-anyone giving the Party WSOP promo a shot?

[real843]

From the "How to earn points" area at Party website:

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Membership levels
There are three membership levels in our Players Club - Blue, Silver and Gold. The more you play, the higher your membership level and the higher your membership level the greater your benefits - so keep on playing and keep on earning!

To qualify, players must have earned more than 50,000 PartyPoints
(1.1.05 - 31.3.2005) Fastest accumulation of PartyPoints
Free entry to exclusive Gold Club events
Special promotions
Top priority in answering mails


To qualify, players must have earned more than 15,000 PartyPoints
(1.1.05 - 31.3.2005) Faster accumulation of PartyPoints
Access to special promotions
Priority in answering mails


All players start in this category Redeem PartyPoints for merchandise
Special Players Club Freerolls



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The dates imply that they stopped it.

[MicroBob]

Please note that you have to already have 25k points hanging around in your account to be able to do this (because you will have to spend 50k for the 50k for the entry).

Also note that it doesn't appear you are getting anything except the main-event seat. No cash for travel or hotel it would appear. This might be a factor for some of you who are thinking about it.


Obviously this promo is pretty much the same as the one that me and Metetron did back in December for the Party cruise.

I played about 40k hands total in 60 hours (with only 5 or so hours of sleep total during that stretch). Mostly 8-9 tabling.

I also did this promo the year before my seat on the cruise, but they only allowed 4-tables max at that time and you actually DID get credit for the happy-hours bonus points during that one. Took me 4+ days of 10/20 6-max the first time I did it.


Not sure if the competition will be more fierce for this one or not then the last one.
I think a lot of people decided not to try it because it started on Dec 24 and they had silly little things like 'family gatherings' get in the way.

Now that it's 12-tables max certainly helps some people. But I think it hurts overall because it's possible they'll get to 30 people faster.

And I also think you can get more points now on certain games that weren't available before.


If I had 25k points hanging around (I spent them all) I would attempt to get my Party account reinstated if they would keep me as a VIP and would probably do this.


If you can get 500 points an hour at whatever stakes you are playing then you can knock it out in 50 hours of playing.

So for a $10k seat you are getting an extra $200 in value IF you assume you are one of the first 30 to get there.
If you are going really slowly and you give yourself only a 50% chance of getting the seat then you are still getting $100/hr in value.
If you are 10-tabling then this is $10/hr per table.


it takes some real dedication to sit there for a couple of 20-hour stretches of 10-tabling or whatever and then STILL need another 10 hours or so to get there.

I was really seeing things by the end of my run and I felt like crap.

My first year I did it I broke-even on my 4-tables...and then I placed in the money in the tournament and won $5200.
This year when I did it I lost about $4k chasing after the damn points. And I didn't cash in the tourney. And I also lost in the cash-games on the trip as well.
But we again had an amazing time on the cruise so it was all okay in my book.

[DING-DONG YO]

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From the "How to earn points" area at Party website:

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Membership levels
There are three membership levels in our Players Club - Blue, Silver and Gold. The more you play, the higher your membership level and the higher your membership level the greater your benefits - so keep on playing and keep on earning!

To qualify, players must have earned more than 50,000 PartyPoints
(1.1.05 - 31.3.2005) Fastest accumulation of PartyPoints
Free entry to exclusive Gold Club events
Special promotions
Top priority in answering mails


To qualify, players must have earned more than 15,000 PartyPoints
(1.1.05 - 31.3.2005) Faster accumulation of PartyPoints
Access to special promotions
Priority in answering mails


All players start in this category Redeem PartyPoints for merchandise
Special Players Club Freerolls



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The dates imply that they stopped it.

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Wow. No, the evaluation periods reset every quarter. LOL

And if you just pulled that off the site and party hasn't updated it in 2.5 months. Double LOL.

[DING-DONG YO]

Bob, you played all day on Christmas day? I hope you're Jewish or Muslim because I truly feel bad for you otherwise.

[MicroBob]

You mean that Party hasn't updated it in over a year.

It says '2005'.
This is when they started the VIP club bit.

I know a few players who were extremely confused by Party's negligence to update their on site.

At one point their site had zero info about having to earn a certain amount of points each quarter.
They kept insisting it was just based on how much you earned in the first 3 months of the year and there was no info about your status resetting every 3 months.

I finally figured it out after 2 or 3 e-mails to them asking why I wasn't silver or gold anymore and what happened.


Note that Stars VIP club (and most other sites) make it really freaking clear what you need to do to get to a certain level and how much you need to play in order to stay there.

Since one assumes the point of the club is to provide incentive to actually play MORE I can't figure out why Party doesn't give such details to their players as easily.

Some marketers might consider bombarding their players with stuff like, "Hey!! Only 23,432 points to go until Gold. And you only have until June 30 to get there!!"
(granted, Party does do this with some of their other promos, especially via the pop-ups...but they seem to have ignored the whole bit about tghe gold/silver/bronze information sharing).

[MicroBob]

I had visited my parents in Florida a couple of weeks earlier and we kind of had our 'holidays' then.

My GF is a nurse at a hospital and works 13-hour shifts on weekends. XMas Eve and XMas were on Sat and Sun this year. And she had already used a lot of her vacation time on various trips that I take her on (and this included the cruise in March that I was pretty sure I was going to win).

I was going to get over to her place XMas night for dinner with her family but the plans got cancelled. She was exhausted from a tougher-than-usual stretch at work. And I was pretty fried from all my playing and was a little behind where I wanted to be.

We had XMas dinner on Dec 26 instead.

I played most of the 48 hours from Dec 24, 12:01am through Dec 25, 11:59pm.

Just stayed in and watched a whole lot of football while hitting the 10-tables.

The cruise was great and it was worth it.


FWIW (since you asked) - I'm not religious, but my family and GF do celebrate XMas.

[SonOfWestwood]

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https://secure.partyaccount.com/pc/pc_user_profile.htm

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This link works. It goes to a page that I've never actually seen before and it is the page with the information, and I've looked through the various menu items on the site in the past seeking this exact information. How do you get to this page through the various menu options on the site?

[RaymondKHessel]

I was actually going to do this, until I read that it's only the first 30 people who get it. Totally not even worth trying

[Davey]

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https://secure.partyaccount.com/pc/pc_user_profile.htm

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This link works. It goes to a page that I've never actually seen before and it is the page with the information, and I've looked through the various menu items on the site in the past seeking this exact information. How do you get to this page through the various menu options on the site?

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Sign in, Go to Players Club, then any of those links, there is a link at the bottom of most of those pages that says Go back to Players Club main page.

[StacysMom]

Chalk me up for a seat. 2 things:

1. What exact time can I start playing? 12 am Eastern?

2. "to reach the target and send an email to [email protected] will be awarded a seat" Points arent updated in realt time are they? DO you just start spamming them that you made it for the last 10 hours or whatever...

Thanks