Yeah, it's weird.

Nothing changed. playingstyle 21/18

200 points in 1k hands yesterday
200 points in 1k hands 2 days ago
140 points in 1k hands today

Def seems slower today, wouldn't surprise me if they changed something to make Gladiator harder.

More mass multi-tabling regs nitting it up = lower rake= less points.

Makes sense actually, as it was the weekend afterall

. . Interesting Question;

Why Do you guys prefer Party Poker when Poker Stars or Fulltilt offer lower rake structure, bigger promotions, more traffic and less short stack tables?

I've been thinking about moving to Poker Stars. . . I'm wondering if the whole 'Euro Site= More donks' Also, what is the typical rush hour traffic (for donks) that are here on Party Poker, as I don't think it accommodates me as a Canadian player very well.

as a canadian if you wake up at noon it is around peak time on party

completely opposite here, i would have to **** up my sleep rhytms completely to play the best times

you got it pretty good over there

the part underlined is debatable and the part in bold is 100% wrong

yeah noon doesn't really work too well with me going to college ><
I'm talking pst<--- canada's pretty big lol. not EST or atlantic time

yesterday I played 1 table for 2 orbits or so, only 1 postflop hand I think. KK<AK PFAI, after that I quit table and I only got 2 points for that. Shouldnt it be 6 points?

for euros(EU-citizens in EU countries) party isnt taxable while ftp/stars are afaik

+1 to what coxquinn said. i am not 100% sure but i could almost say that overall we are paying less rake on party(after promos, vip program etc). dont know the exact end numbers though

i play professionally so i would really like if thailand could move to south america or something so i could wake up at noon for peak hours

Yeah Party sux for the grinders and reg's, much better off on Fulltilt and stars

what rake method party uses? dealt or contributed

Lol what?
4 moths ago i logged for the 1st time in 2 years at my party acc. (0 points obv)
2 free bonuses w8ing for me, 100$ and 50$. Cleared them in the 1st few days or so.
In 3 months I've grinded 9k> for elite rank but have received 0 extra free bonuses.
Didnt even get the tap on the back phone call.
Wtf, what bonuses?!

Dealt.

AlexSmirnov, are you fkn ******ed? There's a maniac fish with a 5BI stack, and you needle him AFTER you stack him? And then again when you win another pot? So he leaves an orbit later? Cant even explain how ******ed I think you are...

Played 9K hands of 200NL for the gladiator yesterday = 1500 PP


Last year I played the same promo which was 1000PP/day = 7K hands
That's 30% more.Impossible for me to play so many hands for 30 days
I know the rake changed but **** this.

800 points/25 days it is

No offence, but some maniac fish isn't going to leave just because someone berated him. I'd say the fish gets pissed off and is more likely to stay after getting berated. Stop being so results oriented.

there is never an excuse for berating fish

This is simply not true, for the large majority of fish.

i was curious so i counted some things out.
this is how many
dollars a 100 partypoints are worth in the gladiator bonus.
maybe some people can use this.
gl with grinding this month guys

5days 10days 15days 20days 25days 30days
10pp 100 = x = x = x =$7,50 =$6,67
20pp 100 = x = x =$5 =$8,75 =$9
50pp 100 = x =$5 =$6,67 =$9 =$9,60
100pp 100 = $5 =$6 =$8 =$8,50 =$10
200pp 100 = $5,50 =$7 =$8,33 =$10 =$10,50
400pp 100 = $6,25 =$7,50 =$9,16 =$10,62 =$11
800pp 100 = $7,50 =$8,75 =$10 =$10,94 =$11,25
1500pp 100 = $8 =$9,33 =$10 =$11,66 =$11,76 =$15,56*

*based on $7000 cash

Is party poker promotions + reward club worth it for a 25nl Reg playing 30-50k hands a month? or would we they be better of hitting a solid RAKEBACK % such as Fulltilt or bonuses such as bigger sites POKERSTARS?. Of course this all is a little bit biased as I am asking the the "Party Poker Regs" thread. ><

how much rake (or partypoints) is 50k hands worth at 25nl for you? remember if you get 9k points in a quarter you make palladium which i think is pretty close for you

and palladium would be 30% rakeback from the vip program alone buying the 3k bonus.

even if you only stay gold (on party) from memory you can buy 1.2k bonus for 10k points which is 24% rakeback. staying gold only requires $500 in rake (or 1000 partypoints) a month to sustain which you should be able to do easily.

add promos/random bonuses you should be beating stars easily (you wont be making supernova with your volume afaik). i dont know how much ftp would be worth for you in total but i think you would atleast break even on party compared to ftp (if you are gold on party and have the 27% on ftp)

okay it seems 50k hands according to PTR allows me to make 3.3$/100 hands rake. 1650$ rake/month or 3300 points/month.

BTW gold is 17.5% bonus According to http://www.partypoker.com/rewards/

=/. I believe I calculated the gladiator bonus itself is worth 19% to me so that's alright =)

What ?
Fish gets pissed off and tightens up so he wouldnt looose so often

If you get berated on the table and lets say you take it in with you, will you loosen up and risk loosing more or tighten up and try to play better hands ?

And others who play for fun want to leave if they get negative response from the table.


Fact is that if fish plays manic doesnt mean his personality is crazy. He just there for fun and playes as he can.



so *** smirnov and his idiot fantasy of being a gods gift to poker