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Bellagibro · #31 02-02-2005, 01:05 AM

I wonder how many 2+2 players will get the package. My guess is more than one.

Daliman · #32 02-02-2005, 01:57 AM

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They only have 20 to give away. I gurantee that those 20 will be given away. They can set those requirements as high as possible and still expect 20 of their 5 million users to reach it.

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Highly doubtful. I'd be very surprised if more than 10 people did it, and most of them will be 1k Steps players.

Benholio · #33 02-02-2005, 02:15 AM

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They only have 20 to give away. I gurantee that those 20 will be given away. They can set those requirements as high as possible and still expect 20 of their 5 million users to reach it.

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Highly doubtful. I'd be very surprised if more than 10 people did it, and most of them will be 1k Steps players.

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I dunno about that. I think it will be easier to clear the points at 15/30 (especially BBJ). If you can manage to 4-table step 5's at all times (not guaranteed availability), you earn at 400 pts per hour.

4-tabling 15/30 (or 5/10 even) BBJ tables will yeild somewhere around 450-480 points/hr, assuming 375-400 raked hands per hour. These tables are also always available.

I think you'll find 15/30 players making the goal somewhere around day 5 / early day 6. I know if that was my regular stomping grounds I'd make it by the end of day 5.

MicroBob · #34 02-02-2005, 03:26 AM

Very interesting analysis and I agree to a certain extent.
But remember that it doesn't HAVE to be just 4 tourneys per hour (if there are enough available)...because if you get elimnated reasonably early in one then , voila, you are entering your 5th that hour.

FWIW - I think you can get raked-hands so much faster at 10/20 6-max then 15/30 full that it might roughly equal EV.

Yesterday I played from about 5a - 1p (central time) and got in 3100 hands. Yup...almost 400 hds/hr which REALLY surprised the hell out of me. Some of these were 3 or 4 handed....so I got in more hands...but there were more 'steal the blinds PF' situations that didn't generate a rake....so the 400 hds/hr figure is certainly distorted and I'm interested to see how many points I got when they update it. Perhaps 4k or so.

I'm equally concerned about the STEPS players as well as the idea of 24-hour non-stop teams.
I think I have a reasonable shot since I got a decent head-start by knowing about it pracitcally right-away after they announced it and by already having a sleep-scheduile that kind of coincides with the happy-hours.

I don't think I'm going to make it to be perfectly honest...but I think I have a chance.

I slept from 1p-5p and then my GF and I had dinner and went to the Memphis basketball game tonight and I'm just starting out my 'shift' right now. IF (and that's a big IF) I'm able to keep on plugging away until 1p (central-time) then I should be in reasonable shape.

But there are a couple things that could hold me up.
the first is general fatigue...I'm really tired already and have to think that the possibility of not making it past 7a is a very real one. I'd like to get the points but I'm not going to make myself totally miserable trying to get it.
The other is variance....if I start to get clobbered at 10/20 6-max I'm not going to stay there and let my funds bleed away...I'll have to go back to 5/10 6-max where I'll obviously earn fewer points.

I got my coffee going and I'm ready to try it....but i really am pretty freaking tired.

Greg Zabawa · #35 02-02-2005, 04:00 AM

Good luck Bob, we're all pulling for ya. If I had known about it as early as you did, I might have given it a shot.

HesseJam · #36 02-02-2005, 04:21 AM

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If I would have known about this 6 days ago then I would have made 30 - $500 deposits and would have gotten 30K points today... DANGIT!

If they are willing to let a PPM IV package go for 50K points, then their PPM IV freerolls should be 10 entrant SnG's not 500 person MTT's 500x5000points = winners of the MTTs got screwed compared to the lucky bastards who made 30 - $500 deposits 6 days ago :P

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Who says that this hasn't been done a couple of days ago? How many inside Party might have known of this 1-2 days before it was advertised in the Lobby? How many of these personally know any Party users for whom this could have been valuable information? [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

It's only 20 seats...

... so good luck!

Losing all · #37 02-02-2005, 05:05 AM

Here's a scenerio- a party employee (say Akbar Poonpoon) has a cousin in the states (lets call him Freddy Poonpoon). It would look very funny to the brain trust running party if Mr. Freddy Poonpoon just happended to make 30, $500 deposits last thursday.

In reality the masterminds behind party probably wouldn't catch on. There would be no Poonpoon loss of job or account lockings, but could they live with what they did?

HesseJam · #38 02-02-2005, 05:14 AM

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... but could they live with what they did?

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Um, OK, probably not! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Benholio · #39 02-02-2005, 05:15 AM

GL Bob!

I agree that you are definately up against some 24-hour teams, but I'm sure you have a chance. I would think these teams would get 18-20 hours in each day, which a person could approach alone, anyway. Hopefully if they played 22-24 hours, Party would catch on/care about it.

Losing all · #40 02-02-2005, 05:26 AM

On a more serious note. I hope this puts an end to the assinine "500 beanies" orders/posts. Seeing that you have to kill yourself for a week, at the biggest limits, this ain't exactly the best thing since sliced bread, but it's an indication they might offer a little more than $3 overlay freerolls, etc.