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01-07-2020 , 12:45 AM
They don't give a **** about the VIP cause most of their heavy grinders have RB through 3rd party affiliates. The only ones I have seen are for TigerGaming. The eastern euros already have half my cost of living and they get RB on top of that. Better options if you're a US player imo.

Well mdroz if you don't play there why are you in this thread.

Great question.

It was August, 2011. Senior year about to get an accounting degree. I plunked $250 down on this new site called BOL and started grinding 25NL. Damn was I bad, but it didn't matter. This was when BOL was a stand alone site. Pre Tigergaming, pre bots, pre eastern euro scumbags. The games were great. Check out some of the older threads about it. Relative unknowns making 50-100k in the 10/20 games over a few months. In about 12 months I turned that $250 into 10k. 25NL to 200NL.

I never got that accounting job.

RIP BOL, I will never forget you.
01-07-2020 , 10:37 PM
Can you elaborate on the heavy grinders receiving RB through 3rd party affiliates? I'm just curious to know b/c I don't want to be missing out on this. Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by mdroz247
They don't give a **** about the VIP cause most of their heavy grinders have RB through 3rd party affiliates. The only ones I have seen are for TigerGaming. The eastern euros already have half my cost of living and they get RB on top of that. Better options if you're a US player imo.

Well mdroz if you don't play there why are you in this thread.

Great question.

It was August, 2011. Senior year about to get an accounting degree. I plunked $250 down on this new site called BOL and started grinding 25NL. Damn was I bad, but it didn't matter. This was when BOL was a stand alone site. Pre Tigergaming, pre bots, pre eastern euro scumbags. The games were great. Check out some of the older threads about it. Relative unknowns making 50-100k in the 10/20 games over a few months. In about 12 months I turned that $250 into 10k. 25NL to 200NL.

I never got that accounting job.

RIP BOL, I will never forget you.

Last edited by Mike Haven; 01-15-2020 at 04:41 AM.
01-13-2020 , 10:33 AM
Morning All

I hope you all had a good weekend.

Some good news for everybody, the Sunday main will now be 75k Gtd.

Kind Regards

Mike
01-30-2020 , 06:15 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zyonix
Can you elaborate on the heavy grinders receiving RB through 3rd party affiliates? I'm just curious to know b/c I don't want to be missing out on this. Thanks in advance.
Same here, I want to know too.
02-08-2020 , 10:32 PM
For a promotions thread, it seems to have died off, some strange reason.
02-08-2020 , 10:56 PM
I regularly get emails about their promotions. They also usually have them located on their website. I will occasionally make a post about them, but I don't take advantage of most of them since I'm not usually looking to compete as a high volume grinder. Why it's not more regularly updated by Mike or anybody else I'm just not sure.
02-12-2020 , 04:55 PM
Hi Guys,

I do update the promotions thread overtime when something new comes.

https://www.betonline.ag/poker

As always please feel free to leave comments on what you think about all our promos or if you have any ideas you think may work.

Kind Regards

Mike
02-12-2020 , 05:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BetOnline Mike
Hi Guys,

I do update the promotions thread overtime when something new comes.

https://www.betonline.ag/poker

As always please feel free to leave comments on what you think about all our promos or if you have any ideas you think may work.

Kind Regards

Mike
Hi Mike,

I think a promotion that would be available to PLO players would be great. Preferably a rake race of some kind. I would also love to be able to exchange VIP points for some value, preferably $$.
Thanks,
Sam
02-12-2020 , 07:26 PM
+1 million

Maybe you could divert some of that $30k monthly rewards budget for the .05/.10 and .10/.25 NLHE account sharers over to PLO players.
02-20-2020 , 02:22 AM
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Originally Posted by BetOnline Mike
I know it is extremely frustrating but please understand that the new VIP program is coming and I will notify everybody.

Kind Regards

Mike
how we lookin mini mike
02-20-2020 , 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by sirswish6
how we lookin mini mike
Pretty sure they released a statement saying you will only be able to use points for a satellite to the main on Sundays. Other than that your points are useless. Good luck at the tables
02-22-2020 , 09:21 AM
Pretty much. This was the most recent statement about it, which didn't do anything besides piss a lot of players off.

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Originally Posted by BetOnline Mike
Good morning all, I just received this statement.

We understand that there has been some speculation and frustration as to why we chose to modify how Player Points were traded back in August, 2019. Allowing players to buy-in with points to most tournaments seemed to serve its purpose in the past, but as we have grown, we found ourselves in the position where it began to limit our growth potential in terms of tournament offerings.

BetOnline is always looking for ways to offer a better experience to our users, and when it comes to poker, we look to offer our players some of the biggest tournaments online. To continue to grow our prize pools, we chose to reduce the options that accepted Player Points down to one, our Sunday Main Event satellites. Our main goal is that the community as a whole will benefit from the increase in new tournaments and prize pools.

