alexlee: Yup, it's a great view of the two of you swimming around down there…

alexlee: I have recently gone up from 104 to 105 as my starting bid in 16/16 ponds… will have to reconsider it again…

rabbitoid: OK… thank you for creating the ponds anyway…

rabbitoid: Yup, agreed… I would just like saeco to show me where those filled-up ponds are…

saeco: since there are a ton of ponds all filled up

Really?

pedestrian: If pawns are allowed in ponds, the rules need to be clarified. For instance, there's nothing in the pond rules about people coordinating their moves and/or playing together as a team.

There is no need to do that. The general rules of the User Agreement clearly prohibit such conduct.

tenuki: Editing your own post so nobody can see you were wrong? :) OK, it doesn't surprise me at all.

tenuki: By Tanein.

You can't sign up for any ponds. You say you can? OK, sign up for some and post the pond here so we can see.

I was accused many times and by many people. Always by inept people who don't know how ponds are played though. YOU have now accused me of cheating. I want you to provide more information. Where did I cheat?

tenuki: Be specific and elaborate on your own accusations or shut up.

Snoopy: Why? Tenuki is banned from ponds, that's I wanted from the very beginning. Im my view, it still is rather a moderate sanction…

tenuki: Do whatever you want, my misson has been accomplished.

tenuki: Finaly something I can agree with you upon. Your fomula loses credibility. Or actually, I'm sorry, I can't agree there either… it has never had any.

tenuki: Nice story, and it even has a happy ending.
Too bad that it is not based on a true one. The point is that if you used the “security number given by a proportion of the gap amongst the player who felt and the one who was saved”, the two bets in Round 22 and 21 in this pond would be DIFFERENT. 1700 is not the same as 2709, therefore your “security number” would not be the same either.

Rose: shush! :)

Zach: Only for a while, pal...:)

Rose: I told Linda the same thing in our backgammon game..her only reply was "thank you". *shrugs* That was about a month ago.

Maxxina: Well, she had bet 5 in the previous round, so I thought she would do it again. All I could lose was 1 place and it was worth the risk...

SueQ: I went through all of your ponds but didn't see anything unusual...

Vikings: got to change my prediction, in 10 days aissi will become #1, arpa #2.

So it's vice versa...:)

OMG, Vikings was 3rd and lost 3 points!!! LOL

Matarilevich: -413

-172, that's not that bad...:)

Nothingness: Go to Discussion Boards and select English from the drop-down menu. Click Change and voilà!!!

Congrats to WhisperzQ on winning the Very First Run...

Czuch Chuckers: scroll down for MikeUK's post from June 23.

I seriously doubt the ratings, as they are at the moment, tell us much. I mean compare the ratings of e.g. Arctic Warrior and basplund.

Czuch Chuckers: I expect -300.

Czuch Chuckers: ratings are ether...they can hardly tell you the real skills of the players neither is the list of winners..the table that MikeUK showed us several time is the only relevant measure, I believe.

Czuch Chuckers: I don't do it routinely either. Almost never check ALL the profiles (this prize pond that is running right now is an exception), just some that I have seen in the past missing a move..., i.e. dexter, skittles, ryan, etc.

Everybody, I repeat and underline, EVERYBODY, who comes to this site to play pond games, have the possibility to check other players' profiles. There is no way playing like this could be considered unfair.

Maxxina: How is it unfair?

Czuch Chuckers: You have never done that, Chuck?

Vikings: I have sent invites to those who might not have known about the pond. 3 people signed out, Kata Liana has me on her enem. list.

18 people are eligible for the 10 Wins Pond...yet only 11 have signed up to date. If the pond doesn't start by September 1st, I'll delete it.

Vikings: Congrats on your son, Vike...:)

Oh my...I'm glad I didn't sign up to that one...

Vikings: 42 is no longer safe for an opening bid.

Isn't it? Did you fall in in the first round with 42? Or somebody else? Got a link?

Vikings: I've already got 2 peeps signed up...:)

grenv: Red Sox forever...:)

Fencer - ID No. 1
txindoki - ID No. 4011
arpa - ID No. 7859
furbster - ID No. 11146
abnznz - ID No. 11657

grenv: ID No.?

Nothingness: And you cant count i have won 10 ponds. Its not the amount of ponds you win its teh % you win, anyone can just enter 1000s of ponds and if i win 3% of them, i got 30 wins.. big deal

Nothingness - 176 finished ponds, 8 wins = 4.55%
Pedro Mart. - 428 finished ponds, 89 wins= 20.8%

Nothingness:
1. Ponds are not sabotage.
2. You have finished 175 ponds and won only 7 of them. I don't understand how a person with SUCH a potential can have such a poor record. If I knew of something that would grant me 96% win ratio, I'd go for it!!!
3. What you're saying reminds me of Trice. He also claims to have a strategy (or whatever he calls it) with which you can win every pond you enter. But, for some reason, just like you, he has never showed us how it works.
4. You can study as many ponds as you wish, the game is so dynamic that it will never give you any significantly exceptional results.
5. Sabotage is not ponds.
6. Ponds are not sabotage.

pauloaguia: Rain ponds suck

Vikings: So you will help me get to lead instead of him I take it...:)

Vikings: I'm moving up from my 42 also...

grenv:

Ponds can become a science if you let it and if you put in the time you could win 95 % everytime

Nonsense

But it WILL work and i guarantee you will be a top 3 player

Nonsense No.2

it would be pointless to do any research of the first few rounds

I agree. First rounds are not important at all, the goal is to survive, just like in the rain ponds.

Nothingness: What would be more useful is to monitor the endgame tendencies of the players. Who goes for the bonus and how often, who never does, etc...

890-887+500=503;
887-504=383

Nothingness: 1) The Matarilevich's bet was very logical.

2) I assure you that if grenv bet 503, he would finish 2nd in an overwhelming majority of cases cases (in the same situation). This was just a bad luck.

Nothingness: If I were in grenv's position, I would have also bet what he bet (888 I think...?)