PartyPoker discriminating players.

[mongeron]

Hello all,

When I first heard about the $600+40 tournament at PartyPoker Million III cruise, I thought it would be a very good tournament. Now, I am thinking it is totally something else.

The thing that makes the tournament worthless for me is the following statement at tournament information:

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Ways to Earn Extra Starting Chips

Players can also earn Extra Starting Chips (ESCs) by playing more than 3000 raked hands between 0:00 hrs ET March 12th and 23:59 hrs ET April 16th. ESCs can be earned in the following ways:

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After this it shows that with 3000 raked hands you get 300 extra chips, and for 10000 raked hands or more you get 1000 extra chips.

Of course it's Partypoker's choice, what kind of tournaments they arrange. However, I find this kind of discriminating behavior quite unfair.

Personally for me, it makes the tournament -EV, since I don't get equal chips for my money. Since there is no way to make the same money at Party as at better places, I have to lose money to get the same chance as other players.

What is the Zoo's opinion on this issue?

- mongeron