I never buy chip it is waste of money
You have to be good or you cannot do it! I play 4 table 1 on 1 and win them fast!
Tourney is too slow to win it fast
I make more 130 mills in 1 day so you cannot check it!
Your 63 mills is nothing I don’t want it!
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I want to thank all of you for contributing to this discussion. First and foremost, let me just say that Replay is the best free poker site I have ever been on. I have more fun here than any others that I have used. I don’t have a very high ranking, but I seem to play well with others and sometimes win. Again, for me, It is just about having fun and participating in a venue that has multiple players from many corners of our planet. Thank You
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Your screen shot still shows us nothing as far as how much u bought to start out. 130 mill is not that much to make in a day when your bank is 8 bill and u can play 500/1mill tables, what we wanna see is u taking 2500 chips and getting to 130 mill in 14 days to back up ur point. your comparison of making 130 million from a 8 bill bank is not much to brag about, but u can brag all u want when u show us your 130 mill from 2500 chips in 14 days, cant even compare the 2 of them % wise. will give u a break on your talk about getting to 130 mill and just get to my bank and rank in 2 weeks from 2500 just to back up half of your point and amount. You could show us all how to do it from 2500 which is what u said u have to do in 14 days to not be a fish. Dont u want to do this to contribute and help others on this site out so they can increase their rank?
I believe the screenshot is showing that it says “First Purchase Bonus” in the blue above the first buying option, indicating that she has not bought chips.
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Actually, over the past months, at least a few players have made massive chip buys during “sales” that put them into the top few hundreds of “best ranked” players. Few of them managed to maintain those ranks. There is an upcoming article on an instance of this already written and accepted for the blog,but not yet scheduled. .At least one of them has had to re-buy more than once.
My opinion on “bought chips” is if you can keep them, or better, make them grow, they were deserved; otherwise, they quickly go away along with the great rank (and, the money, of course).
Like any other sort of short cut to fame or fortune, it tends to sort itself out. If a fool inherits vast wealth, how long does he/she keep it? That’s why so many large estates are left in trusts. To make sure the inheritor can’t frivol it all away.
There’s no shame in buying chips, but there’s no honor, either. It’s how those chips are handled afterward that accrues the honor or shame.
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Ah, the Helmuth of Replay…do you have any poker books to recommend?
Actually it does - if the 1st purchase bonus is still active, @gamergirI could not have bought any at all.
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Concur
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A better ranking system would be based on hands won not on stack size.
For ring games: You would get 1 point for every hand won and subtracted if hand lost.
If you play a player with double your ranking and win a hand you get 2 points or subtract 2 if you lose to a player with half your ranking.
For tourneys: you get 1 point for a hand and 2 bounty for felting any player plus 2 for any hand against a player with more than double your rank.
That would give a much more accurate picture of a players skill but let’s be honest here and Replay wants people to buy chips and that is what they are in business for and if it wasn’t for the chip buyers we wouldn’t have the great format that Replay provides.
Just my opinion and I am sure others will see it differently lol!
yes u are correct joe, however i was more interested in how to get to 130,000,000 in 14 days from 2,500 chips which she claims to have done and if u cant do that then we are all fishes. We all are sharks at some tables we play at then go to higher up tables and are small or big fish. so either way u look at it we are both depending on where we play. a 500 rank is a shark to a 5,000 rank player but a 500 rank is a fish to a top 10 player. I agree with the fact some of these players buying their shark status help replay and us fish out by contributing to the site and making it better. I still would like to know if anyone has ever heard of someone getting to 130 mill ( 200 rank ) or better in 14 days or less from 2500 freebies. If they have then thats the biggest Great White shark i have ever heard of 
If I prove I do it then you say you give me all your chip now is that a promise?
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But all suggested ranking systems I’ve seen are based on chips won or points scored so in essence a player who plays the most games has a much better chance of gaining a higher ranking.
The only true ranking system would be one based on a win/loss ratio with a minimum number of tournaments required to qualify.
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@JoeDirk off topic, but I think you are a great poker player. I remember when you helped me out when i was kinda new Thanks for all your forum posts and stuff!
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lol
i agree … treat others as you want to be treated …
… all tho i have sin
one game a player was a smarty and i did point out my rank …as the player went broke and left the game
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the only true leader board rankings are the monthly sitngos where u play a set amount of games and all points come from how u place each game, the players that play the most games dont benefit cause if u play more than the 60,90,120 games in low,medium,and high respectively then you can go up or down in points for the leader board because every game u play over your set amount for the month is averaged into all games played so it has nothing to do with best of games like MTT
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@floridajetski - So if I read you correctly, you don’t lose benefit in sit-n-go high until you have played 120 games per month. In my case I only play an average of 2 games per day or 60 games per month in total, 12 of which are in a league with 1k buy-in - and the rest are mostly high buy-in MTT and sit-n-go - so I would be extremely disadvantaged in sit-n-go rankings or for that matter any form of rankings as you obviously need to play many many more games than I do to achieve an accurate high ranking.
That’s why I suggested some kind of win loss ratio with a minimum number of games to count would possibly present a more representative ranking.
I realize the formula probably requires a mathematical genius, but this is a poker site and there’s probably a few of those around!
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@flashlight I totally agree. The SnG leaderboard only ranks a player who has played 60, 90 or 120 SnG games a month in comparison with other players who have done the same, in that particular month only. It is an accurate way to compare the skill of those few hundreds players who fit that category. The hundreds of thousands of players who don’t play SnG’s at all, or don’t play enough SnG’s, or play enough during one of the months but not others, are left out.
So a leader board is only good for comparison between a limited number of players who play a certain amount of specific games during a specific period of time. It has nothing to do with overall ranking of a player’s skill.
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To play Med Board SnG is 90 games for the month that is only 3 games a day … most players on this site play that. … or try the High LeaderBoard that is only 2 games a day… Also there are all kinds of LeaderBoards not just for players who prefer to play Sng’s.
True. But then you have to stick to that particular leaderboard, only to find out how you compare to those who are also sticking to that leaderboard only.
If I place on the Royal MTT leader board, it only shows how I compare to other Royal MTT players.
If I place on the Hold’em Med SnG board, it only shows how I compare to other Hold’em Med SnG players, during a specific period of time.
It’s a great comparison tool for a specific number of players in a specific format of a specific game during a specific month.
It is not however a great overall ranking tool for all players.
Ring game players, or players who like to play different formats and different tourneys, and don’t play enough of a specific format to place on a certain board, are left out. And they’re the vast majority of players on this site.