If you’re one of the largest poker sites on the internet and you decide that you’re going to run a promotion where you compensate people for losing with pocket aces, that’s cool. But shouldn’t some brighthead perhaps calculate how often this happens on a site that deals, what, millions of hands a day? And upon noticing that this phenomenon takes places every 5-10 seconds, perhaps ALLOWING USERS TO TURN THE DAMN MESSAGES OFF would be a nice thing to do.

It’s ironic that there’s an option for “Dealer Silent” that apparently does nothing to these messages. If you’re unsure of how much spam this generates, I provide for you a sample further down.

Now, to really drive it home, here’s the email conversation between me and Party Poker - which always enough to make me want to pull my hair out.

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Dear Fredrik,

Thank you for contacting Customer Service.

If you wish to disable the Dealer Announcements, then please simply
click on “Dealer Summary (No Chat)”.

In the meantime, I apologize in advance for any inconvenience in this
matter.

Ah. Yes, thanks. I tried that. And if that had worked, I wouldn’t have bothered contacting them. Just to make sure I’m not crazy, I logged back in to Party and tried it again - and no. It definitely doesn’t work - at least not for me - to turn off the Dealer Chat.

My response to them was brief, but polite. I expect nothing to be done about this. And yet I keep playing at Party. I feel like that guy* with that quit-you quote from Brokeback Mountain (which I still haven’t seen).

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* Yes, I know it’s Heath Ledger.

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