Platinum poker club, how is it?

[xltros]

how are the games and how's the bonus work. I know they give you the bonus amt. to play with. can you deposit, get the bonus and then withdraw(like pacifics?)
thanks

[Synergistic Explosions]

I guess I am the only one here who has ever played there. The cash bonus they have going this month is 50% up to 200 with 15X playthrough restricting all withdrawals until terms are met. Last month it was 100%. They also give you 25-50% in bonus bucks on the side. They are very slow to work off. More like a 10% rake rebate system.

They also offer a sliding rake rebate system depending on games played for the month. It goes from 5% for game 1 to 25% for something like 6000 games played.

So with the cash bonus, the bonus buck workoff, and the rake rebate, it's not to bad I guess.

What I really like about the site are the 1k free rolls, the weekly 5k free roll, and the 10k end of month free roll which you buy in with poker points earned for each game played, raked or not.

I'd say check this site out, it's got some nice values.

[Synergistic Explosions]

Oh yeah, the games, didn't mention that. Well, you can win there but the dog gone cards seem almost beyond belief when it comes to bad beats at the river. But then, I see that everywhere lately, so maybe its not the site, just the man viewing the site.

I'd say players are a little above average on the whole there compared to bigger sites. Mostly limit HE games are the only thing going, between 1/2 to 5/10. 2/4 being the most popular at that site. Games die out in early morning hours PST. Most players seem to be playing just to acquire the poker points needed for the daily free rolls.

They got some nice overlays on the 500 guaranteed tourneys for 5 buck entry, rebuys and add ons permitted. Usually a 2-1 overlay when it's all said and done. Three a day they offer, maybe 4.

Thats about all I know about this site. Good luck.

[xltros]

is it possible to deposit for bonus, and then withdraw the amount you deposited thus playing with thier money only?

[bpb]

The only site I've ever encountered that is stupid enough to allow you to play with the bonus risk free is Pacific.

[goldcowboy]

Ditto on Synergistic Explosion's comments. Good site IF you can get a game up. Volume is very low and they are trying hard with the bonuses to boost volume and so far it doesn't appear to be working. I'm thinking they won't be around much longer.

[Synergistic Explosions]

Unfortuneately, after two very very negative experiences at the hands of management here, I've had to withdraw my funds for lack of trust at this site.

It's really to bad, this site has much to offer the players. However, I can't play at a site where I no longer trust the management.

I give them a zero in the integrity department.

[Pokeraddict]

I agree that this mgt at Platinum are sleazy. I sent several emails to them about hands that seemed to smell of pretty major collusion. I play 5000-10000 hands a week and maybe once every 3 months ill send some hand #'s to support of a poker room with something that seemed very odd but in 2 weeks i played in 4 games that were obvious collusion to me. Support did not even respond. Hands would go SB bet UTG raises i call then they 4 bet i call, turn i call 2 but finally fold when they 4 bet and then on river check check or bet fold. Obviously this happens sometimes with missed draws but these were the same players over and over.

On 2 occasions they have spammed this forum, once Casinomeister and once at bonus whores. The posts here were deleted quickly.



Also I agree that the cards here seemed odd. I took them up on their 200% bonus offer and got bad beat to death, I also returned some ridiculous bad beats after it seemed that any draw would come. It seemed odd that with Pokerstars type flop %'s how it seems a pair never holds up and huge hands were hit all the time.

In my last hand a player called 3 cold with 35s flop came AK9 two of us flopped sets, this player with 35 called cap all the way and caught the runner runner wheel. He had no flush draw or anything on flop, I finally demanded mgt release my money and keep my bonus and I cashed out even giving up about halfway to a $200 bonus.

Many players were also caught by surprise when they tried to cashout after making player to player transfers, they were told they must play 100 rakede hands to cashout after making any transfer. A copy of the email.....


Thank you for playing at The Platinum Poker Club. It is a pleasure to have at
our tables.

Your withdrawal request has been declined. The reason for this is that you have
not met the requirements to request funds that have been transferred to your
account by another user.
According to company policies on player to player transfers, if a customer wants
to withdraw funds that have been transferred to him by another player, he must
complete a total of 100 real money raked hands before being able to withdraw
those funds.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments


Of course this was not anywhere in their terms, something they made up to try to prevent a cashout.
I had never heard of such an absurd policy in my life.

This is one of many many threads I have seen where people were suspicious of cards or had very valid complaints about the mgt of this room. I would say stay far far away.

On their bonus, my first deposit was working off at just 5% the pace a Party bonus worked off. In 1400 hands I had not even worked off $10 of it /images/graemlins/confused.gif even though there were endless raked hands. I could not ever get support to tell me why the bonus was working off at about 25% the pace their terms said it would work off.

