An absurd example:

If I offered you a free $2 to play 80 hands of badugi every day for the next month, would you think it was a great promotion?

Again, I'm not saying this 5/25 promotion is the same as my example, but the example is meant to show that there could be a point where the "its free money you tard" response doesn't cut it.

For each person, the amount of hands, amount of money, and game required to be played is going to be different.

So your reason your statement of this is a bad promotion by offering and extremely bad example? 5 points would seriously take just a few minutes per day at rush tables. Just click quick fold for a few minutes, pay some blinds... and you'll come out way ahead without even having to actually play hands.

I honestly have no idea what this sentence is trying to say.

My example was meant to show (and I think it does show) that every body has a willingness of what they're willing to do for what amount of money. THEREFORE, simply saying "free money" does not mean that the promotion is NECESSARILY good.

My example just shows that it isn't a good promotion SIMPLY because it offers free money.

It doesn't show why it is a dumb promo.


It's a dumb promo because they just had a Rush Poker Promo and so they're targeting the exact same demographic with this promo, but they're actually offering significantly less money. Any body who would have made the switch to Rush poker because of a promo would have done so with the last one. So this has no real value to FTP.
It also has a very insignificant amount of value to anyone who doesn't play micros.

And also ... it makes the same mistake (imo) as the rest of FTP's reward program. It rewards players who play quantity of days rather than quantity of hands/rake, whereas money generated from them is based on quantity of hands/rake.

Yeah that was a bad sentence...

So you come into beginners... where most people play micros.. and say it's a bad promo because you don't play micros. And it's not the exact same demographic because you don't have to play rush to do it.. and it does attract people that don't play at ftp. I hate playing at ftp, but I always move money over for take 2 because it takes absolutely no effort to meet the requirements for the money.

Is it worth it for a 100nl grinder on stars to move money over? Probably not.. but for the majority of people that play online poker, it doesn't get any easier for $25.

It certainly isn't the best planned promotion ever or anything.. but for anyone with small bankrolls, it really is a solid promotion. Not everyone can play long enough, or high enough right now, to hit ironman levels or take advantage of other promotions ftp has. So this is a good promotion for casual players trying to build bankrolls.

TY Ice_W0lf

I think I will try as I have nothing to lose.

Pretty stupid thing for us to be arguing about.


If you value from it -- great. Take advantage of it.

I just don't think its a very good promotion.

You also get double your FTPs when you play more than one table. It's either double your first session of the day or your longest session, but not the combination of the two. This is worth throwing out there if people want to use them for tournie entries or if they want to buy anything in the store.

It's not much, but it's something in addition.

I really agree with this. WTF is up with this. Do they want me to play for 1 hour 30 days a month or 6 hours 18 days a month? They do this same thing with the Iron Man.

Maybe they just figure regular players will play however many hours a day anyway and now this gives some incentive (not much) to play more days and will probably lead to more hours.



Anyway I guess this is actually a pretty good promotion for low microstakes players. Seems an easy $25. Nothing to switch sites over if you're playing slightly higher but might as well take the free $25.

And I'm not one to pass up a free $25 so as long as I remember I'll make sure I play for 5ish minutes each of those days to get the 5 FTP and make $25. And it probably won't be much more than 5 minutes with finals rapidly approaching and me having to cut back a lot to spend a bunch of time on that since I did very little all semester.


"Earn at least five Take 2 bonus points on any five days during Take 2 to get $5 in cash. Do so on all nine days to get an additional $20, for a total of $25"

Are take 2 bonus points = to FTP? I actually can't find a definition of take 2 bonus points anywhere. I guess it could be anything.

I think so, don't hold me to it though.

i will get 5$ bonus. does anyone know how much it affects rakeback?

reading the thread ftw.

i read it. but i heard that it will affect on another forum. and i didnt recive any rakeback today. so i guess its because of that bonus. normally i would have recieved RB about 3 hrs ago.

edit says: just got my rakeback. was only a bit later than normally.

but thx for the quick reply Ice

Hey, do we know when bonus is paid? (at the end of 9 days ?)

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