Hey guys
Pre party I used to love posting in the stars thread (and looking back was sometimes overly critical!) but always felt it would be great if there was somebody connected between the site and the players, somebody that played and understood what was going on and could relate back reasons why things are happening, make sure that all feedback was listened to and implemented/changed when its necessary. When partypoker asked me to get involved I kind of voluntarily offered to be this for partypoker on 2p2, I knew lot of players don't have time to do it, but I genuinely believe it to be an important role of 1) Explaining to players changes, posting the changes, 2) Getting a committee of players from all stake levels/game types that could act as an advisory panel and 3) Make sure that when people asked for stuff it was definitely listened to internally. I understood it would take a lot of time, posting after sessions etc.
Right now its just not very healthy, there is a lot of posts that are just very tough to reply to, a lot of repetitive posts from people. I've said it before that no site will cater for every single player, if you want to play 4 max then not every site will have 4 max, if the site says that they won't implement 4max then posting again and again about it just slows down other discussing points. There is a lot of lies which is always pretty strange, then their is random accusations and the odd insult. It just isn't really somewhere that 1) I would like to be involved with, 2) It is GTO for me to spend time working with partypoker. Hours spent trying to clear name from any wrongdoing could just be spent making sure every tournament is better.
I will just depart the thread now, Colette is very very good, capable and known to you all and can reply to a lot of your posts and suggestions. I will continue working with the advisory panel from 2p2 or around 10 guys that will make sure all of your thoughts are listened to internally.
There have been changes over the last 1-2 years that IMO are industry defining and the progress of the MTT part of the site from 2016 to now is more than any of us could have imagined. However there is changes happening in the next couple of months that will be the biggest of all time IMO. We're working very hard for the players behind the scenes here and I'm sure all (well 99%
) will be very happy to hear about them. More news coming very soon about them.
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
They're all soft currently because Pads "band of brothers" is still weak and mediocre in terms of skill
These kind of posts I'm not sure how I was supposed to reply? Try and defend my friends that they are OK at poker, does it even matter?!
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
I surely hope pads pays you enough for your trolling.
Assuming, of course, that you're really not just pads trolling account.
Again, not sure why/who/what I would be paying. But can confirm I don't hire anybody to troll.
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
Would agree on some $$$ spot for sure with My runs lol
Btw. Just ignore ubif and blakkman. They're either pads 2nd and 3rd account or his minions. 0 quality posts ever.
I have no idea who ubetifold is, never spoke to him, have no idea what country he is from, if he is a he etc. Just because he isn't agreeing with your points doesn't mean its me on a different account..
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Originally Posted by AKyouwin
This is a cross post from the main partypoker thread on NVG. If anyone reason this hasn't seen it yet, then its worth a read.
I have just made a complaint to the UKGC about the behaviour of partypoker and their relationships with stables like BITB
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk...omplaints.aspx
I would suggest that this is the kind of thing that would be more effective if a number of people voiced their concerns about.
The UKGC has recently investigated and fined various UK facing companies and I feel that this will be taken seriously.
This was probably the tip of the iceberg, I have commented a lot about bitB and partypoker. If you ask any player who has ever played for us there's never been any preferential treatment, if anything me being associated with bitB and Party makes bitB less money. There has never been any form of affiliation. If you think about 100+ spin players, bunch of cash players and over 100 MTT players all raking a lot of money sites pay very, very, very good money for this. We're talking $1m+ affiliation potential money, but I'm more than happy with the structure of partypoker loyalty system and I don't want to get extra $0.01 from partypoker. Of course I help players who have issues, but I also helped 500+ players not from bitB with personal issues with their accounts over the last year. I love helping everybody in the community.
In terms of integrity, cheating, I'm not sure what you're implying about what we could potentially be doing together. Seeing hole card? Super-using? These are very serious and slanderous accusations that I take extreme disgust to. Being involved with a site has nothing to do with ghosting or softplaying (two things we are the cleanest stable in the world at btw) but it has nothing to do with being associated to the site. The fact you are suggesting that there is something dodgy from partypoker offering bitB players makes me absolutely outraged.
In terms of partypoker offering more value to bitB players than others and it being a scheme by bitB to maximise value. Again, the additional value given in leader boards worth millions that is the main addition to the site in terms of value comes for completely different players than bitB players. Not 1 of our players ever actively plays for a leader board and I would bet a big part of my net worth every week at even odds that we would not come close to winning any leader board or extra incentive given to players. Of course bigger prizepools helps bitB players, but it also helps pocarr players, recreational players, everybody. Thats all I've done from day one is try and support the whole MTT player base for more tournaments, bigger tournaments, better structures, more time slots etc. It's sad having to defend myself on this thread that my players are not superusing etc. Very sad to see.
Will depart this thread now, but continue trying to do the best job possible for all players, hope to see you all at the tables and thanks for all the constructive posts, I will continue to work with advisory panel, Collete and all internal staff to make the site bigger and better on a daily basis.