25K party points in a week possible?

[ngmucker]

Does anybody know how I can make 25K party points in one week? The reason I ask is because, as I'm sure some of you know, party has a promotion for VIP players that if you gain 25K in party points between dec 24 and Jan 3, you can buy a cruise package for 50K party points. Any advice? How much do I need to play or deposit and at what limits and for how long? Do we get points for just depositing?

[Gallopin Gael]

make 25 $500 deposits. Wait 8 days. Cash out.

[Gallopin Gael]

apparently (according to another thread (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4258599&an=0&page=0#Post 4258599) ) there is a 3K a day cap on deposit points. So you'd probably only be able to earn 12K in points this way.

But at least you'd be half way there.

[ngmucker]

so 12 deposits of 500?

[Gallopin Gael]

From their website:

" BONUS POINTS
(The rate of earning bonus Party Points remains the same across categories)

Earning Party Points in the PartyPoker.com Players Club is really simple. You can also boost your tally by earning bonus Party Points.

You can earn bonus Party Points in the following ways:

1) Referring Friends: For every friend referred by you who opens a real money account with us, you get additional player club Party Points. The Party Points will be credited to your account once the TAF bonus gets released by your referred friend.

No of friends referred by you (who open real money accounts) Bonus Party Points earned by you for each friend referred (once the TAF bonus has been released)
1st 1000
2nd 1000
3rd 1500
4th 1500
5th 1500
6th 2000
7th 2000
8th 2000
9th 2000
10th 2000
11th and above 3000 each


Note: Party Points earned on referring friends will be credited after the friend has released his/her TAF bonus.

2) Deposits: You will also earn Party Points on each deposit you make as per the table below. The Party Points will be credited into your account after a period of 7 days of the deposit date provided there is no redeem in these 7 days.

Deposit Amount Party Points Earned
< than $100 0
$100 - $249 150
$250 - $499 375
$500 and above 1000


3) Happy Hours: Play in the happy hours and double the rate at which you earn your regular Party Points. Happy Hours are from 4 AM ET to 2 PM ET. So if you have earned 4 regular Party Points by playing on a live game or a tournament during Happy Hours, you will receive 4 bonus Party Points.

Note: For tournaments the starting time will determine whether it is considered under Happy Hours or not. So if you play in a tournament which starts at 1:30 PM and finishes at 6 PM, you will still receive Happy Hour Party Points.

4) Raked Days: A raked day is defined as a day in which you contribute rake greater than $0. The bonus Party Points that you can earn in this category is as per the table below:

No. of Raked Days >= With a Time Period Bonus Party Points at the end of Period
5 1 Week (Sunday - Saturday) 200
20 1 Calendar Month 500"

[Gallopin Gael]

spread equally over the first 4 days. then wait till you get the points to cash out.

What limits do you play at, cause that'll certainly affect the number of hands you have to play to get the rest.

Regular Party Points on Live Games (For Category Blue)

Live Games
Game Type Party Points Earned
All No Limit and Pot Limit Tables 4 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $.5/$1 and $1/$2 Tables 4 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $2/$4 Tables 6 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $3/$6 and $5/$10 Non Jackpot Tables 12 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $3/$6 and $5/$10 Jackpot Tables 15 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $10/$20, $15/$30, $20/$40 and $30/$60 Non Jackpot Tables 18 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $10/$20 and $15/$30 Jackpot Tables 24 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day
All $50/$100 and $100/$200 Non Jackpot Table 28 Party Points for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day

[pokergrader]

Its only around 15k hands of 10/20 6max if you are a gold member, which is very doable in 2 days, and easily in a week.

[ngmucker]

What if youre a silver player? How many hands then?

[Nick-Zack]

Those are all bonus points folks. The promo is for the FIRST 30 people to accumulate 25K points. I think that 10 tabling 5/10 22 hours a day should do it. This promo blows unless you are willing to play all day every day for 7 days straight.

[ngmucker]

whats the difference?

[pokergrader]

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Those are all bonus points folks. The promo is for the FIRST 30 people to accumulate 25K points. I think that 10 tabling 5/10 22 hours a day should do it. This promo blows unless you are willing to play all day every day for 7 days straight.

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A gold player at 5/10 6max makes 24 regular party points/20 hands.

Since 75% of hands are raked at 5/10 6max, that is essentially just under 1 party point per hand.
So ~27,000 hands, which is 77 hours 4 tabling or 33 hours 8 tabling. Double the figures for a blue member.

10/20 6max is even easier. 36 party points / 20 raked hands for a gold member. Since 80% of hands are raked, that is around 1.44 party points per hand, or about 17k total hands. 47 hours 4-tabling or 23.5 hours 8-tabling. Double the figures for blue members.

[Sniper]

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23.5 hours 8-tabling

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Whats the odds on this promotion being complete the first day?

[TheMetetron]

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23.5 hours 8-tabling

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Whats the odds on this promotion being complete the first day?

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If I was gold, I'd be done in the first day.