Also keep in mind this is a Dobrosoft room, those that brought you the Choice disaster. If their licensee fails what do you think will happen?

[MicroBob]

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Obviously this happens sometimes with missed draws but these were the same players over and over.


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this wouldn't be unusual if it happened more than once imo...if a player aggressively pushes his draw on one hand then he is likely to continue to be as aggressive in his draw-pursuit in future hands.

since i didn't see the hands i can't make a judgement on whether it was collusion or not.
just wanted to point out that betting aggressively on future hands COULD just mean that he is an aggressive player or chaser or whatever. not necessarily collusion.



i don't know much about your other observations/accusations either. but your comment about how odd the cards seem to run there probably doesn't help your case that much.

[Synergistic Explosions]

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I agree that this mgt at Platinum are sleazy

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I wouldn't say sleazy. I'd say pompous, arrogant, and judgemental.

I'm going to miss the point buy in free rolls there. They were far and away the best offerings of all poker sites.

[Matty]

I've never had any problems there, and their software is gradually getting better.

[osrule]

Make NO mistake about it, The Platinum Poker Club is the worst poker site on the internet and cannot be trusted. Please learn from my mistakes everyone. They lie to you right on the phone, and make up all sorts or fake policies and terms/conditions as they go. I was sick and tired of it. I made a deposit of 200 dollars, and requested a cashout of 300 dollars once my balance was 650. They LOCKED my account because they said that my cashout method was different from my deposit method. I have contacted these people so many times, and they will NOT respond to my emails anymore. A string of 17 unanswered messages both from support, and the cashier-- not to mention "upper management". Their VP "D. Williams" appears to be running the show, and running a dirty show at that. Absolutely nobody in this poker room can be trusted. When I call them from now on, I tell them right up front, I AM RECORDING THIS CALL... I am recording each and every call that I make to these crooks, and plan on suing them regardless of the outcome of my circumstance.

As a poker room, you are a financial institution. We, the clients, trust them to be ethical, secure, and to handle our money fairly. They fail in all three of these categories. Never in my life have I experienced a poker room quite like this before. They surely should be regulated by someone and shut down.

DO NOT TRUST THE PLATINUM POKER CLUB.

[Synergistic Explosions]

They just don't seem to care how they make their customers feel. That's why their numbers are dropping when they should be growing. The site has alot going for it in theory, but they still need to figure out they can't piss off who they have.

[MicroBob]

i know as much about your situation as you seem to know about the legal-system.


ummmm, you can't sue them.
the site is not on american-soil.


why do so many people say things like "wow...if i were in your situation i would slap a big old law-suit on partypoker (or ub or PPC or whoever)"??

it's not that difficult to figure out that if they are outside the US they are not subject to a suit filed under the US legal system.


as for being regulated...i agree. i wish it were legal for them to operate on american soil and be under the same type of regulation that B&M casinos are. this isn't likely to happen in the near future however.

[GrannyMae]

are you a regular poster here? why the alias to make this bash?

anyway, as i have stated, my experiences have been exactly opposite of what you state.

i deposited to the site and received a bonus. 2 days later i realized that i would not be able to play there for an extended period of time. i made a withdrawal, but left the bonus dollars in my account because i have not worked them off and did not earn them yet.

my withdrawal was accepted, but only partially. the cashier software did not recognize that i had left the bonus behind, so it rightfully shorted me a certain amount.

i was alerted to this because of an email. at the bottom of the email was a toll free number. i called it and talked to a very nice lady who handed the phone to the cashier supervisor.

he promtly explained what had happened. he told me he was going to manually remove the bonus from my account and that i should log in and re-request the remainder of my cash-in. 10 minutes later i did this, and 3 minutes later, the difference was in my NETeller account.

the entire time i spoke with them, they were extremely pleasant, encouraged me to come back when i was ready to play, and wished me the best of luck. honest to god, they were so sweet it was almost sickly.

i don't know what you did to alienate these people, but your claims are not typical.

[Matty]

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They just don't seem to care how they make their customers feel. That's why their numbers are dropping when they should be growing. The site has alot going for it in theory, but they still need to figure out they can't piss off who they have.

[/ QUOTE ]Funny, I've seen the exact opposite. Their numbers are clearly growing.

[Synergistic Explosions]

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Funny, I've seen the exact opposite. Their numbers are clearly growing.

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According to their point buy in free rolls, the numbers have been steadily declining for weeks. This usually means fewer players are playing ring games to accumulate the points needed.