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IcePoker
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hello,
This is my first post. I wanted to come here to tell everyone about my experience with partypoker. This is nothing serious, their games have been entertaining and fun. I just fail to understand their misleading marketing methods.
Everyone are familiar with tournaments with "guaranteed prize pools" or qualifiers with "guaranteed amount of seats available". The thing that makes players interested in joining these sort of tournaments is the guarantee.
- First of all, they can be sure that the tournament will not be cancelled due to insufficient amount of participants and if it will, at least he would get paid.
- Secondly, they know that even if not the price pool won't be achieved from the buy-ins, there is still going to be at least the amount they guaranteed.
Now this all makes very much sense, right? The poker room takes a little risk there to offer these sorts of guaranteed tournaments to it's players, hoping to attract players to participate rather in these tournaments than regular freezeouts without guaranteed prize.
My experience with PartyPoker showed that their guarantee is not actually a guarantee at all. It is nothing but an empty promise and misleading marketing trick. It all started when I had been playing many "guaranteed" tournaments already. This very time I thought I got very lucky and signed into tournament which was suppose to start within 5 minutes and there were no one in yet. The guaranteed price was a ticket to a main event of a relatively big tournament. They promised "one seat guaranteed".
However two minutes before the tournament was suppose to start. The table suddenly disappeared and I could not find the tournament any longer from the records. I contacted live chat support and asked an explanation for this and wanted to claim my guaranteed price. They however told me that the tournament was cancelled due insufficient amount of players. I of course questioned this and kept claiming my "guaranteed" prize. Since I would have won this tournament if they did not cancel it. The life chat person explained that the guarantee only applies if there are enough people signing up to cover the total of "guaranteed" prize pool. This did not make any sense to me. I don't know if it makes sense to you?
I got very confused and asked about their $1 000 000 USD guaranteed tournament. "Will this be cancelled too if there are not enough players to cover the prize pool?". She actually tried to convince by GUARANTEEING that there will be. But I asked her to explain, what happens if there would be only 100 people signing up, would they cancel the tournament? Her answer was simply "yes, we would".
This is to everyone who thought before that "guaranteed" means guaranteed on PartyPoker. If you want something guaranteed stick only with freezeouts, they are more guaranteed in a way that there will be at least game, if two or more participants have registered in.
This is my first post. I wanted to come here to tell everyone about my experience with partypoker. This is nothing serious, their games have been entertaining and fun. I just fail to understand their misleading marketing methods.
Everyone are familiar with tournaments with "guaranteed prize pools" or qualifiers with "guaranteed amount of seats available". The thing that makes players interested in joining these sort of tournaments is the guarantee.
- First of all, they can be sure that the tournament will not be cancelled due to insufficient amount of participants and if it will, at least he would get paid.
- Secondly, they know that even if not the price pool won't be achieved from the buy-ins, there is still going to be at least the amount they guaranteed.
Now this all makes very much sense, right? The poker room takes a little risk there to offer these sorts of guaranteed tournaments to it's players, hoping to attract players to participate rather in these tournaments than regular freezeouts without guaranteed prize.
My experience with PartyPoker showed that their guarantee is not actually a guarantee at all. It is nothing but an empty promise and misleading marketing trick. It all started when I had been playing many "guaranteed" tournaments already. This very time I thought I got very lucky and signed into tournament which was suppose to start within 5 minutes and there were no one in yet. The guaranteed price was a ticket to a main event of a relatively big tournament. They promised "one seat guaranteed".
However two minutes before the tournament was suppose to start. The table suddenly disappeared and I could not find the tournament any longer from the records. I contacted live chat support and asked an explanation for this and wanted to claim my guaranteed price. They however told me that the tournament was cancelled due insufficient amount of players. I of course questioned this and kept claiming my "guaranteed" prize. Since I would have won this tournament if they did not cancel it. The life chat person explained that the guarantee only applies if there are enough people signing up to cover the total of "guaranteed" prize pool. This did not make any sense to me. I don't know if it makes sense to you?
I got very confused and asked about their $1 000 000 USD guaranteed tournament. "Will this be cancelled too if there are not enough players to cover the prize pool?". She actually tried to convince by GUARANTEEING that there will be. But I asked her to explain, what happens if there would be only 100 people signing up, would they cancel the tournament? Her answer was simply "yes, we would".
This is to everyone who thought before that "guaranteed" means guaranteed on PartyPoker. If you want something guaranteed stick only with freezeouts, they are more guaranteed in a way that there will be at least game, if two or more participants have registered in.