New Party Bonus for august - Summer Sizzler

[tufat23]

http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/summer_sizzler.html?om=pp1plp108SI

basically score 100 points every day for $300. easy

[tomtemor]

Can you play SNG's? Play Partypoker every day for a month, I'll have to think about that one.

[econophile]

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http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/summer_sizzler.html?om=pp1plp108SI

basically score 100 points every day for $300. easy

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i don't like it because if you miss one day the best you can do is $150 for 25 days of 100 points. since i'll be travelling some, there's no way i can do all 31 days. but not bad for people able to play every day.

[sonneti]

17 x $22 STT's x 31 Days = $1054 in rake

Will any of this come out of the affliates 20%?

[Gecko21]

So if I'm playing $50 NL, this works out to being 500 raked hands a day for 31 days, or 15500 hands for a whopping 51x bonus. Wow...thanks. Still might do it though depending on how I'm feeling on the first.

[ridonkulous]

But your forgeting about the 3100 party points you'll get as well. You can get a few kick ass mousepads.

[E.Z.]

party points dont count all $1 pots like the bonuses do either.
i cleared a bonus while doing a promo once and the raked hands conflicted in the bonus/promo.

[tufat23]

guys its like 1hr a day 12tabling the NL25. i play on party anyway so w.e.

[ajmargarine]

What a BS promotion.

On another note: anyone get an email thru to the VIP club in the last week? I tried 3 and they all came back undeliverable. I feel the need to complain some more.

[trickymartin]

That's one crappy promo.

[Dennisa]

yes

[Ali shmali]

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What a BS promotion.

On another note: anyone get an email thru to the VIP club in the last week? I tried 3 and they all came back undeliverable. I feel the need to complain some more.

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this happened to me too? i tried several times and finally just maile info and they fowareded it to VIP. they just said keep a look out again =P. Party did this promo last december with the santa promotion. the thing was that they stacked it with 2 other promotions. the scratch card plus the football promo plus like 2 reloads that month. hopefully they get the same thing going for august.

[alexz129]

does anyone know how many party points you get for an $11 sng? thanks.

[WiSeIVIaN]

3 pts per $1 in tourny fees. This promo sucks though...

[theben]

what a wothless promo. sheesh good job party. first monster, now this

[alexz129]

newb question - why is it so bad?

[Shakes]

This promo doesn't suck if you were going to play there anyway. And you have the unmentionable. And you plan to get a significant amount of money for the tournament leaderboard.

[Ali shmali]

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newb question - why is it so bad?

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if you don't play on party all the time, it's bad because it is very little money for lots of play. If you play on party all the time it's good, because it's free money for no play.

[ajmargarine]

Meh, even if you play at party all the time anyway, it kind of sucks. There's alot of non-poker reasons someone might not be able to play 31 days in a row.

[cbloom]

Yeah, this promo sucks for sure. Playing a solid session every single day is almost impossible. Even playing 25 days in a month is pretty crappy. I play poker because I don't want a job I have to do every single day. If you play 20 days (about by usual) you get $75. Whoopty freaking do Party.

The promos that are based on some # of points per week are much much better.

[daedalus]

So if you contribute $1500 in rake to Party during August they will give you $300. Nice job by the marketting department. With the 100 pts / day requirement this is clearly aimed at the high rake generators.

Better stunt than trying to hypnotize PokerStars players. Barely.

[grouchie]

Given the fact that from August 8th to august 11th i'll be driving across the country, I'll have a hard time doing this... unless i can manage to find hotels along the way that offer free hifi

[J_B]

I'd rather buy a stake in the chimp than do this promo. However, if I was going to play Party anyhow, it could be a worse promo.

