lol of course it isn't cheating. Why do you think there are like elements to these competitions, as well as encouraging sharing of our posts, they promote the site. Anyone is welcome to read my blog post. Simply go to my blog. http://www.skilfulpoker.com  (keith has since edited his first post to include this)

Can you help me out for a minute or 2?Hey guys you're likely reading this because I sent you a tweet just now and asked you check this page out. If I've tweeted you personally it's because we've interacted on twitter before, and I've p...skilfulpoker.com

I have also posted in one of my social networks on facebook and I will be retweeting my post tomorrow.

Have yourself a very merry weekend now.

I've always found that asking for votes in online competitions is slightly distasteful and spammy, but it's how the world works. Whether someone is a poltician looking for votes in an election, or someone posting a link on facebook to a petition against that politician or in favour of a dumb celebrity on a TV game show, success in life is often reduced to a popularity contest.
One of the reasons I never put any effort into online competitions is that they are too easy to "rig" like this. I don't know if RKH has or needs stricter rules for its own 'popularity contests', but if no rules have been broken in this case, it's a fair game, and you can't blame Skilful for trying to win. It's not as if he's making fake accounts and voting for himself like Brian Hastings might.
Besides, if someone is trying to win a popularity contest, if they cross the spam threshold, they often end up being less popular and lose some votes. I certainly block people on twitter when they tweet at me too often!

The top 10 go through, i was in first place from likes from the site before I mentioned my post on twitter, I made a post I'm quite proud of and I want to share it, I also want to do everything I reasonably can to get likes for my post, as I would love to go through to the next round and possibally win a seat to the MTT. Of course other people in the competition are also doing the same thing (asking friends or people they know to like their post) and I have also seen others ask in their social networks, this is a key part of the competition! Me and Keith have some history. So this isn't out of nowhere, and I have notified the wonderful site staff. I'm now off to enjoy a relaxing evening, before I enjoy an awesome weekend. Good luck everyone that has entered!

Your argument then Skilful taken to the extreme is that there is no need to actually post an entry , you might just as well  post "hi" and then get 20000 people on twitter/facebook etc to like your post  and wow you are in with a chance of winning. Create 9 pseudo accounts that do the same thing and then get those 20000 people to like those posts as well. That will mean that one of your 9 pseudo accounts will win a prize and just leave one place for someone else to winThere is a difference between promoting the site to people you know well and spamming it across the whole of the internet. the latter will just give RKH a bad reputation. The "like" elements are intended to be so that people read your post and like the contents. What you are advocating is that people go to your post and click "like" without reading or appreciating your post and these competitions will become a cartel locked up by the 10 people with the biggest social network and people with smaller social networks will stand no chance regardless of how technically correct and oustanding their presentation is because they can't muster enough likes to get  to be considered.

    Lol at editing the first post to include your blog. It was included originally so that you couldn't then alter it and deny the reason for doing what you had done.

   As for Arty's comment about more accounts ......skilful, why don't you fill in your pokerstars/fulltlt  account in your RKH heroscore  since you have posted here to say that you are playing on stars and it should help your heroscore or are you scared of linking a screenname to your skilful account in case it doesn't tally in the future or even now with pokerstars/full tilt accounts that you had in  the past?

    Shall i tell everyone about our history  Gary , ? i've nothing to hide ...how about you ? Actually Gary has now edited his post to include the words calling me a "jealous little man"and then he removed it 

It's basically called having friends Keith. Social media is a method of communication in this day and age.

I edited my comment about you in my original reply as I felt I was bringing myself down to your level. The truth of the matter is you are evidently more than a jealous little man, you are a very sad jealous little man. I will not be replying any more to you, you are not worthy of a response.

Well I asked arty for a vote on twitter(thanks Arty :) ), As for having friends on social media there is no way any of us can consider 2000 followers friends and most of these followers are gained by you follow me ill follow you groups. I have 60 followers and there is maybe 10 I know off and I follow them back. 

Its good people share these competitions on social media it gets new people here but its trying to do it without spamming people.

@Skilful you must admit that the system can be a bit unfair and could be manipulated, not saying you are doing that but that these facts are true.

You were in joint 2nd this morning then 3 accounts all voted at the same time for maybe 6 entries each and that boosted you to 1st. Dont think these 3 accounts were anything to do with you, just what happened.

Lets just enjoy the competition and hope 10 people with really big social accounts dont join and beat us all, at the end of the day its only a game.

@Keith  you tagged this aspers88, I think you missed out what you would do 

I had a feeling that there might have been some personal history behind this story, but I don't think this is the right place for personal beefs to get discussed. I don't want to get involved in the drama, but I wish you all good luck in the competition.
Maybe RKH could clarify or alter their rules at some point if abuse of the competitions is happening. FWIW, I don't think Skilful has 'abused' his apparent popularity at this point, but that's just my opinion. Like I said before, I'd block him (or anyone doing the same thing) if he kept saying "Vote for me!" People that do that can be pretty tiresome. In addition, I saw Skilful's and Jonny's entries *before* I was prompted to look at them via twitter.

Hi gentlemen!

As asked, I'd like to clarify the situation from the RKH perspective.

In this kind of competition, our goal follows our motto: to "link the poker world". 

And as we are a social network, we make social contests. It seems to me that you all understood that and accept it .

Howerver, we are watchful to any contestant who may spam the others on RKH. If someone does it on Twitter or Facefook, we unfortunately cannot do anything about that.

And as Arty said, if someone "crosses the spam treshold, they often end up being less popular".

On top of that, the social contest is just a part of this mission. The winners will be designated by our team and our pro-players and ambassadors, regarding the strategy and the fun in their post.

Bottom line:

- We don't accept people who spam the other contestants on RKH.

- We check the fake accounts. And we delete the posts of the cheaters

- With this mission, we try to make a mix between social, fun and poker strategy.

- We pay attention to any concern or doubt you may have about this kind of competition in order to make the next one better .

I hope I've made the purpose and rules more clear.

Enjoy the game! 

Rémi RKH

@Rémi Rkh  Is it the last Poker Nugget today?

Yes, we will publish the last one this afternoon.

Thanks @Rémi Rkh 

Might try a video with sound this time, I have learnt a lot of different programs doing these competitions.

Not learned them very well but I can do more than I used to. :)

Thanks for clarification Rémi, of course as expected, but nice to have the official clarification