Travelling in China!

Hi,

I'm at this moment travelling through China and I have to say... What a beautiful country!

I also only now realized that if you want to play Poker live in China you need to go to Macau as gambling is not allowed. But you can still play online in some poker platforms like PokerStars and Mansion Poker (and that's what I have been doing when I get some time for that :)

I finally had some time to quickly review the situation of my promotions and update my blog:

1 - The 10000 hands promotion

I have checked my email and for my big disappointment I didn't receive any reply from those who registered on this promotion, until today (10 days after the deadline). That's really bad and now I'm trying to understand what went wrong...

Was the target of 10000 hands to high for the period of time defined? I mean I did it but I also played several tables at the same time as I have already some experience but maybe for a beginner that's something you definitely don't do so basically if you play 1 table, lets say on average 40 hands per hour that actually means you would have to play about 8 hours every day... a little bit to much! So I need to rethink this promotion and create something that can be a challenging but realistic. If poker is a hobby for most of us then lets say you can play 2 hour per day during the weekdays and 3 hours on the weekend days. Also assuming that you can play 2 tables at the same time (otherwise I think that even for beginners poker online will be to slow) then to be able to play 10000 hands you would need 2 months!

Another reason could be the fact that beginners will not have immediate access to download poker elephant and/or they dont know or where can they get their poker hands. A quick explanation - for the poker hands in most of the sites they will be stored in a folder inside the place where you have installed the software. As 1 example for PokerStars my hands are saved in C:\Program Files\PokerStars\HandHistory, for Party Poker in C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyPoker\HandHistory, etc..
So if this is the problem and the reason why you didn't send me your statistics just send me a quick email and I will reconsider your results. I will be able to upload them on poker elephant I create your graph and see your result.

Could it be because I'm locking the promotion to a specific type limit and type of game i.e. just because I play no limit holdem doesn't mean that the other also want to play that... And maybe I should use a different measurement like BB/100 i.e. how many big blinds you generated per each 100 hands. Then everyone could play at any limit and type of game.

Could it be lack of trust? I still have the feeling that most people that read my posts in forums and in the poker rooms don't trust me or don't believe in what I'm doing... I have no clue how to change that...

So I'm thinking that when I'm back home I will probably relaunch this promotion but on a different format. Please feel free to send me your comments and suggestions to make the next 10000 hands promotion a successful one!

The 10000 hands promotion is now officially closed and unfortunately I have no results or winners to announce. The money will be reused for the next one.


2 - Total amount released by the TukTuk Poker Model = $9830

I made a small change on the table and Im also now including the money I keep from promoting this, following my value of transparency. I dont want people to think that I do this just for fun... Well I do but I also do this because I can get some money to play or to reinvest in creating promotions like the 10000 hands. Im also thinking in creating a freeroll for all those who register with me, but more of that in my next post.

Here is the latest table of statistics:

3 - Top 10 Promotion - $250 for the first 3!

This past weeks the competition is being more exciting than ever. 3 players are closing the gap to the 5000 strategypoint mark - "Souza89" with 3951 strategypoints went from 4th to 2nd passing both "eudodo" with 3827 strategypoints and "vinstayl" with 3282 strategypoints. Im sure pretty soon I will be contacting them for a quick interview :)
Just for your clarification in case you are playing in different platforms and pokerstrategy takes 1 or more days the points I lock the points to a specifc day and cross checked with the other players until they get their points updated. The player with higher number of startegypoints wins.

Here is the latest table with all the ranking:



Well thats it for today, time to go out of the hotel for a Tsingtao (chinese beer!)

Please keep in touch!

Best regards,

Tuk

Update of all the initiatives!

Hi,

Ive been out last week and know its time for a quick update on all the diferent initiatives Im promoting on my blog.

First an update on the 10000 hands competition - the last day to present your hands is on the 8th of October. So far I havent received any results but I do have 12 friends who registered during the period Ive been promoting this competition. Im looking forward to receive your results.