[ajmargarine]

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Given the fact that from August 8th to august 11th i'll be driving across the country, I'll have a hard time doing this... unless i can manage to find hotels along the way that offer free hifi

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Grouchie: You should have no problems if you are intent on doing this. Almost all of the medium cost hotels have free internet access in the rooms. If you're frugal, you can still find them all over the place. It's something that is commonly advertised on their signs or they'll have a banner up across the front door. Super 8's especially almost always have access in the rooms. If it's wireless, just make sure you talk to the desk as to how important access is to you. You need to get a room as close to the router as you can or your connection could suck (if it's wired in the walls, almost all rooms are ok then). And then you can always play in the evening, and then after midnight eastern and take care of two days during one stay.

--aj

[cgwahl]

500 hands a day at 50c/$1

Doable, but doubtful can be done 31 days in a row.

[CardSharpCook]

so, I play for 31 days and I get, as a "bonus" all the money the monster ate during the first two days. Awesome.

[dazraf69]

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Given the fact that from August 8th to august 11th i'll be driving across the country, I'll have a hard time doing this... unless i can manage to find hotels along the way that offer free hifi

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Grouchie: You should have no problems if you are intent on doing this. Almost all of the medium cost hotels have free internet access in the rooms. If you're frugal, you can still find them all over the place. It's something that is commonly advertised on their signs or they'll have a banner up across the front door. Super 8's especially almost always have access in the rooms. If it's wireless, just make sure you talk to the desk as to how important access is to you. You need to get a room as close to the router as you can or your connection could suck (if it's wired in the walls, almost all rooms are ok then). And then you can always play in the evening, and then after midnight eastern and take care of two days during one stay.

--aj

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some that come to mind....

subway
starbucks
just about any major book store
any college
and im sure you can run a search in google for a list of known service providers in stores

[RiverFenix]

jwire.com lists hotspots by zipcode, very useful.

[MuckinWinners]

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newb question - why is it so bad?

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Becasue EVERYONE is Pissed off about no VIP offer in a Loonnngggg time.

[godofgamblers]

I think I'll be doing it as long as they have a real time counter on partypoitns to make sure I hit 100 points a day. I figure I'll be busy somedays, but I don't have anything planned this month where I can't logon at midnight to play a quick hour.

Edit: And I'm counting on at least one bonus this month by Party to make it even jucier especially after I lost $500 in blackjack doing their stupid 20% bonus flatbetting $10. @*(#&*(@#&*(@#

[MuckinWinners]

Don't forget that the points earned for this bonus count towards THE MONSTER. It's a double win!!!! /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Seriously, I plan on being gone to a REAL casino a couple days this month (this coming weekend) but figure I can squeeze in an hour-and-a-half a night for 20 nights in August.

SHIP IT!!!!!!!!

[bills217]

Anyone know how many hands it takes to get 100 Party Points at 3/6 6max?

And, I assume they have a daily counter right? I've played there but never paid any attention to my points as I hear they're generally worthless.

[Debaser]

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Anyone know how many hands it takes to get 100 Party Points at 3/6 6max?

And, I assume they have a daily counter right? I've played there but never paid any attention to my points as I hear they're generally worthless

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Limit Games
Limit PartyPoints Earned Criteria
$50/100, $100/200 28 for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
$10/20, $15/30 - Jackpot 24
$10/20, $15/30, $20/40, $30/60 18
$3/6, $5/10 - Jackpot 15
$3/6, $5/10 12
$2/4 6
$.50/1, $1/2 4
$.05/.10, $.10/.20, $.15/.30, $.25/.50 0

No-Limit & Pot-Limit Games
Blinds PartyPoints Earned Criteria
$10/20 18 for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
$3/6, $5/10 12
$2/4 6
$.50/1, $1/2 4
$.10/.25, $.25/.50 4
$.05/.10, $.02/.04 0


So 180 raked hands for 3/6, 140 on the BBJ tables.

[Komodo]

How many raked hands do you need to play on NL25 for 100 points?

[Debaser]

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How many raked hands do you need to play on NL25 for 100 points?

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500. Although I think the pots have to be raked 10c or more if more than 5 players are dealt in so some small raked pots at 25nl might not count.

