Question 1

Historia naszej flagowej marki, ACR Poker

Accepted Answer

Odbudowa: przywrócenie świetności pokera online na rynek amerykański.

Po „Blue Monday” serwis Doyle’s Room zdecydował się opuścić sieć WPN, a nową flagową wersją serwisu stał się Americas Cardroom, czyli pierwotna nazwa używana na platformie DobroSoft.

WPN wypłaciło wszystkim swoim graczom należne środki w związku z nieuniknionym „runem na banki”, który nastąpił w wyniku postawienia zarzutów, i rozpoczęło proces odbudowy.

Phil Nagy zostaje mianowany dyrektorem generalnym

W tym czasie sieć mianowała nowego dyrektora generalnego, Phila Nagy'ego, który posiadał bogate doświadczenie w pokerze online.

Będąc zapalonym graczem w pokera jeszcze zanim gra przeniosła się do sieci, wniósł on perspektywę gracza, która okazała się nieoceniona w tworzeniu wielu innowacji, które czekały sieć w przyszłości.

Pierwszym zadaniem było zastąpienie przestarzałego oprogramowania 3D bardziej funkcjonalną wersją, która umożliwiłaby rozwój przewidziany przez Nagy'ego.

W 2011 roku wprowadzono nowe oprogramowanie

W 2011 roku Yatahay zaczął wynajmować oprogramowanie od bułgarskiego dostawcy IGSoft, które było znacznie bardziej na bieżąco z konkurencją.Kolejnym krokiem było stworzenie harmonogramu promocji i turniejów, aby ponownie wzbudzić zainteresowanie graczy i zachęcić ich do powrotu. Zdając sobie sprawę, że PokerStars, który był dominującym liderem branży pokera online, zbudował swoją bazę klientów poprzez stopniowe zwiększanie rozmiaru i zakresu oferty turniejowej w celu przyciągnięcia większej liczby graczy, WPN przyjęło tę samą strategię. W 2019 roku Winning Poker Network po raz kolejny zmieniło platformę, tym razem na SJH. Nowe oprogramowanie, oparte na HTML5, pozwoliło sieci rozwijać nowe pomysły produktowe 10 razy szybciej niż jego poprzednik w C++.

Transformacja ACR Poker

W lipcu 2023 roku serwis Americas Cardroom zmienił nazwę na ACR Poker, wprowadzając zupełnie nowy wygląd i styl strony internetowej oraz oprogramowania, mając na uwadze zapewnienie użytkownikom najwyższej jakości wrażeń.

Ta aktualizacja zapewniła płynne działanie serwisu, który gracze mogli dostosować do własnych potrzeb oraz uzyskać łatwy dostęp do promocji, turniejów i oferty gier dostosowanej do ich preferencji.

Historia naszego logo: zmiany na przestrzeni lat.

Tradycyjny projekt wykorzystujący wszystkie cztery kolory kart pokerowych stanowił podstawę pierwotnej identyfikacji wizualnej serwisu Americas Cardroom, dopóki w 2010 roku nie przeszedł on na bardziej przejrzystą wersję.

Przeprojektowanie nastąpiło wraz z odrodzeniem marki przez Winning Poker Network w 2010 roku. Logo logo przeniosło nacisk na precyzyjny i ponadczasowy wyraz przejrzystości.

Poprzednie logo Americas Cardroom zawierało gwiazdę symbolizującą dążenie firmy do doskonałości oraz czerwony pik – najsilniejszy z kolorów – który miał reprezentować długowieczność i rozwój firmy na przestrzeni lat.

Obecne logo ACR Poker, wprowadzone w 2023 roku, przedstawia prostą gwiazdę w różnych kolorach, co ma symbolizować dynamiczną wszechstronność firmy oraz jej zdolność do ciągłego odnawiania się na przestrzeni dziesięcioleci w celu dostosowania się do nieustannie zmieniającej się branży.

Question 2

Wydarzenia na żywo: co zorganizowaliśmy poza wirtualnym światem na przestrzeni lat

Accepted Answer

Online poker players have found a home at the Winning Poker Network over the years. But as much as these players have loved WPN’s products and services, it never quenched their desire to also attend land-based or live events.WPN has tried to fill the bill by awarding packages to events like the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. An even better solution was to offer their own sponsored live events. Here’s a history of these events through the years.

