Once the final 8 have been decided on, we will contact them and all details discussed then - however the €60,000 Poker Pro package is a single prize (this was the basis of the whole promotion) so we can't split it and we will end up with a single player as the first Paddy Power Poker Pro; hopefully all who take part in the live final will be happy with this!

We've just launched multi-currency support on our cash tables - in addition to all of the US$ tables, players can now access EURO€ and GBP£ tables and play in the currency of their choice.

Hope this will prove useful to some of you!

We've two new promos launching today:

Oktoberfest - this is a cash tables promo, awarding cash prizes for points-per-day targets met during a 17 day period

Spin City III - the latest version of our well-received side games promo

P.S. I've also just been told that our Irish Open 2010 sats will start in a week or so and the minimum feeder buy-in will be $0.50, lower than in previous years.

We've also gotten some funny customer service emails recently; I wonder if I'm allowed to post edited versions of these?! You deal with all sorts in an online business, that goes without saying I suppose!

Follow the Irish Winter Festival of Poker (one of Ireland's biggest live events) this weekend via the official blog: Click here!

We'll have a live stream up and running from Friday evening!

Hi Paul, I used to play on paddypower alot but have been playing on boyles the last while. I probably raked between 2-3k and am looking to return but would need to be on comparable vip level as boyles to justify a deposit.If this is possible I would happily deposit a roll and start playing again. I reached 3 stars on pp.

AAGRESSOR - check your PMs

For those who have PM'ed me on bonuses and promos, we've another cash race starting on Tuesday night, November 24th. There is $5k up for grabs in a seven day race - Le Mans typically lasts for 24 hours but up here in Paddy Towers we like to take a little more time to get where we want to go It's the Le Mans Rake Rally:

http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/tourn...rake-rally.php

Paul rake races do not really suit the recreational player much. Suits the grinders (I suppose that's what you want). Really when I joined I was hoping for a few more re-load bonus's (one a year isnt really much).

Hi tenbob, thanks for the feedback, believe me it is all useful as I go back to my boss with it! We've got a big December promotion to announce over the next few days, it should be fairly attractive to recreational players with lots of money added MTTs and a STT promo (in addition to another series of cash races).

a series of cash races sounds good

I'm a german, living partly in France.
Once I want to join PPP it was refused, cause of my location.

Any chance to play at PPP? Can sent a copy of my ID Card with my german address.

Hi Highfish,

Sorry to hear that, but we have some restrictions on players based in France - maybe if you open an account using your German address it would be allowed? You should contact our 24-hour live support team: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/support/index.php

Some exciting news for current paddypowerpoker.com players and those thinking about opening an account: we've launched a new & improved VIP scheme today!

The changes to the C*A*S*H VIP programme are listed HERE. In summary:

- Players no longer receive a set monthly bonus; instead, ALL players (from every VIP level) can choose the bonus they want and exchange their Paddy Points for it whenever they decide

- There is no restriction on how many bonuses you can claim in any given month; if you have the points you can claim a bonus every day!

- The smallest bonus you can claim is a $1 + 20c Sit'n'Go token, while the biggest is $100,000 cash (for a list of all the bonuses and the points you need, go HERE)

Let me know if you have any questions; I'll do my best to answer them and if I can't, I'll find someone who can (I hope!) - will post some details of our Christmas Giveaway promotion tomorrow (incl. cash races, Sit'n'Go leader boards and money-added MTTs).

The new bonus system isn't as good as the old one

Hi dynamoo,

What makes you say that? I'll have a look into the nuts-and-bolts of the system and try to get you some feedback.

Hi, thanks, that would be great

When I estimated how much I'd make from the new bonus system, it worked out alot less, I'll need to check out some other sites.

Wow, thats a very drastic change in PPP VIP scheme

1) Same number of Paddy Points are needed to exchange for a bonus equivalent to the former monthly set bonus.
Problem is, you also changed the way Paddy points are rewarded.
You now gain A LOT less points than before from raked hands, not to mention higher VIPs gain at same rate, before you would earn more depending on your VIP level.

