WE ARE MOVING SOON, We will be switcing forum software in the coming days. I am not sure of the exact time and date but sometime this week. I will do my best to make sure the disruption is as little as possible but the site could be down for a good hour for the move. If you want to know about the new forum sofware please visit this Discussion
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Haven't they been saying this upgrade is coming for 2 years....I'm not holding any faith in it.
Party still has OK MTT's, with WPT sattys, but make no mistake, player segregation is terrible....and will ultimately lead to the same thing for MTT's down the road.
If I'd been playing cash, I'd be long gone from Party. I still play as I'm not affected as of yet....when that day comes, goodbye Party.
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Hopefully, this is just another stupid blunder that will be fixed soon, but a Party Support person told me that it is intentional and permanent. For the first time in five years, I have now stopped playing at PartyPoker!
Ever since its blunder of secretly segregating players,
R.I.P. :fish:
Argentina
Armenia
Belarus
Brazil
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Finland
Greece
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Slovenia
Ukraine
Who's next?
Canada?
In my opinion, yes, they are protecting their ecosystem but also the majority of players. In this case the 99% instead of the 1%. It's been a good ride this last decade but the gap is too big. The game is dying off in terms of fish vs sharks and lots of people have noticed this. Big trawlers can net a bazzalion pounds of fish faster than they can be replenished. Maybe it wasn't always the case but I never thought we'd be running out of cod.
It might be blunt way to put it but would you let a bunch of rock stars run your business into the ground? If you let the trawlers keep harvesting unchecked eventually everyone starves.
Think big picture. This isn't hard. It's not ideal but when is life always?
Independent Pokerfuse seems to be just about the only site that reports on how badly bwin.party has been treating its VIPs and other customers, just like most poker news sites that had a conflict of interest with advertising and as affiliates neglected their journalism duties during the UB/AP shenanigans. :-X Hopefully, sites such as CanadaPoker.com and Pokernews will do a better job this time of reporting what bwin.party is doing to its players.
Here is a list of some of the things done by bwin.party:
- Hole cards, player names changing mid-hand
- Lost the trust of the poker community by secretly rigging its software for player segregation. Just like it took smart 2+2 players to discover the UB/AP cheating, savvy players investigated the segregation and bwin.party was forced to admit to it. :bs:
- Screwed the Palladium Elites by getting rid of the 50% rakeback. That would be like somebody grinding for a year to become Supernova Elite at PS, then the site suddenly takes away the rewards he was working himself to death for.
- Cancels all four tournament leaderboards without proper notification. :arghh: I tried to play an SNG, but almost all of the SNG sections are now dead.
- Cancels the flagship $1 Million Guaranteed tounament again without notice and all its daily qualifiers. MTT traffic has died and all the guarantees are in a vicious downward spiral.
- Screwed Palladium VIPs like me with more unannounced VIP changes. For example, the players who grinded at least $4,500 rake this quarter were planning to redeem their points for the $3,000 poker bonus for the promised 30% rakeback, but this is one of the rewards that are suddenly gone.
Acquiring back rake-paying customers for the #5 site will be a lot harder than losing them, but at least the journey of a thousand miles has just taken the first step in the right direction. "cheers:
Bwin.party Snatches Up PokerStars Exec Jeffrey Haas
As far as I understand, there will be new software in next 30 days tops, major overhaul
This so-called "new and improved" software was scheduled to be released by the first quarter. Indicators are that bwin.party will try to make it more appealing to recreational players by having badges (ala FTP) & social media features; nothing mentioned so far that would make rake-paying regs come back.
Unfortunately, bwin used its same subsidiary of Ivy Comptech in India :-\ that is responsible for the current buggy software & constant server disconnections/crashes to somehow create "the next generation" software, so the few Party players in this forum such as T8urmoney, actyper & trigs already know what to expect from TNG.
Too bad, Party was the 2nd best place for Cdns to play satty's to live events.
They said that they have passed the problem onto the technical department - the same department that is supposed to release "TNG" software by the end of this month.
Maybe jontm can get an official confirmation from his sources. It looks like I am now pot committed to playing live for the rest of the year & 2014. I'll be posting in other threads about how to find the best cellphone plan for me, vision correction, snow tires (driving to Montreal, etc.), and more live BAPs.
the lobby has a different color, and a bit different look.........but clearly not a 'new' platform......just modified everything around the tourney lobby, but the lobby itself is the same
had to leave the table, open lobby, and click 'take seat' to get back in
The fonts are too small even on my huge 42" screen! It's a good thing I've ordered new progressive eyeglasses.
I opened up a game but my megabytes of player notes don't work, nor the colour coding I've done on thousands of players. It becomes even more laggy when I try to use PokerTracker.
I hate admitting it, but my better half is correct as usual.