Latin Poker Series

This series originally debuted in 2009 as the Latin Series of Poker (LSOP). However, it was rebranded to the Latin Poker Series in July 2014. The series was designed for players to attend live events each year across various exotic Latin American locations.One of the highlights of this series was a $500,000 guaranteed tournament in Peru in 2013. In 2014, there was the LPS Millions II in Panama that had a $1 Million guaranteed tourney. There were several Day 1 venues for the LPS Millions II including Panama, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Chile.The Latin Poker Series ended in late 2014, although one of its events, the Punta Cana Poker Classic, lived on for several more years. You’ll find more on that tournament from the Dominican Republic below.

The Punta Cana Poker Classic

The Punta Cana Poker Classic (PCPC) was an annual land-based poker event that took place in the Dominican Republic from 2010 through 2017.The Winning Poker Network was the main sponsor of the PCPC and awarded lots of full packages via online satellites. The packages included the buy-in, airfare, hotel and unlimited food and drink.There were two different 5-star locations of the PCPC. For the first six years it was held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The final two years it was moved to the Melia Caribe Tropical.

The Punta Cana Poker Classic saw its share of poker celebrities attend over the years, including Doyle Brunson during the first edition. It was attended by Josh Beckley in 2016. He was the 2nd-place finisher in the 2015 WSOP Main Event.

Here’s a look at the guarantee and the final prize pool for each year of the event:

2010$200,000 guarantee$203,000 final prize pool

2011$500,000 guarantee$402,149 final prize pool

2012$500,000 guarantee$522,900 final prize pool

2013$500,000 guarantee$712,950 final prize pool

2014$500,000 guarantee$737,685 final prize pool

2015$500,000 guarantee$824,985 final prize pool

2016$500,000 guarantee$692,580 final prize pool

2017$500,000 guarantee$573,000 final prize pool

The Cage Live

In 2018, the decision was made to move away from the Punta Cana Poker Classic and offer players a land-based event on WPN’s home turf of San Jose, Costa Rica. The main reason for the change was the desire to showcase the offices to players, give players a chance to see how their day-to-day operations work, and introduce players to the teams behind bringing them the products, promotions, and support that the network offers.

The Cage Live was thus born. It was based on their online Cage time-based cash game in tourney format that played every Wednesday night (not running currently but slated to return).The online version lasts exactly five hours, while the Cage Live is a 2-day event with six hours of play on both Saturday and Sunday. The buy-in for the Cage Live is also much larger ($5,250 vs. $1,050). In each version, players battle it out on the felt and have their chips converted to real cash when time expires.Since the Cage Live buy-in is significant, WPN decided to award packages every Sunday through a special Beast and Sit & Crush Cage Live satellite. At least a couple of $8,340 packages are awarded every week and include the $5,250 buy-in, accommodations at the 5-star Taormina Hotel, airfare and spending cash.The Cage Live ran six times in 2018 and 2019, offering mostly Hold’em versions but also some PLO ones sprinkled in. WPN representatives are very happy about the response to the Cage Live and the ability to give players a tour of the WPN offices, offering them a peek “behind the curtains”.Players like the Cage Live poker action, but also love that San Jose is a great party location, something that WPN promoted heavily in their marketing materials.WPN suspended the Cage Live promotion due to the global pandemic, but returned to much fanfare in 2023. The popular event included many of the ACR Pros in addition to CEO Phil Nagy.

Punta Del Este

Although WPN temporarily retired the Cage Live, players on the network continued to realize their poker dreams of playing live in an exotic locale. In 2022, WPN launched its first of many Punta del Este Takedown promos. Package winners not only earn an entry in the Main Event of the Enjoy Poker Series in Uruguay, but each prize package covers travel expenses and accommodations at the luxurious Enjoy Punta del Este Resort and Casino on Uruguay’s Atlantic Coast. Winners love the excitement, both on and off the felt.

High Stakes Adventure Satellites

In 2023, ACR Poker started awarding High Stakes packages to the Super High Roller Series which are valued at over $100,000. Winners face off against the world’s best players in prime locations like Cyprus, Vietnam and London.

Question 3

Innowacje dzięki promocjom

Accepted Answer

With a strong tournament offering, WPN recognized the need to constantly innovate and create new poker products to bolster their game selection. The Winning Poker network set forth to keep online poker fresh, for both cash games and tournaments, thus offering the promotions listed below.

