PartyPoker Player's Club - BUY a partypoker million IV package!!!

Larimani · #1 02-01-2005, 06:02 AM

Yesterday I spent 20,000 points on caps, beanies and the likes.

Today I open the party poker client & what do I see?

"Party for 7 days and earn more than 30,000 Party Points and you can buy a PPM IV cruise package for 50,000 Party Points!!!! "

It's rigged - I tell you - RIGGED!

Larimani · #2 02-01-2005, 06:05 AM

I won't get it... so you might as well... only 20 packages available: Click here for more details

daveymck · #3 02-01-2005, 06:24 AM

To clarify you have to earn the 30,000 in a seven day period so guess its for high rollers only.

Qualifying period: Tuesday, 1st of February until Monday 7th of February 2005

As soon as you have earned 30,000 Party Points please send a mail to info@partypoker.com telling them that you have qualified and you would like to purchase the package for 50,000 Party Points. Packages will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. Once you have sent your mail, we will verify the number of Party Points you have accumulated and award you a seat on the cruise. Your Party Points will be automatically deducted from your account. It’s that easy!

How do I know when I have earned enough Party Points?

Check your Point Balance on Tuesday, the 1st of February, by going to the Players Club tab in the "My Account" section on the Website.
Note down your Party Point Balance on a piece of paper.
Keep partying on partypoker.com every day and keep checking your Party Point Balance
Once you have earned more than 30,000 Party Points go and send an email to info@partypoker.com
Please note that you can only purchase a "PPM IV package" if you have 50,000 Party Points in your account. If you earn 30,000 Party Points in the qualifying period, but your total Party Point Balance does not reach 50,000 you will NOT be able to purchase a package. Therefore your Party Point Balance on the 1st of February should be at least 20,000 Party Points in order for you to participate in this promotion!

Sponger15SB · #4 02-01-2005, 06:25 AM

so it looks like gigabet gets a free entry into the PPM IV!

Shoe · #5 02-01-2005, 06:36 AM

This makes no freaking sense... email PP when you have 30k, but you need 50k to qualify?????

I would do this but I don't have enough points... how is this for EV all you people complaining about PP points being worhtless?

liquidboss · #6 02-01-2005, 06:40 AM

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If you earn 30,000 Party Points in the qualifying period, but your total Party Point Balance does not reach 50,000 you will NOT be able to purchase a package. Therefore your Party Point Balance on the 1st of February should be at least 20,000 Party Points in order for you to participate in this promotion!

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You need to have 20k by the 1st, then earn 30k more in a week. Or before 20 others do it... that's why OP is so angry about it, he just spent 20k on trinkets. Ironic?

MicroBob · #7 02-01-2005, 06:47 AM

Wow this looks tough.

4 tabling on the 15/30 jackpot tables gives you 24 points for every 20 hands.

Lets say play 4 tables of this for 12 hours a day.
250 hands/hour would give you 3k hands a day.
Lets say that 10 of these hours are during the happy hours from 4a-2p when the points are doubled.

So....2500 of the hands get you 6k points during happy hours.
Plus another 600 points for the 500 hands you play during non-happy hours.

This is 3100pts/day X 7 days = 21.7k points which is not enough.

more calculations to come!!

note - the points you get for depositing probably don't count because you don't get credit for those deposits until you leave in in your acct for 76 days. by then, you are past the qualifying period.

Same logic goes for the extra points you get for raked-days within a week. I don't think it helps you here because it doesn't hit your acct until after the qualifying period is over.

I also haven't found any info on the faster accumulation of points for silver-club members (15k or more points).

I do think that if you referred a ton of players IF those friends all release the bonus in time.
If you refer 7 players next week and they ALL complete complete the requirements then that is 10.5k points.

hmmmmm.

MicroBob · #8 02-01-2005, 06:55 AM

Okay...I found it...Silver club members get points 1.5 times faster than regular club members.

except for the fact that it says that the first 'category assessment' takes place on March 31.
So we are all 'Blue' members until which makes the silver-club status thing irrelvent.

MicroBob · #9 02-01-2005, 07:03 AM

okay....lets say I didn't want to sleep all week and was determined to do this at 5/10 6-max which is the game I play these days.

If I play from 4a-2p EVERY DAY on 4-tables that will be 10 hours X 300 hands per hour for 3k hands in this stretch perhaps....except that the hands have to be raked...which I guess means 2500 raked-hands is probably the VERY best you could do during the happy hours. (and I doubt that even this is realistic).

That's 2500 / 20 X 12 X 2 = 3000 points during happy-hours.

Add in 4 more hours during NON happy-hours for 1000 more raked-hands =
1000 /20 X 12 = 600 pts

So that's 3600 pts a day for only 16 hours of work.

3600 X 7 = 25.2k points

Crap....I'm still short.

This sucks.

MicroBob · #10 02-01-2005, 07:10 AM

Rounding up some of the numbers being EXTREMELY optimistic.

Lets go back to 300 raked-hands per hour 4-tabling the 6-max. 3k hds in those 10 hours.

3600 points per day during happy hours X 7 days = 25.2k pts

Get in another 1350 raked-hds during non-happy hours each day = 810 pts per day X 7 days = 5670 points

25.2k + 5.67k = 30870 points

Hoo-ray!!!
but these are REALLY optimistic figures for # of raked hands.
also...if 20 people beat you to it that would REALLY suck.
Plus...I've already missed the first few hours of the week in happy hours. Darn!!