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In about a week, our top players – the 
Black Members – will meet once again at a big party, this time in Berlin. It will be the fifth Black Member Event, and the group of our black elite grew to above 50. Besides that, we had our first live event in Moscow, with our Russian 
Diamonds meeting for the first time.
The fifth Event will not only be a kind of jubilee, but also unique. This time, the event goes on for two consecutive days, and we got some special guests: the upper echelon of PartyGaming, the billion dollar company behind PartyPoker, will honour us with their presence. We think that bringing together important people from the company that is still our players' favourite and our top players is a very good idea and will not only increase the bond, but also lead to important feedback given and new thoughts on how to improve.
At such a time, it seemed right to have a look back and see who our Top Thousand are and what they achieved on PokerStrategy.com. The Top Thousand are in a way the long tail of the Black Members, as they are the Top50 within that Chiliad.
Some facts about them:
• 50% of them signed up after June 2006, the other half before. This shows that you can be all means achieve that within the first two years of your poker career.
• They wrote a total of 866,306 forum posts
• Only 41 of them did not write a single forum post
• two-thirds of them still visit us daily – gives us the good feeling of staying attractive even to successful players!
• 50% of them posted in the forums within the last two weeks. Compared with the online activity, this isn't even too high. I guess we should make our forums more attractive to our greatest?
I hope, many of them will show up on October 4th in Berlin – since many of the Chiliad are Diamonds, who are very welcome to join the Blacks on their second night!