Welcome Bonus

ACR Poker welcomes players the second they come through the door with a 100% up to $2,000 bonus on their first deposit. This is the most lucrative Welcome Bonus in the online poker industry.

The Beast

Unleashed in August 2013, The Beast was the Winning Poker Network’s replacement for its famous Bad Beat Jackpot. In an effort to offer more players the chance to pocket more money on a regular basis, WPN said goodbye to the Bad Beat Jackpot, a concept that was famous across competing sites, and introduced a points race for cash game players, eliminating the element of chance and giving all players the chance to profit. Players who sit down to play in The Beast are awarded points towards a leaderboard, which pays out thousands in cash and tournament seats to the top ranked players. Originally launched as a monthly race, The Beast transitioned to a weekly race, giving players a new chance to profit each and every week. There’s no extra fee to participate in The Beast — the prize pool is funded from the rake WPN already collects. To date, The Beast has paid out over $35 million.

Sit & Crush

Introduced in December of 2013, Sit & Crush is the Winning Poker Network’s Beast counterpart for Sit & Go and tournament players. While The Beast tracks the top point earners at the cash tables, Sit & Crush does the same for tourney players. The promotion was originally introduced as a monthly leaderboard competition but transitioned to a weekly race to follow in The Beast’s footsteps. To date, Sit & Crush has paid out over $8 million.

MO MO MO PLO

The Winning Poker Network has built a strong following among Pot Limit Omaha Players. So, for Christmas 2015, the network wanted to recognize its player base. The result was MO MO MO PLO, an online poker tournament promotion for Pot Limit Omaha players that features more tournaments, more cash games, and more jackpots, plus the chance to create personal bonuses. The promotion has returned annually every December since launching.

The High Five

To give a wink to the 420 community, the Winning Poker Network introduced The High Five in November of 2013, a 420-themed online poker series that celebrates all things green. The original series featured a $420k guaranteed Main Event and a “courtesy break” at 4:20pm ET. Subsequent series have kept the tradition going.

The Online Super Series​

Originally introduced as the Winning Poker Network’s online answer to the World Series of Poker, the Online Super Series (OSS for short) packed a number of tournaments into several weeks, offering up millions in guarantees. A Main Event in the $250k to $500k range was common. Eventually, the Winning Poker Network upped the guarantee and included multiple $1,000,000+ Main Events. And in 2023, the series broke the $50 Million GTD mark for the first time.

Mini Online Super Series​

Not to leave micro-stakes players out in the cold, the Winning Poker Network introduced a smaller version of the OSS in November of 2012, packing dozens of tournaments into a schedule that appealed to players with smaller bankrolls. Wildly popular among the poker playing community, the Mini Online Super Series regularly exceeds guaranteed expectations.

OSS Cub3d​

After witnessing the success of both the Online Super Series and the Mini Online Super Series, the two series were periodically rolled into one, and then had a Bigger Online Super Series added to the mix. The first OSS Cub3d debuted in July, 2016 and since then, the Winning Poker Network has held 7 additional installments of the popular series. OSS Cubed typically features three Main Events — one MOSS, one OSS, and one BOSS. The last several OSS Cub3d series featured several $1 million+ guaranteed tournaments on both the OSS and BOSS schedules.

Freebuy Super Series

Freerolls have been commonplace at online poker sites for nearly two decades now as a means to hook new players. Freerolls usually come with real money prizes, but they’re not that big. For example, a freeroll could see a few thousand players compete for $100. In July 2015, the Winning Poker Network invented the Freebuy, a tournament that combines a freeroll with a buy-in tournament. Players pay $0 to enter, but if they’re running low, they can rebuy for real money, or grab an add-on. To introduce Freebuys, the Winning Poker Network created the Freebuy Super Series, a lineup of freebuy tournaments with $150,000 in guarantees.

Million Dollar Sunday

Before Black Friday back in 2011, big poker was the norm in the United States, with 6-figure and even million-dollar poker tournaments making a regular appearance on the schedule. But when things came crashing down, so too did the guarantees. After Black Friday, it was common for weekly tourneys to top out at $50k or $100k in the United States. But in February of 2015, the Winning Poker Network introduced Million Dollar Sunday, a $1 million poker tournament. The tournament was held rather frequently, and at one point the Winning Poker Network made it a weekly affair, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each week. Eventually, as the Winning Poker Network grew its player base, the overlays subsided.  The tournament was eventually replaced with multiple events and discontinued in 2022.

