I cannot imagine that it is remotely possible for any player (even including multiple people playing on GiftofGab's account) to earn 3 million rank points in 4 months. Even if you are playing 20 tables 10 hours a day I dont think you could get there. Not to mention the lack of traffic in non-peak times would also prevent you from being able to grind and multi-table enough to get remotely close to this.

From the terms and conditions regarding this promotion on the ACR site:

•The Winner agrees that he shall be required to participate in publicity connected with this promotion, including public disclosure of his screen name and a likeness.

Can you please let GiftofGab know if he should in a photo of himself or his two roomates

vrooom vrooom

Awesome! Good to know.

like it's cool you guys basically copied stars VIP system exactly/did the beast promotion but the big difference is on ACR/True the only people who benefit from it are a group of cheaters who the majority of the player base and your own company know about.

Almost signed up today until I read this thread. Glad I did. Seems like it saved me a lot of potential headache. I guess I'll give Carbon a try.

With today's software update, the ability to bet based upon the size of the pot - 1/2, 2/3, pot - is missing. This really slows down post flop betting. Please reinstall the pot-based betting options.

look at the bright side. less grinders lol

put the pot buttons back!!!

+1000000000

And the Sit n Go Lobby is annoying that you can't see the players who are registered without having to open up the tournament lobby. This is very frustrating for Heads up Sit n Gos as they don't need a tourney lobby and just created more windows.

As of this writing, I have made 8 cashouts, and each of them took 2 weeks, +/- one day.

I'm fine with BBJ tables in principle. I would gladly play the BBJ tables at ACR if they raked them a normal amount.

The problem is that they don't. The rake on their BBJ tables is ghastly and absolutely guts your winrate. I am at 8+ BB/100 playing the normal tables and < 2 BB/100 on the BBJ tables. So I just stopped because it isn't worth it.

The "better competition"/grinders at the regular tables still isn't very good and is quite beatable. There are plenty of fish at the regular tables, so I don't see a need to play the BBJ tables, and I won't, until they adjust that horrendous rake.

Just quoting this to give you a +1. It's possible to beat the game at 25NL -- I was at about +2 BB/100 before I stopped playing the horrible BBJ tables -- but just barely, and it's not worth the effort.

I'll register a complaint about this here too. Awful.

Also, I just noticed that the pot-limit games still have the pot-based buttons but the NL ones don't. So it seems like a conscious bad decision and not a glitch.

There is no extra rake taken out for The Beast as far as I know. It was awful before they started the Beast promotion and it's the same now. They just take a portion of the jackpot rake and put it in the Beast pot.

The regular 25 NL tables and above get almost no players. 10NL and 5NL get lots of players at the regular tables.

The percentage of rake taken out of the BBJ tables at 50NL and up is not so bad, for whatever reason. At 25NL and 10NL it makes no sense to play BBJ tables IMO.

Switch to Dealt

Eliminate BBJ tables

ACR will explode.

Just wondering if this has been proven? I noticed Gab hasn't got a quick head start today for the beast

Is the amount that hit my account today a combination of rakeback and The Beast bonus? Or am I still waiting on the other to go into my account as well.

I have no idea how much rakeback I am earning because the amount I get every week is different from what I calculate from my PTR3, which is different from the amount the RB affialite site I use has as a total. When I emailed ACR the response was,

"Please be kindly advised that in order to calculate the amount to be paid, we have to take other items into consideration (besides the rakeback amount itself). Also remember that we use the contributed system which is calculated by the amount you put into each pot, rather than each and every hand you play.

Hope this helps."

...It didn't really

Stick to your Revolution threads and stop spamming up this one.

And when you register first for a HUSng the guy that sits you gets to steal your blinds until you get to the table which takes a while becasue of that "take your seat, yes no" popup. PLEASE CHANGE THE SIT N GO LOBBY BACK TO THE PREVIOUS UPDATE PLEASE.

Spamming?

Honest question: Do you ever look at Pokerstars and say "They did it all horribly wrong"

No one does. Therefore, I question why any site would in their right mind, when a site like Pokerstars exits your target market, you don't mimic them in whatever way possible.

They've got the rewards system down. It is great. Now they must stop cannibalizing their player base with their overly excessive rake at lower limits and using Contributed RB instead of Dealt.

My guess is that it's just rakeback. I checked about an hour ago and haven't been paid yet for The Beast. I also had the same issue as you and when I emailed the rakeback department I got pretty much the exact same answer (which did not help). What they don't realize/don't tell you is that PT3 counts the BBJ/JP money taken from each pot you win as "rake" when it is not rake in the true sense of the word since it isn't going directly to the site and you do not get any % of this money back. Just look at hands you've won (of course when playing at BBJ/JP tables) and look at the amount of rake taken from each hand. Compare it to the amount of rake taken from the pot in the HH and you'll see it's rake + BBJ fee. This, of course, leads to PT3 incorrectly displaying the amount of rake you paid so when you get your rakeback you're like wtf I should be getting way more than this. Maybe there's some sort of stat that can be created to filter out all the BBJ/JP "rake" from showing under your Rake column but I'd imagine it'd be pretty tough if you play multiple stakes (as I and many others do). Anyways, that's my take on the issue.

Seems to work for the vast majority of all online poker networks and sites. And yes @ spamming, because you only ever praise the Revolution (formerly known as Cake) network.

Why would they tell you something about a third party software? That is none of their business imo?

You obviously don't know me, because all I've done recently is bash the Revolution network.

And Contributed/BBJ tables do not work. For proof, look at every major online poker site that switched from Dealt to Contributed RB a few years back. They've all seen massive declines in traffic. And no largely successful site uses BBJ tables.

I'm just waiting for a site to do it right in the current USA market. Revolution, unfortunately, is the closest.

Is it even possible to earn 1 million rank points in 4 months? Let alone the 3 million that are required to win the car by December 1. I cant possibly imagine anyone reaching 1 million. Why have a promotion where it is humanly impossible to achieve the prize?

nowhere near possible. really really dumb promotion.

Thanks mlo, I appreciate your response... that makes sense.

I'm hoping the Beast bonus is yet to come...