Since then we released a new tournament schedule in September, 2019 that included new structures, more guaranteed tournaments and hundreds of thousands in additional guaranteed prizes every week. Our Sunday $60,000 Main Event has now been increased to $75,000 and we also offer a monthly $100,000 guaranteed tournament on the last Sunday of the month. We’ve also upped our promotional budget to ensure that the liquidity of our poker room is at an all-time high.

To this day, players still have access to points, and while they might feel they have been limited as to how they can use them, we assure you that we will continue to offer additional options in the future.

Thank you for your support and understanding.
02-23-2020 , 02:13 PM
back to back weeks where I completed the 'missions' for the mission grinders weekly freeroll and I never received the tickets to enter the tourneys. last week I received an email apologizing for not receiving one and they would give me a ticket for this week. Of course I never received it.

It looks like most people didn't receive the ticket as there are only 12 people registered for the freeroll. The incompetence shown by bol is insane.
02-25-2020 , 12:04 PM
Hi IgnatiusJR,

Please send me your account details and email address and I will try and help out with the issue.
Any other players with a similar issue or any issues just send me a message.

Kind Regards



Mike
02-29-2020 , 10:17 PM
Hi guys,

Don't forget the $125,000 GTD tomorrow at 1pm ET.
We have lots of great satellites if u want to win a seat for less. Oh and btw, one of our players informed us that he will be streaming the tournament if u guys feel like checking out the stream on Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/gripsed


Good Luck to everybody

Mike
03-01-2020 , 07:41 AM
Hey Mike, I have sent you a PM with lots of information about banned player "bloodywolf"s new account "BenjaminFr" 9 days ago and you haven't responded, whats up with that?
If a player who got banned after cheating people out of 6 figures comes back with a new account, shouldn't that be of a high priority?

Kind regards
03-02-2020 , 11:16 AM
Hey Vince,

I hope you had a nice weekend, I forwarded the message you sent me to the security team that day. I have not heard any information yet, but usually they investigate and then act without any prior warning to me.

I will chase this today.

Kind Regards

Mike
03-05-2020 , 10:03 AM
I don't like the changes to the "Welcome Back" promotions you offer to players who haven't played in a while. I miss the $5000 freeroll which didn't have any requirements to enter. One of the more recent of these promotions had a bonus instead of the freeroll. Another one did have a freeroll for $10000, but you had to meet some requirements to qualify. I prefer freerolls to bonuses for this promotion.
03-08-2020 , 03:26 AM
Mike, are there any promos in the works? Maybe a return to the daily/weekly cash rake races?

PLO cash game players have had 0 promos for a couple months and we get crushed by rake.

It seems like the writing is on the wall, as BetOnline has been slashing rewards as of late, VIP points gone, SNG leaderboards gone, rake races gone, Iron Man gone, probably more I'm forgetting, and there's been nothing to replace them. It would be nice if you offered something to the players.
03-08-2020 , 09:11 AM
Hi fossilkid93,

There are plans afoot for 2 different series and PLO promotions, also way more PKO's and bounty's have been planned for our ever growing and varied schedule.

I hope to give you more accurate details soon.

Kind Regards

Mike
03-08-2020 , 03:43 PM
Sounds promising, hopefully the meetings are going better than those for VIP points.

In any case, I think all here would prefer to be given updates, good or bad, rather than kept in the dark and strung along like with the VIP points situation.

A return to something similar to the rake races (which actually gave PLO players a chance to win rewards) or a PLO high hand leaderboard would be nice. I played exclusively on BetOnline last year, and had several 150+ hour months to close out 2019, but so far this year have only played 100 hours total on your site and been spreading my play around a lot more because the complete lack of rewards for PLO players is off-putting.
03-08-2020 , 08:43 PM
I completed the challenge for event 4 but haven't received any tickets for completing the challenge. There are 22 people registered already. It starts in 17 minutes and I want to join.

Edit:
It has started already and I feel like I wasted my time doing the challenges that didn't even get me into the tournament. I guess it works for some people and not others. What a joke.

Last edited by TheGodson; 03-08-2020 at 09:12 PM.
03-09-2020 , 03:39 AM
It sounds to me like you should be entitled to some ticket compensation to an MTT of equal value. Send a private message to BetOnline Mike to see what he suggests.
03-15-2020 , 09:15 AM
Hi Guys,

First and foremost I and Betonline hope all of you and your families are healthy and safe.


March Madness is coming!!!!

· $750,000 in guaranteed tournaments
· $150,000 GTD Main Event
· Schedule is full of progressive knockouts with 50-50 splits and some 70-30
· Runs March 15-29
· There is also $15,000 in daily Freerolls throughout the series

Kind Regards

Mike
03-15-2020 , 11:59 PM
Are VIP points still worthless??

      
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