Party VIP offers - November

[MyTurn2Raise]

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i just got a phone call from 206-203-XXXX, but i couldn't hear them and then it was dropped. is this Party VIP? if so will they call back or email me?

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damn...called me today and I didn't pick up...[censored]

[Emmitt2222]

I'll just tell exactly what happened to me incase anyone is wondering. I sent an email to bonus@partypoker.com last night [12:51am]. This is what I wrote in my email, I titled it "Bonuses in coming months":
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Hello,

My name is xxxxx xxxx and my Party Poker handle is xxxxx.I have played on Party Poker for the last year sporadically, but now I would like to make the switch to playing Party primarily. I am a relatively high volume player, playing 10-15k hands a month. I usually play around the 2/4 or 3/6 6max levels. From past records I have noticed that my play does contribute a large amount of rake to poker sites. I have heard that it is possible to recieve future bonuses for high volume players. Currently for October I am working to clear off a $90 for 905 points. This will most likely work out to me playing over 4k hands in the last week and a half of October. I believe this shows that I am willing to put in the hands if I am offered some incentive in return. Would it be possible to recieve some sort of monetary compensation in November because that would certainly keep me playing at Party. I can play at other sites where they offer bonuses, such as PokerStars, but I would like to stay with you. I hope you feel the same way.

Sincerely,
xxxxx xxxxxx

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Tonight I recieved at call at around 10pm EST from 206-203-5004 [please edit if writing the whole number is bad]. I talked to the nice British sounding woman. She offered me perhaps the crappiest deal I have heard yet; $150 for 10k raked hands. That means I would have to play around 15k total hands. I told her that this would take me the entire month to clear, while I could clear a bonus I have waiting over at PokerStars for $120 in 2 days. I told her that something in the range of $300 would be more acceptable. She said that she would have to talk to her manager and that she would give me a call back tomorrow at the same time.

Honestly my whole take is that even $300 is absolute crap, but I think when I climb the ladder by going from blue to silver to gold and keep on putting up the numbers they want things will get a lot better. I never expect it to be quite as good as it used to be, but I feel if I can work my way up to something equivalent to 15-20% I would be very pleased.

[Finite_Risk]

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I climb the ladder by going from blue to silver to gold and keep on putting up the numbers

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The way I read the points system, these tallies reset quarterly. So it's not like you just keep adding pts till you get to gold...you have one quarter to do that, then it starts over.

Am I wrong?

[winchips]

$200 for 7000 raked..............tried to negotiate, no dice

[emonrad87]

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206-203-5004

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This is a Seattle, Washington, USA area code.

[PantherZ]

I play mostly 2/4, and they offered my 160 for 4,000 hands.

[JTrout]

I played 3/6 and 5/10, app.20,000 hands per month, for over a year at Party till I found Euro, and other sites.

Party e-mailed me with this offer:

Sign up a new player under the "Tell a Friend" thingy, and we'll give you $50! Restrictions apply.

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[ep510]

$150 for 6000 raked hands at 5/10 ring (comes out to about 10%). He said that a minimum of 4000 raked hands gets me VIP member status. This will allow me to get VIP specific deposit bonuses as well as better customer service (a direct line to VIP service). He also said that if I play more than 6000 hands, I'll receive the proportioned amount over the base 6000. For example, if I play 12000 raked hands, I'll receive $300.

I asked that if I moved up to 10/20 ring, will I get a better deal? He said yes, the VIP bonuses are renegotiable every month.

So, I think I'll just play my average for the month and see if I can get better deals in the future based on my amount of play. The deposit bonus working along with the VIP bonus sounds very enticing.

[Schwartzy61]

I didn't read all the responses so if I'm rehashing something mentioned earlier I apologize.

I E-mailed bonus@partypoker.com a few weeks ago and someone finally got around to replying to me today. I don't play much on party, only to clear a reload every month. I sent them an E-mail saying I would move a large portion of my play to their site if they offered some kind of "incentive" for high volume play.

Here's the E-mail I got...

Patrick:

Thank you for contacting Party Poker regarding incentives.

In November PartyPoker.com will initiate its brand new VIP Club. Membership benefits include monthly cash bonuses based on your play, direct customer service contacts, and new promotions and bonuses.

The base for VIP Club membership is playing in 4,000 raked hands per month at a minimum $1/$2 level.

This will be an exciting month for PartyPoker.com, and we hope you will a part of it.

Daniel Wexler
Promotions Manager

Shockingly coherent, I almost doubt it came from Party Poker.

Guess I'll play 4000 raked hands there next month just to see what happens...

[Catt]

Thought I'd share.

I haven't played Party since the last reload in early September. In October I got a pop-up offering $160 for 1960 points. Playing at my current limit of $10/$20 6-max, it's actually not a terrible offer and equates to about 13.67% RB; I haven't played for it yet.

On Monday evening I sent an email to VIP stating that I'd heard Party was offering incentives for high-volume players to come back and play at Party. I described my Ocotber offer and explained that (1) it would be attractive as a Gold and possibly a Silver VIP member (I am a lowly Blue since I never play at Party); but (2) more important to me was a consistent "on all the time" incentive that scales to the number of hands / limits I play during the month.

I got a formulaic email offering details on the generic VIP club with a closing that someone would contact me shortly.

I received a call earlier today with an offer of $300 for 9,000 raked hands (not points). The offer itself was uniteresting as it is effectively 6.2% RB. I explained that I might play the October bonus just to see what the games on Party are like, but that the current offer for November wasn't interesting. I emphasized that I would be more interested in a longer-term offer that I could count on every month. The representative (British, articulate, informed) stated that she didn't set bonus levels / incentives, and further indicated that they are experimenting a bit with VIP rewards. She continued that some months it might be cash for points / cash for raked hands, some months it might be freerolls available only to the VIP club members, some months it might be a chance to play in land-based events, etc. She also indicated that the bonus offers would almost certainly improve with more play, but that since the program was so new she didn't feel comfortable promising anything. I reiterated that consistent, scaling rewards month in and out was of interest to me personally, and indicated that I tracked my play pretty closely as many high-volume players do; I explained that I figured I contributed approximately $0.40 per hand in rake, and $300 for 9000 raked hands just wasn't an incentive. When asked if I was rejecting the November offer I said that it would not encourage me to play 9000 raked hands at Party in Nov, so basically yes. I stated that I assumed the bonus offers were based on revenue generated for Party (hands, limits, etc.) and she confirmed. I encouraged her to check with those that determined the bonus offers (since she said she did not) to see if there was something more interesting available, and she asked permission to go back to her manager and call me back at some point if there was something more available. I said of course. We'll see. I think I'll clear the October pop-up offer over the next few days in the meantime.