Murzea♦ Sep 22 at 6:50
This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close ...
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Let's get critical: Aug 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Poker Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will ...
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Time to appoint a new pro-tempore moderator?
Poker is an (almost) unique site in the Stack Exchange network, in the sense that it has only two (pro-tempore) ♦ moderators. Three is the standard for beta sites. As mentioned here, one of the ...
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Are there any static in-hand thinking procedures
I took exception to how broad this question was:
Do you have any "in-hand" thinking procedures?
To my mind, the question rather assumes the decisions are static throughout the hand, ...
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Backup of answers?
A few months ago, the question came whether to shut down Poker.SE or not. While this question is not about that, I think it's going to happen, because Poker.SE is not doing very well (maybe the world ...
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Poker self-evaluation: let's get critical! [closed]
You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or ...
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What are my odds questions
What are the odds I will hit my flush? Are we going to allow these types of questions? The question was asked during commitment but we were told to wait until beta to decide.
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Poker.SE home game proposal
Who would like to play in a "Home Game"?
I tried to set one up when the site was in its infancy 8 years ago, but perhaps now would be better, given the circumstances.
If there is enough interest, ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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What topics would you like to read more about?
So I posted this in the chat area and thought I would just go ahead and do it anyway! :)
If you have a specific topic (not too narrow, not too wide!), e.g see below, that you'd like to see more ...
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When do we come out of private beta? [closed]
I suppose this is more a question for the community team.
What signs of strength do you need to see before we become a public beta? How close are we? I would like to draw some of the better posters ...
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Is "discussion" a valid tag for the non-meta site?
There are currently two posts on the non-meta site using the discussion tag, and I'm inclined to think it should be removed from both. By the site's FAQ, we state that we want to avoid questions which ...
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Is Pandante on-topic?
Is it considered on-topic to ask questions about Sirlin Game's Pandante on Poker.SE? On one hand, it is very much a "poker-style" game, using a great amount of rules from Texas Hold'em and X-Card ...
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Why have I had reputation removed for Serial Upvoting?
As the title says, why did i have 60 reputation removed for serial upvoting?
What does it mean? Is it something I have done wrong?
Cheers,
Gareth
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Should hand histories have accepted answers?
Hand histories are subjective questions, and as such there won't be a single, definitive correct answer. Does it make sense to accept one? Or should we rely on voting to bubble the best answers to ...
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Who is our target audience?
A number of questions here on meta are geared toward refining the site to get expert-level participation. I think that is a great goal, but I'm not sure it is the right one. Doubly so if it leads to ...
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What are the benefits of Poker graduating from beta to full SE site and the requirements for doing so?
I see that this site has been in beta for quite some time now - mostly due to low question frequency it seems.
I was wondering what benefits (if any) come with the site making it out of beta and ...
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Page 43 of Questions
The last question on page 43 of questions (13/3/2015), which I have assumed was the first question ever asked on Poker Beta, is marked as a duplicate. How so?
Q is here
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Let's get critical: Feb 2015 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Poker Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will ...
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When are software questions ok?
I'm confused; we closed a request for a review of Switch Poker on Android but we left open the question asking if anyone knows if Poker Academy Pro is available. They are both software questions and, ...
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