In terms of money released based on my concept of giving back the "Tell a Friend" money (the tuktuk poker model) we continue to increase the amount of free poker money and we have reached the $8510. Please consider the latest statistics:

Its is clear that not all will have the knowledge and skills to get to the 5000 StrategyPoints. This mark is, in my opinion to high and I have already approached pokerstrategy to try to break it down. If that works that means that you would get the money from me earlier. If you would like to support my request go to this post on pokerstrategy forum.

On my top 10 contest there are still 2 places open but it seems that they are almost decided. "eudodo" and "vinstayl" have passed the 2500 mark and they both seem to be in good shape to get to the 5000 strategypoints mark. Please consider the latest classification:

When looking back to May when I started this blog and seeing at I have achieved already makes me want more. I have so many ideas in my head but not so much time to dedicate to this. I need to find the right balance between my family, my personal life, my job, and of course this. Im open to work with more people and Im looking for partners that want to help me promoting my idea. If you are interested send me a quick email!

Well I think this is it for today! Have a good week and talk to you soon!

Best regards,
Tuk

The TukTuk Poker Model continues to release free poker money - $7997.50!

Hi,

Just want to give you another update on the statistics, the top 3 promotion and a few more payments done.

The TukTuk poker model in action! Since I started this idea of giving back the refer a friend money we have successufully released $7997.50! Thats amazing, I never thought that my actions would lead to so much money released for free! This only inspires me to continue and Im sure soon we will reach the $10000! Here is the table with all statistics:

On my top 10 promotion things are starting to warm up and we have now 7 players closer to get the full $250 back. "yogev" is 1 of the most recent friends that registered through me and he is performing really well! Here is the top 10 ranking:

In terms of payments I will leave another 2 examples from friends that have received their money back from me - remember that you need to send me an email confirming to where you want to receive your payment:

Thats it for today! As you now Im also running a competition to see whos the most profitable player in 10000 hands and I will soon post another update of my own performance!

See you soon!

Help me to break down the TAF payments!

Hi,

Ive been in the past days in discussion with pokerstrategy.com to see if they can either increase their current Tell-a-Friend - TAF - promotion or reduce the number of strategypoints required to release the $75 dollars.

As you can see by my latest statistics out of 385 registered friends with me only 1 managed to get to the 5000 strategypoints and because Im running this promotion he ended up making $250. But it is still quite difficult and demanding to get there. So what Im proposing to pokerstrategy.com is that they reduce the TAF payments as follow:

$10 at the 15 strategypoints mark

$15 at the 100 strategypoints mark

$25 at the 1000 strategypoints mark

$50 at the 5000 strategypoints mark

If that goes through that will mean that actually you will get the TAF money that I give back earlier as well.

If you can please go to this pokerstrategy forum post and support this initiative.

Now for the latest statistics update:

The top 10 promotion:

Free Poker Money Released - $7237.5

My head is full of ideas and one of the things I was planning to do is a small competition to see how profitable you are playing on a defined NL blinds in 10000 poker hands... But this still needs to be still prepared... Please keep in touch and make sure you subscribe to my blog for the latest updates!

Best regards,

Tuk

Moving to a new apartment!

Hello again! Sorry for these lack of posts but my life is being under a big change and I have moved to a new apartment. With so many things to do (work, move, family, etc.) something had to be left aside and that was unfortunatelly my blog. But now Im back and hopefully to be able to post at least once a week with the updates and all the statistics and news of this initiative.

One of the most interesting things that happened during this time was to receive positive feedback and support to continue by one of the pokerstrategy forum moderators - thunderbird56 - to my blog. Read it here. That really makes me motivated to continue with my idea - I call it now the tuktuk poker model :)

Not sure if you usually see them (as they dont show in the main page) but I have received a few comments that really make me happy like for example the one from Garry.

I have also received a request from 1 fan to use my tuktuk poker model but for another site - pokerprofessor - and I have give him the ok to go. Here stays the link to his blog - http://poker250.blogspot.com/ - in case you are interested.