Million Dollar Jackpots

This 3-man Hyper-Turbo Sit & Go format quickly became a player favorite with an opportunity to spin for $1 Million. Players choose their buy-in and once all three players are seated, the table spins and the prize is revealed.

The $10 Million Venom

After a series of successful $1 million Venom tournaments and with a rapidly growing poker network, ACR Poker held the $5 Million Venom in the summer of 2019. Leading up to the multi-day event, Winning Poker Network sites pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into marketing the tournament by offering up $0 Step tournaments, helping players secure their seats for free. The result was outstanding and worth the effort. The $5 Million Venom attracted a record number of entries and ultimately paid out a record $6,382,500 in prize money. The network also earned the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the largest cryptocurrency winning jackpot in an online poker tournament with a $1,050,650 Bitcoin payout. Today, the Venom has a regular guarantee of $10 Million.

Question 4

Turnieje: Od turnieju z gwarantowaną pulą nagród w wysokości 7 500 $ do 6 000 000 $ w ciągu zaledwie 8 lat

Accepted Answer

In 2011, when the network was being rebranded, the Sunday major consisted of a $55 buy-in $7,500 GTD tournament that at times, wouldn’t reach the guarantee. With the introduction of the Big 10 daily tournament schedule, and a slow but steady traffic increase on the network, WPN set out to bolster its Sunday tournament schedule, and that all started with a Sunday Major.WPN set its sights on its first $50k GTD tournament in 2012. While this seems like a paltry guarantee compared to today’s standards, at the time and current status of online poker in the U.S., it was a huge undertaking. They left themselves three months as a leadup time to allow for marketing and satellites, and hosted the $50k GTD event as part of a larger tournament series. Both strategies worked well and became key to their major growth efforts in the years to come.

The tournament was a success and brought enough traffic to start growing the tournament schedule. As the network tournament guarantees grew, so did their ambitions to start hosting major tournaments. Their Sunday major (the Sunday Special) grew to a weekly $125k GTD tournament and was supported by other big tournaments including the $100,000 GTD Warm-up and the $50k GTD High Roller.

With their regular weekly schedule in full swing, the network set its eyes on its biggest endeavor yet, and something that had not been seen since before Black Friday, a $1,000,000 GTD tournament. In order to accomplish this, Nagy and his team incorporated the same principles they used years before when attempting to run their first $50k GTD tournament. They allowed for a 6-month lead-up time for ample opportunity to market the tournament and for players to qualify via satellite.

In December of 2014, WPN launched the first Million Dollar Sunday, but they were forced to cancel the event due to DDoS attacks from an unknown perpetrator. Nevertheless, the tournament was on pace to meet its guarantee before the time of cancellation, and the rescheduled event in early 2016 was a huge success. The tournaments remained a staple of the Sunday schedule until they were discontinued in late 2022, in favor of multiple events to accommodate more players.

After a series of successful $1 million Venom tournaments and with a rapidly growing poker network, ACR Poker held the $5 Million Venom in the summer of 2019. Leading up to the multi-day event, Winning Poker Network sites pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into marketing the tournament by offering up $0 Step tournaments, helping players secure their seats for free. The result was outstanding and worth the effort. The $5 Million Venom attracted a record number of entries and ultimately paid out a record $6,382,500 in prize money. The network also earned the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the largest cryptocurrency winning jackpot in an online poker tournament with a $1,050,650 Bitcoin payout.

The Biggest Poker Tournament Online Ever Hosted By A US-Facing Site

In November of 2019 the Winning Poker Network once again continued to push the envelope with an even bigger Venom tournament, this time with a $6 million guarantee.  Once again, the tourney well-surpassed all expectations and the guarantee with 2,696 total entrants, creating a $6,740,000 prize pool.  The first-place winner walked away with $1,039,982.

Bigger Venom

Since launching that first Venom, the Winning Poker Network hasn’t rested on its laurels. In keeping with its commitment to always go bigger and better, WPN launched additional Venoms, scheduling at least 2 per year. Each one offered a bigger guarantee than the one before. And in August 2021, the Venom guarantee reached $10 million for the first of many times.

