Hi!
I am one of the biggest party-affiliates at Russia.
I have been working with partypoker since 2004, and have been bringing fair big amounts of MGR per month. My business is very close connected with off-line and internet poker. I have a very popular off-line poker school at Cosmos Casino in Moscow, which is the only poker-school in Russia, accredited by Russian Poker Federation pokerfederation.com and I am working with several well-known Russian magazines.
Last year I ran an interactive poker-school of limit poker at my site pokermoscow.ru. I hired a well-known coach and the best Russian limit-poker players to conduct lessons. I created a separated tracking bonus-code for the school and widely advertised it. Players started from lowest game limits and after improving their playing skills, they raised to higher game levels. For now there are about 20 pupils at my limit holdem school.
But last week I received information that 8 accounts from my poker-school were blocked. The official reason of investigation team is that all of them used BOTs. But it is highly unlikely, because my coach knows most of the players personally, and the main idea of my school is to teach people how to play poker, how to improve their skills and win money. In fact the only programs they used were PokerTracker, PokerAce and pokercalculator. The problem of the blockage we are discussing here
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...=0#Post10160266
And here
http://forum.cgm.ru/msg?th=14992&pre...p;&start=0
After I had started investigation of the issue to protect existing and future players at my poker-school from unjustified blockage partypoker blocked my own player account and my affiliate account as well. By phone I was told that for now partypoker is not going to reactivate it.
The portion of MGR from this limit hold?em poker-school was about 3% from my whole monthly MGR. On the stated questions about blockage of my affiliate account I received the cagey and contradictory answers. The best answers were
- Your players are playing the similar starting hands and the similar post-flop (Of course the blocked players got from my coach the positive strategy for limit-hold?em, so they are playing the same way.)
- So, as follows from first statement they are using bots.
- On the question what exact bots did they find, they are saying that they can?t disclose the information.
The common idea is that I got profit from bots. But this is nonsense, because I would not risk 97% of my whole income and let my referred players at poker school use bots. I have never offered rake-back deals.
So I have an impression that in this case the support of partypoker is close to block my affiliate-account, hoping to take whole profit from all referred players from me. My affiliate manager says that he can?t influence on the decision of the investigation team.
I don?t know exactly if the management of partypoker aware of the situation and if it approves the decisions of their departments.
Has anybody stumble in similar situation at partypoker?
Is it common practice for party to wait until affiliate makes 5-zeros amounts MGR per month, and after that just to say him ?Good buy!??
Are there any people who could help us or offer cooperation?
Of course I understand that partypoker is free to make any decision about the issue. But in case of unfair result I think the story should have an extremely negative consequences on the market of internet gambling and especially for partypoker at Russia.
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