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Isn't Macau like the center of high stakes poker? It would be great to see you in one of those games, although there are more focus on the more widespread tournaments like EPT, WPT, WSOP etc.

Great going with the new skillset! Put it to good use 😄
Do you play only live poker?

I had a look at Macau recently and it appeared as though there were some big cash games, but not so many tournaments. I am improving but my stakes are still pretty low.

I do prefer live poker but I play a bit online at CoinPoker too.

Ah yes, coinpoker - that could also be a good place to spread this community.
Thank you for using this community. And if you don't mind (I noticed you are a developer), do you have any ideas to the latest post in the community? https://peakd.com/hive-144726/@hive-144726/prevent-cheating-on-chain

It's very tough to prevent collusion between players online. There are behavioral things you can look for but I don't think you can technically prevent it.

In keeping with the way HIVE works I'd go with a reputational system and the higher stakes games require higher reputation and more proven track record of fair play.

This is a good idea. Simply just not allow people under x reputation to participate, right?
Perhaps that could be something the host of the tournament decide, or am I being unrealistic now?

I'm not really familiar with how you are setting up your tournaments, but if you're playing for cash (or HIVE) then having a reputational requirement is certainly a reasonable starting point.

Currently the idea of having poker directly on-chain is in the early stages and my idea is to have an option for people to create their own tournament.

This is what I have initially thought of:

The ability for the host to determine prizepool for freerolls and participating players should be able ro add to the prizepool if they want to do so.
Tournaments with fixed buy-in should have fixed paid finishes (determined by the host and number of participants) or top x% (also determined by the host).

Both paid tournaments and freerolls will have x% fee to the house from either buy-in or prizepool