The Official APF Welcome Letter

[Know-nuffin]

Hi Welcome To The Alternate Poker Forum

We are glad that you have joined us and hope you find lots of information here to help your game. Please feel free to add your own comments to benefit others in the community.

We ask that you respect the site and its members by being considerate when posting.  

To keep the forum threads easy to follow and to make the moderators life easier  , please remember to put your posts in the appropriate areas and stay on topic as much as possible.


To help start you on the way to getting the most out of this site, left click 1, 2, 3 and 4.

1 League details
The first place most new friends want to visit is our Poker Leagues. In this section you will learn about all our leagues. We ask all members to enter their poker room screen names into their APF profiles, so we can award league points for the places you finish.

2 Navigation tips
Navigation tips, the quick way around this site.

3 Places within the site you may like to visit
Links to other APF places of interest.

4 Who to contact about what
Who to contact if you need any help, or have questions whilst exploring and enjoying our site.



To help you settle in and feel at home, please go along to the Introduce Yourself thread, read about us and share some of your background.

You are welcome to dive straight into the more serious topics too, check out the Poker Lounge and Poker Strategy forum headings.

To enhance the community spirit, we have a number of friendly threads that come under the heading of Off Topic. In that section members chat about things in there lives outside of poker.

Thank you for your time, have fun and tell all your poker playing buddies about us.

Yours sincerely,

Know-nuffin.





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League details

As well as organising many non league tournaments which are open for all members to play; APF run major and mini leagues. You can learn about them here in the APF Leagues Overview

In January 2008, APF introduced the Active Members Club as a way to reward the prolific members of the forum.

Active Members are eligible to play in all games and results are posted in the Results Room. Members are recognised in the APF Hall of Fame for their skillful play.

Active games are open only to members of the Active Members Club. It is easy to be part of the 'Active Members Club.' As the name suggests, be active about the forum and you will be joining us in these League games soon.

Some of the APF leagues have prizes including tickets to larger buy-in events and also organise bonus games each year, where the best forum players and APF Hall of Fame players compete in a large prize pool event.

For everyone being active, both in our games and about the forum; you make it easier for APF to give back to you.

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Navigation tips

Usually, the first place you come to when logging into the forum is the Welcome Page.  This has the latest updates plus quick-links to some of the useful and important areas on the site.

A full explanation of site navigation can be found on the page; Alternate-Poker Forum - Are You A Little Confused ?

1. Below the Alternate Poker Forum logo at the top left of every page is a link to the forum index.

2. Below the Alternate Poker Forum banner are quick links to useful sections.

3. You can find recent topics that you have an interest in by clicking on the ‘view your posts’ link, you will find this below the chat box login, (top right).

4. Announcements marked with this symbol, tell of important news & upcoming events.

5. Sticky posts marked with this symbol, are useful for frequent reference.

6. While the chip symbol denotes a popular discussion thread.


Announcement   Sticky   New posts   No new posts   New posts [ Popular ]   No new posts [ Popular ]  

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Places within the site you may like to visit


- The Concept Reading this will enable you to understand what our site is all about.

- APF Newsletter Here's a quick way to view recent APF results and learn of upcoming events.

- The Tournament Calendar You will need to be a Freeroll League Member to participate in most games.

- New to the APF forums ? Some pointers on how the forum works.

- Who referred you ? We are trying to develop a way of tracking referrers so that we can initiate a freeroll for them too. Your help in this endeavour would be much appreciated.

- When you open a real money player account at a room downloaded through a APF banner, your play there will benefit this site and you as a member. So please take credit for your contribution by telling us all in the APF Tracker Thread. Include the site you have downloaded and the screen name that you used.

- Donations to this forum are voluntarily made by many members when they have found this site has helped their game. There is no pressure on you to do the same, however if you wish to help us to help others we will be grateful for your generosity.

- The APF Toolbar, gives you quick links about the forum, updated tournament information and more.

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Who to contact about what

Harry Lime   Harry’s main work here is setting up the leagues and attracting sponsorship. He's also the main man for administration and graphics. DangerMouse   DangerMouse brings his practical poker knowledge to the forum. Know-nuffin   Know-nuffin thinks the emoticons are real people.

muratore   Muratore organises the forum games we all enjoy. He brings his own brand of poker knowledge to the forum along with his personal harem.   Miklosik   Miklosik (Mik) demonstrates keen prowess as both a player    and a writer.

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Know-nuffin.... "nurse, he's out of bed again"