Topic: OneVillain.com Heads-Up Poker - page 3. (Read 9677 times)

Cool, I'll keep an eye on it and think about what makes sense.  Good luck with the bankroll! 

Hmm… well, to be honest, I’ve only just started playing HU poker since joining OVP - which is awesome, btw. So with myself being new to HU poker, I would defer to someone who has more experience than me as far as suggestions other than hand-for-hand play to decrease the angle-shooting.

Maybe just keep it as is for now and watch how things go as the site grows. The escalating blinds eventually swallow up the slow players anyway, so they put themselves at a disadvantage that way and level things a bit.

Anyways, love your site and thanks again for the seed money. Been slowly building my roll and hopefully soon I’ll be able to play in the higher limit cash games and start generating rake. 

Got ya  , enjoy.

I want free chips

Name:Sav

Right now the software doesn't have the hand for hand feature, I could push the developer to add it, seems like the sort of thing that can be added fairly easily.  I agree though that it could be boring, not really sure which way is better.  

What do you think about a really short time to act, and then a very generous time bank (like 2 minutes) to give people enough buffer for the normal pauses and whatnot, but not as much room to waste time endlessly?  

Another option is winner-take-all. Or even 75% for 1st and 25% for 2nd would guarantee you have to play your way into the money.  

Will think about it a bit, let me know if you like either of those ideas.

May be boring and slow, but hand-for-hand play in the 500 gtd may help prevent slow play/collusion on the bubble and also when in the money.

Just sayin...

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Gonna try not removing no-shows from the freeroll today.  They "paid" in a sense with time and rake to qualify, so doesn't seem right to pull them if they're late.  I think most people will show, but if it ends up hurting the game we'll probably remove them next time.  

Payout structure is 13BTC for first, 5BTC for second, 1BTC for third and fourth.  Thirteen qualifiers.

Next week: Two 10BTC freerolls.  100 raked hands to qualify for the first one, 500 raked hands qualifies you for the first one and the second one.  Week ends at the end of Saturday, current totals on the promotions page.

20 BTC Freeroll! Tomorrow/today (Sunday) at 7pm ET, congrats to everyone who qualified! final standings

Congrats also to 'deucejuice', 'iscoopu', 'crosby', 'vagabond', and 'God' for topping the list and winning a 1BTC bonus.

Extra congrats to deucejuice who had all his BTC tied up in an unconfirmed transaction for the early part of the weekend, and still stormed in to top the list.  

Good luck in the tournament, guys.

Haha, glad the saga finally ended for you.  You're already qualified for the freeroll, hopefully you still have time to make it into the top 5, I'll update the list now so you know where you stand. Good luck.

Wow looks like the transaction has been cancelled or something cause the bitcoins are back in my wallet. Now for buying chips take two/
thanks for all your help

"You can create a new transaction that spends the same inputs and includes a bigger fee if you like.  It will be considered a double spend but will probably be included in a block sooner that way.  I'd export the private keys from the blockchain.info wallet and import them into the satoshi client, then just make the same deposit again.  If by some miracle the new transaction didn't use any of the inputs from the original transaction then eventually the deposit would clear twice, and I'd simply withdraw one of them back to my wallet."

I have no more bitcoins, so I don't think this is an option but thanks for your time---the other problem is I used the online wallet from bitchain.info so I dont know if I could do this---maybe----keep in mind I'm a newbie do this bitcoin thing.

I guess this probably the wrong thread to post this cause it has nothing to do with how great of a poker site OneVillain.com is!


just an update on my situation with the transaction hat still hasnt gone through. (24 hours now) (extremely frustrated cause this means I have no chance of being in the top 5. but live and learn I guess)


I sent an email to blockchain and received this reply:

"If your transaction does not get accepted, you have a few options. Right now, at least for Bitcoin itself, there are still enough miners willing to include any valid transaction. So if you just keep waiting, it should eventually get confirmed.

You may also wish to stop your client and then restart it, manually forcing it to connect to a client known to accept transactions without fees. It can help to disable incoming connections to maximize the chances your transaction will go to the client that will accept transactions without fees. It can take several hours for the transaction to get out, even if you do everything right. (The client intentionally 'dribbles' out transactions to try to hide their origin. This completely fails for transactions with too-low fees, but the client still tries.)

Otherwise, you can abort the transaction attempt. Stop your client and then make sure the transaction is not in limbo by checking the list of pending transactions. If it's not there, you can stop attempting the transaction to recover the coins. Ideally, you made a backup of your wallet before you attempted to make the transaction -- reverting the wallet and restarting the Bitcoin client with the -rescan option will remove the transaction. Otherwise, you'll have to (ouch) edit your wallet file to remove the transaction."




but I still have no idea how to restart the client software since Im using their online Wallet.
I think ill keep to the wallet I have running on my computer from now on. It by default wont send out a transaction that does no have enough to cover the fees left in the account


how come when I first heard of bitcoin everyone advertised no fees but in reality this is false. low fees but but not no fees.


I guess this probably the wrong thread to post this cause it has nothing to do with how great of a poker site OneVillain.com is!

Really sorry, thanks for letting me know.  I'm getting that error too when I test it, not sure what's wrong yet.  Gonna PM your validation code to you.  100 chips waiting in your account.

Hi.  I just created an account, but can't receive the validation code.

The account name is MistCat.

I get this dialogue box when I try to get the validation code:

An error occurred attempting to send the validation code to [email protected].

Please check into this.  Thanks.

And give me 100 chips if you're still doing that, too.  Thanks for that as well.

EDIT:  Rather than throw in another post just to say thanks, I'll say it here.  Validation code arrived, account is activated.

I'm not sure you're right there.

If the transaction had been successfully broadcast and simply had insufficient fees included, it would show up on bitcoincharts' list of unconfirmed transactions here: http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/txlist/

But it doesn't.

Here's the transaction at blockchain.info: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/27033506 - txid is c1ce03da3e7b86e93758c25e9494584e513faf68a9ead9f7841ae879827bb96b.


You can create a new transaction that spends the same inputs and includes a bigger fee if you like.  It will be considered a double spend but will probably be included in a block sooner that way.  I'd export the private keys from the blockchain.info wallet and import them into the satoshi client, then just make the same deposit again.  If by some miracle the new transaction didn't use any of the inputs from the original transaction then eventually the deposit would clear twice, and I'd simply withdraw one of them back to my wallet.

Thanks for the info, cambda.  I wish there was a way to add a fee to a pending transaction.  Someone posted in the linked thread that it will probably be an option in the future.. doesn't help us now lol.

thanks for the help. now just a waiting game i guess,
Im glad i got the free chips to keep me busy a bit.

the same issue with blockchain.info webwallet is here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/btc-in-limbo-111845

the reason is insufficient fee (0.0005) for a tx of this size (6372 bytes). To get included by majority miners the fees had to be in this case 0.0035

The tx is broadcasted and sonner or later will be included in a block by a miner who includes tx with less than recommended fees. It can take several hours most likely, sometimes several days. You just have to wait now

Ya, that's what I would recommend.  Tell them you have an unconfirmed transaction and link them to the blockchain info.  And then hopefully they can resolve it quickly.

EDIT: Weird that blockchain.info is getting the message but miners aren't. Any chance you're using blockchain.info wallet? Maybe they're having trouble, and that's why only they are seeing it.

Thanks for the chips.

It was done on a online bitchain wallet so I have no control over the software. I hope this gets resolved soon. I was counted on it to make the top leader board.maybe i should try and contact the bitchain wallet support.