Party till you Cruise II -- Party wised up

[MicroBob]

Not sure about that.

I received a PM from a guy who said he was going to try to stay up for the whole stretch and perhaps see if he can get in all his hands that way.

I obviously recommended he try to at least sneak in a 2-4 hour nap somewhere in there.
But I think it is possible that someone REALLY motivated could go for over 24-hours at a clip.


when I did it there were a bunch of posters who thought that even if the Refer-a-friend dudes were shot down that I still wouldn't have any chance because of all the supposed teams out there.
Well, I did it in 4 days...and really could have done it in 3 and still gotten some sleep in there (and heard from someone who did just that)...and I still got it.


IMO....even if you started RIGHT NOW there might still be a chance that you could get this. Obviously it's not a guarantee. But you'd have a shot since all the people will probably be finishing on the same day (Friday...except for the guy who says he's going to just not sleep and try to do it by midnight Thursday) and I thnk it comes down to who e-mails party first when the points are updated.


So...if I finish at 2p on Friday...and you finish at 11p on Friday...we both still have to wait for the points to be updated Saturday morning around 9:30a or so. that's my understanding anyway...but it's Party so anything is possible.

[Player12345]

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I thnk it comes down to who e-mails party first when the points are updated.

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this assumes there even is a limit to the seats they will award. my money says the stated limit is in place to create the fever but that nobody accomplishing this will be turned down. this is party poker. they could give away a thousand seats and not feel it.

i did not hear anyone compain about not getting a seat last time and i read several forums.

[MicroBob]

Interesting theory.

But yes...they do lose money if they give-away a ton of these since it all goes into the prize-pool so I think you are overlooking that part.


BTW - FWIW, there was one guy on here who said he was supposed to get it because he had some inside-info or something and that they turned him down. He was pretty pissed about it.


Between the other forums you frequent how many people do you know of who claimed to have gotten it?

[Player12345]

i did not see the guys post here but i bet he was full of crap or they determined his points were gained by bogus TAFs.

these are nice promos for party to offer and one person who played 5 straight days and bubbled would make more noise than you can imagine and also negate the entire goodwill created by such a promo. i read cp, rgp and upf and there is not one horror story of a denial when you won yours. if i had tried for one and came close i would have raised hell. most people who have these points and play the hours required are likely forum contributors and we would have heard from them.

nobody but party knows whenther they awarded 30 or 100. there is too much risk in bad PR to enforce the stated cap.

i only saw 4 or 5 others discussing it and they all got seats.

[MicroBob]

I agree that the guy who came on here didn't seem too credible.


Only 5 or 6 guys getting it with zero guys complaining is not fool-proof evidence of your theory of course...but I do agree it's interesting that nobody has heard from anyone who said they reported their 30k points too late and therefore didn't get the cruise.


I wouldn't think party would care too much about the crappy publicity of someone not getting it.

Maybe it's possible there just weren't enough 10/20 6-max multi-tabling marathon-maniacs out there and they didn't even give-away 20 seats to begin with on the first one.


Remember, almost 500 people had won seats via the satellites...so a lot of people who really wanted the cruise already got their seat.
This, of course, eliminated a lot of the players who would have otherwise tried to do the marathon.


I really don't know though...you are correct that only the folks at party really know all the details on this.

[Player12345]

as we agree, nobody but them knows and the rest is speculation. my speculation still says they will fill every last seat/cabin that they can and these promos are a great way to do it because they reward the hardcore base. but my speculation also takes into account for the fact that this hardcore base are the very last people they would alienate with an email that says they bubbled. giving it to all the maniacs that accumulated the points is a great way to spend part of a marketing budget. turning someone down is a great way to completely void the benefits of such a promotion.

let me put it this way. had microbob bubbled, they would not have been very happy with the publicity.

[MicroBob]

until we hear from 1 or 2 credible folk who say they got the required number of points but were told they were too late your theory has merit.

[Player12345]

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they do lose money if they give-away a ton of these since it all goes into the prize-pool so I think you are overlooking that part.

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this is crazy bob. this is for their own cruise. the more people who play, the bigger the pool the more publicity etc. this is marketing costs that i'm certain they are not concerned with break even.

[MicroBob]

If they give away 30 seats then that is $300k they are just adding into the prize pool.


I doubt that building their overall prize-pool from $7-mil to $7.3-mil is worth the $300k in expenses.


If they aren't getting back most of the money in rake then they are certainly hurting themselves.


All the other people who won it via satellites won it from money contributed from all the other players (except I heard somewhere that they had some decent overlays in these sat's).
But for teh cruise promotion...they need to get that money in players getting their hands in at the table.
It's not like the prize-pool money magically appears out of nowhere.