Effect of Bonuses on Absolute MGR

[MrWookie47]

Agreed. I always think it looks good when a site rep chimes in about something that is clearly a major concern to the forum.

[SevenFooter]

I think the bonus is now affecting MGR. PokerTracker shows that my rake yesterday was $86.25. I cleared $60 in bonus. My affiliate (who I have no reason not to trust) shows my MGR for yesterday as $27.

I wonder if they changed this policy and just didn't tell the affiliates.

SevenFooter

[pokerswami]

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I am looking into this right now. Due to the nature of the issue, I suspect it will take at least until tomorrow before I have some answers.

Richard Frost
Assistant Poker Room Manager
Absolute Poker
prm@absolutepoker.com

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Well, this sure looked wonderful. Someone apparently from Absolute Poker was actually reading this thread and responding. I even E-mailed this guy thanking him for posting here.

It's been almost 3 days since he made the quoted post. Now it looks very bad that he hasn't gotten back to this thread regarding this.

[obsidian]

Calm down, it's not the end of the month yet. Besides, I just got this from my affiliate:

I called the head of Absolute's affiliate department and he called me back earlier today and mentioned that Absolute found an error in the MGR stats dating back to 10/11 (something to do with an incorrect multiplier that caused the MGR #'s to be less than what they really were). I was told that when the stats are updated by Absolute Friday morning that all the stats from 10/11 and on should be corrected.

[webgator]

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Besides, I just got this from my affiliate:

I called the head of Absolute's affiliate department and he called me back earlier today and mentioned that Absolute found an error in the MGR stats dating back to 10/11 (something to do with an incorrect multiplier that caused the MGR #'s to be less than what they really were). I was told that when the stats are updated by Absolute Friday morning that all the stats from 10/11 and on should be corrected.

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Will be interesting to see what my stats show tomorrow then. I've questioned Absolute several times regarding this issue as I am both an affilate and player at their site and the stats havn't looked right at all this month when compared to last month.

[imported_The Vibesman]

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Calm down, it's not the end of the month yet. Besides, I just got this from my affiliate:

I called the head of Absolute's affiliate department and he called me back earlier today and mentioned that Absolute found an error in the MGR stats dating back to 10/11 (something to do with an incorrect multiplier that caused the MGR #'s to be less than what they really were). I was told that when the stats are updated by Absolute Friday morning that all the stats from 10/11 and on should be corrected.

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Hopefully this is the case. I haven't gotten any satisfactory answers from Absolute CS or my affiliate, just the runaround. Each says to take it up with the other.

I'd like it to be straightened out because I like doing business with both the affiliate and Absolute, but if it isn't, I'm going to clear my latest bonus and move on. Of course, I'm a pretty low-volume player, so I doubt they'd really notice. Still holding out hope that the numbers will realign themselves by the end of the month.

[trainslayer]

i have installed the PT patch, exported origianl hands and reimported (prior to 10/24).

I played at absolute on 10/22 unitl about 1900 and did not play again until 2315 on 10/24.

Before I started playing 10/24 I looked at my stats on my affiliate's website.

I played 240 hands of 1/2 on 10/24 finishing about 0200 10/25. (central time) I cleared $20 in bonus after midnite. Pokertracker general info says total rake was $8.25. Summary tab say total rake $87.26, avg. rake .41, 5.65 players.

I haven't played at absolute since then and my stats on the affiliate's website are unchanged as of right now (1545 10/27).

I won't be playing there again until this issue is resolved.

[Hojglad]

Haha. I noticed this about 2 weeks ago. Interestingly enough, even the new, updated version of pokertracker overcalculates the total amount of rake that has been taken from the tables. As far as I know, this problem is isolated to hands played at Absolute. Due to my curiosity, I wrote a Java program that will tell you exactly how much rake has been taken from the hands you have been dealt in at absolute. If anyone is interested, I can post it on my webspace and you guys can at least have a lower bound on what your mgr should be. As of right now, it works best to give you an idea for 6max, but I could modify it to tell you exactly what your mgr is without a huge problem.

It took multiple emails to customer service, but they finally said the'd look into it and get back to me in a couple days. That's been over a week.

Meanwhile, I've emptied my account and am playing elsewhere.

[obsidian]

Well my affiliate just updated my stats. They are now about 2x what they were before. Glad it was fixed.