2) Deposit bonus clearance.
Still 450 points to clear $5, but as said before a lot less points rewarded.

3) No advantages to higher VIP levels.
What is exactly the advantage of being lvl 4, 5 ot whatever?
Same benefits as level 1....

All in all, in my analysis, this new VIP scheme isnt exciting at all lol, but very frustrating, sorry about my honesty here.

EDIT:

Also...what about the players that played hard to get the set monthly bonus this new month?
I for example played to make level 4, 12500 Paddy Points(made more points but doesnt matter), and was entitled to a 120$ set bonus this month.
What happened? All player's points balances got cut by a 0.14 multiplier, leaving me with ~2k points, from a previous ~16k.

With those ~2k points that I have now I can currently buy a $10 bonus.......doesnt seem very fair.
At least you shouldnt have cut on the players points balances so we could buy the same bonus we were entitled to before.

I mean, players play a certain amount expecting to get a return in next month from VIP(Im sure some dedicating lots of time), and in the end they get this. A whole month's play for nothing, oh wait 0.14 of what was expected.

Sorry again for my rant

Doesn't this show how points are awarded for each level? http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/fc_paddypoints.php

more like http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/freechips/play_earn.php

yeah subandi's link is how the new Paddy points are rewarded;
Sparkman's is the old system

huge difference

kudos, I'll ask one of the operations team to take a look at your post but with regard your efforts to get level 4 last month, if you check your emails you'll see that all players that earned the points to become level 4 on December 1st under the 'old' system were awarded the bonus as usual! And now have some points to cash in under the new system - we're being as generous as possible during the transition period You got half the bonus yesterday (or should have, let me know if there was some mistake) and will get the other half of the bonus on the 15th as usual. We are honestly not in the business of screwing our customers, far from it!

I think the new fpp system is ok all the way down to
$0.51 - $0.75 = 2.1 fpp

but then it gets worse fast (in comparison to old),
I guess this will mostly affect micro stakes though

if you could bump the 1.25 fpp for $0.25-$0.5 to 1.5 fpp

it would be much much appreciated as that is the first "step"
that is worse than 50% of the old system but also
the most standard rake amount on the flop at NL100

PPPionapaul, yes sorry my mistake hadn't noticed that, 1st time getting that bonus. When I logged in I got a msg saying I had received a CASINO bonus and I was like whatever I dont play that, and didnt pay attention to that

Good to know players will be receiving their bonus for December.
Sorry for assuming otherwise without checking it properly.

Anyway, I would like to know if number of Paddy points needed to release deposit bonus, and to achieve higher VIP levels are still gonna be the same? Since we get a lot less of them now, specially at micro stakes.

And of course, based on the 1st question, I still dont understand what is the advantage of being high VIP level with this new scheme? There are no more benefits to for example a level 5 VIP than to a level 1 new player(in fact level 1 has more benefits, can play freerolls). I mean I always thought VIP was meant to make us play more and by doing that, rewarding us with more benefits. In current situation, its same if I play 5 hands a month or 50k hands.

Thank you

Hi kudos,

Traditionally, the deposit bonus has been released at the standard rate of points accumulation of VIP Level 1 players - this is the same for players under the new system, so the deposit bonus should release at the same rate for now; however, when I spoke to Operations they told me they were reviewing this and it would likely change later in the month to be even easier to release. Will keep you posted on this.

You are right in saying that, based on the details released so far, there is no differentiation for players according to VIP Level achived - VIP 1 players and VIP 6 players had very similar incentives. However, we're introducing a whole range of bonuses that can only be released depending on players' VIP level (tickets to the Irish Open 2010 will only be available to VIP 6 players, for example) - the first of these will appear on the C*A*S*H VIP webpages later this week. There will be more incentives to differentiate the levels introduced later this month; again, I'll post the details when I see them

Hi subandi,

The Paddy Point accumulation for tournaments is set on the basis that $1 Rake = 20 Paddy Points and the Paddy Points awarded at each rake threshold in ring games are set to reflect this. As far as I know there are no plans to modify the thresholds.