FT Ironman says Hi.

Although that was monthly.

Actually, I can't remember now if that was opting in, or just qualifying. But either way, this won't be the first program where you have to continually opt in and/or qualify.

yessssssssss

Regarding OPT IN situation it is a tech issue but we did not want to delay the launch as we promised the players 22nd May.

I promise that I lobbied and stressed the importance of this from the start when I heard about the program that we needed to be transparent and that's what we will aim to be.

Hopefully its fixed ASAP so you don't have to OPT IN every week, I understand that is FAR from GTO solution.

Regarding Platinum Elite, details will be released shortly, it will be comparable to some of the best "VIP" loyalty systems that you are familiar with. If anybody is interested in becoming Platinum Elite, message me on 2p2 from tomorrow and I will get back to you all ASAP.

Thanks
Patrick

Rsa token would be nice too. New software and it be gg stars

Sure but every week? That seems ridiculous, fish will lose out on a lot of rb because they just don't have poker on their mind all the time.

As a relatively new NL2 grinder on stars, how much better will this be for me vs. stars?

Not sure, but i think you might be better of at Stars even when their new VIP-system aka chest-thingy roles out. At Party you need to rake 25$/week in order to get something, for NL2 that requires quite some hands. Imo a weak spot in Party's new reward system as it will reward grinders, but will cut out a lot of Micro/Small-RECs.

yet pp had to pay almost 500K for the last 3 $1M GTDs

it doesn't work for PS, b/c they want to get rid of certain players. PP already got rid of those kind. remember when they took away the VIP awards and the high stakes tables ... now they are growing again.

anyway ... gvc is in a good position (verticals aya hopes for, no debts) i think it's very good news for the community

Good news for Party.

+1 on the improving software thing.

so this is bwin aswell? ive tried several time to opt in to certain bonuses on there, never says im opt in tho

That's one way to interpret....the other is: Party is a step ahead of Amaya and figuered out that "getting rid of certain players" isn't the most beneficial way to go. If this is the case the people in charge at Party must me pissing themselves for joy.

This was posted to the pp thread. So the 'lol I have to click lol' might be a temporary annoyance.

Does anyone know if this will be the same on Bwin?

If they're still running missions and continue with some other promos then effective RB will sometimes be above 50% for full-time players.

Really does look like a play to hit pokerstars while they're down - good timing imo

No but I would bet money they'll do more promos to compete with it - they did have the $500 reload bonus for powerfest ofc - they'll have to keep those up for players!

You might be better off on party if you get palladium elite

apples and oranges. like i said party can grow, b/c they already got rid of a lot "of certain players" (we should switch to Those-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named btw) back then. pp also has a limited number of depositors and therefore only a limited number of 'net withdrawal players' can join and will benefit from this anyway.

so long story short ... compare the numbers of ppl 'out of job' after RB changes at the bigger room, with the numbers of 'new jobs available' at the smaller room and you know the real reason, why they "must be pissing themselves for joy".

potential growth (or lack there of) is also the reason, why all this 'rec player model' started with the smaller sites. b/c they had deposits versus withdrawals issues and took care of it. after the smaller rooms the big ones got rid of certain players. PS was simply big enough to keep the status quo the longest, but i think they reached the peak (given the market share AND the global decline). keeping up the old RB model simple makes zero sense for them, since they can't grow any more (imo).

another huge factor is the financial situation (GVC vs AYA) ... so again, apples and oranges.

but let's leave the fruit salad opinions behind, new competition is exactly what the whole industry needs!

That would suck since there is no party here; only bwin to choose from.

Same thing with the allegedly new program from stars: no casino nor sports available here, only poker. So less opportunity to fill that progress bar. (probably best as casino and sports tend to be less +EV than poker )

Are reg tables still anonymous/HUD proof? Or should I say HUD proof for those unwilling or unable to cheat the system.

do people really have a problem with clicking a button once a week? Party reps already said the only reason you have to click each week is a software issue that they hope to fix in the future,

and yes I think it is awesome that as amaya is prepping to anounce another vip rewards cut / new system that party pulls out essentially what they had already to hype people up


Also partypoker software isn't actually as bad as I thought it was in the past, they've made updates to bet sizing/sliders and some other things this year that actually make it a pretty easy site to multi table. Still clunky compared to stars but not absolutely terrible and you get used to it quick

you did a horrible job of analyzing the situation, you couldnt possibly know any less, well done

Checked out PartyPoker and unless I missed something their HUSNG rake is ridiculously high. Fix this PartyPoker!

ive played almost 100k hands this year on party and while it is nice that they increase rb, for the vast majority of people this is not going to be sufficient.
first of all, software still sucks and most importantly, their implementation of their anonmous tables is terrible. there is software out that gives people a hud, so unless you are going to cheat to even the playing field you do it like me, quit playing there and save yourself the headache of feeling exploited at every turn.

care to elaborate?

- can't party grow, while PS peak seems to be reached?
- didn't party the same back then thing, what PS is doing now?
- didn't the whole rec player model started with small sites?
- isn't GVC financial security a bit better than AYA's (which affects short term planing?

so enlighten me ...

LOL what?! Stars had its peak quite some time ago and since then it's in a constant decline. So talking about a reached peak is absolute nonsense. Amaya has no interest in shrinking, Amaya just tries to squeeze more money out of the remaining customers to make up for the loss of volume. It's not about "improving the health of the eco-system", it's about money.

Party did a clever move with rolling out a generous rakeback-system (which is imo also not flawless) in the very moment when Stars announces massive cuts. Pretty sure at Amaya this caused headache as they expected players to stay on Stars after the increased pricing of playing Poker due to lack of alternatives. Will be very interesting to see what's going to happen. I wouldn't be too sureprised if Amaya would top-up on the planned VIP-system.

Yeah that's not good.