Venom PKO

In 2020, Winning Poker Network unleashed Progressive Knockouts, a tournament format in which every player enters with a bounty on their head. But instead of getting the full amount when you take out a player, you get half their bounty. The other half goes on your head. Players responded to the format positively, thanks to the potential for huge bounties during deep runs. With the rise in popularity, WPN created the Venom PKO, a multi-million-dollar PKO tourney. And they’ve already held multiple Venom PKOs, with a focus on adding more regularly.

Moneymaker becomes an ACR Pro

In early 2020, the man who ignited the online poker revolution, became an ACR Team Pro. Back in 2003, Chris Moneymaker entered a low buy-in satellite at a large online poker room and won his $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat. He went on to win the title, netting over $2.5 million, and the rest is history. Today, Moneymaker proudly wears the ACR Poker patch. Why? Because ACR Poker and the entire Winning Poker Network stand for bigger, better poker that puts players first.

Punters’ Pad

In 2021, ACR Poker celebrated the return of the live version of the WSOP by sending several Team Pros to share a house in Las Vegas.  Not only did the ACR Pros chronicle their big scores, bad beats and hilarious antics, but they shared it all with the poker community on the ACR YouTube Channel in a web series called Punters’ Pad.  The series is loaded with confessionals, challenges, special guests, and tons of poker insight.  What’s even better is that the Punters’ Pad returned for a second season in 2022 and a third season in 2023.

Next Moneymaker

WSOP Champ, Chris Moneymaker is an ACR Poker Pro. Each year, there’s a ‘Next Moneymaker’ competition with the winner getting approximately $150k in cash + a $15k trip package to Las Vegas.

Moneymaker Tour

A second promotion surrounding Chris Moneymaker is the Moneymaker Tour. ACR players win packages to his land-based tour in the U.S. which typically has a Main Event guarantee of $300,000 or more.

Mystery Bounty

In 2023, ACR Poker started offering Mystery Bounty tournaments, allowing for massive money jackpot potential to be won by any player advancing to Day 2. The Sunday Squeeze ($250,000 GTD with $25,000 top bounty) and The Dime ($75,000 GTD with $7,500 top bounty) were also converted into monthly Mystery Bounty Events.

Dream Tournament

Micros stakes players have the chance to win big at ACR Poker thanks to the Dream Tournament. This event has a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool for a tiny $2.50 buy-in.

Big Poker Thursdays

Sundays are still the busiest day, but many players are looking for big weekday action as well. The guarantee of 22 Thursday tourneys were increased by over $300,000 total. Now, Big Poker Thursdays are the new Must-Play Day of the Week

The Daily Double

These are daily Multi-Table Tournaments (MTTs) named after ACR Pros, Jeff Boski and Michael Loncar. Part of the Daily Double jackpots go to a Progressive Jackpot. Players get 10% of the respective jackpot by making the Final Table of both Boski or Loncar tourneys on the same day. And 100% for winning both tourneys.

Question 5

Kryptowaluty: przełomowa zmiana

Accepted Answer

With a strong tournament schedule, cash games available at a wide range of stakes, and an extensive range of promotions, the Winning Poker Network had little trouble piquing the interests of poker players. Yet challenges remained, especially pertaining to payment processing.In the aftermath of Black Friday and Blue Monday, making a deposit at an online poker site was no easy task, even for avid poker players. In many regions, players were forced to contend with banking restrictions that were complicated, arbitrary, and constantly subject to change. Prospective depositors in the US market and several other regions could not always count on the convenience of payment methods like credit cards and debit cards.In jurisdictions where online poker remained fully legal, many players also faced difficulty funding their accounts. With a patchwork of regulations to contend with, it wasn’t uncommon for payment processors and card issuers to err on the side of caution and reject payments, much to the dismay of potential poker players. Even players who had easily funded their account in the recent past could face difficulty using the same card in the future.While rejected deposits certainly frustrated players who were forced to miss out on the excitement of a particular tournament or time-limited promotion, the then-current poker climate was more problematic for players hoping to claim their winnings. Withdrawals were at the mercy of international postal services, banks that asked too many questions, and other intermediaries who could leave players in the lurch for weeks, forcing them to wonder if they would ever be paid.Like most internet gaming sites, the Winning Poker Network did welcome the use of third-party electronic wallets, but this proved to be little more than a stopgap measure. Unfortunately, these services were slow, inconvenient, and expensive to use. And although diehard poker players were willing to use these services, they only did so due to the lack of alternatives. Convincing casual players to jump through countless hoops and put their trust in these unfamiliar services was a markedly harder sell.In late 2014, the Winning Poker Network found a solution to the payment processing issues that continued to plague the industry. WPN decided to embrace the blockchain and welcome bitcoin. As a decentralized digital currency with no central bank or intermediaries to answer to, this peer-to-peer payment method was arguably the perfect match for poker.

