Can I nominate Joe Ingram and/or Ansky

From the RIO community I'd nominate 'Dddogkillah', by far my favorite RIO poster =)

Cool stuff. Doing great Phil.

I nominate jonna102 and zenfish. Both beeing very active in the forums and commited to poker

Yeah, Zenfish and other guys from all time top 5 list seem like obvious ones to consider (wink wink).

I would like to volunteer. Will send my bio via e-mail in a day or two!

Pretty sure Phil meant a player council as in regulars from all stakes that are going to be playing on the site, not most frequent posters on the forum :).

Could be made for example out of 10 players, 3 for each stake and for each game (cash, sng, tournaments), +1 representative.Or just 3 representatives that each have their own council/meetings with regulars in their game and later present the issues/ideas to the managers and staff, just to throw some ideas around.

In my opinion council should be assembled randomly and periodicaly (once in a month or maybe 3 month, not more) from at least 10 members. It would NOT be ok that members of council are same few "popular" ppl, who by the way might be friends or anyhow too connected to RIO managment and owners. And whoever this council will be, for sure can not be on any kind of paylist of RIO, can not accept any benefits from RIO, which is hard to control anyway, so that is why council should be random and "mixed" periodicaly.

Demonstrating commitment, intelligence, a love of the game and willingness to help others made them popular but this shouldn't work against them and neither should being friends. IMO receiving compensation doesn't necessarily mean you are unduly influenced either.

Generally agreed. And actually nothing goes against them. Sure, if they are good and they do a great work&effort they should be rewarded or even paid, no doub about that. But that has nothing to do with establishing of council. Some "job positions", functions, relationships, etc. are conflicting and they exclude each other (if honesty is prefered). But that still doesnt mean they can not work on this issue. We must just find a way to do that properly. One option is that they can still work with council but they can not on their own make a final decissions, so let see how this can be done if we all really wish as an indipendant council as we can get. Few options are:

1. if only "they" would form all members of council, than an independent commission by randomly & periodicaly mixed players should be established beside, for making or at least cooperating on final decissions

2. council of lets say 10 members aprox. divided on 2 or 3 permanent ("popular") members and 6 or 7 randomly and periodicaly mixed members (they would change preiodicaly)

3. council of 10 randomly & periodicaly mixed players cooperating with "popular" players <- this is kind of opposite way of option 1.

4. you name it...

...that is all debatable, I just quickly proposed few options, my main goal here is not to make an exact solutions but rather pointing out on what should we all pay attention during this formation of council.

I recommend TimStone from twoplustwo. This guy certainly has a track record and vocal.

I hope this player council thinks what's best for not just regs but also recs. I mean if it's four or five regs, they're naturally gonna think from the POV of regs and not recs. So like there's gotta be some sort of balance, like the RIO staff I hope are gonna see the big picture and look at the situation from all angles. I don't express myself well, but I hope you see my point.

Just a reminder that the deadline to submit your application for this is end of day tomorrow!

We are excited to announce the members of the inaugural Run It Once Player Council. The Council is a diverse group made up of enthusiasts, both up-and-comers and poker veterans. It will help Run It Once remain connected to the community’s pulse through direct dialogue on important issues. While we expect the group’s influence and importance to grow as we move towards and past launch of our site, it has already had an impact on internal policy decisions and will continue to have regular opportunities to do so.

In no particular order, here are the community members who will act as volunteers for the Player Council:

Real Name: Dr. Jeffrey Mulder
Screenname: tragdoc

Jeffrey Mulder is a recreational player based in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. A practicing family physician and proud father of two, he has significant experience in big buy-in live events as well as all forms of cash games.

Screenname: Midori

A professional soon relocating to Canada, Midori focuses on PLO cash games, playing both 6-max and heads-up at stakes up to $10/$20.

Real Name: Samu Patronen
Screenname: Sampo Texas

Samu Patronen is a regular in the NL Zoom games who resides in Finland.

Real Name: Marcos Sketch
Screenname: sketch1967

Marcos hails from Brazil and runs 4bet Poker Team, one of the largest MTT staking operations around. Technically a recreational poker player these days, he also owns both a music and a marketing agency.

Real Name: Isaac Haxton

Ike is a legend of the game, having beaten the highest stakes online and live for the better part of a decade while regularly weighing in on community issues with wisdom and integrity.

Good Luck guys! There are some exciting times ahead for all of us!