[emonrad87]

Bonus points don't help you. You need regular points (earned ONLY for play time)

[bpb]

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Does anybody know how I can make 25K party points in one week? The reason I ask is because, as I'm sure some of you know, party has a promotion for VIP players that if you gain 25K in party points between dec 24 and Jan 3, you can buy a cruise package for 50K party points. Any advice? How much do I need to play or deposit and at what limits and for how long? Do we get points for just depositing?

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I may sound like a [censored] for saying this, but I believe it to be 100% accurate.

If you aren't smart/motivated enough to gather this information on your own, then there is no way that you are smart/motivated enough to multitable at the level and duration required to win the cruise.

Bonus points don't count guys. You will need to be multi-tabling 5/10 and up to have a chance at this. Remember it is the 1st 30 only.

[MexKrax]

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23.5 hours 8-tabling

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Whats the odds on this promotion being complete the first day?

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I'd say somewhere around 0. In fact, I think a better question would be will 30 people manage to get 25K regular points in a week or will party be doing this promotion again next month with the leftover seats?

[Sniper]

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23.5 hours 8-tabling

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Whats the odds on this promotion being complete the first day?

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I'd say somewhere around 0. In fact, I think a better question would be will 30 people manage to get 25K regular points in a week or will party be doing this promotion again next month with the leftover seats?

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You do not believe that there are 30 Gold members, who have a desire to go on the cruise, capable of 10-tabling 10/20 6 max for 19 hours on a Saturday, starting at midnight and shooting off an email before dinnertime that they have completed the promotion?

[rsigley]

8 table 200+12 SNGs? and throw in occasional step 5 tourney?

[CalvinTy]

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8 table 200+12 SNGs? and throw in occasional step 5 tourney?

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I am not even in the VIP Club or at Silver/Gold level, but I can help with the math on that thought above...

A Gold level VIP member doing "only SnG's" would have to:

10-table 200+12 SnG's (earning 60PP per SnG as Gold; $12 fee is 30PP for Blue)

That amounts to 600PP per round, assuming average of 60 mins per SnG, that's 41.66 hours non-stop, FYI. So, yeah, if someone has a few Step 5 entries to play, that can speed things "somewhat".

Looks like I agree with pokergrader & Sniper that multi-tabling 10/20 LHE 6-max (if only to play more hands than 10-max) as a current Gold member is the ticket!

* CalvinTy

[MexKrax]

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You do not believe that there are 30 Gold members, who have a desire to go on the cruise, capable of 10-tabling 10/20 6 max for 19 hours on a Saturday, starting at midnight and shooting off an email before dinnertime that they have completed the promotion?

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I think that most of the people who are capable of 10 tabling 10/20 6max are not gold members at party because they were signed up at Eurobet until the party split in October and just started playing a significant number of hands at party again.

Also, a lot of people are going to be travelling/spending time with their families this week so I think that's going to reduce the number of people going for this.

Finally, take a look through the archives of Microbob's blog. He did a similar promotion last year where he had to earn 20K party points I think and he got the required number of points 3 or 4 days into the promotion and managed to get 1 of the 10 cruise seats. This year you have to get more points and Party is not counting bonus points so I stand by my prediction that Party won't be giving away all 30 cruise seats from this promotion.

[TheMetetron]

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You do not believe that there are 30 Gold members, who have a desire to go on the cruise, capable of 10-tabling 10/20 6 max for 19 hours on a Saturday, starting at midnight and shooting off an email before dinnertime that they have completed the promotion?

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I think that most of the people who are capable of 10 tabling 10/20 6max are not gold members at party because they were signed up at Eurobet until the party split in October and just started playing a significant number of hands at party again.

Also, a lot of people are going to be travelling/spending time with their families this week so I think that's going to reduce the number of people going for this.

Finally, take a look through the archives of Microbob's blog. He did a similar promotion last year where he had to earn 20K party points I think and he got the required number of points 3 or 4 days into the promotion and managed to get 1 of the 10 cruise seats. This year you have to get more points and Party is not counting bonus points so I stand by my prediction that Party won't be giving away all 30 cruise seats from this promotion.

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I hope your right, because I'm only blue (your reasoning on why is correct) and I'll be attempting this by 10-tabling the $10/20 6max. It's going to take me at least 3-4 days though, possibly 5. So if a lot of people go for it, there is no way I am going to be in the top 30.

Edit: Umm, this is going to suck. It's going to take 48 hours approximately as a blue member. Let's make that 4-5 days now I'm gonna take. Stupid Christmas.

[MicroBob]

When I did it you could only do 4-tables max.

that makes a big difference obviously.


They did 2 promotions last year.
the first one (which I did) was first 20 players to 30k points.
double-points for happy-hours though (and the promo was for ALL points...not just 'regular' points) so for 10 of those hours, from 4a-2p eastern, I was getting double (just like a gold-member would now...except they get it all day).


4-tabling on the 10/20 6-max it took me 4-days of about 15 hours each on average and somehow I was one of the first 20 to make it.

Because of the 4-table limitation it took several more hours to do it even with the double-points on happy-hours.