[TheBloke]

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It amuses me that you all blame Party, like EV is your God-given right and anyone who dares to take it away from you (or not offer it in the first place) is some penny-pinching scumbag.

If you want these gifts, and that is what they are, then treat them as the precious commodities and do not talk about them in public.

Normally when this is said (usually on the Internet Bonus forums here), people reply with "well I've already done that bonus, so what do I care if it dies"; they miss the point that if that always happens, then next time and the time after they probably won't have done it before it dies.

This case is even clearer tho - you managed to kill it before it even happened. Perhaps this will show you something.

Remember, casinos are not poker. Talk about poker bonuses all you like, you probably won't ever kill or even change them. Do not talk about casino bonuses, no good will come of it. If you want to hit casinos, do your own research and share it with a limited group of reciprocating friends, in private. If everyone does that there will be more bonuses for everyone and more EV for everyone.

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Obviously they wanted lots of people to do it.

Lots of normal gamblers who dont know strategy and dont know that BJ 2:1 is +EV and who will continue to play BJ after the promo.

They DONT want ANYONE in this thread. Yes of course they knew that EV players woul latch on, but obviously they didn't expect that a highly popular poker forum would have a 20 and a 7 page thread covering it, with the inference that there would be probably thousands of EV players.

Were they naive and stupid? Yes probably. But that's what we want! A naive and stupid casino is the holy grail, the most beautiful sight on the bonus horizon.

Except now they've learnt, and no-one got anything.

Seriously, when was the last time a casino ran a 2:1 BJ promotion? And when a casino - for the first time in many years - stepped up to be that stupid, you think it's ok that it got plastered all over the web and they noticed and killed it?

It's just a shame when people have to be spoon-fed everything, to the point of there being nothing left to feed.