Party At It Again
June 3, 2008
Party’s latest promotion strikes me as geared to players who apparently don’t do anything but play poker:
http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/free_ride.html
Take a Free Ride with our amazing commission?free offer
Commission?free play is the dream destination for poker players ? and now we’re giving you the chance to get there.
Once you’ve played for 160 hours, you’ll play with no table charges or fees. And we don’t mean for just a few hands; we’re offering up to 80 hours of commission?free play.
To qualify for your Free Ride you must play a minimum of 160 hours within a 30-day period.
Let’s take a very small step back to examine this. If we play 160 hours in one month, the next 80 hours that we play (within that month) are rake-free. That’s a pretty cool campaign, for players who play 8 hours a day, weekends included. But don’t grind TOO hard, because the terms state:
Only the first 16 hours played in each day will be counted toward the players target and commission?free hours.
And before you get any clever ideas about sitting out at a $.05/$.10 limit table for 160 hours and then play $10/$20 for the last 80 hours, consider that
The refund payment is based on the average commission* on play over the entire period of 30 days and a refund payment is made on the portion over 160 hours and up to a maximum of 240 hours (*the average includes commission and tournament fees)
So in short: Eh? If I work my ass off and play 240 hours, this averages out to a maximum of 33% rakeback for that month. But maybe there are some very high volume grinders at Party who will benefit from this. I sure am not one of them, though. But I can’t help wonder how many people fail to read the T&C and really do play nickle-buy-in games for 10 hours a day for the next three weeks, thinking that they’ll make out like bandits.
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