How does Party handle tickets ? I won a ticket to the weekly 50 Seat Frenzy. Apparently I am now automatically registered to next Saturday's satellite. What happens when I unregister to this tournament ?

After nothing for my last 680 countries, finally got one today. Mexico for $200. I was beginning to lose hope.


1334 cities
11 cities left.

Still need Brazil for South America, Hong Kong for Asia, Ottawa for Canada.
It'll be exciting if I can hit the USA soon.

I'm pretty sure you can unregister and get tournament dollars. Just try and look it up at 'my account'.

This is the best I've seen so far. 11 cities left after only 1334 cities, pretty sick right?

anyone got less then 11 left?

I definitely ran good for my first 650 cities but the best result was the guy who hit South America for $16,900 after something like 330 cities.

Is there anywhere you can get a list of all the promotions from the last 12 months and any Paladium Elite exclusive promo's?

Trying to make the decision between SNE and Palladium Elite

Yeah first 3 days there where a lot of people posting nice results. I was at 17 missing cities left after 2,5 days aswell. Not much rungood posts after that (also not from people who just started playing). Strange promotion, I'm really waiting (and hoping for) someone who's like 5 cities away and already cleared europe.

If you're hot and reading this, POST damnit!

pretty sure SNE>>>PE now because of weighted-contributed + higher rake on party.

here's a list I made earlier of a 12 month assuming ~10k rake/month tho':



the average is dragged down a bit by the way world dom was run (badly) last time, and SNE pace is a bit higher than this chart anyway (~13.3k rake/month). At SNE pace on party you'd probably get ~20% rakeback from promos. but bear in mind party is planning to scale down promos to make them less valuable to grinders - link so that might decline

to qualify for PE, then buy and clear the 50% rakeback bonus ($75000 for 300k partypoints) would take 375k points/year, so ~$15k/month for 70% RB

SNE is slightly less rake/month and worth ~60% but it's still worth more than party imo cos that 60% counts for more with dealt rake + lower rake on pokerstars

also i believe PE exclusive promos are the same as palladium exclusive ones, there aren't any more extra ones afaik

sick and grats man.

still have 75$+23$ after soon 1k cities, still fighting for canberra and 2k, will give it a hard try this week i think.

He's been very quiet since? Murdered by a jealous 2+2er?

On a more serious note: is anybody else getting bad lag (again) today? Keep getting these big 5+ second freeze-ups...

Juk

Any Relode Bonus for WPT Final Table?

Edit: I doubt there will be I just caught a pick of table and it seems BWIN have got this event.

Does someone know what this points booster does? My friend got 20,000 VIP points booster and he's French so I had to read it for him. I read the page in the client and online and I can't for the life of me understand what he needs to do and what he gets for it.

Ya but the difference is to get that 50% RB you don't need actually do that rake in a year. You can do it in as long as you want then grind to be PE to just unlock the bonus.

You are right about the weight rake but loose players get more than 50% dealt so depends on your style.

true, i'm aware of that, you could earn 260k points over as many years as you like, then switch to $6.6k rake/month for 3 months to qualify to PE, hit 300k and buy the $75k bonus, then you'd need to rake $6.25k/month for the 6 months (180 days) that you get to clear the bonus, in order to clear it in time.

the poster was asking about a comparison to SNE tho', so I put it over 1 calendar year to make that comparison.

but yeah you'll still need to make PE pace for 9 months if you want 50% RB, and then you have the leftover 75k points after clearing the bonus, which one day you will have to trade in for a lower %, unless you repeat the whole process infinitely or so many times it becomes ~negligible

it's really hard to get more points/hand now than before the rake switch, even if you're a LAG. with one fish at the table the avg vpip goes up and it gets even harder (people observing getting more points could be a 30/25 LAG at a table full of 20/20 players, so wow awesome that you're LAG enough to get more points now, but the table sucks, game select to have a 40/10 player in the game and now you'll probably be earning points at 70-90% of the rate before August)

i don't think they'll run one because they have a $100 one planned for January when the rake-free MTTs run again

The only thing I really don't like about their points system (which is great for them) is that like you said the only way you get 50% RB is if you grind infinitely and get the bonus always but eventually you will stop and have to settle for a bonus to buy which will make your last bonus like 30% RB.

^yeah and it's a very painful experience if you ever leave party (which I'm currently doing) to try and not lose too much value. at the lower bonus levels it's carefully and cleverly rigged against you

for example clearing the $3k palladium bonus leaves you with 5k points... there are bonuses for 3k points or 6k points... so you prob end up hanging around to get to 6k points. There you could take 10% cashback or a 15% bonus... so you prob go for the bonus. Clear that, then you have 1.5k points to either get 6.67% cashback or a 10.67% bonus... you prob hang around even longer to get another bonus. Then you're left with 375 points which you can do nothing with except play some more to get to 500, then get $10 for that, 5% cashback.

pretty depressing when on stars you can instantly release a $4000 bonus at the click of button. the best you can do on party is try to leave in the same month as a high RB % promo like gladiator so you get extra value that month and feel less bad about it

Well it's almost the same with Stars though, because your 250k FPPS will hardly ever be at the same time that you clear a milestone, so you actually should in theory keep playing to 250k FPPs but then you have to keep playing for the next milestone etc.

Nobody has an answer for the points booster though? No idea what it does, told my buddy I'd let him know what he has to do lol.

788 cities
cash prize $76
points: 695
numbers of countries dominated: 2
cash prize: $325

18 cities away..

and I really dislike party's point system the more I play it.

When can i leave this sucker hole?

can get pretty damn close, 300k VPPs/year is 944k FPPs/year starting at bronze star, or 1050000 starting as supernova. but yeah I guess it's unavoidable on many sites

If you earn X number of points in a certain time period, then you get Y free

X varies by player but is usually 3-3.5x bigger than Y

for example:

why do some ppl get 20k boost and some get 7.5k?

the bigger number X is how many points u need to earn

the smaller one Y is the free points u get if u hit the target X

X and Y are random for each player, depends on how much u rake I guess, if they think you'll go for a bigger carrot then they'll set the bar high

but X/Y ratio should be about the same always

But where do you see these numbers? Only place I see a number is in the title where it says 20,000.

then go ahead and put in about 66k points to get 20k free points. Are you a PE or just palladium?

only started playing 50nl on party today

unlocked 7 cities: apparently 2 rare? if theyre in the 3rd column got sydney and saint petersberg


edit: seen post below me. FML

Nope... 3rd column isn't rare.. 3rd city listed on map is rare.