I was reading an article on PokerNewsDaily just now regarding how that PartyPoker has changed their play money policies to prevent players from having an excessive amount of play money chips. The primary reason is due to many unethical players that obtain chips from a third party source and have them chip dumped to them.
I understand PartyPoker’s thinking here regarding wanting to prevent people from trying to sell play money chips etc. What I don’t get is the
Cena can't see why people are upset over play chip limitation either.
se players that are upset over this face. One lady and her husband amassed 182 Million chips between the two of them. Why??? I understand only playing on the play money side. I really do, but who cares if you have 80 Million or 250,000.
Personally, I have played my share of free poker on both PartyPoker and PokerStars. It can be fun, but I am not going to be upset if I could only get 250,000 in play chips. It’s FAKE MONEY. It like wrestling. The only difference is that you don’t have hot divas.
And no, I did not watch the Grammy’s last night. I could care less about Lady Gaga.
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By: Senzascapi February 26, 2010
I agree with Gosta. I lost 19m. Least they could do is give you 100k each time for no limit. The worst part is that they didn’t even tell you what they were doing and wouldn’t answer email queries.
By: compncards February 22, 2010
Seriously? You are debating the merits of them taking away fake chips? So what if they just decided to ban your account because you never made a deposit? Would you still argue that they are breaking the law? Fake chips are not virtual assets. They are the equivalent of a scoring on a video game, which is what Party Poker could argue for their free site. It’s a glorified video game and chips keep the score. Since they have no monetary value, there is nothing of value lost. Even IF they were breaking the law…..who is going to prosecute them. Judge “How have you been damaged?” You: “They took all of my poker chips.” Judge “How much monetary value did they have?” You: “None. But that is not the case here.” Judge: “That is the case here as far as I am concerned. Since they have no monetary value, you have not been harmed in any substantial way. Case dismissed. Epic Fail.”
By: Vin February 22, 2010
Guys. all the chips in your accounts are your virtual assets. Virtual asset is legal now. They can not just take our personal assets away without owers’ authorization. THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW.
By: compncards February 14, 2010
Well it all boils down to conversion and money. Websites have the play sites as ways to try and entice people to come play on the real money side. Even then, about a 10% conversion rate is all they get. If you are not a paying customer, most sites don’t care about you. To think about it, who do you think they are going to listen to, someone that plays nothing but play money games and contributes nothing to the bottom line, or someone that has made a deposit and playing for real money. Sadly, that is what it is all about.
By: Leo February 14, 2010
I could care less that I lost my $20m accumulated over the last year of play. The rub is that if you hit even a short bad streak and lose your chips, you are pretty much out of no limit for a while. You have to wait 5 minutes to get another piddly $5k in chips. At the no limit table, that’ll get you one hand. If you don’t win that hand, you sit for another 5 min waiting for a timed re-buy. More trouble than the site is worth; I’m done with them.
By: Gösta February 4, 2010
LOL. So, there are actually people who take those games seriously? Takes all kinds…