Hi FlakDet,

Changes only occur on the 1st of the month and you must have 1 full month of calendar play to be eligible for an upgrade. i.e. if you reg on Dec 5th – you wont be eligible for an upgrade until Feb 1st.

Could you PM me your username and I'll look into it for you?

Thanks,
Paul

how long would it take to clear the $600 bonus if i 12 tabled 25NL?

Hi blackgerbil1 - I'm afraid I don't have the stats for you but am going to ask one of our maths wizards to take a good look! Obviously any estimation will be on the back of making various assumptions about how you play and the type of table you would be on.

Paul will be done for misleading advertising if he continues to call me a maths wizard. Im half decent with a calculator, no more than that though.

Blackgerbil we dont have 25nl so I have based this on 20nl and I have come up with approx the following - this is very rough and ready and very much back of an envelope calculation.

12 tabling with an average of 90 hph = 1080 total hands per hour. A standard hand for this falls into the 1 Paddy Point per hand bracket. Now not all hands will be raked and unless you contribute to the pot you wont get a Paddy Point so of the 1080 hands I guess you can expect to earn points from maybe 50% of them - thats 540 points per hour. You need a total of 36,000 points to clear the bonus so that equates to 66 hours of table play. This may be wide of the mark though.

Some exciting news for casual and hardcore players alike; we've just launched our Paddy's Cashpoint promotion which will hand out more cash rewards in March than we've ever done before. The way the promo is structured gives players the power to determine the amount of cash they get at the end of the month; the strapline is 'the more you play, the more we pay!' - simple and to the point I think!

Some news from way up high in Paddy Towers:

1) We've just launched the latest software release (check out the details and video here: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/onlin...e/new-features) - we waited until iPoker ironed out ALL the bugs until we gave it the thumbs up, we wanted to make sure our players were getting an improved playing experience, not a half-completed mess!

2) To celebrate we're giving away $7,500 in promotions this week - firstly, a $5,000 Paddy Points race paying cash to the top 100 players over the next seven days and also 5 x $500-added New Look $10 freezeouts from March 11th to March 15th at 8.45pm each evening. Check out all the details here: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/promotions/5kpoints

If you have any questions, as usual just let me know

Any chance you can sort out the tile table option? It is taking me around 5 seconds to tile the tables resulting in me missing actions.

Will get the Ops lads to take a look at it - guess we'll have to contact the software developers again! At least they've ironed out most of the bugs, I'm enjoying the software I have to say.

We've a new Community section on our website, which is integrated with our Youtube channel - new strategy / tutorial videos are added on a weekly basis: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/community/youtube

Might be interesting for some!

lol

More rake races!

Paddy Power sure know how to look after their players!

Lol, when i first saw this thread, thought it was a version of Party poker with a boston accent then i noticed the power part

When will the focus steal be fixed on ipoker? The new notes system is neat, sure. But focus steal makes the improved notes worthless since you can't type stuff anyways coz of the popping tables.

can you send my withdrawals to moneybookers in $?

Hi Bambiboi,

I've just confirmed with our Ops team that iPoker currently have no plans to make changes to way focus moves at the moment; if we hear that any changes are due to be made I'll post the news here.

Hi Echelon,

I'm afraid I'm not going to be much help to you here; players can only have Euro or STG wallets with PPP right now - it is worth remembering that we're part of a much bigger sportsbook that is overwhelmingly Euro or UK facing at present, hence any currency limitations.

We've a brand new points race for the next four weeks - Rakes'n'Ladders is giving away $5,000 a week and all play on paddypowerpoker.com counts!

Check out all the details HERE.

Some new promotions now live on paddypowerpoker.com, over $40,000 in PPP-exclusive value!

• Double Up STT promotion (April 9th – May 2nd): $14,000 to be won by Double Up Sit’n’Go players
• European Championship of Online Poker VI (May 14th – June 6th): over $5,000,000 guaranteed in one of poker’s biggest online festivals, with feeders running daily
• WSOP Blast Off: a variety of World Series of Poker qualification routes are available, with feeders starting from less than a dollar
• WSOP Warrior: a MTT super league with 10 WSOP packages up for grabs
• Irish Winter Festival qualification: the first Super Satellite is scheduled for April 11th, with two packages guaranteed

We're also going to launch a new promo in a few days which will allow players to win WSOP trips for free (either by earning a set target of Paddy Points or by playing a set number of days during the counting period to earn entry to a PPP-exclusive WSOP freeroll) - stay tuned for details!

Double Up STT Promo

If you enjoying playing Double Up Sit'n'Gos, the 2nd counting period of our Double Up STT promo starts tonight (Thursday) at midnight and the 1st prize is a great trip to Las Vegas for the World Series!

All Double Up Sit'n'Gos of buyins $1 to $30 inclusive are counted.

It works like this; your position on the leaderboard is based on the amount of points you have accumulated in the counting period. The points are awarded as follows:

* For each Double Up S'n'G won: Buy-in x2 (so if you win a $5 Double Up, you'll get 10 points)
* For each Double Up S'n'G lost: Buy-in x1 (so if you lose a $5 Double Up, you'll get 5 points)

The prizes:


The WSOP package is made up of:

• Entry to WSOP Event #54 ($1,000 NLH)
• 6 nights accommodation at the Venetian Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas
• $1,300 for travel expenses / spending money

Take a look at the Double Up STT promo page for all the details!

Lower the rake on your double up stts its a fckng joke.

Stop the ads that pop up when we're playing, please! They're very annoying when multitabling.

More WSOP packages to give away...it's just that time of year

WSOP For Free

We want to take many of our players to the World Series as we can - so we came up with the WSOP For Free promo! There are two ways to join the party, either rake your way to Vegas or win your way there.

Option 1: Simply earn 185,000 points in the 60-day counting period, and we will book your seat and hotel for you. You'll earn Paddy Points from your play on cash tables, in Sit'n'Gos or playing in tournaments, so no matter the type of poker you prefer, you'll be in with a chance to get to Vegas for FREE and you'll get to keep all the points you've accumulated!

Option 2: Earn at least 1 Paddy Point during 20 days of the counting period and you'll gain entry to an exclusive WSOP For FREE freeroll on June 15th at 8pm.

Counting Period:

• April 14th - June 13th

To take part, just follow these simple steps:

• OPT-IN on the WSOP For Free webpage
• ACCUMULATE at least 185,000 Paddy Points during the counting period to earn a FREE WSOP package (worth $3.3k)
• ACCUMULATE at least 1 Paddy Point for 20 days or more during the counting period to earn a seat in the WSOP For Free freeroll
• You can OPT-IN any time up until midnight on May 10th - and we will take into account the Paddy Points accumulated on all days in the promotional period

We're hoping to give away a dozen or more WSOP packages in 2010 - it should be fun to be part of Team Paddy

This.

To call them annoying is extremely kind.

Hi FreeBeer (cool name - if only!),

I'll contact our Ops team and see if I can get the frequency of pop-ups reduced; a number of people have mentioned this to me over the past two weeks so obviously we are overdoing it in this regard!

It's because they've removed the option to disable marketing messages off the latest version of the poker client.

Election Threeway

Ha, we've been waiting to get back to PPP's traditional form of promotion with this bad boy!

To celebrate the upcoming British election and the frantic bed-hopping that will take place should the vote result in a hung parliament, we're running three Election Threeway $5 freezeout MTTs next week, with $200 added to each and a $100 bounty each night:


All the details and loads of 'good' puns are right HERE - they should be good fun so see you there!