In 2015 WPN accepted their first cryptocurrency transaction

Yet when WPN accepted their first cryptocurrency transaction in January of 2015, Bitcoin wasn’t a household name. The fledgling blockchain asset did command its share of headlines thanks to its rapid rise in price a year earlier, but it remained little more than a curiosity even among tech savvy internet poker players. Still, the Winning Poker Network was quick to embrace Bitcoin since it solved many of its payment issues in one fell swoop.

With Bitcoin, players at WPN sites could finally fund their accounts or claim their winnings in a matter of minutes rather than having to wait days or weeks. Thanks to the reliability of the decentralized networks, deposits were no longer dependent on arcane regulations or the whims of intermediaries. Finally, players were be able to bring their bankrolls to the table and cash out their profits without forsaking convenience, speed, privacy, security or affordability.
Given the popularity of cryptocurrencies around the world in general, and among the online gaming community in particular, the Winning Poker Network dramatically increased its support for crypto rather quickly. Not only did WPN sites begin heavily promoting Bitcoin in late 2017, but the Winning Poker Network started accepting 60 different cryptocurrency options, giving players unprecedented flexibility.

Cryptocurrencies make up 60% of all Winning Poker Network transactions.

In 2023, the Winning Poker Network downsized its crypto selection to focus on just the major coins, allowing for even faster processing speed.  Customers can currently use Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Tether.  In just a few short years, cryptocurrencies have come to represent the bulk of WPN’s business. Cryptocurrencies have gone from making up 2% of the transactions on the Winning Poker Network in 2015 to 60% of all transactions just four years later. Even though conventional payment methods are still accepted, the percentage of crypto transactions continues to grow rapidly.For the convenience of players, all WPN cash games and tournaments are run exclusively using US dollars. The network automatically converts payments to or from US dollars when players deposit or cash out, meaning no one is forced to worry about crypto volatility while playing.

In 2019 WPN made the GUINESS WORLD RECORDS

On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, WPN made crypto and poker history by setting the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD™ title for the largest cryptocurrency winning jackpot in an online poker tournament. After the conclusion of the network’s multi-day $5 Million Venom tournament, WPN promptly paid the event winner his $1,050,560 prize by bitcoin.

WPN's $5 Million Venom was the biggest tournament ever hosted

With a final prize pool of $6,382,500, WPN’s $5 Million Venom also had the distinction of being the biggest tournament ever hosted by a US-facing poker site. The Winning Poker Network’s support for dozens of cryptocurrency options allowed players to participate in the tournament with ease and was instrumental in the overwhelming success of the event. Yet the popularity of cryptocurrencies at the Winning Poker Network isn’t reserved for big events. WPN welcomes players of all financial means and skill sets to play in their tournaments and cash games at any time of the day or night.

Question 6

Metodologia Agile Scrum

Accepted Answer

Sieć Winning Poker Network działa w oparciu o metodologię zarządzania Scrum Agile, która różni się od tradycyjnych metod zarządzania stosowanych przez konkurencję w branży pokera online.

Dyrektor generalny Phil Nagy zdał sobie sprawę, że musi zmienić swój styl zarządzania, gdy zauważył, że zaczyna mikrozarządzać każdą decyzją, niezależnie od tego, czy była ona ważna, czy nie. Metodologia Agile opiera się na pracy poszczególnych zespołów i zakłada, że każdy z nich posiada specjalistyczną wiedzę w swojej dziedzinie.

Każdy zespół składa się z właściciela produktu, który ma wizję wartościowego produktu, za którego dostarczenie interesariuszom lub firmie jest odpowiedzialny. Następnie właściciel produktu przekazuje tę wizję członkom zespołu.