[RunDownHouse]

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Meh, even if you play at party all the time anyway, it kind of sucks. There's alot of non-poker reasons someone might not be able to play 31 days in a row.

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How is that relevant at all, outside of considerations like Party offering a different bonus if this one wasn't happening? If you play exclusively on Party, you're going to get free money. If you play whatever the minimum for your level/points, you're going to get free money.

The only reason this promo would suck is if its replacing other promos. In a vacuum, its great. If they're moving to this sort of thing instead of deposit bonuses with 10x clearances, or whatever, I agree its a very bad sign. But I don't know how we'd be able to distinguish between the two at this point.

[MuckinWinners]

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Anyone know how many hands it takes to get 100 Party Points at 3/6 6max?


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I'm sorry that I cannot directly answer the question, but I can give an estimate for Full Ring Games. The number of played hands required for 100 Party Points would be approximately:

LIMIT -- PLAYED --Hands Per Hour
25PL --- 1000 ------ 52
25NL --- 1100 ------ 56
1/2 ---- 750 ------- 66
2/4 ---- 675 ------- 58
3/6 ---- 360 ------- 64
5/10 --- 240 ------- 66

The Hands played numbers are bases on BLUE. Point accumulations are 1.5 times fasted for SILVER and 2 time faster for GOLD. These are long term averages. Depending on the game, it may be less or more. I am hoping that the numbers would be less.

[AmonRaa]

Just played 400 raked hands and tab in my account isnt updating real time.

[Davey]

Party Points only update the next morning. Around 10am EST.

[tufat23]

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Party Points only update the next morning. Around 10am EST.

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for me this is gonna be the hardest thing. know exactly how many raked hands i've got

[Riddick]

What is the criteria for one party point? I cannot find it anywhere on the site. I seem to remember 4 raked hands = 1 party point.

[Davey]

riddick,

The criteria for a point is about 8 posts above yours. Or you can go to the players club (once you log into your account on the website) then click on how to earn party points. Not sure if this promotion is regular points or if BBJ and Happy hour counts.

tufat24,

If you have PT you can check really easy there. Just filter for .10 rake and get all the hands for that day.

[Riddick]

Duh totally missed that.

Now, is this promotion deducted from the unmentionable at the end of the month?

[Jibba]

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Duh totally missed that.

Now, is this promotion deducted from the unmentionable at the end of the month?

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What's this?

And yeah ... this promo sucks.

[MuckinWinners]

Well, I just finished my first 100 pps and it took almost 800 hands to get them. The 25NL/PL tables were rock gardens (at least the ones that I was on), even changing tables a few imes didn't seem to help much. There were MANY people talking about the 100 pps promotion though.

[MrBlueNose]

BN

[rjoefish]

~500 hands at 50$NL for silver level players.

[Bco1/75]

This bonus sucks...i think you would get more with rake back and if you were playing that many hands 31 days in a row....the $300 would be miniscule.....

[godofgamblers]

We should email them and demand a raked hand counter. They obviously already have it for bonuses and such. I asked them to give me a 1 cent bonus for 50000 hands so I could keep track of raked hands. They said no. =/

[skoal2k4]

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We should email them and demand a raked hand counter. They obviously already have it for bonuses and such. I asked them to give me a 1 cent bonus for 50000 hands so I could keep track of raked hands. They said no. =/

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Dear skoal2k4,

I apologize for the inconvenience caused. At this point in time, players do not have an option to check the number of Party Points they have earned in a day as this information is not updated instantly.

As informed to you in the earlier email, we have escalated your suggestions to the concerned department. I hope you understand that this is the first time we are having such a bonus promotion. Going ahead, we might definitely have a counter for the Party Points as well. This will categorically help you to keep a track of how many Party Points you earn in a day and play accordingly.

You have our assurance that we are working 24/7 to make sure that you have a fulfilling Poker experience.

Sid
PartyPoker Customer Care

[godofgamblers]

Giving us a raked hand counter, when they already have it programmed, is pretty goddamn reasonable. I don't know why they're being so difficult. My PT stats never match completely with their raked hand counter during bonuses, and hell if I'm gonna do any extra when I'm already doin like 30x or something.

