Great job Nice to see Party taking a good direction in these dark, greedy, hum hum, (Stars), incompetent hum hummm (888), days

Changes sound awesome!

WPT structure is great, nh party!

I've heared rumors that something like a partypoker prepaid credit card exists making it possible to withdraw money from the partypoker acc. directly at atms. Is that true? If so, how can you get it?


edit: Link to the blog post is broken...

It's called GoPlay mastercard and when I got mine I applied for it via client.

It's ridiculous that you e-mail market (borderline spam) us with your $2,6k highroller marketing messages which are interesting for less than 0,1% of playerbase due to its buy-in but send us no information whatsoever about your rebuy tournaments you plan to add.

You really want them to fail by adding them in Monday with no marketing in lobby or anywhere else? At least you're trying that hard. Give rebuys a good program, market them in lobby pop-up message and with one e-mail and they'll thrive again.

Thank you for removing the terrible multiple re-entry format with full rake.
This graph gives an idea of the bad effect of multiple re-entries.

Is Party ever going to issue the GoPlay card to customers in Russia (before it regulates online poker)?

Yeah, and huge thumbs up for removing re-entry!

Fixed link:

www.partypoker.com/blog/pure-poker-hits-partypoker-every-single-day.html

Great Job nice to hear that all tournaments have to WPT blind structure now.

But I read that within 7 days you want to half late registration period, that means that you only can late register until level 6. That means that you have 50 Big Blinds (Blinds: 300/600 Stack: 30000) when you register at level 6.
I really don't like this desicion because I used to register between Level 9 and level 12 because otherwise the tournament would be so long for me.

Why do you want to change late registration Colette?
And to all other forum members, what do you think about this?
Please give me some support if you also think that it is not a great idea to reduce late registration time. There will be also less players registering if you change it and I think a lot of players wouldn't like this decision.

why still 2/3?

These wed mtts suck. Just keep the 10k stacks and cutting the jab gtd in half sucks to. stop trying to get all fancy and just keep the mtt lineup the same every day

They're staying as Wednesday format every day from now on

I agree it's a terrible idea to cut late registration. Please leave things the way they are now.

I believe the option is unlikely in Russia for now though this could change in the near future

Where did you read this?
I am guessing the UK FB forums?

Late reg is under review - will this change? I cant confirm
We have not decided on any changes for now
From the feedback from various sources its mixed opinions for now - its with the management to review and consider

Sorry, I don't see any screen shot and still don't understand the problem. Can you clarify and post the screen shot again?

If you mean joining individual table's waitlist, that's no longer possible.

I think he is referring to this screenshot:

This was the post of Rob Yong, DTD Casino owner:
"Late registration will remain at 12 levels for a week or so to not upset existing players who are used to logging in at X time, but will then reduce by 1/2 levels at a time with the end goal target of 6 levels of late reg, which means a player who buys in at the end of level 6 will have 50BBs or 37.5 BBs at level 7. This will take time to deliver so please be patient. The blind and ante structure that party are using has been benchmarked against every other online and live poker structure and produces the highest average BB which means more play and a better poker experience. "
(13th February)

It sounds that has been already decided to short late registration time. I think a lot of players won't play this tournament.
For example the Uppercut $50000 Gtd had a great structure yesterday.
But more or less 40% of the players registered after Level 6.

Because of that I think a lot of players like to start with a starting stack of 15 to 25 big blinds, especially hobby players like me. If you halve registration
time, you will lose a lot of players, especially non-professional players.

Thanks. Unless he gets that every time, then I don't think the waitlists are broken. I get that message sometimes when rebuy fails or joining waitlist like most of you probably do.

This is an issue for some players for whom the same message occurs frequently
Some have it occasionally and some not at all - its a strange issue and with the team and under investigation

I am aware of the discussion on the Facebook group
This has not be confirmed - however late reg is an issue which is under review by the team
Feedback is still being consolidated and considered by the party poker team before a decision is agreed upon

** powerfest is back and its packing a bigger punch than ever! **

Powerfest is set to return on the 1st May - 22nd May
A huge $7,800,000 GTD over three weeks and 172 events
Buys in from $5.50 - $5200 - there really is something for everyone

Following on from the recent success of Powerfest earlier this year - our online poker festival returns with its largest ever guarantee of $7,800,000.

Our blog has all the details >

http://www.partypoker.com/blog/bigge...powerfest.html

Thanks

Colette

welp this sucks

because? its awesome imo

I agree. Re-entries are bad for poker, there's rebuys for tournaments which allow people coming back from 0 chips.

And although I doubt that Party can keep their guaranteeds up with those running as freezeouts, this is probably best chance they have with people pissed off with not just PokerStars (non-informed increasing tournament rakes) but 888 (new even worse VIP program) as well. Good chance to grab players from those sites, enchanted with largest tournament series run'd outside of PokerStars (title which was kept for long by Winamax with around ~6M€ guaranteed series, I think).

Instead of lowering guaranteeds, bring us more satellites. And most important: rebuy and turbo rebuy satellites with decent guaranteeds (no need to fill the lobby with them, 1 or 2 in an hour is well sufficient).

And use promotions and VIP shop to boost those tournaments, as well. Maybe daily 11+r turbo sat re-introduced with 20 (weekday) or even 50 109$ seats (Sunday) guaranteed, supported by cheaper tickets from VIP shop, also to non-Platinum/Gold-members? Be creative!

** New - Rebuy tourney schedule **

The new rebuy schedule kicks off on Sunday 17th April - you can already view the new line up in the lobby

Our daily schedule is below >>

11:00 Featherweight: $1,500 Gtd Rebuy $ 10 + 1
11:00 Middleweight: $2,500 Gtd Rebuy $ 20 + 2
11:00 Middleweight: $5,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 50 + 5

13:00 Featherweight: $3,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 10 + 1
13:00 Middleweight: $5,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 20 + 2
13:00 Middleweight: $10,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 50 + 5

15:00 Featherweight: $3,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 10 + 1
15:00 Middleweight: $5,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 20 + 2
15:00 Middleweight: $10,000 Gtd Rebuy $ 50 + 5 [$20,000 Gtd on Sunday’s]

17:00 Featherweight: $1,500 Gtd Rebuy Turbo $ 10 + 1
17:00 Middleweight: $2,500 Gtd Rebuy Turbo $ 20 + 2
17:00 Middleweight: $5,000 Gtd Rebuy Turbo $ 50 + 5

(All times are in ET)

As always we welcome any feedback and I will do my best o answer any questions

Thanks

Colette

Sorry - small change needed

Somehow was able to sit at 5 fast forward tables

http://imgur.com/zEMVb2P