Sometimes it feels like they make up 80% of the player pool nowadays. But this is on all sites.
I agree that this should be controlled especially since 95% of all botting, colluding, scamming comes from those countries.

There is a reason that "control" is impossible. Its already been discussed to death in other threads. I for one, until the day I die will always be wary of anyone I meet irl from an former soviet nation just from my experiences in poker over the years. In 2015 I caught ~11 colluders/cheaters on party (obv all Russian)and got them all permabanned with the help of another 2+2'r + party support. Don't whine and complain about ringfencing or table limits. If you are getting cheated catch them in the act with proof and post it here and notify support

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** partypoker brings back Power Series guarantees **

From tonight the Jab, Contender and the Uppercut increases its guarantees.
Plus after listening to player feedback the start times of these events will now be moved forward an hour. *

The Jab: 20:00CET $7500GTD Mon - Wed $10K GTD Thu - Sun 1 re-entry

The Contender: 20:00CET $15K GTD Mon - Wed $20K GTD Thu - Sn 1 re-entry

The Uppercut: 20:00CET $50K GTD Mon - Sat 1 re-entry

Thanks

Colette

I liked the schedule with Uppercut 2 and Contender 2 much more! Yesterday was perfect!

Sorry, but this is somewhat naive. For how long do you want to get cheated on until you (maybe) have enough evidence? I prefer preventive measures. It's simply unacceptable that on the fr tables you sometimes have 8 Russians/CIS and one victim.
And this not just from my perspective as a reg. Recreational players will also notice this. I do know some old guys who stopped playing because they got sick of "Russians ganging up vs them".
It is the way it is, they are responsible for almost all scams in poker.

In the future, will bwin and party use the same software? I can only use bwin and am dying to move all my volume away from stars, but the software has serious issues preventing me from grinding effectively. It's pretty much the only reason I still play on stars atm.

The Uppercut sees no increase in the GTD btw

.... just an increase of re-entries from zero to one


You missed hitting the 100K fight night guarantee yesterday mostly because some players were unaware the tournament started an hour earlier...
holding the tournies at their normal time will help.

.... and what about pure poker ??

no one likes re-entries !

Agreed, and I'm one of those old guys with lots of poker playing time on my hands. Regs like to see me sit at a table.

A couple of years ago I became aware that whenever I took a hit at a table there there was a theme to the action (besides the fact that I am not the world's greatest player). Since then I have 'marked' (colour coded... light blue) every player I come across on Pokerstars, Party and 888 with a country code of Russia or any country that ends in 'stan'. I don't multi-table so I have time to scan players for this info. I've also developed my own rules.

Rule 1. Sit out if there are more than 2 blues at a 6 max table or 3 blues at a FR table.
Rule 2. If a blue sits down on my left or left +1, leave immediately.
Rule 3. If the blues are out in force, go do some gardening.

Three rules and a tinfoil hat works for me.

The amount of UK players isnt healthy either. Often 4-5 Uk players and one fish at the 6 max tables. No wonder recs and fish are starting to wonder whats going on!

Which jurisdiction applies to PartyPoker?

there is nothing naive about it, just because you dont understand why a table limit or ringfence plan wont work is not my issue. ill tell you though since im so awesome. place a table limit on russians/kazaks/ukraine etc, what happens? all the winners move..... the losing players/depositors from those countries stay home and get limited, the crushers you cant stand move abroad and own you from thailand,cambodia,sout korea,mexico costa rica,panama etc etc etc.

The issue can be mitigated by banning all the countries that have visa-free access for CIS citizens. I doubt that GVC wants to do that, though, considering that it has recently unbanned many grey markets and that Latin America is a juicy one.

And regardless, we, CIS people, stand up more times than the rest. We even withstood the main assault of the Nazis.

Hello, Can Party Representers explain situation about pokerstrategy&party promotion Gemstone? Why there is no payment for first 3 months of the year? At strategy forum there was message about all our problems will be solved at 28 April..But there is still nothing

I have never seen this. Suppose it depends on the stakes.

This is not a partypoker promotion - but an affiliate promotion
I would suggest you contact them with your query

Hi Igor78, welcome on 2+2! The problem is on Pokerstrategy's side - other affiliates are providing Party rake stats without such delays.

PS-gy has an automated rake data import system that breaks nearly every month , which sometimes affects multiple partner sites / networks. All the blame is on the affiliate.

But they say that there is some problem on your side with counting points of April, are they wrong?

There's a problem with the interaction between Party's affiliate frontend and Pokerstrategy's Strategy Points backend.

Those affiliates who retrieve their players' stats manually (instead of using a clumsy automated reporting system) are able to run rake races normally at the moment.

Anyway, make a screenshot of your PartyPoints history in the poker client (to prove that you've earned enough points to qualify for a Gemstone payment) and send it via a support ticket to the Pokerstrategy staff, you'll be taken care of.

It's not really Party's fault so please continue discussing the issue on the Pokerstrategy forum instead of 2+2.

Good luck!

Anyone having trouble logging in? Clicking sign in does nothing

Yes, same.

It is fine here

It's fine now. Had to complete a 'reality check' upon logging in though.

Thanks for helping out here

Hi all - sorry about this! This should be for UK players - its part of the new UK GC regulatory changes just put into implementation

This appears in some cases to have also reset the remember me function so you may need to re enter details and select Save

I still don't understand exactly how it works. Is the second bonus switched on and the other one paused by just clicking 'Activate' in the description of the second bonus offer? I'm afraid to click that button until someone confirms that it doesn't cancel the current bonus; I don't want to forfeit a long $500 bonus forever trying to chase a $20 one (that expires earlier), you know.

Can anyone advise how I can tune the Party sound settings so that all I get is alerts?