Its really nice to see that this is moving in the right direction and the more we are the more free poker money will be available to play!

Now the updated statistics and a few more payments made by me.

The top 10 promotion - there are still 2 places to be paid the full amount - $250!

The overall statistics of this initiative - Untill now $6995 have been released to play poker for free:



Payments confirmation - CCO, g4rry, CalimeRhum and AngleSh00ter have contacted me and they have receive the money I give back from the refer a friend, as per my step by step guide:

Again if you are still in doubt just look for these players in the poker platforms and ask them directly.

You can also see that I have activated 2 new functions in my blog that you could use to help me to promote this:

1 - The "Thumb This Up!" where basically you can leave an independent review of my blog for others to see.

2 - The "Links to this Post" function in each post so that you can a link back to my blog .

Well thats it for today, and I hope to receive your comments and of course your support to spread this with your friends!

All the best,

Tuk

The release of free money continues - $5375

As promissed on my last post I will update you now on the latest statistics and top 10 promotion. Please consider:

I would like to highlight the fact that we have now released a total of $5375 from the poker industry and that money is out there available on the tables for those who truly master the game!

Also on the promotion Im running there is still a long way to go for "voyporustedes" and "nelinha" which means that if you are just starting you still have a chance to get the total referal money back ending up with a total of $250!

Another interesting statistic is the one on the end of the blog - the number of unique visitors! Looks like soon I will reach the first 5000 unique visitors which in 4 months is really good.

Keep on playing and spread the word - the best place to start playing poker with free money is here :)

Best regards,

Tuk

2685$ totally free!

Hi,

Im currently on holidays and that is why its been a while since my last update. I manage to get a laptop and I will quickly update the latest top 10 promotion results and the actual statistics.

2685$ - its great to see that the word is spreading and the more we are the more free money will be available to play!

Good luck at the tables and keep on spreading the word.

Best regards,

Tuk

2133$ shared by this initiative!

Hi all,



Just would like to give you a quick update of the top10 where we have a new leader "samiow" with 690 points:









"Samiow" has also received the 12.5$ back from the referal money and we has selected the payment to Pokerstars:









In terms of statistics we have been able to extract 2133$ that are now available for you to play:

Its been quite difficult to promote this and Ive been banned from a lot of places because they say Im spamming... I would love to receive a few suggestions from you as how could I share this with the max number of players. Please leave your comments!

Best regards,
Tuk

The race is on!

After last week announcement of giving the full referral money - 100$ - back to the top 3 who manage to reach the 5000 points mark I could see some players have already started investing their time on playing and generating money and points at the poker tables. Here is the latest update of the top 10 promotion:




For those of you who are only starting now there is still a good chance of reaching the top 3 positions as you can see above. As 1 suggestion I would recommend that you start by playing your initial 50$ at lower limits tables (i.e. 0.05$/0,10$) and if you are able to play more than 1 table at a time, that will be definitely an advantage to get things moving. Build up your bankroll before jumping to the next level.

The payments continue and the last one was to my friend "tap103" who made 35 points:

Please consider the updated statistics where I would like to highlight the fact that although there are 135 registered friends only 65 manage to pass the quiz:

Again if you need help on the quiz drop me an email

Any ideas to help me promoting this new concept are welcome and of course appreciated if you could pass the word to your friends. Good luck at the tables!

Top 10 promotion - 250$ to the top 3

After 1 month of starting up with this new idea I decided to create a top 10 promotion with the ranking of my friends in terms of pokerstrategy points.
The idea is to start a small competition to see who will be the first to make the 5000 strategypoints and get the full 200$ back.
The first 3 to reach that goal will have a extra 50$ - basically receiving the full referral amount back - and getting a total of 250$.

Here is the current top 10 promotion ranking:





And as always here are the actual statistics:

Please share the link with your friends and let them join this method of getting free money to play poker.

All the best,
Tuk