Każdy zespół ma swojego Scrum Mastera, który wspólnie z zespołem ustala, jakie zadania należy zrealizować w ramach każdego sprintu ( z góry ustalony okresu). Sieć Winning Poker Network pracuje w dwutygodniowych sprintach, po których każdy zespół ma zaprezentować to, co udało mu się osiągnąć w ciągu tych dwóch tygodni, aby uzyskać informacje zwrotne od interesariuszy i innych zespołów w firmie.

Dzięki tak krótkim cyklom sprintów zespoły mogą „szybko popełniać błędy”. Oznacza to, że jeśli podążają niewłaściwą ścieżką, poświęcają na pracę nad produktem tylko niewiele czasu, zanim uda się skierować je we właściwym kierunku.

Z drugiej strony, metoda Scrum Agile zapewnia pełną przejrzystość, ponieważ każdy zespół wie, nad czym pracują inne zespoły. Zespoły są oceniane na podstawie liczby punktów fabularnych, które zgromadzą. Punkt fabularny to jednostka służąca do pomiaru czasu, jaki zajęłoby wykonanie określonych zadań. Jednostki te są ustalane przez same zespoły.

Pracownicy WPN z entuzjazmem przyjęli nową metodologię, która zapewnia im większą swobodę w wypróbowywaniu różnych rozwiązań i ocenie ich skuteczności poprzez analizę wyników produktu w oparciu o kluczowe wskaźniki efektywności dla każdego projektu.

Question 7

Porażki: Nie ma słodyczy bez goryczy

Accepted Answer

Sit & Go 2.0

WPN nazwało to „kolejną ewolucją pokera”, ale szczerze mówiąc, była to kolejna ewolucja gry, w którą nikt nie grał. Po trwających rok pracach nad rozwojem i promocją WPN przekonało się na własnej skórze, że sprawienie, by turnieje Sit & Go były ekscytujące, to nie lada wyzwanie. Gra została wycofana po nieco ponad roku od wprowadzenia.

6 Plus Poker

WPN uważało, że 6 Plus będzie kolejną wielką grą, w którą wszyscy będą chcieli grać.  Od gier stolikowych po turnieje, WPN postawiło sobie za priorytet udostępnienie tej gry w lobby.  Po prostu nie udało się jej rozkręcić.  Mimo że w Azji gra wciąż cieszyła się rosnącą popularnością, została wycofana z WPN podczas aktualizacji oprogramowania w połowie 2019 roku.

Promocja Flying Bucks

Kto nie lubi darmowych pieniędzy?  Przynajmniej taka była teoria.  WPN wypróbowało promocję Flying Bucks, w ramach której na ekranie pojawiała się latająca postać, przyznająca losowe kwoty gotówki pierwszemu graczowi przy stole, który ją kliknął. Niestety, ponieważ wiele z tych losowych kwot było niewielkich, a postać rozpraszała uwagę, została ona usunięta wkrótce po pierwszym uruchomieniu, po tym jak gracze wyrazili swoje niezadowolenie.

Question 8

Biura WPN

Accepted Answer

W 2011 roku sieć przeniosła się do mniejszych pomieszczeń w sąsiednim budynku i zatrudniła więcej pracowników pomocniczych, aby zapewnić graczom lepszą obsługę. W tym momencie liczba graczy pozostawała stosunkowo niewielka i choć liczba pracowników podwoiła się z około 15 do 30, to ogólna liczba zatrudnionych nadal była niewielka.

Po zmianie nazwy sieci na WPN ruch zaczął gwałtownie rosnąć, a wraz z nim wzrosło zapotrzebowanie na dodatkowych pracowników. Zatrudniono więcej osób do działu wsparcia, utworzono nowe zespoły i rozbudowano istniejące, w tym działy mediów społecznościowych, wsparcia, marketingu e-mailowego, partnerów afiliacyjnych, stron internetowych, rozwoju i bezpieczeństwa.

Pod koniec 2017 roku całe piętro przeznaczone dla WPN przestało wystarczać, by pomieścić wszystkich pracowników zatrudnionych w celu rozwoju sieci. WPN wynajęło wówczas cały budynek biurowy, a liczba pracowników przekroczyła 350 osób.

Chociaż zakładano, że nowa siedziba będzie długoterminową siedzibą WPN, po zatrudnieniu kolejnych 50 pracowników szybko pojawił się problem z przestrzenią. Pojawiła się okazja do nabycia powierzchni biurowej, która pomieściłaby dwukrotnie większą liczbę pracowników, zapewniając stałą siedzibę, dzięki której sieć mogłaby skutecznie obsługiwać graczy i partnerów z całego świata.

