Other Promotions at Party Poker

Party Poker is offering new players a chance to "build their bankroll" through freerolls. $100 Rookie freerolls are available daily at 1:50 PM, 3:50 PM and 7:50 PM ET to players that have made their first deposit within the previous 60 days. In addition to the prize pool, the top 50 finishers will qualify for a weekly $2,500 freeroll on Saturday at 2:30 PM ET. Players may also enter the weekly freeroll directly during the first 7 days of real money play.

In addition to the $2,500 prize pool, the top 200 finishers will move on to a $10k Monthly freeroll to be held on the last Sunday of the month at 2:30 PM. Overlay for this final is $12.50.

Party Poker is offering hardcore players the chance to earn up to 80 hours of "commission free" poker until August 2nd at 11:59 PM ET. To qualify you must play over 160 hours within a 30 day period (5.33 hours per day). Once you have met this requirement, you will pay no table charges or fees for the remainder of that 30 day period.

Below is a chart that represents the rakeback percentage you can expect when playing certain number of hours. Anything above 240 provides no benefit unless you are adding additional tables to bump up your hourly rake levels. Rakeback % will decrease the more you play.

Other terms:

--each player's 30 day period starts on the day they opt in or restart the promotion.
--player only needs to opt in once
--players may start a new 30 day period when they have either played the maximum number commission-free hours or reached the end of their 30 day period.
--players can restart a new period at any time
--only the first 16 hours played in each day will be counted toward the target and comission free hours.
--only hours will be counted, so if a player multi-tables extra time will not be counted
--the commission free portion of this promotion will be awarded within 10 days after a player has reached the maximum number of hours or when they reach the end of a 30 day period.
--the refund payment is based on the average comission on play over the entire period of 30 days and a refund payment is made on the portion over 160 hours up to 240 hours.

The Party Points earned for ring game and tournament play is also central to the loyalty scheme from Party Poker. Party Poker has five levels to their loyalty program, which players can climb by earning Party Points . Within the 5 main levels are sub levels. The higher status you achieve, the faster you will earn additional points through the multiplier system.

Below is the number of Loyalty Points/Party Points needed to advance:

Basic Example:

Players who achieve the Queen status will earn points at 2x the normal rate. Only the standard points will be considered in moving up levels (the multiplied points will not count for this purpose). Party refers to the extra points earned as part of the status as "multipler points" which are not to be confused with points that are earned towards the bonus-- bonuses are cleared with base points (otherwise known as Party Points/Reward Points).

Example: If a Queen status player earns 11 standard points after 20 raked hands, 11 points would be applied to any bonus the player is working off and to their pursuit of maintaining Queen status or moving up to a higher status. The effect of the multiplier would increase the amount of points to 22, but they would only be able to used for the other purposes.

Party Points:

Players generate Party Points according to the chart at the bottom of this writeup. Players earn one "Loyalty Point" everytime they generate a Party Point. The number of Loyalty Points you hold will determine your Loyalty Level and your Loyalty Multiplier. Where the number of Loyalty Points held by you is less than the greatest number of Loyalty Points ever held by you then, until such time as you reach your Highest Point again, you will earn 2 Loyalty Points for every PartyPoint you generate.

Party Poker says that it's easy to advance levels. A weekly goal will be set based on your previous play and if you pick up enough points you will increase your player level.

Reward Points/Vested Reward Points:

Then there are reward points. You will generate one Unvested Reward Point every time you generate PartyPoint. All Unvested Reward Points generated in a week will be released for potential collection over the subsequent ten week period, at a rate of 10% per Week (‘Vested Reward Points’). Therefore, in each week, the Vested Reward Points available for Collection, will equal 10% of the PartyPoints generated by you in the previous ten Week period. In order to Collect the Vested Reward Points for a given week, you must generate the same number of PartyPoints during that Week as the number of Vested Reward Points available for Collection that Week. This is called your ‘Weekly Goal’. Because your Weekly Goal is the same as your available Vested Reward Points in any given Week, it represents your average play over the previous ten Weeks.

If you do not meet your Weekly Goal, but you generate 50% or more of the required PartyPoints that Week, then you will still Collect 50% of the available Vested Reward Points. However, if you generate less than 50% of the PartyPoints required for the Weekly Goal, then you will not Collect any Vested Rewards Points that Week and those Points will be lost. The value of your Collected Reward Points will be multiplied by your current Loyalty Multiplier at the time of redemption.

