Convert your Monster "freerolls" to cash - big ripoff?

[highland]

I couldn't find a thread on this. I'm not sure when it happened, but you can now convert your Monster "freerolls" into cash:

Party's calculation of freeroll values (https://secure.partyaccount.com/monster/ppoker_monster.htm?x=36&y=13&)

weekly: $100.02
monthly: $350.09
finale: $1,800.72

All their calculations seem to be fair, except the most important one. They have a prize pool of $14.4M and are saying that an entry into the "Grand Finale" is worth $14.4M/8,000. But, since they cancelled the promotion _way_ before 8000 people have grand finale entries (or the % chance to get them from weekly/monthlies), it seems to me that they are simply stealing the bulk of the money.

cheers,
-highland

[solucky]

its discussed many times here. In my opinion no rippoff but a wrong explanation. In my personal view no tournament, no TV-Money.no added prizemoney. In fact Party paid 16 weeklys and 2 monthly out of there pockets and 5 Mill from the final.

In this way 14,4 million minus 8,6 added money = 5,8 million

And they pay out more than that

[MicroBob]

not sure how you couldn't find the threads on this topic as so many posters seem to be really ticked-off about it and won't give it up.

[NewGuy]

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not sure how you couldn't find the threads on this topic as so many posters seem to be really ticked-off about it and won't give it up.

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I did MB. I'm past the denial & anger phases and have reached acceptance/sadness.

Here's the thread
megathread (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=7652457&an=0&page=4#Post 7652457)

(If you bump the thread be prepared to be flamed by some Frommagio guy)