Od skromnych początków, kiedy to liczyła zaledwie 15 osób, sieć Winning Poker Network ma obecnie ponad 400 pracowników na całym świecie, a liczba ta wciąż rośnie.

Question 9

Zespół WPN: Ludzie stojący za zespołem

Accepted Answer

Od 2001 roku sieć Winning Poker Network odnotowała znaczny wzrost zatrudnienia i obecnie zatrudnia 400 pracowników w różnych lokalizacjach na całym świecie. Do specjalistycznych dziedzin należą między innymi informatyka, bezpieczeństwo, marketing, rozwój produktów oraz zasoby ludzkie. Większość pracowników posiada wykształcenie wyższe, od tytułu licencjata po doktora.

Kierownictwo WPN wierzy, że ludzie to talent. Dlatego pracownicy firmy mają zapewnione świadczenia, podobnie jak w przedsiębiorstwach z listy Fortune 500. Różnorodność personelu jest również imponująca – reprezentuje on wiele różnych kultur, języków i grup etnicznych.

WPN zachęca pracowników do rozwoju poza pracą i rozwijania swoich zainteresowań. W niedawnej ankiecie wymieniono następujące najpopularniejsze hobby: gotowanie, fotografia, gry wideo, czytanie i sport.

2010	Gwarancja w wysokości 200 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 203 000 dolarów
2011	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 402 149 dolarów
2012	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 522 900 dolarów
2013	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 712 950 dolarów
2014	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 737 685 dolarów
2015	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 824 985 dolarów
2016	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 692 580 dolarów
2017	Gwarancja w wysokości 500 000 dolarów	Łączna pula nagród w wysokości 573 000 dolarów

Sieć Winning Poker Network była jedną z pierwszych sieci pokera online w historii; zadebiutowała w 2001 roku pod poprzednią nazwą MyPokerNetwork.

W 2001 roku sieć Winning Poker Network rozpoczęła działalność i zaczęła rozdawać karty pod swoją pierwszą flagową marką, Americas Cardroom.

W 2007 roku serwis Americas Cardroom dołączył do sieci Yatahay

W 2011 roku sieć Yatahay przejęła serwis „The Godfather of Poker”.

Powstała sieć Winning Poker Network.

Oś czasu

Odbudowa: Przywrócenie świetności pokera online na rynek amerykański.

Phil Nagy został mianowany dyrektorem generalnym

W 2011 roku wprowadzono nowe oprogramowanie

Przemiana ACR Poker

Historia naszego logo: zmiany na przestrzeni lat.

Seria Latin Poker

Turniej pokerowy Punta Cana Poker Classic

Oto przegląd gwarantowanej puli nagród oraz ostatecznej puli nagród dla każdego roku imprezy:

The Cage na żywo

Punta del Este

Turnieje satelitarne High Stakes Adventure

Bonus powitalny

Bestia

Usiądź i zmiażdż

MO MO MO PLO

„High Five”

Seria Online Super

Mini Super Seria Online

OSS Cub3d

Seria Freebuy Super

Niedziela za milion dolarów

Jackpoty warte miliony dolarów

„Venom” za 10 milionów dolarów

Największy turniej pokerowy online, jaki kiedykolwiek zorganizowała strona skierowana do graczy z USA

Większy Venom

Venom PKO

Moneymaker zostaje zawodnikiem ACR

Miejsce dla graczy

Następny Moneymaker

Trasa Moneymaker

Tajemnicza nagroda

Turniej marzeń

Wielkie czwartki pokerowe

Podwójna wygrana

W 2015 roku sieć WPN zrealizowała swoją pierwszą transakcję kryptowalutową

Kryptowaluty stanowią 60% wszystkich transakcji w sieci Winning Poker Network.

W 2019 roku WPN trafiło do Księgi Rekordów Guinnessa

Turniej „Venom” organizowany przez WPN z pulą nagród wynoszącą 5 milionów dolarów był największym turniejem w historii

Sit & Go 2.0

6 Plus Poker

Promocja „Flying Bucks”

Bezpieczna bankowość

Bezpieczniejsze uprawianie hazardu

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