Summary:

--If you hit less than 50% of your weekly target, your multiplier points will not be awarded.

--If you hit 50%-100% of your weekly target, your multiplier points will be awarded at 50% of your goal amount and you will maintain your current level.

Inactivity/Vacation

If you fail to earn a Party Point in either week of a consecutive two week period, then you will be deemed inactive for this promotion. Once you are inactive, you will drop one Loyalty Level and your Loyalty Points will be reducedso that you will be one Loyalty Point away from attaining your previous Loyalty Level. You will continue to drop Loyalty Levels in this way for each additional two weeks of inactivity. Jack Level one players will have 20% of their Collected Reward Points removed for each two weeks of inactivity. You will stop being inactive once you have earned one PartyPoint in any week.

Players may get around this inactity period by taking "vacation" which is either two 2 week periods or one 4 week period. To do so, you must select the "Vacation" option.

Benefits:

These Party Points can be used to redeem for cash, for entry into specific tournaments, gift certificates and to take advantage of various promotions exclusive to PartyPoints program members. Lastly, Party Points can be used to play in freeroll tournaments, which have various overlay amounts. The points earned will be available to players for a period of 180 days after they have been earned.

Status Benefits (not considering the multipler):

Jack: Participate in "Jacks only" benefits and features.
Queen: Participate in the quarterly $5,000 freeroll
King: Participate in the quarterly $10,000 freeroll receive "dedicated" support and exclusive bonus offers.
Ace: Participate in the quarterly $15,000 freeroll. Receive invitations to exclusive VIP special events and parties, one on one personal support, concierge-style support, and "bigger and better bonuses and cash back offers."
Deuce: Participate in a quarterly $20,000 freeroll, receive "one to one" concierge style service, and "bigger and better bonuses and cash back offers."

Party Poker has implemented a method of awarding Party Points. Points in a incremental grading system where the higher the table stakes, the more points you will earn. The points will now be awarded as per the tables at the right.

*PartyPoints will be earned for every 20 raked hands played on these tables in a day. For example, 3.5 Party Poker points will be earned for every 20 raked hands at 1/2 LHE. Party Points are earned at a rate of 2 points per $1 in fees paid.

The value of a point is worth $0.01 when redeeming the points for cash. Players must have a minimum of 2,500 points to be able to redeem your points for cash. The clearance chart above is the hourly rate (at the Jack status level) that is added to player's hourly rate when redeeming PartyPoints for cash.

Sit down at a Bad Beat Jackpot table at Party Poker and if the losing hand is four of a kind (8's) or better, your table wins the jackpot.

For every raked hand played on Party Poker's Progressive Bad Beat Jackpot tables, a jackpot contribution of $0.50 will be collected from the pot. That way, every time a hand is raked on one of Party Poker's many jackpot tables, the jackpot increases.

Because of the way the Party BBJ is setup, the jackpot has to be at levels listed to the right, to be considered +EV.

Everytime the jackpot is hit, 70% of the jackpot will be distributed and 20% used as a seed amount for the next jackpot (the remaining 10% is used as a seed for the next jackpot). Of the distributed amount, 50% goes to the loser of the hand, 25% to the winner, and the remaining 25% go to the rest of the players seated at the table. Other conditions apply.

On January 14th 2005, a Bad Beat Jackpot of $739,622 was hit, which Party Poker claims was the highest in the history of poker.

Party Poker is offering a "Birthday Millions" tournament promotion to celebrate their 7th birthday on August 10th at 12:45 PM ET. Even though there will be standard qualifiers for those that wish to buy-in using $s, Party Poker is also giving players the opportunity to qualify through freerolls.

First, players may qualify through the daily "Country Freerolls" that will award entries to the top 10 players in that freeroll. Secondly, Party Poker will also offer daily 15 and 50 Party Point qualifiers.  

Poker Poker is giving away $10,000 in extra cash prizes every week to specific limits as part of the "Tables of the Week" promotion. Each week there will be two limits selected and players will share $5,000 at both limits.

For every raked hand you play on our selected tables of the week, you'll receive one entry into a Party Poker weekly cash prize draw, which takes place every Monday If your number comes up you will will a prize.

Prizes offered per level, per week: