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Originally Posted by belthazorrrrr
Hey Patrick/Collette
I am playing in partypoker the last two weeks. I played only in pokerstars the last 4 years because my games werent offered by any site. I switched to mtts now and I was planning to grind in your site regularly. My only experience is in Pokerstars software and how pokerstars operated. I have some suggestions to make
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You recently signed Ike Haxton. This is what pokerstars used to do and I dont think it had success. The reasoning to sign a team pro is to gain new players at your site or if you have decent traffic among all stakes attract more recreationals chasing the high stakes dream. In my opinion you should invest to people involving in social media to attract recreationals in your site. Tonka, Veldhuis, Staples or find someone who will actually be fun to watch, sponsor him and broadcast every day. You either need a person who has a fan base to promote your site or a person who will work every day in twich in order to do that. Youtubers / twitchers are the most valuable to promote your site. In tournaments your ability factor is +6 at least on stakes of 55$+ That means your site lacks of recreational players and I cant think a better way to promote a site than what I recommended
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When I started playing in pokerstars everyone was saying ''I want to be a supernova elite'' Many people tried many succeed but even more failed. You know what is the trick with Elite? People (both recs and regs) were having something to achieve within a year. Pokerstars gave them a goal. Moreover Pokerstars was clever because they knew if we want to achieve elite we cant really grind in any other sites because elite itself is a huge grind. My recommendation is give something for people to commit in your site. A heavily promoted similar to elite vip would be amazing. Your cashback program is good. The issue is that a rec or even a reg will grind a week take cashback and then look in another site with better promo the next week. But if you have a yearly vip like supernova / supernova elite it will be very hard not to commit
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Even though I was planning to grind in party poker mainly, chosing you over your competitors, I read a new post every 2-3 days about botting/collusion/cheating in your platform. Even regs seem to not feel safe playing there and it will be very bad for your reputation if the word about low security standards in party poker is out there. It will move away most recs who already think that something is going on in online poker. Botting/cheating is a universal issue and I think the companies must work together. If a player is banned in pokerstars for cheating why he should allowed playing in partypoker? Share your personal details, check ids and even take legal actions against people. Cheaters damage the company after all. I firmly believe you should work with Pokerstars for this. Not because their security is better but security will radically improve if you share the knowledge on how and who cheated. Not usernames but actual id's must be shared and banned permamently
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The mtt filters are pretty bad imo. I unfiltered bounties but there are still there because they are overlapping in some other category. I cant filter speeds neither choose NLH only tournaments. I have to see FLH because it is a holdem game but most important the filters for the buy ins are quite poor. I dont understand why there isnt a custom buy in filter
The positive is that you listen to people. I personally like PSKO and i do think it will attract more recreationals. Regs will whine but they will adjust. That being said variety is important The most important is to bring more recs at the moment. Props to your tournament team who is genuinly try to impove the schedule
I see people protesting about the changes. Everything is trial and error. I can see enough regular games and bounties. Bounties attract more recs because they are more fun to play and ability factor in sharkscope reveals it
Belthazorrrr
edit: i think every hour after 16:00 should have 22-55-109-215 tournaments, even if the latest are low guarantee. I cant imagine a 10k guarantee 215$ with 2 hours late reg re entry either PSKO or normal will not meet the GTD
I responded to this on the other thread - please refer to my response there
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by mecantplay
Tonka is 888 ambassador, Veldhuis and Staples are PS ones.
I wrote to Patrick, but he cant receive a message, so I wrote to Party_Rep this-
While I play poker, I am mostly watching tonkaaaa stream or WarCraft 3 stream at twitch. Do you know that game? It was very popular before years and now on this english cast there are around 3000+ /on sundays/ people watching it. Most of that people have regular jobs, have money and are around 25-35 yo so poker should be interesting to them. Watchers are mostly european, north american and some asian. Players are form Europe, Russia, China and South Korea. I am thinking that Bwin/Parry can support some weakly cup that and receive very nice advertisement. If you think that this is interesting for Bwin/Party, please reach out to
https://twitter.com/back2warcraft
And in the feedback message is this "We will not support online gaming on Twitch as many, many players are under 18 and it goes against responsible gaming regulations". As I was browsing poker section on twitch, I sow russian stream that is PartyPoker sponsored or it looks like it - there was a banners and party in the name.
That cup needs around 500$-2500$ per week imo.
I read your PM and responded - my response was regarding pushing our site on gaming channels which I stand by - this will not happen due to the sheer amount of viewers who are under 18
We have x3 Twitch channels of our own for viewers who wish to watch party poker players and live events -
partypokerTV
PartypokerGermany
PartypokeRussia (both the RU and DE channel are very new!)
These are official channels and we advertise our promotions and offerings on these
We will use these channels to broadcast our Live events throughout the year and we have regular teams maintaining the channel alongside our pros and ambassadors
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Originally Posted by belthazorrrrr
The names i mentioned were examples of how i think partypoker should move. There are few people broadcasting poker who arent sponsored and they have great potential. All they need is a little push
Moreover you should understand that everyone has his price and the contracts arent forever
Yes there are many broadcasting poker- some do not wish a contract and prefer to stream and support their own channels
We have a team of partners streaming via their own channels in Canada, Russia and Europe who are partnered and push our games and promotions
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
Great point about twitch. I usually watch 1-3 days per week for tournament poker in Finnish poker channels, and they have lots of followers. Also most new players seems to come from Twitch, so it's mindblowing that Party is almost completely ignoring this. They do have their own Twitch channel but it has very modest offering and no advertising.
Especially tournament poker with some interesting giveaways seems to gather huge crowds of followers. MPN network also has had leaderboard for those people during their tournament serieses who stream their play on Twitch. Very small amount of money used (and most of that comes back as rake from players streaming) comparing of thousands of people watching.
We do not wish to support our channel with ads and advertisements - if this is the "advertising" you refer to above
We have our own marketing banners we use and for our viewers, we offer giveaways, freerolls etc
Our streamers all run our banners and as I state above we have partners who also showcase our offerings and regularly bring new players to the site
Similar to our youtube and other marketing channels
Our Big Game revival will provide fantastic content for Twitch - there is a thirst for high stake cash games and the upcoming events planned for 2018 will see the channel grow
In no way is Twitch being ignored- its a marathon, not a sprint Poker is a fairly new market on Twitch however I am confident it will continue to grow over the next few years espc if the Asian poker market grows - Twitch is huge in these territories and opens a whole new ball game in the coming years
Thanks
Colette