I'm in agreement with this poster. Fortunately for me I randomly decided to use my points during the SCOOP time period on tourney entries at reasonable value on Party. If not I would have been out of a fair bit of points as well.

I had no idea my points were expiring. Some of us use dedicated poker emails; I know that I do and I'm not always checking up on things in those email accounts. I'm certainly not always checking up on things on twoplustwo.

Also, since the games in my timezone aren't amazing during the days I'm rarely even playing on partypoker. It would have been better to have some sort of automatic conversion taking place for people with points left in their balances.

Kind of funny. Party scamming no emails sent. We have sent ~10 emails to everyones registered email. Yeah I don't use that email. One would think it would be smart to check occasionally if something is changing.

But I agree that automatic conversion would've been the best move.

I don't see the point in hoarding points in a day and age where the only way the value might change is by them lowering /disapearing, not like a site would randomly say hey! Your points are now worth 10x value!

Plus they've had the VIP store sale for like a month? because new system change so if you play on the site surely you would have noticed that as well

Why wouldn't they put something on the actual client to let people know? Like a pop up just to ensure everyone sees.

Is it possible to get increased rakeback by signing up through an affiliate?

There are chinese play money sites that have better software than Party. I'm not joking. If they can fix their software they can make a real run at Stars, I hope they manage to do it

That I do not know. I don't work for the company. But quite sure if this were the case people would be all 'I haven't logged in 75 years and now my points are gone. Party is robbing me blind'

Sincere question: What problems do people encounter with the Party software?

I literally have zero issues with it. I run Win7 on a pretty high end PC. Zero lags, zero bugs.. it runs just as smooth as Stars for me tbh.

Mike mcdonald hyping up partypoker with things coming in the next few months that he said he has talked to them about but can't say specifics on joeys podcast the other day,

starts at like 6:30. Seems very optimistic with future of partypoker/ online poker + thinks they will become a big competitor with stars.

(joey gets him to hint at new software coming it seems , pretty awesome if it does - joey says partypoker has had same software since tiltfish days and that people want new software, and mike says he thinks those people are going to be very happy with the changes coming )

For me occasional dcs and if you don't use caption then the seats and esp nicks and stacks are allmost unreadable, no hotkeys, can't stack tables (seating console is sheet), not sure but I think no autotimebank, can't sitout and sit in all the tables at once, replayer is crap. But after caption it runs pretty smooth and doesn't lag when peak hours hits like stars does these days.

Every affiliate does as much as possible to get your business so answer for any site would be "yes"

So party decides to step up to the plate and effectively give the online poker world a cash based 20-40% rakeback system, then goes a step further and puts a SNE-lite tier at 50%+, then promises software updates, and you idiots are going to continue to whine?

Only legitimate issue is the bots imo but I'm sure a similar number of them are lurking on stars too and just blend into the liquidity. Software is passable.

I am happy about the changes. Glad someone is stepping up. We will see what happens.

Has anyone worked out how many hands it takes to achieve 40% ?

In my play at 25nl fast forward and a tiny bit of 50nl reg tables I earned 80 points in 4100 hands - 0.0195 points per hand. 40% rake kicks in at 1200 points - so I would need to play 61,538 hands at 25nl in a week - assuming it resets each week. No idea what the rates are for higher limits but you can see that you would certainly need to be playing higher than 25nl otherwise you would need to put in serious volume which is only going to be detrimental to bettering your game.

So in the blog it says to email Party Poker to get more information about the Diamond Club and that's what I did. Here is their response.

Hi,

Thanks for the email! The rewards are 50% Rake Back providing players generate at least $100k per annum. 40% paid weekly into your partypoker account, with the 10% paid in one lump sum when you hit $100k.

Can you please provide us with a few more details about you so that we can get you set up as a Diamond Club member, once you have provided the information below, we can agree the deal and get you started.

Full Name:
Country:
partypoker Login Name:
Your estimated annual rake:

If you are currently generating lots of rake in another online poker room, please confirm where you are playing and share any details about how much you have raked and what your screen name is, as it helps us to get you started on the right level of rewards.

Regards

Gary
partypoker Diamond Club Manager

So it seems the 50% RB is only up until $100k raked then there after it reverts to the weekly 40%. Shame they done it like that but it's a small bump in the road.

I read that as 40% til you hit $100k -> extra 10% ($10k) paid in one lump -> 50% afterward

So basically there is no rakeback anymore for rec micro stakes players. Example if you rake $24 every week thats about $96 in month but you won't get anything back because points gets reseted every week (if in understood correct). Seems like rec players are paying regulars rakeback in this new system. Nice job Party.

Ah, I think you're right about that

Well somebody has to do it. You can allways try to rake that dollar every week or collect exciting chests at stars for example. The new system is better to probably 90% of the players.

^^

That's nonsense and you know that. If Party wants to take over from Stars they'll need to adress this. Excluding certain players - be it highstakes on Stars or Micro-RECs on Party - isn't way to go.

How is that nonsense? They are not excluding certain players. Every one has a chance to get rb not like stars where you wont get any if you play certain stakes. Is it hard? Probably if you play nanolimits 5 hours a week. And my guess is that party is focusing on getting the higher raking players from stars with the new 'sne' etc.

Not rewarding rec micro stakes players at all is not wise move, more regs come to site because of high rakeback paid for only selected people who has money and time to play in week and rec players loose their deposits faster cause of more regs. That's my opinion and sorry for my bad english.

But i understand that site can't please everyone. I admit this is good change for regulars, bit of fresh air in fact but not for rec micro stakes players.

As, you said later in your post, they actually do and i don't think that this is any good....no matter what stakes/volume you play. A site should give every player the feeling of being somewhat rewarded for its play.

You're absolutely right. Just playing poker gets boring if you don't get any rewards at all. And that's situation now on on Party if you don't have bankroll to play bigger games.

Party : Rake 25$ and get something back. How is that excluding players from the rb program? Is there some unwritten rule that nanoplayers are not allowed to rake that?

Perhaps try beating the game without rewards? That's quite exiting for me atleast.

Obv we see this in two totally different ways so I'll agree to disagree in this matter. No reason to spam this more imo.