[godofgamblers]

"If you earn 100 Party Points in a day, you will receive a pop up message when you login to the Player Account when you login to the PartyPoker.com lobby."

I don't know if this is for the same day or next day, but if's the next day it's pretty worthless.

[ChunLisBF]

for all those who want a rake counter, why not just use pokertracker?

[keikiwai]

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for all those who want a rake counter, why not just use pokertracker?

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They don't match exactly. So if you want to stop the moment you've hit 100 points, using PT may cost you a day. I think they're close but not the same.

[kevstreet]

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You have our assurance that we are working 24/7 to make sure that you have a fulfilling Poker experience.


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Do they really mean this?

[godofgamblers]

As expected, my PT and Party has a difference of 68 raked hands.

[AmonRaa]

In statement it shows over 100 regular points on August 1st however in Sizzle window they say I havent earned 100 points, yet. Go figure.

[w00tie]

what is the REASON for PT and PP raked hands not correlating?

[CrazyPsycho]

Haha, I liked logging in to this:

The PartyPoker.com & PartyCasino.com SUMMER SIZZLER update!

Well done! You have earned 100 or more points* on 0 days in August.


Well done!

[Dennisa]

if you disconect, pt may lose a few hands.

You need to go to the game notes tab and filter for hands that generate 10 cents or more in rake, as if you are playing nl25 with 6 or more players, a hand than only generates 5 cents rake does not count toward party points.

2nd if you mix your limits, you need multiples of 20 raked hands to get points, eg 39 rakes 25NL hands only count as 4 points. I am still not sure what happens if you mix nl25 and nl50 together.

[ronbo1964]

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Giving us a raked hand counter, when they already have it programmed, is pretty goddamn reasonable. I don't know why they're being so difficult. My PT stats never match completely with their raked hand counter during bonuses, and hell if I'm gonna do any extra when I'm already doin like 30x or something.

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I've went back and forth with them on several occassions ... Here's how their software works (guaranteed) ... Normal deposit bonuses, where you play #x raked hands counts any hand where ANY rake was taken ... You can see these on the bonus page, anyway, and even a nickel rake will do ... However, on their other money give aways, and for Party Poker points, the rake must be greater than or equal to the number of players dealt into a hand times a penny ... Thus, if more than 5 players are dealt into a hand, the rake must reach 10 cents (important when playing at the low limit pot- and no-limit tables) ... Any hand raked a dime will qualify, regardless of how many players dealt into a hand ... Thus, if you want to go by PT for PP's raked hands, if you are at a level that can take just a nickel rake, filter by all hands with a rake 10 cents or more PLUS any hand where 5 or less players were dealt in, and the rake was a nickel ...

[godofgamblers]

That's the weird part. My hands should match exactly with PT since I only play limit. However my comp is getting fixed and I'm on my laptop and PT is messed up here. The entire PT screen isn't shown even after I change resolutions, and I can't access a lot of functions. That's the only reason I'm making such a big deal about it. I have to view raked hands per table session, and it's a pain.

[salloch]

The fact that you cannot see what party considers a raked hand makes this a joke.

However, I looked at one week of hands with a rake of .10 or more. My PT and Party stats aren't very close. Party ALWAYS gives me more points that PT predicts.

BUT...doing some simple math it appears that the range of hands I must play to earn 100 points is anywhere from 500 to 800. So to be fairly certain of getting to 100, I have to play at least 800 hands, and even then (esp. if the tables tighten up) it may not be enough, BUT I WON"T KNOW THIS UNTIL THE NEXT DAY. Retarded.

I am a SILVER player.

FYI

salloch

[Riddick]

Yeah this is the worst bonus offer I've ever heard of. Just playing 800 raked hands per day easily gets me a grand in the unmentionable at the end of the month, why would I want the $300 bonus deducting some of that???