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Macing the dragon
Mar. 22nd, 2007 11:44 amFor the second time in three in the past six months, efforts to clear a bonus have not proved profitable. I knocked out 1,100 hands on Ultimate last night, for a net minus of $37, although when I get the additional 15 UB points needed, $50 of that will come back. So, overall, it looks like $100 bonus dollars will have been worked off, a $50 UB point redemption will kick in, and I'll be level for the week. Sigh.
But I tend to forget the positive bonus plays. Even after the Noble Poker Tuesday Night massacre, I'm up there more than the bonus I have earned and I've doubled my money in three months. The Pokerstars bonus was also profitable both in terms of bonus and in profit for the visit. But the Full Tilt experience was long-term and, virtually, level overall. A good example of not chasing the long-term work-offs.
Another plus was that I ended up in the black after a few hundred hands at $3-$6.
Full Tilt e-mailed me last week offering me $300 in bonus dollars. Unfortunately I had to activate it by March 23 and I only had two weeks to work it off.
I e-mailed them back, stating that I wouldn't be availing myself of their offer, because I would be in Las Vegas for the entire period that I had to work off the bonus and that, because of the recent events surrounding frozen accounts, I refused to play on Full Tilt except from my own desktop in my own home (see the situation where a guy's account was confiscated, and only later refunded, because he had played on the same IP address as used by a credit card fraudster -- that being a hotel in Las Vegas).
I suggested constructively that the bonus offers might have a less strict timescale.
Full Tilt's Customer Service Department lived up to its reputation by failing even to acknowledge receiving the e-mail.
It's so frustrating. The software is good and the freeroll challenges are good value, but they seem to have a customer service department trained by the Indian civil service.
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I haven't checked the 2+2 boards to see the reaction to the Neteller announcement (I'm staying away from the interweb when I three-table, but I still notice my concentration wavering if something happens simultaneously at all three tables), but I can't say that it was particularly encouraging.
It's been eight weeks now, and Neteller have taken that long to come to an agreement with Navigant Consulting on the forensic accounting. Neteller then announces that within 75 days it should be in a position to announce a timetable for the redistribution of funds.
Meanwhile the CEO said that, although it might not appear on the surface that much is happening", much was going on behind the scenes. Personally, I don't reckon that eight weeks just to appoint someone to go through the accounts is "a lot going on". And the lack of communication to the depositors (who only learn what is going on via communications to shareholders) is little short of disgraceful.
Then again, I guess that if I was working for a company where half the staff had been made redundant and half the offices had been closed, I might not be that enthusiastic about coming into work.
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But I tend to forget the positive bonus plays. Even after the Noble Poker Tuesday Night massacre, I'm up there more than the bonus I have earned and I've doubled my money in three months. The Pokerstars bonus was also profitable both in terms of bonus and in profit for the visit. But the Full Tilt experience was long-term and, virtually, level overall. A good example of not chasing the long-term work-offs.
Another plus was that I ended up in the black after a few hundred hands at $3-$6.
Full Tilt e-mailed me last week offering me $300 in bonus dollars. Unfortunately I had to activate it by March 23 and I only had two weeks to work it off.
I e-mailed them back, stating that I wouldn't be availing myself of their offer, because I would be in Las Vegas for the entire period that I had to work off the bonus and that, because of the recent events surrounding frozen accounts, I refused to play on Full Tilt except from my own desktop in my own home (see the situation where a guy's account was confiscated, and only later refunded, because he had played on the same IP address as used by a credit card fraudster -- that being a hotel in Las Vegas).
I suggested constructively that the bonus offers might have a less strict timescale.
Full Tilt's Customer Service Department lived up to its reputation by failing even to acknowledge receiving the e-mail.
It's so frustrating. The software is good and the freeroll challenges are good value, but they seem to have a customer service department trained by the Indian civil service.
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I haven't checked the 2+2 boards to see the reaction to the Neteller announcement (I'm staying away from the interweb when I three-table, but I still notice my concentration wavering if something happens simultaneously at all three tables), but I can't say that it was particularly encouraging.
It's been eight weeks now, and Neteller have taken that long to come to an agreement with Navigant Consulting on the forensic accounting. Neteller then announces that within 75 days it should be in a position to announce a timetable for the redistribution of funds.
Meanwhile the CEO said that, although it might not appear on the surface that much is happening", much was going on behind the scenes. Personally, I don't reckon that eight weeks just to appoint someone to go through the accounts is "a lot going on". And the lack of communication to the depositors (who only learn what is going on via communications to shareholders) is little short of disgraceful.
Then again, I guess that if I was working for a company where half the staff had been made redundant and half the offices had been closed, I might not be that enthusiastic about coming into work.
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