Style Bluff Launched

Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 in the Poker category.

So, after the great success of the Designer/Developer Poker Tournament, I decided that a full fledged site, devoted to it was in order. Thus, Style Bluff was conceived.

The Technology

With the help of Ruby Genious Abel Rios, we have created a completely geekifyed website. The site was developed with Ruby on Rails (except for the forum, thats PunBB), with a CSS/XHTML front end. We are currently in a very early stage of development, so expect certain things to not work. One thing for example, is that you have to register once for the site, and seperately for the forum. We expect to have this fixed soon, but we just wanted to get people started on the site. Also, no tournaments are currently scheduled as we have yet to decide on a poker site to use (deciding between Ultimate Bet and Party Poker).

The Rules

Instead of trying to give away a prize for each tournament, we will run the tournaments in quarters. There will be 9 tournaments per quarter, with the top 10 finishers in each tourney getting a specified amount of points. The 10th tournament will decide who gets the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize pools. This, and many other changes to the format can be found on the site’s FAQ’s .

So sign up, have fun, talk shit, and spread the word…