Poker is declining at its current rate because the largest markets who favor recreational gambling (China, USA), don't have access to promotion + wide spread access from online sites and ROW player pools.

Lol, as far as a new SNG ecosystem goes - Party removed both 9-max Turbo and 6-max hyper formats on the eve of this promotion? The only games left are relatively highly raked 6-max Turbos and double-or nothing. And with the timed hands/level and 60/40 payout (in turbos), that means lots more blind timer software (slowwww) and possibility of soft collusion on the bubble (rewarded more than in a 65/35 or 70/30 payout).

Understand Party is looking at things solely from their bottom-line, but not sure how the above benefits them. Even with increased RB, the SNG ecosystem will likely be pretty dead within a few months of people realizing how crappy things are/still are (unless there's a lot of net depositors who keep throwing money into these games). Woulda though they'd direct people into games that have a better chance of forming liquidity/volume.

Is huplo still capped at .5/1? I'll move my tournament action there anyways cos amaya can get rekt.

I wondered why there were no full table turbos or hypers when i first had a look at the games today!

Still, i think it's better than the microgaming option which was in my plans.

something like a black table theme with black background thats good for the eyes would be a good start in terms of software improvement

I submited 2 uni research on pokerstars last month and my research(also pstar's financials) has shown me that online poker is not declining, its still in an upswing.

More depositors, more money coming in != declining.

Reminder that today is last day to redeem your loyalty points on partypoker , they reset tommorow with new rakeback system launch

So I'm in the rewards section and I cant see anything in there that allows me to opt in to any cashback programme.

Same for me, followed every step but just cannot see the opt in button anywhere.

It's been delayed until tommorow apparently.

wonder if it's gonna be one less day in the promotion or do they add it to the backend? nice start btw

All points acquired will be moving towards the weekly rakeback i believe. Atleast I saw that somewhere

This is incorrect
Points will have expired
We were very clear in all messaging regarding the same

All points should count towards cashback reward next Monday

Software improvements are now the top priority - watch this space!

I had 21k points on party and they're gone.
I was never informed about this change, and it cost me over 2k. This is theft.

You are saying you didn't receive several emails from party about the new vip system? Atleast I did.

thanks for the reply and great promotion

You did not notice numerous 2+2 discussions and emails that were sent out for weeks? **edit - apparently it's actually been months when emails were sent out


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Also , really like how they implemented this cash back thing, super easy to opt in / not forget , awesome how you don't have to dig through tabs to find the button or to find out how much you are getting back.

sorry if it's a little off-topic, but lemme do a little x-post from Party thread in the zoo, trying to get the word out there:

I see the hypers and full table sngs are back.

Lol. So they probably removed them a few days before their money grab so people couldn't convert their points on them and instead had to play their Sit & Go HERO where the rake is higher and the payout in these is an absolute joke. I played about 30 of them, hit one 6x, one 10x and the rest was 2x and 4x. Remember that these SNGs are 4-max with a bounty on one person. Probably wasn't even possible to hit the jackpot during this time.

Rooting so hard for RIO poker.

diamond program anounced today
http://www.partypoker.com/blog/diamond-club.html

looks like 50%+ rakeback if you can rake 100k in a year + 24/7 skype contact with party poker staff / team members (pads)

pretty unreal. I think im gonna have to start playing here once the software is improved. awesome awesome stuff guys

can someone post here? link does not open :/

wow, not bad.